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PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY g RADIO NEWS BUREAU, 1519 CCHNECTiCUT AVE. N.W., WASHINGTON 6, D.C. TELEPHONE MICHIGAN 2020 • VOL 1, 1^0. 10
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November 3, 1945
CENSUS 0? FM APPLICATI9KS: Our inventory of FM applications is how complete, and
we count 667 of them up to October 22. They're coming in now in driblets, so that to all intents and purposes our log (Supplements No. 14A and 14B) affords a fair sizeup of the situation to date.
Of the 667, many of them multiple applications up to the allowable limit of 6, we count 162, or nearly 23%, from newcomers to the radio field. Of these newcomers, we find 96 are newspaper interests, 90 miscellaneous interests not identified with newspapers. In other words, just about every other new company seeking to crash the broadcasting field by way of FM is owned in whole or part by newspaper people.
Thus some 505 of the applications are from AM interests. Thus, too, it would seem there are still around 400 AM operators who haven't yet applied for FM. if you allow for those AM operators already licensed for FM (Supplement No. 4).
As might be expected, the bigger states like New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, California, Texas, embrace more applicants than any other states, and of course these cluster largely around the big cities where in some cases there are more applications than available channels. As we see it, the FCC will readily grant qualified applications in the non-congested areas. But it will be forced to hold hearings where demand exceeds supply.
Second batch of 65 "conditional grants" for new FMs, mostly in South and Midwest (see Part II, Supplement No. 14B herev/ith, and Part II, Supplement No. 13 for first batch), was announced by Commission Friday. Total grants to date, 129.
Of the 65 newly issued grants, 12 went to non-AM operators. Of these 12 newcomers to radio, 8 were newspapers — among them the Atlanta Constitution, Cedar Rapids Gazette, Mobile Register & Press.
Later supplements will list later applications as well as report all grants.
Incidentally, we still have a limited supply of the supplements mentioned herein; also a few extra copies of FM Rules and Standards (Supplements No. 7 and 9). They are available to our subscribers on request.
CVSH THE SOUND Mm FUHY: Here's the straight dope, as we get it, on V/ashington' s
thinking with respect to uhf TV . with its potential advantages of color, higher definition, more channels;
Before TV can be opened up commercially in the upper reaches of the spectrum. it must be demonstrated successfully. Only after that, can uniform standards be set. Meanwhile, the FCC has no intention of clamping down or discouraging the present so-called medium bands, even though they afford only 13 channels.
So far, according to our sources, uhf TV has not been adequately demonstrated. and its potential, even conceding that we know a lot about uhf character
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