NAB reports (Mar-Dec 1933)

inasmuch as the applicants defaulted the Commission decided that the license should be renewed. The applicants had asked for the facilities of WGST, namely, to operate on 890 kilocycles, 250 watts night and 500 watts local sunset. FAVORS NEW ALABAMA STATION Kathryn Jones asks construction permit for new station to be erected at Florence, Ala., to use 1420 kilocycles, 100 watts power, and daytime hours of operation. (Report No. 475, Pratt, e.). Recommended that application be granted. The Examiner found that the applicant is financially and other¬ wise able to construct and maintain the proposed station, and that there is a need for additional daytime radio service in the Florence area. He found also that the operation of the proposed new station would not create interference and that the State of Alabama is under quota. KFWF ASKS FOR STAY ORDER Broadcasting Station KFWF, St. Louis, Mo., has applied to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia for a stay order against a decision of the Radio Commission refusing to grant a license renewal. The station operates on a frequency of 1200 kilo¬ cycles. COURT APPROVES KICK MOVE In a decision rendered this week the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia upheld the Radio Commission in the KICK case, Nos. 5783, 5784, and 5785. The Radio Commission granted an application of Station KICK to move from Red Oak, Iowa, to Carter Lake, Iowa, without change in its operating assignment of 1420 kilocycles with 100 watts power. After granting the application conditionally, Stations WOW, Omaha, Nebr.; KOIL, Council Bluffs, Iowa; and WAAW, Omaha, filed protests with the Commission asking hearing. Hearing was granted before the Chief Examiner of the Commission and he recom¬ mended that the Commission confirm its original order granting the move. The complaining stations thereafter asked for an oral argument before the Commission. This was not granted and the Court states that . . . “in such circumstances the failure of the Commission to hear oral argument was not an abuse of discretion.” FLORIDA LIQUOR ADVERTISING BILL On April 28, 1933, after being amended, H. 306, the bill to amend the Florida laws to permit advertising of liquors defined as non¬ intoxicating under new law, was passed by the House. However, attempts to take it up in the Senate were defeated on May 1, 1933. ACT ON MICHIGAN LIQUOR BILL After tabling S. 101 on April 27, 1933, the Michigan Senate changed its mind and on May 1st passed the bill. It thereupon went to the House and was referred to the Committee on Liquor Traffic. This is the bill which would repeal the statute prohibiting advertising intoxicating liquor. PENNSYLVANIA INSURANCE ADVERTISING S. 538, a bill requiring presentation of a certificate of authority from the Insurance Department to accompany an advertisement offered for radio broadcasting by an insurance company, which has heretofore passed the Senate, reached the third reading in the House on May 1, 1933, after amendment. UNLAWFUL DRUG ADS IN CALIFORNIA The Boyle Assembly Bill No. 1321, which had been under con¬ sideration by the Committee on Medical and Dental Laws, was amended in the California Assembly on April 26, 1933, and now provides that “it shall be unlawful ... by radio or any other broadcasting or loudspeaker means or device whatsoever, to make or disseminate any statement or assertion of fact concerning the entire or partial cure of any ailment, malady or disease by the internal or external application or use of any drugs or medicines, the relief of pain and suffering of any and all kinds, or the remedying of bodily ills thereby, which is untrue or mislead(ing) to the public. Each announcement . . . which violates ... is punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 or six months’ imprisonment in the county jail, or both.” WISCONSIN MAY EXEMPT RADIOS The Grimes Bill, Assembly No. 252, Wisconsin Legislature, which would add radios to the list of necessities exempt from taxation, was reported favorably by the Committee on Taxation on April 28, 1933. It had previously been reported unfavorably. FLORIDA TO STUDY OPERATION COST The State-owned broadcasting Station WRUF at Gainesville, Florida, seems to be troubling the legislature. The proposal to lease the station (H. 353) was reported out by the Committee on Radio without recommendation on May 1, 1933. On the same day Repre¬ sentative Hodges introduced S. R. 13 in the Senate to appoint a committee of five to study the cost of continuing the UniversityRadio Station, and the resolution was adopted. ONLY A FEW MORE LEFT The Managing Director has about twenty binders for NAB Reports left on hand at $2 each which he would like to dispose of to members. These are strong, five-ring binders, appropriately marked, and large enough to hold issues of NAB Reports for twq years. Those desiring to procure a binder will please write to the Managing Director, NAB Headquarters, National Press Building, Washington, D. C. ROOSEVELT URGES COOPERATION Speaking before the United States Chamber of Commerce on May 5, President Roosevelt pleaded for cooperation within industry as a means of bringing order out of chaos. “During the past four years what previously had been con¬ sidered to be an orderly industrial system has degenerated into one of the highest disorder,” the President said. “You and I acknowl¬ edge the existence of unfair methods of competition, of cut-throat prices and of general chaos. You and I agree that this condition must be rectified and that order must be restored. The attainment of that objective depends upon your willingness to cooperate with one another to this end and also your willingness to cooperate with your Government.” The importance of trade associations in the present crisis was stressed by Secretary of Commerce Roper in a speech before the American Trade Association Executives on May 3. Secretary Roper said: “The trade association in America originated as a mechanism of self-defense, which business groups felt was necessary to enable them to present a united front against restraints placed upon all as a result of the sins of a few. It has outgrown the narrow limitations of such a function, and has gone forward to develop the aggres¬ sive, helpful, promotive activity which has characterized it since the World War. It stands today in a strategic position to render distinguished service to American business, through collective action, intelligently conceived and executed, and based upon full recogni¬ tion of the desirability of long-time planning for the stability of entire industries. Also there has been an awakened realization of the obligation of business to help maintain the public welfare, and the activities of trade associations have shown them to be each year more and more prolific of public benefit. The annual competi¬ tion for this award shows the unmistakable trend toward this consciousness of social responsibility. “The past few years have seen trade associations suffer as business has suffered generally. The natural shrinkage of membership and finances was not a phenomenon peculiar to the trade association movement. Nevertheless, it is heartening to observe that they have come through the depression with no vital impairment of their strength, and, I believe, with a much clearer vision of their future. » Page 35 •