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SAYS 'HO/ BUT — Political repercussions gay result from its decision Thursday, turning down Zenith-GE plea for widening FM band to embrace also the 44-50 me fre quencies. Within 4 days from close of hearing on pros and cons (Vol. 2, No.. 3), the Commission issued a one-paragraph decision, promising later opinion setting forth reasons for its imanimous edict.
Meanwhile, though most of Washington radio engineering fraternity seems satisfied. Prof. Armstrong, Zenith's Gene McDonald and New Hampshire's Senator Tobey aren't at all; latter, incidentally, attended first day hearing on band widening. Said Tobey, when asked to comment: "The decision not to widen the FM band contravenes the facts. This is not the end of the case." But he wouldn't say what form intervention might take, adding only that no matter what the Commission opinion shows, the economics of broadcasting would not support a host of shortrange stations even though they might be shown to blanket the country.
On the other side of the Hill, Rep. Clarence Lea, chairman of House committee handling radio, said, ""I am loath to set my judgment against that of the FCC, especially on so technical a question. Under the Communications Act, the FCC has broad authority on allocations, and I trust the decision is v/ise and affords the proper foundation to permit FM to proceed*." Concensus here was that FCC's authority over technical determinations was pretty hard to buck legally, that Commission as now constituted will be hard to shake politically too.
McDonald lashed at Commission; "FCC has crippled FM by shackling it to the 100 me band .... The new evidence v/as not denied nor refuted .... Decision makes obsolete 400,000 to 500,000 FM sets nov; ov/ned by public .... No one can profit by decision except radio networks and some manufacturers who are now tooled up for 100 me sets .... We will produce two-band sets." And 5 others, unless they change minds now, have said they also will produce two-banders: Ansley, Freed, Galvin, Stromberg-Carlson, Templetone.
M EKPSHSiVS PF.ODISY: Television's high cost factors, as compared v/ith AM or Fll,
stood out like a sore thumb during the 3-day hearing conducted this week by FCC Chairman Porter on Washington's 6 applications for 4 available channels. Yet there was discernible in the exhaustive cases presented by the applicants an intensely serious purpose to feed good hard capital to the gosling so that it might grow into a lush goose capable of laying golden eggs. The period of growth to commercial stature was variously estimated at 2 to 3 years.
The 6 applicants remaining out of the original 9 mean business — no doubt of that, though 2 of them are bound to be disappointed in the final selections.
With one accord, they evidenced supreme confidence in the future of TV by their elaborately laid plans and their willingness to spend the huge wherewithal required in its inceptive stages.
And the Commission means to hasten TV along — no doubt of that either, as indicated by Porter's stipulation with counsel that the usual procedure of filing
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