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5/2/39
PROBE OF PRESS WIRELESS ORDERED BY FCC
The Federal Communications Commission this week ordered an investigation into the charges, practices, classifications, and regulations of Press Wireless, Inc. , in connection with the multiple address public press services of this corporation to the territories and possessions of the United States lying outside the continental boundaries of this country. Date for hearing was set for June 15 at the offices of the Commission in Washington , D. C.
The Commission intends to investigate the question of whether Press Wirless, Inc., has been unjustly discriminating against customers of its multiple address service in the terri¬ tories of the United States by making an additional charge where no additional cost was involved to the company in furnishing this service .
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NOTABLES TELEVISED AS NEW INDUSTRY MAKES DEBUT
President Roosevelt and other notables were televised as a new industry made its debut coincidental with the opening of the New York World’s Fair on Sunday. The television inaugura¬ tion by the National Broadcasting Company was on the whole a success, the press reported, and was "tuned in" on between 100 and 200 receivers.
The radio industry awaited meanwhile with keen interest first reports of the sale of television receivers in New/ York retail stores.
"The event on the air was appraised by leaders in radio as the beginning of a new industry, the aim of which is to take Americans sight-seeing by radio", according to Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr., Radio Editor of the New York Times. "Reports from receiving out¬ posts scattered throughout a fifty-mile radius of New/ York indi¬ cated that the spectacle by television was highly successful and that a new industry had been launched into the World of Tomorrow/.
"It was estimated that from 100 to 200 receivers were in tune and that possibly 1,000 persons looked in on the pageant brightened on the screens by a sun described by the camera men as ideal for telecasting.
"The two mobile television vans of the National Broad¬ casting Company were lined up at the end of the platform in the Court of Peace and the aerial was run up to the peak of the Federal Building. One van is a transmitter, which relays the scenes to the main station atop the Empire State Building. The second van handles the pick-up. It was attached by coaxial cable with the camera on the newsreel platform, about fifty feet from the speakers
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