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5/10/40
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The Federal Communications Commission this week released a mimeographed list of currently available FCC publica¬ tions of general interest with information as to where they may be obtained and their cost, if any.
Plans have been completed for the Educational Confer¬ ence on Radio to be held at the University of Texas on May 31 and June 1 under co-sponsorship of the National Broadcasting Company and the University of Texas, Dr. James Rowland Angell, NEC Educational Counselor, announced this week. The conference is to be attended by many station managers and public service dir¬ ectors of NBC affiliated stations, members of the University faculty, and several hundred teachers of Texas and adjoining States.
"Radio at Ultra-High Frequencies'* is the subject of a ^ series of technical papers by RCA engineers, assembled and pub rA
lished this week by RCA Institute Technical Press, New York City.
An all-time high in the number of NBC affiliated sta¬ tions will be reached in June when the total hits 189 with the addition of KRBM, Bozeman, Montana, and WSJ3, Winston-Salem, N.C. KRBM, which joins NBC on Saturday, June 1, operates full-time on 1420 kc. , with power of 250 watts. WSJS is licensed to the Piedmont Publishing Company and operates full-time on 1310 kc. , with power of 250 watts.
The Federal Communications Commission has ordered a hearing on the application of the Arlington Broadcasting Corp. , Arlington, Va. , for a new radio station. The company filed an application several months ago for permission to operate on a frequency of 1420 kilocycles, with 250 watts power and unlimited time. The transmitter site has not been determined. The hear¬ ing date will be fixed later.
April, 1940, was the greatest single month in spot and local sales revenue from the 15 stations programmed by the National Broadcasting Company. Revenue for this month amounted to $529,116, an increase of 36 percent over the April, 1939, figure of $387,999. The April increase continues the upward trend of the record-break¬ ing first four months of this year with the total spot and local revenue for the 15 NBC programmed stations reaching $1,975,078, an increase of 34 percent over the figure of $1,477,738 for the first four months of 1939.
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