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-23- FEDERAL C011 UNICATIONS COl MISSION September 1 5 194S NE TT S~APPLICATIONS—ACTIONS October 30, 1948 EDUCATIONAL FCC CLARIFIES TV APPLICATION PROCEDURE Denials of three petitions that action be withheld on all pending television appli¬ cations for a single city until action could be taken on all such applications simultaneously were handed down by the FCC in a Memorandum Opinion and Order October 21* In denying the petitions, the Commission said the suggested procedure would result in unnecessary delay in acting upon applications. In the established procedure for the processing of TV and FK applications, the Order stated, they are considered to be mutually exclusive only? ,,T Jhere two or more applications request the same channel in the same area, "Where the total number of applications for an area exceed the number of channels available for assignment," Further clarifying procedure, the Commission said that the processing applications is effected according to their file numbers and upon completion they are presented to the Commission for action. They are then acted upon without regard to other applications for the same city. PROPOSE FCC ENGINEERING STANDARDS CHANGES Notice of proposed rule making to amend the FCC’s Standards of Goo d Engi neeri ng Practice dealing with methods of computing groundwave field intensity contours, where the radiated signal from a transmitter traverses a path having more than one ground conductivity, was.given October 1 by the Commission. The FCC notice said that it was believed that the use of the new method would pro¬ duce results "more in keeping with the facts as determined by actual field measure¬ ments than either the so-called ’two—thirds’ rule or the ’decibel’ method described in the present Standards," AUTHORITY DELEGATION ORDER The FCC has amended Section 1,142, Part 1 of the Rules and Regulations, by deletion of 1,142 (a) (6), and has amended Section 1.144 by the addition of a new section (k) to read as follows: - "(k) Applications for remote pickup, ST, and experirental TV relay broadcast stations." The order in effect delegates to the Secretary of the Commission authority to pro¬ cess such applications after approval of both the Engineering and Law departments. ORAL ARGUMENT RE FIT RULES The Commission scheduled for October 15, 1948, at 3:00 p,m., in Room 6121, New Post Office Building, 12th and Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., the oral argument previously scheduled for October 11 in the Latter of Promulgation of Rules and Regulations concerning the origination point of programs by standard and FM broadcast stations, (Docket 8747)