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NA£B NEWS LETTER., Page 2,, ,July *>*945 ENCE SHOULD BE OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE* {Ed«TOR u S NOTES The CONTINUING COMMITTEE HAS BEEN APPOINTED AND WILL MEET IN WASHINGTON ON JULY *$c NAEB WILL BE REPRESENTED ON THIS COMMITTEE,) FCC ANNOUNCES FINAL ALLOCATIONS FOR FM a TELEVISION AND FACSlMiLIE Wash’ngton* June 27{UP)~~ The Feqeral Communications Commission ANNOUNCED TODAY FINAL WAVELENGTH ALLOCATIONS FOR ALL POSTWAR HIGH FRE¬ QUENCY BROADCASTING? OUTMODING PRESENT FREQUENCY MODULATION EQUIPMENT, N?NTY CHANNELS WILL BE CREATED BETWEEN 88 AND 08 MEGACYCLES» The NEW ALLOCATION WILL SHIFT THE ENTIRE FM INDUSTRY FkOM ITS PRESENT BAND OF 42 TO 50 MEGACYCLES, The television banos were fixed at 44 to 50? 54 to 72? and 76 to 88 MEGACYCLES* The new frequency band between 88 and 92 megacycles will be for non¬ commercial? EDUCATIONAL FM AND BETWEEN 92 AND | 06 MEGACYCLES FOR REGULAR FM 0 The Commission said in its final report that it found these frequen¬ cies INTERFERENCE-FREE AND BEST SUITED FOR FM TRANSMISSION, The new set-up* it was SAID? WOULD INVOLVE REMODELING of all existing FM transmitters. In additions approximately 400*000 persons who bought FM RECEIVERS FOR THE LOWER BAND BEFORE THE WAR MUST EITHER CONVERT THEIR SETS TO THE NEW BANDS OR BE CONTENT TO RECEIVE STANDARD BROADCASTS* According to a survey? FCC said* 365*000 sets for combineo standard ano FM RECEPTION CAN STILL BE used FOR STANDARD BROADCASTS BUT CANNOT BE CONVERTED TO THE NEW FM FREQUENCIES, An ADDITIONAL 30*000 SETS MAV BE CONVERTED FOR FM RECEPTION ON THE HIGHER FREQUENCY FOR ABOUT i*0, THE FCC S A I Do STATUS OF PRESENT FM LICENSEES AND APPL1CANTS UNOER SHIFT Operators of educational FM stations and applicants for new educational FM facilities now know definitely how to plan for the future* A state¬ ment by FCC Chairman Paul C„ Porter points to an early issuance of En¬ gineering Standards for the new bands, #n the meantime educational OPERATORS CAN SIT TIGHT WITHOUT JEOPARDIZING THE PROCESSING OF THEIR applicat ions. Chairman Pqrter^s statement oeclares that no applications WILL BE ACTED UPON FINALLY UNTIL SIXTY DAYS AFTER THE FREEZE 18 LIFTED, Here is how the new allocations will affect you: it. If YOU ARE THE OPERATOR of A NON-COMMERCIAL EDUCATIONAL STATION YOU WILL CONTINUE TO OPERATE IN THE 42-44 MC 0ANO WHICH HAS BEEN SET ASIDE AS THE INTERIM OPERATION BANO FOR ALL FM STATIONS OUR8NG THE TRANSITION PER 100* The FCC WILL EXPECT YOU TO INFORM THEM OF YOUR PLAN OF TRANS¬ ITION FROM THE PRESENT FREQUENCIES TO THE NEW FREQUENCIES, THE EXACT PROCEDURE WILL VARV WITH LOCATION ANO WILL BE MADE VERY FLEXIBLE BY THE FCC a More details will be available on this part of the change later>