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At present there are several thousand FM receivers in the Metropolitan area. WOR estimates that there will be at least 50,000 within a year.
WOR has assigned three engineers to work exclusively on FM, under the direction of the station's supervisor of trans¬ mitters, Charles Singer. Uninterrupted service is insured by three power lines and two special high fidelity broadcast phone lines (20-20,000 cycles) between the transmitter and the Broad¬ way studios.
An application is pending for permission to operate a 100 watt RCA auxiliary FM transmitter.
The vertical coaxial antenna on the roof stands seventyfive feet above the roof, some 630 feet above sea level. Two auxiliary forty foot antennas on the roof are for emergency use with the FM transmitter, for facsimile, and high frequency short wave relay broadcasting.
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CALLS BROADCASTING SQUATTER'S RIGHTS ON AIR
In an open letter, "They Shall Have Music!", in connec¬ tion with the 25th Anniversary of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Gene Buck, its President, characterizes the broadcasters as having "squatter's rights on the air". After re¬ counting successes of the Society down through the years, Mr. Buck writes: "Thorns come with roses, 'but ain't the roses sweet'.
"Thorns come with roses, 'but ain't the roses sweet'.
It was a songwriter who said that. And it takes a man with a song in his heart to remember the roses and to forget the thorns.
"The radio chain executives who control the air, have publicly announced that beginning New Year's Day, ASCAP music will be barred from the air. What a beautiful way to ring out the old year and ring in the new!
"The music of the thousands of composers of England, France, our sister republics in Latin America; 'The Stars and Stripes Fbrever' , 'God Bless America', 'Over There', to be 'given the air' by the gentlemen who claim squatter' s rights on the air. Fantastic? But true! We have their published word for it.
"What will we do? We have a duty and a responsibility to thousands of enterprises which depend uoon a steady flow of new music to entertain their patrons. And an equal responsibility to the thousands of musicians and artists who interpret that music.
And above all to the public, which needs the inspiration and stimu¬ lation and relaxation of music to maintain its morale in these days of uncertainty.
"The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publish¬ ers is conscious of its duty and will perform it. Whether we’re on the air or 'given the air', when the public says, 'Let's start the show, let's have some music', we'll see to it that they shall have music. "
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