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V/E EXPAND AHD MOVE: We have changed our address to new and expanded quarters at
1519 Connecticut Ave. NW, occupying former quarters of Federal Telephone & Radio Corp., where we'll be glad to have you visit us, use our files, etc. It's virtually a radio building now, and one of our neighbors is the newly formed consulting engineering firm of Chambers &: Garrison - consisting of Comdr. Joe Chambers, just out of Navy where he headed all aero radar throughout the war, and Comdr. Millard Garrison, formerly with Jansky & Bailey, now chief of Navy aero electronics materiel, who doffs his laniform Dec. 15.
AS FM SHAPES UP: Neither our staff, nor indeed our printers, have been able to
keep pace with the deluge of FM applications that have poured into the FCC. Hence we've been forced to publish our log of applications, on which we've been working some 7 weeks now, in two parts — as Supplement 14A herewith, and as Supplement 14B which we'll send you next week.
These two sections v;ill give you the most complete file yet made available on FM applications now before the Commission. We'll report the others regularly.
Meanwhile, in compiling our detailed log and proofing it, we've observed some significant facts and trends which v/e can report now:
1, Nearly 700 applications for new FM stations have been filed thus far, including 136 as of Oct. 20 not then accepted for filing (a clerical formality) on which full details were not available but which v/e list nevertheless with an asterisk.
2 . By far the preponderance of applications are from existing AM interests , but, incredible as it seems, there are still 300-400 AM owners v/ho have as yet indicated no intention of going into FM — or at least haven't filed up to now.
3. Far and away the majority of newcomers proposing to enter the FM field are newspapers. Through Alabama-New York (which we cover in Supplement No. 14A) , you'll find 62 applications from newspaper interests not now in A.M, only 28 from non-newspapers. When final figures are tallied, if all or nearly all the applications are granted, and if you count in the newspapers already in AM who also seek FM, it is probable that the picture will indicate a future broadcasting industry half or more controlled by newspaper interests.
4. We reported last week on some of the group nev/spapers, like ScrippsHoward, Brush-Moore, Newhouse, seeking FM. Now we can report also that the big Frank Gannett chain, the smaller Guy Gannett group in Maine, the, Speidels, the Cov/les and other newspaper groups all seek quotas of FM to add to their present AMs.
5. The networks, of course, all ask for enough FMs to parallel the AMs they own, except for Mutual which itself is not an owner of stations but whose owning stations all seek full complements of FMs — Macy-Bamberger, Chicago Tribune, Don Lee, Yankee etc.
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