Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1930-1949)

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352 FCC FREQUENCY ALLOCATION October to operate in this portion of the spectrum will prove to be justifiable, particularly in view of the limited frequency space available for all the nongovernment fixed and mobile services. However, the Commission is making frequency space available in this manner at this time in order to permit experimentation and a demonstration by stations in each of the categories of the value and need for the service they render." The allocations are shown in Table I. TABLE I Frequency Band, Me Allocation, Category Frequency Band, Me Allocation, Category 1850-1990 2 5,925 6,425 1 1990-2110 4 6,425 6,575 3 2110-2200 2 6,575 6,875 2 2450-2500 General fixed and mobile, 6,875 7,125 4 limited radio-location 10,700-11,700 1 11,700-12,200 3 2500-2700 2 12,200-12,700 2 3500-3700 3 12,700-13,200 4 3700-4200 1 The February 20, 1948, Public Notice of the FCC on radio frequencies for theater television use was the second of three such actions with which the SMPE has been concerned. The first was a Public Hearing held in 1944 and the third was initiated by the Commission by its letters of June 29, 1949, addressed to the Society, Paramount, and Twentieth Century-Fox. The Commission, in these letters and in its Public Notice 37951, dated July 1, 1949, asked that the Society and the two motion picture companies file Statements with the Commission by September 2, 1949, outlining the industry's need for allocation of bands of frequencies for theater television use. This time, operation of such a service was to be considered on a commercial basis, however, rather than experimental i as before. In the eight weeks which followed receipt of the FCC request,! the SMPE Theater Television Committee, under the Chairmanship j of D. E. Hyndman, prepared such a Statement, outlining the public-| service aspects of a nation-wide theater television system, the physical!