NAB reports (1936)

The National Association of Broadcasters NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING ★ ★ ★ ★ * WASHINGTON, D. C. JAMIES W. BALDWIN, Managing Director NAB REPORTS Copyright, 1936. The National Association of Broadcasters ★ ★ ★ ★ * VoI.4--No.25 MAY 28, 1936 IN THIS ISSUE Page Reports on Broadcast Station Revenue . 1337 House Radio Bill Reported . 1337 Recommends License Renewal for WLBG . 1337 Securities Act Registrations . 1337 New Rebroadcast Rule . 1337 New Rules Promulgated by FCC . 1338 Federal Trade Commission Action . 1338 FTC Orders Vacated . 1340 Federal Communications Commission Action . 1340 REPORTS ON BROADCAST STATION REVENUE Total receipts of the 77 broadcast stations in the Pacific Coast states from the sale of radio time during 1935 amounted to $6,441,623, according to announcement of the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce. These figures were obtained in the new census of business series on the broadcasting business. In the same series the Bureau announced that total receipts from the sale of time by the 30 broadcast stations in Texas in 1935 amounted to $2,220,821. HOUSE RADIO BILL REPORTED The House Committee on Interstate & Foreign Commerce has made a favorable report on H. R. 12646 which provides for the amendment of Section 318 of the Communications Act of 1934. As reported the bill is as follows: That section 318 of the Communications Act of 1934 is hereby amended to read as follows: “Sec. 318. The actual operation of all transmitting apparatus in any radio station for which a station license is required by this Act shall be carried on only by a person holding an operator’s license issued hereunder, and no person shall operate any such apparatus in such station except under and in accordance with an operator’s license issued to him by the Commission: Provided, however, That the Commission may waive or modify the fore¬ gong provisions of this section for the operation of any station except (1) stations for which licensed operators are required by international agreement, (2) stations for which licensed operators are required for safety purposes, (3) stations engaged in broad¬ casting, and (4) stations operated as common carriers on frequen¬ cies below thirty thousand kilocycles.” RECOMMENDS LICENSE RENEWAL FOR WLBG Three applications have been filed with the Federal Communi¬ cations Commission all dealing with 880 kilocycles, 500 watts power and daytime operation. Station WPHR, Petersburg, Va., operating on this frequency asks for license renewal; the Petersburg Broad¬ casting Company asks for the facilities of WPHR to erect a new station at Petersburg, Va., and WLBG, at Petersburg, Va., asks to move its transmitter from Petersburg to Richmond, Va. Examiner John P. Bramhall, in Report No. 1-225, recommends that the application of the Petersburg Broadcasting Company and of WLBG be denied and that the application of WLBG for license renewal be granted. SECURITIES ACT REGISTRATIONS The following companies have filed registration statements with the Securities & Exchange Commission under the Securities Act: Owings Mills Distillery, Inc., Owings Mills, Md. (2-2153, Form A-l) John Irving Shoe Corp., Boston, Mass. (2-2154, Form A-2) Bridgeport Brass Co., Bridgeport, Conn. (2-2155, Form A-2) Kendall Refining Co., Bradford, Pa. (2-2156, Form A-2) Black & Decker Mfg. Co., Towson, Md. (2-2157, Form A-2) Silver Strike Mining Co., Murray, Ida. (2-2158, Form A-l) Harden Chemical Corp., Cincinnati, Ohio (2-2159, Form A-l) Lawrence Warehouse Co., San Francisco, Cal. (2-2160, Form A-2) Owens-Illinois Glass Co., Toledo, Ohio. (2-2161, Form A-2) Soulsby-Belle Mining Co., Kansas City, Mo. (2-2164, Form A-l) Bolivian Bondholders Protective Committee, New York City. (2-2165, Form D-l) NEW REBROADCAST RULE The Federal Communications Commission has issued a new rule, No. 177, effective July 1, dealing with rebroadcasting. It is as follows: 177. (a) The licensee of a regular broadcast station may, with¬ out authority of the Commission, rebroadcast a program of another United States regular broadcast station upon notice to the Commisssion and upon the express authority of the licensee of the sta¬ tion originating the program. (b) No licensee of any other class of broadcast station (inter¬ national, visual, high frequency, experimental or special) shall re¬ broadcast the program of any United States radio station without written authority first having been obtained from the Commission. (c) No licensee of a regular broadcast station shall rebroadcast the program of any other class of United States radio station with¬ out written authority having first been obtained from the Com¬ mission. (d) No licensee of any class of broadcast station shall rebroad¬ cast the program of any foreign radio station without written authority having first been obtained from the Commission. In case a program is transmitted entirely by telephone facilities in which a section of such transmission is by radio, the broadcast of this pro¬ gram is not considered a rebroadcast. (e) An application for authority to rebroadcast the program of any radio station shall be accompanied by the written consent of the station originating the program. (f) In case of a rebroadcast where the program is transmitted by several broadcast stations, such as a chain program, the person legally responsible for distributing the program or the chain facility may obtain the authorization for the entire rebroadcast. (g) Authority will not be granted to rebroadcast in the United States the programs of an international broadcast station located within the limits of the North American Continent, except upon a satisfactory showing that no wire or other facilities exist for trans¬ mitting the program to the area served by the station proposing the rebroadcast. (h) A licensee of an international broadcast station may author¬ ize the rebroadcast of its program by any station outside the limits of the North American Continent without permission from the Commission, provided, however, that the station rebroadcasting the programs cannot be received consistently in the United States. FOURTEENTH ANNUAL NAB CONVENTION STEVENS HOTEL, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS JULY S, 6, 7, 8, 1936 1337