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9/30/41
MULTIPLE OWNERSHIP HEARINGS TO BE EXPEDITED
Everything will be done to speed up the oral arguments before the Federal Communications Commission beginning Monday,
October 6, on the proposed order banning multiple ownership of broad¬ cast stations in the same area. At first Chairman J. L. Fly said he didn't think the hearings would last more than a day. When told that sixteen briefs had been put in, the Chairman said that it might very well run several days.
According to an announcement by the Commission yesterday, September 29, briefs and appearances had been filed by the following:
Oregon Publishing Co. (KGW and KEX) , Portland, Ore., represented by John C. Kenda.ll, Ben S. Fisher, anc Charles V.
Wayland; Buffalo Broadcasting Corp. , Buffalo, represented by former
Congressman Frank D. Scott; Westinghouse Radio Stations, _ Inc . ,
(WOfO and WGL), Fort Wayne, Ind. , Represented b^'" Donald C. Swatland, and Richard H. Wilmer; Johnson Kennedy Radio Radio Corp. (WIND),
Gary, Ind. , and WJJD, Incorporated ( WJ JD) , Chicago, Reoresented by former Assistant Attorney General Mabel W. Willebrandt; Louis Wasmer, Inc., (KHQ. and KGA), Spokane, represented by John C. & John W. Kendall, Fisher & Wayland; Reading Broadcasting Co. (WRAW) and Berks Broadcasting Co. (WEEU), Reading, Pa., represented by George 0. Sutton and Archur H. Schroeder; Delaware Broadcasting Co. (WILM), and W D E L. Inconoo rated (WDEL), Wilmington, Del., represented by George 0. Sutton and Arthur H. Schroeder, and Gene T, Dyer, repre¬ sented by Andrew G. Haley.
Also, Pittsburgh Radio Supply House (WJAS) and K Q, V Broadcasting Co. (K<5,V) . Plttsburgli. represented by George 0. Sutton and Arthur H. Schroeder; West Virginia Broadcasting Corp. , (‘WWVA), Wheeling, West Va. , and Monongahela Valley Broadcasting Co. , (WMiCN), Fairmont, West, Va. , represented by H. L. Lohnes and F. W, Albertson; National Broadcasting Co. , Inc. WJZ and WEAF, N. Y. City, WMQ, and WENR, Chicago, WRC and WMaL, Washington, and KPO and KGO, San Ffancisco, represented by D. M. Patrick and P. J. Hennessey; Massachu¬ setts Broadcasting Corn. (WCOP), and Broadcasting Service Organiza¬ tion. Inc. . (WORl), Boston, represented by Ben S. Fisher; Interna¬ tional Broadcasting Co IT). (KWKH) and Tri-State Broadcasting System, Inc., (KTBS) , Shreveport, La., represented by George B. Porter and Ben S. Fisher; Fisher's Blend Station, Inc., ( KOMO & KJR) , Seattle, represented by Donald G. Graham, Ben S. Fisher, C. V. Wayland, C. F.
Evansville On The Air, Inc. , (WGBF & ’J7E0A) , Evansville, Ind., represented by Henry B. Walker.
Although only sixteen briefs were filed, more than forty communities would be affected by the new order. The NBC is more concerned than anybody else because it has two stations each in New York, Chicago, Washington and San Francisco, contended in its brief that the Commission has no authority to adopt a regulation of the type proposed. It held also that no provision of the law expressly authorizes the enactment of the regulation and that it is not neces¬ sary to the exercise of any power exoressly conferred upon the Commission.
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