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- 4 - FF3RUARY CLIP-SHEET Radio industry representatives opened the new year with a recommendation to the Wages and Hours Administrator that all station staff announcers be considered "as professionals 1 ' under the Fair Labcr Standards Act. ****** The U. S, Court of Appeals says it has no authority to act on a complaint by Hearst Radio, Inc,,—owner of UBAL, Baltimore—against statements in the 1S46 "Blue Book" of the FCC. Hearst maintained the FCC public service document exposed it to "public shame." ****** Hew labels for new facilities were decreed by the FCC. All television and FM stations are now to have six-letter designations. The letters "FM" or "TV" will be put at the end of the conventional 4-letter station designations, * ***** The FM Association declares new stations will go on the air during 1948 at the rate of 50 per month. How operating are 380 FM stations; 630 others are authori¬ zed for construction within a year. Activation of all applications will make FM available to 80^ of the population. ****** A Detroit station (WJ) estimates that since 1938 his station has paid more than 8115,000 for music which was never used; the money was paid at the rate of $5.00 per hour for many hours ip which musicians did not play. ****** NBC president, Niles Trammel, told a Senate Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee of a new radio communication system (Ultrafax) which can send one million words per minute. ****** AFM Union chief Petrillo, as a follow-up to its lift of the band on FM music program duplication,gave the Continental (FM) Network permission to arrange programs of live music, ****** The National Association of Broadcasters asked the FCC for proceedings to determine what would constitute the most effective use of the frequency 540 kilocycles in the United States. Nations at the Havana Conference Recommended wider use of this band. ****** Western Union contemplated expansion of its radio relay system may result in addi¬ tional television network facilities. The company is building the system, using radio beams, instead of wires or cables, primarily for its own use; it is, however, also installing television relays on some tower units. * ***** Edwin Armstrong, inventor of FM, charges again that the FCC has made a major blunder in assigning FM broadcasting to the 100 megacycle band. Congress was urged to assign FM broadcasting to the 50 megacycle band, Armstrong says the efficiency of the system has been reduced by the change, the work of 5 years in building up EM destroyed,