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THREE FORMER COMMISSIONERS WITNESSES IN 50 K.W. HEARING
The turbulent Fourth Zone is holding the floor in the fourth week of the Federal Radio Commission’s hearings for applicants for 50 kilowatts power. During this week, the three former members took the witness stand? Henry A. Bellows, representing WCCO; 0. H. Caldwell, appearing independently; and Sam Pickard, representing NB5M, key station for the CBS in Chicago.
Mr. Caldwell declared that while he had been called, there originally by the attorneys for Station WGN, he had chosen to come without obligation to them or to any other station, paying his own expenses, in order to give the Commission his independent views based on his experience and knowledge of radio running back through 55 years* contact with the radio and electrical arts, as editor of independent electrical and radio journals.
"If the Federal Radio Commission continues in its present indefensible policy of limiting power on clear channels", Mr.
Caldwell said, "and. thus restricting hobbling the usefulness of the radio wavelengths for the fullest service to the largest public, I charge that the Commission is overlooking its sworn duty, is guilty of a most outrageous impairment of the nation’s radio facilities, and is mutilating and injuring this great public service which the taxpayers are paying it $800, 000 a year to administer
Contrary To Public Interest
"The Commission’s present course of limiting power on clear channels is destructive to the public interest in three ways:
"1. By depriving millions of American citizens who live on farms and in small towns, of the clear satisfactory radio signals to which they are entitled.
"2. By requiring millions of other citizens to spend money unnecessarily on the purchase of expensive radio sets to bring in the weak signals of distant low-power stations.
"3. By imposing needless burdens of costly hearings on the broadcasting stations and the radio art generally, to present in solemn review simple engineering facts accepted by all authorities years ago. (it is estimated that the present series of hearings is costing each broadcaster participating $5,000 to $10,000 for expenses, attorneys’ fees, experts, etc., meanwhile the Commission is costing the public $2,000 a day, or $12,000 a week. While these hearings are going on. )
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