NAB reports (Jan-Dec 1944)

road with Glenn Miller’s “I Sustain the Wings,” will make with the sound effects. Priscilla Kent is writing the scripts for the show which will be narrated and f emceed by Ernesta Barlow, “Com¬ mando Mary.” FCC’S JORGENSEN TO NAVY Norman E. Jorgensen, Assistant to Chairman James Lawrence Fly, will report to the Navy March 24 as a Lieutenant (Junior Grade) in the Navy Bureau of Supply and Accounts. Mr. Jorgensen will report to the Naval Officers Training School at Babsons Institute, Babson Park, Massachusetts. Before coming to the FCC in April 1943, Mr. Jorgensen worked in the sales department of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company during 1933, and through 1940 was em¬ ployed by Chalmers and Co., merchandise distributors, Iron Mountain, Michigan, where he became sales manager. Mr. Jorgensen is a graduate of the University of Chicago law school where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. F.C.C. APPROPRIATIONS CUT The Senate, on March 20, 1944, rejected three amend¬ ments proposed by Senator Meade for the restoration of $2,000,000.00 to the Federal Communications Commission which had been cut by the Senate Appropriations Com¬ mittee. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION DOCKET HEARINGS The following broadcast hearings are scheduled to be heard before the Commission during the week beginning Monday, March 27th. They are subject to change. Wednesday, March 29 Consolidated Hearing NEW — Charles P. Blackley, Staunton, Va. — C. P. 1240 kc., 250 watts; unlimited. WCHV — Charles Barham, Jr., and Emmalou W. Graham, d/b as Barham and Barham, Charlottesville, Va. — Mod. of License. 1240 kc., 250 watts; unlimited. WFVA — Fredericksburg Broadcasting Corporation, Fredericksburg, Va. — Mod. of License. 1240 kc., 250 watts; unlimited (ex¬ cept on Sunday when WBBL operates). Friday, March 31 KVAN — Vancouver Radio Corporation, Vancouver, Wash. — C. P. 930 kc., 250 watts, night; 500 watts, day; unlimited. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION ACTION APPLICATIONS GRANTED KMLB — J. C. Liner, Jr. (Transferor), Mrs. Melba Liner Gaston (Transferee), Liner’s Broadcasting Station, Inc., Monroe, La. — Granted consent to relinquishment of control by J. C. Liner, Jr., of Liner’s Broadcasting Station, Inc., licensee of station KMLB, through transfer of 498 shares of capital 92 — March 24, 1944 stock to his sister. No monetary consideration involved (B3-TC-360) . KWK — Grace C. Convey (Transferor), Robert T. Convey (Trans¬ feree), Thomas Patrick, Inc. (Licensee), St. Louis, Mo. — Granted consent to transfer of control of Thomas Patrick, Inc., licensee of station KWK, from Grace C. Convey to Robert T. Convey (B4-TC-353). KOVC — -Milton Holiday, Herman Stern and E. J. Pegg (Trans¬ ferors), Robert E. Ingstad (Transferee), KOVC, Inc., Valley City, N. Dak. — Granted consent to acquisition of control by Robert E. Ingstad of KOVC, Inc., by transfer of 112 shares, or 56% of issued and outstanding capital stock of licensee for a total consideration of $3,920 (B4-TC-356). WLAW — Alexander H. Rogers, Deceased (Transferor), Irving E. Rogers, Harold B. Morrill and National Shamut Bank of Boston, co-executors under the will of Alexander H. Rogers, deceased (Transferees), Hildreth & Rogers Co., Lawrence, Mass. — Granted consent to involuntary transfer of control of Hildreth & Rogers Co., licensee of station WLAW, from Alexander H. Rogers, deceased, to Irving E. Rogers, Harold B. Morrill & National Shamut Bank of Boston, co-executors, under the will of Alexander H. Rogers, deceased. WKIP — Richard E. Coon (Transferor), Poughkeepsie Newspapers, Inc. (Transferee), Poughkeepsie Broadcasting Corp., Pough¬ keepsie, N. Y. — Granted consent to transfer of control of Poughkeepsie Broadcasting Corp., licensee of station WKIP, from Richard E. Coon to Poughkeepsie Newspapers, Inc., for a total consideration of $10,600, representing 80 shares or 20% of preferred stock and 480 shares or 60% of the com¬ mon stock (Bl-TC-325). W2XBD — General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. — Granted re¬ newal of ST broadcast station license for the period ending April 1, 1945. W9XUI — State University of Iowa, Iowa City, la. — Granted re¬ newal of experimental television station license for the period ending February 1, 1945. E. Anthony & Sons, Inc., Hyannis, Mass. — Granted request to assignment of call letters WOCB to the new station author¬ ized on March 7. DOCKET CASE ACTION The Commission has announced its Proposed Findings and Con¬ clusions (B-198) proposing to grant the application of KSJB, Jamestown Broadcasting Co., Inc., for modification of license to change the operating assignment from 1440 kc., 250 watts, un¬ limited time, to 000 kc., with power of 100 watts night, 250 watts day; granted conditionally. In its Conclusions the Commission states: 1. The operation of KSJB on the frequency 000 kc., with power of 100 watts night, 250 watts day, will provide daytime service over a greatly increased predominantly agricultural area, including a substantially increased population thinly scattered over this area ; it will enable the applicant to secure a network affiliation with Columbia Broadcasting System, thereby making it possible to bring to a majority of this increased area and population Columbia pro¬ grams not theretofore enjoyed by them; and it will not result either day or night in increased interference, in excess of the limits pre¬ scribed by the Commission’s rules, regulations, and Standards, to any existing station. Although such operation will result in in¬ creased interference to Station WMT, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, this interference does not occur within the normally protected (2.5 mv/m) contour, and the population which will be deprived of the service of Station WMT already receives primary service from one or more standard broadcast stations. (See Table IV, note 1, Standards of Good Engineering Practice.) 2. A slight increase in interference will result to Station CFQC from the nighttime operation of Station KSJB on 600 kc. with 100 watts power. 3. The granting of a modification, of license for the operation of Station KSJB on 600 kc. with 100 watts power nighttime and 250 watts power daytime would tend toward a fair, efficient, and equi¬ table distribution of radio service as contemplated by the Com¬ munications Act of 1934, as amended. 4. Public interest, convenience, and necessity will be served by the granting of a modification of license for the operation of Sta¬ tion KSJB on 600 kc. with 100 watts power nighttime and 250 watts power daytime, subject to the condition that as soon as ma¬ terials again become available the applicant will, upon authoriza¬ tion of the Commission, make full use of the frequency in accord¬ ance with the Rules and Regulations of the Commission.