NAB reports (Jan-Dec 1941)

Bright Idea Laurette Carroll, 14 year old writer of BMFs Phantom In the Dark, will be interviewed on the NBC program, Bright Idea, some Saturday afternoon soon. Laurette won a beauty prize at the age of three. To disprove the notion that brains can’t live with beauty, she has made the record of a brilliant student and is so dependable and so popular that she is a monitor in her school. She draws so well that she will probably become a com¬ mercial artist; she is a good swimmer; and she loves best of all to teach tricks to her wirehaired terrier, Mr. Smith. Daddy and Sister Sammy Kaye, the pride of Ohio, leads all of the national and regional retail record sales this week with his Daddy which takes first place with every member of the geographic family except the west coast where the record buyers place it second to Maria Elena. In sheet music best sellers, the Hut Sul Song continues to lead the national parade, with Intermezzo in second place and Maria Elena third. My Sister And I is the biggest money maker in the automatic phonographs. INSURANCE COVERAGES Additional copies of “Insurance Coverages” are now available to members by request from headquarters. This pamphlet de¬ scribes the various coverages available from insurance companies. It was prepared by the Insurance Committee under the direction of Roger Clipp, chairman. FEDERAL LEGISLATION HOUSE H. R. 5343 (Lea, D.— Calif.) DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME— To promote the national defense and the conservation of electrical energy by permitting the establishment of daylight-saving time. Referred to Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Network Rules Postponed Following a conference held on Monday of this week between Chairman James Lawrence Fly of the FCC and network heads the following joint statement was made public: “On petition from National and Columbia, without opposition by Mutual, the Commission is being requested to postpone the effective date of its Order of May 2, 1941, from July 30 to Septem¬ ber 16, 1941. This postponement is being requested by National and Columbia in order to permit more time for the discussions that have been going on during the past ten days in which the various problems that confront the Commission and the networks are being explored. “The officials of the networks are hopeful that the additional time will permit of a satisfactory solution of the various problems involved.” The FCC at its meeting on Tuesday took favorable action on the petition and issued the following announcement: At a meeting of the Federal Communications Commission held at its office in Washington, D. C., on the 22nd day of July, 1941, the Commission having under consideration the petitions of the National Broadcasting Company and of the Columbia Broadcast¬ ing System requesting that the Commission postpone the effective date of its order entered in Docket No. 5060 promulgating regula¬ tions applicable to radio stations engaged in chain broadcasting: It Is Ordered, That the last paragraph of the said order of May 2, 1941, entered in Docket No. 5060, BE, AND THE SAME IS HEREBY, AMENDED to read as follows: “IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That these regulations shall become effective immediately: Provided, That, with re¬ spect to existing contracts, arrangements, or understandings, or network organization station licenses, or the maintenance of more than one network by a single network organization, the effective date shall be deferred until September 16, 1941: Provided further. That the effective date of Regulation 3.106 with respect to any station and of Regulation 3.107 may be extended from time to time in order to permit the orderly disposition of properties.” FM Station for Lansing; Hollywood Grant Construction permit for a new FM (frequency modulation) broadcast station, to serve the Lansing, Mich., basic trade area, was granted by the FCC to WJIM, Inc., of that city. The proposed station is authorized to use 47,700 kilocycles to cover an area of 3,800 square miles with more than 250,000 population. The proposed antenna location is the Olds Tower. The applicant now operates standard broadcast station WJIM, affiliated with the Michigan Radio Network. In connection with grant to Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., for a Class C FM station at Hollywood, Calif, (announced July 16), to use 43,100 kilocycles for a service area of 38,000 square miles embracing San Diego and Bakersfield, the Com¬ mission stipulates that prior to issuance of construction permit the applicant shall obtain approval by the Commission of the exact coverage pattern and shall submit proof satisfactory to the Commission that the applicant’s lease agreement of December 3, 1940, with Mount Wilson Hotel Company is so modified as to eliminate the provisions therein pertaining to exclusivity of use for broadcasting purposes of property on Mount Wilson controlled by the lessor. Broadcast Measurements During June experts of the FCC measured 689 broadcast stations, leaving 201 not measured that month. Of the 689 stations, 636 showed a maximum deviation within 0-10 cycles; 48 stations maximum deviation within 11-25 cycles; 5 stations within a maximum deviation of 26-50 cycles. No stations showed a maximum deviation over either 20 or 50 cycles. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION DOCKET Following broadcast hearings are scheduled to be heard before the Com.mission during the week beginning Monday, July 28. They are subject to change. Monday, July 28 KMA — May Broadcasting Company, Shenandoah, Iowa. — Renewal of license, !)30 kc., 1 KW night, 5 KW day, unlimited. NEW — Hawaiian Broadcasting System, Ltd., Flonolulu, T. H. — C. P., 1340 kc., 250 watts, unlimited. WRDO — WRDO, Incorporated, Augusta, Maine. — Renewal of license, 1400 kc., 100 watts, unlimited. Friday, August 1 NEW — Symons Broadcasting Company, Ellensburg, Wash. — C. P., 1110 kc. (1140 kc. NARBA), 1 KW, unlimited time. To Be Held in .Atlanta, Georgia WGST — Georgia School of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. — Renewal of license (main and auxiliary), 800 kc., 1 KW night, 5 KW LS, unlimited time. July 25, 1941 — 631