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IISW m CMAIOELIJia SCON: Shortly after FM rules and regulations and engineering
standards are issued, probably within two v/eeks, FCC will make provision for early switchover to new high-band frequencies by the present 53 commercial Grantees ( 4 7 licensees, 6 CP holders). Commission will assign frequencies itself. This procedure very likely will apply also to the 12 non-commercial educational grantees (6 licensees, 6 CP holders), though somewhat later. VYe v/ill supply you with complete background data on all these stations next week.
Changeover procedure for licensees and and applicants v/ill be announced same day or very shortly after rules are issued. For the present, licensees and applicants need make no move. But preliminary plans can be laid in line with FCC release of August 24 (see Supplement No. 3) which v/e suggest you read carefully.
It contains substance of forthcoming rules and regulations.
One thing to look for is decrease in amount of engineering data to be required. This is to speed applications through Commission and also to save newcomers technical fees. Example: instead of complete Metropolitan Station map out to 50 microvolt contour, only 10-mile radius will be required. For Community Stations, it is probable no contour map at all will be needed.
Master map of U.S., being prepared by FCC engineers, will indicate channels in main cities in Area I (northeast). Applicants will have to accept channels assigned by FCC, to enable Commission to keep allocations flexible enovigh to provide for maximum use of frequencies with minimum interference between stations.
Early assignment of channels by FCC is designed not only to speed growth of FM, but also to forestall manufacture and sale of two-band receivers that some makers v;ant to place on market immediately, arguing need for "demonstration" facilities. Commission expects some upper-band transmitters will be on air by time receivers are on market and sees no reason for added expense to public. Chairman Porter so notified RMA President Cosgrove August 21 in letter so strongly worded it leaves no doubt of Commission's intention to warn public against double-band sets if manufacturers, over whom it has no control, persist in going ahead with such production. Nor does Commission want to be placed in position where continuance of present low-band FM for any length of time creates public pressure to maintain assignment. Moreover, current FM band has been promised to TV, police, et al.
Much the same procedure will govern TV assignments later. TV engineering standards are pretty well set, but rules and regulations, plus allocation plan, are still being thrashed out. Manufacturers are hardly expected to market video sets tiined to present frequencies, though one TV manufacturer is reported planning production of a wide-band receiver tunable to whole 44-225 me. band.
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