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UHF
Its past and its present
■ television's rapid growth through the late 1940s brought about a \irtua! packing of the VHP bands to the point where there was
little room for expansion in most markets
Ik cope with tln\ problem, the FCC, in 1952, found it necessar) to institute a freeze ^ new \ HI su lions.
The commission next adopted a Table of Allocations designed to
Kilter's Richard C Block.
vice president and general manager
of the group's three UHF outlets now under
construction in Detroit, Los Angeles
and San Francisco
provide city-by-city assignment I43h l HI stations | he move was calculated to provide a fullj com" petitive national t\ system, for the l ( ( believed thai both I and \ stations could co-exist in most niarkets.
Following the I HI allocations, man) outlets were opened, but some
l<M) later went dark, unable to I
with advertiser, programing and set problems. Since then, the upper
bands have been largel) avoided
and unused
During the lo years that followed, the I ( ( considered mam aproaches to fostering l HFs growth, dropping several after the) were found to be overl) difficult to implement.
I • instance, in 1955, the I ( ( considered abandoning the dcintermi\ oi [' and V stations in four communities, Hut later that year, it
declared the problem to be national in scope, and set aside a "Notk
Proposed Rule Making" that had been previous!) adopted to terminate deintermixture in these tour cities.
In 1956, the I ( ( went on n with a statement declaring that the likel) long-range answer to the allocations problem la> in a comp movement of all tv outl< HF
channels
Three yean later, an uns attempt was made to obtain B
channel \ Hi system, whh the additional spectrum me from the military.
Ihis was followed by '
dons in 1961 the deintermix of eight mark. single \ stat it
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