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N-A-E-B NEWS - LETTER December 1, 1948 FCC HAS NO PLANS FOR EDUCATI O NAL TV RE SERVATIONS Doctor Herold C. Hunt, General Superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools has received the following communications from Hr. T. J. Slowie, Secretary of the Federal Communications Commission: "This will reply to your letter of November 16, 194& inquiring what 1 consideration has been or will be given to educational groups desiring to operate their own television stations. I ! "The Commission does not have under consideration any pro posal t o reserve any ; j j channels for the exclusive use of educational stations. Educational organizations |j are el igibl e of course to compete with other applicants for the availab le commer - * i1 cial channels" . At the re-allocation hearings which will be held in Washington in the near future, the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, the Association for Education by Radio, and the Association of Land Grant Colleges are presenting resolutions to the FCC asking that certain TV channels be reserved for educational purposes. Such a reservation was made in the FM band, but the FCC is reported to have been disappointed in the fact that educators have not been too quick to avail themselves of the facilities set aside for them. TELEVISION NETWORK TO LINK HALF OF UNITED STATES The American Telephone and Telegraph Company says a television network linking the east coast to the Mississippi river will be available on January 12th, Thus, almost half the nation and more than half of the country ! s population will be included in the potential television network audience. The extended television horizon will be made possible through the completion of new coaxial cables, which carry the television signals as well as telephone communications. The A-T-and T says all major broadcast companies and UPIX, the New York Daily news station, will cooperate in the inaugural show on January 11. The company says the networks will become available for regularly scheduled television service the next day. Through the network, 14 major cities will be linked. They include Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Buffalo, Toledo, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis, Television engineers predict coast-to-coast television neti/orks, possibly by 1950, PRESIDENT VICE-PRESIDENT TREASURER EXECUTIVE SECRETARY GENERAL COUNSEL RICHARD B. HULL JOHN DUNN W. I. GRIFFITH MORRIS S. NOVIK MARCUS COHN WOI, Iowa State College WNAD, U. of Oklahoma WOI, Iowa State College Room 370, 630 Fifth Avenue 51 7 Evans Building Ames, Iowa Norman, Oklahoma Ames, Iowa New York, 20, N. Y. Washington, D. C.