Heinl radio business letter (Jan-June 1946)

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He ini Radio News Service 5/29/46 "There are other factors which similarly dictate a cautious approach to television. These include the withdrawal in recent weeks of more than sixty applications for television sta¬ tions, chiefly because of the expense involved in the years before a video station can hope to become self-sustaining and because of uncertainty created by the Columbia Broadcasting System’s vigorous campaign for high-frequency color video. Too, there have been con¬ current delays in the construction of both transmitters and receiv¬ ers as well as a slackening offin broadcast advertising, a develop¬ ment which has tended to turn attention away from new radio techni¬ que s. "But this ’gloom8 seems all the more marked because of the artificial ’boom1 in television crystal-gazing which preceded it. Regardless of what technical system is employed, television at best faces an uphill fight against unique and unprecedented odds, as it always has. " XXXXXXXX CBS FILES FOR WASHINGTON, D.C. FM STATION The Columbia Broadcasting System Tuesday filed an applica¬ tion with the Federal Communications Commission for permission to construct an Flvl station for Washington, D. C. , listening area. CBS is now operating WA5C-FM and WBBM-FM in New York and Chicago respectively. It has also filed with the FCC for FM sta¬ tions in Boston, Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Minneapolis. This application is filed at this time, CBS stated, because of the growing interest in FM as the preferred radio service for a majority of listeners and the importance of Washington as a potential area of concentrated FIJI listening. It was also pointed out that the application does not now raise any question under the FCC rule limit¬ ing FM station ownership by anyone licensee to six outlets, as such a question would not arise until the FCC had granted 6 FM licenses to CBS. XXXXXXXXX NEW DRAFT OF WORLD TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROPOSALS H. B. Otterman, Assistant Chief of the Telecommunications Division of the State Department, has Just sent out copies of the most recent revision of the International Telecommunications Conven¬ tion, Madrid, 1932, which has been prepared looking toward United States proposals for the World Telecommunications Conference. Com¬ ments regarding the draft have been invited which should be in the hands of Mr. Otterman not later than June 10, 1946. It is antici¬ pated that those persons or organizations submitting comments by that date will then be invited to attend a meeting in Washington for verbal discussion of all suggested changes and the final drafting of the Convention. XXXXXXXX 8