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10/18/40
FCC CLEARS UP OLD BROOKLYN SITUATION
The Federal Communications Commission has granted the applications for renewal of licenses for Station WLTH, The Voice of Brooklyn, Inc., and WARD, United States Broadcasting Corp. , and denied the application for modification of license by WBBC, Brooklyn Broadcasting Corp. , insofar, only as the facilities of WARD and WLTH are requested. All stations operate on the frequency of 1400 kilocycles with 500 watts power, sharing time equally, each station serving the Brooklyn area. It is a complicated case that has been before the Commission for years.
In 1932 four Brooklyn stations (WLTH, WARD, WBBC and WVFW) , filed applications for increase of operating time, which if granted, would have required the delection of one or more of the other stations. A hearing ms held before an Examiner in August and September, 1933. During this hearing and subsequent thereto a number of applications were filed by other parties seek¬ ing full-time use of the 1400 kilocycle frequency. Also, the licensees amended their applications as to operating time requested Therefore, the Commission ordered a further hearing to include these subsequent applications, which was held in December, 1934, and the Commission rendered its decision on December 17, 1935. Thereafter upon consideration of petitions for rehearing the Com¬ mission on February 5, 1936, ordered a hearing de novo to be held before it upon all the applications then pending and involving the use of the 1400 kilocycle frequency in Brooklyn, including renewal applications of the licensees. This hearing was held in March and April, 1937. On June 29, 1937, the Commission entered its order
(1) granting the applications of WBBC for renewal of license and for renewal of auxiliary transmitter license, and granting in part, the application for modification of license, insofar as that appli¬ cation requested the facilities of Stations WARD and WLTH, and deny¬ ing the application insofar as it requested the facilities of WVFW;
(2) granting the applications of WVFW for construction permit to make equipment changes and for renewal of license, and (3) denying all other applications involved in the proceeding.
Thereafter WLTH and WARD each filed notice of appeal in the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia from the Commission’s decision of June 29, 1937, denying their applications for renewal of licenses. Appeals were also taken by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Broadcasting Co., Inc., and the Debs Memorial Radio Fund, Inc. , from the same decision which denied their applications for the operating time of WBBC, WLTH, WARD and WVFW. Later the appeals of Debs Memorial Ra.dio Fund, Inc. , and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Broadcasting Co., Inc., were withdrawn.
On September 30, 1937, the Court of Appeals, on petitions filed by WLTH and WARD stayed the effectiveness of the Commission's order of June 29, 1937, insofar as it terminated the service of WLTH and WARD and assigned the operating time of said stations to WBBC. Pursuant to a motion filed by the Commission the Court of Appeals on October 13, 1939, remanded back to the Commission for
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