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/ N-A-E-B NEWS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ELUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS Radio Hall, U.V^*, JVIadison, Wisconsin January 1 , 194 ? ’’COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHAPQl'iS FM BUSIl'TESS - December, 1946 says in part; ’’EDUCATIONAL CEAIEEL EXCESS? Undsr the pressure of highly corapetitive hearings, some FM applicants, through their attorneys and engineers, have grumbled that 20 FM channels are too many to^be set aside for educational institutions* They point to the slow rate of educational applications submitted thus far as justification for their claim. Educators,^in turn, admit that schools are slow to apply, but blame legislators for tight-fisted¬ ness and point to extensive plans. ’’But here is the box score of the extent to which all the educators’ plans have been executed: six stations have been licensed, 23 construction permits have been issued, 20 applications are pending. Tv/enty other applications were tendered to the FCC only to be withdrawn by the applicants or returned by the FCC with the notation ’’incomplete”. AVIATION vs. FM The desirability of high spots as locations for FM transmitting towers and the undesirability of their use for such a purpose in the eyes of aviation interests has created a real headache. FM operators logically look for the tallest hills or peaks as sites from which to get maximum coverage. Airmen look upon those peaks as hazards to air navigation, and object to having those hazards increased. Reconciling the two interests is no simple problem. Sooner or later the matter of legal rights will need to be clarified for the benefit of all concerned. So far the Civil Aeronautics Administration has been able to exert a strong influence by objecting to the FCC to the location of tovers in certain locations. CAA admits that of itself it is virtually without authority to do more than recommend. Beyond that lies the question of the authority of the FCC to deny licenses where all the specified requirements for the operation of a station are satisfactorily met. The rights of property owners also enter into the picture. Denial of the right of an owner to use his property to a legitimate end amounts to a confiscation of that property, and compensation is expected. Aviation interests point to the millions of dollars being spent on airports and air operations, saying that radio towers cannot be permitted to interfere with progress. Yet they are not ready to accept progress which has been made by calling for the use in planes of the radar type devices which can detect obstructions even when visibility is zero. This conflict in interests between aviation with the thousands it serves, and radio with its millions of listeners, must be resolved, he must go forward on both fronts.