Heinl radio business letter (July-Dec 1945)

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He ini Radio News Service 10/31/45 pressure of war requirements, are providing us with wonderful new instruments with which to further serve the American people. There is no standing still in our world of radio. "Our responsibility to provide the best service in the cultural and entertainment fields does not diminish but rather in¬ creases, since the vitality of American radio springs from no single type of broadcasting but from the many things it represents to so many people. "I know you feel as I do that American broadcasting lias new and rich worlds to conquer, and that CBS, as always, will lead the way. " XXXXXXXXX PAC BLASTS FCC* S FM POLICY AS MONOPOLY AID Granting of 64 conditional licenses for FM (frequency modu¬ lation) broadcasting by the Federal Communications Commission this week brought a sharp statement of criticism from C. B. Baldwin, Executive Vice-Chairman of the National Citizens Political Action Committee, in New York City. In a wire to Paul Porter, Chairman of the FCC, Baldwin said that ’’the granting of 64 licenses without public hearings ignores the damcnes of many Individuals and organizations for greater caution in licensing individuals and corporations to conduct busi¬ ness on public licenses. " The wire described as "a grave threat to effective freedom of speech and press" the granting of licenses to companies owned by or affiliated with newspapers, asserting this provides a monopoly in many communities of the "media for disseminating public informa¬ tion and opinion. " The Baldwin wire followed by two weeks the issuance of a National Citizens PAC report on American broadcasting and a list of recommendations for Congressional and FCC action to "safeguard the people* s right to the air." XXXXXXXX A reminder that people should keep an eye on their radio aerials was the death of Grover C. Hurley, 60 years old, in Columbus, Ind. , last week. It was a freak accident in which Hurley was electrocuted as a radio aerial fell from a house on an electric line and the garbage truck he was driving. XXXXXXXXXX 2