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FM APPLSCMSONS TOTAL 774; With 56 new applications > minus 5 dismissed or withdrawn, total FM applications as of this date number 774. The new 36 (Supplement No. 14F herewith) include a larger than usual proportion of newcomers to broadcasting — 24, of which 7 have newspaper affiliations. Among the newcomers, Theodore Granik, attorney and conductor of Mutual's "American Forum of the Air," seeks a Washington, D. C., grant, and the San Francisco Chronicle asks for an outlet there. Approximately 50% of all 774 applicants are new to radio, including a sprinkling of veterans. Newspapers still' make up lion's share of applicants not already in AM.
CECJSIONS 5IELD UP: Chairman Porter's peregrinations to White House and OPA this
week were so frequent and of such importance (see story on this page) that he had to renege on his promise to announce decision on v/hich of the 6 applicants win Washington's 4 TV channels (Vol. 2, No. 4). Draft of 16-page decision has been written tentatively but not yet agreed upon by commissioners. Decision should be out early next v/eek, after Wednesday regular meeting at latest. Meanwhile, after months of zoning hearings, District of Columbia commissioners Thursday finally consented to allow Bamberger (WOR) to erect 300-ft. tov/er for its hoped-for capital TV station, for which it has already spent some $50,000 for choice Cathedral Heights acreage.
With Commissioner Jett busy on the NARBA conference, and Denny, Walker and Wills out of town on hearings, the Commission was also unable to issue its opinion on why it turned down Zenith-GE petition to widen FM band. Both documents Should be out sometime next week.
KEilJlY FOB PGBTEB: Thanks to Paul Porter's maneuvering to go on "leave of absence”
from his FCC chairmanship to become OPA Administrator, the regulation of broadcasting, for the time being at least, is spared again from the political influences that once bedevilled it. For it was Porter's idea, which he "sold" to President Truman, that Commissioner Charles R. Denny Jr. should be made acting chairman — an excellent merit appointment without the slightest trace of political payoff.
Porter's formal resignation will come after the Senate confirms him in his new job, which is a foregone certainty.
Up from the ranks, Denny just 4 years ago this month joined the Commission as assistant general counsel, 8 months later became general counsel, then last March was named by President Roosevelt as commissioner. Since boyhood he has been a resident of voteless District of Columbia. Not yet 34 (his next birthday is April 11), he is a graduate of Amherst '33, Harvard Law School '36.
Not only is Denny regarded as one of the brainiest, hardest working and most capable men ever to sit on the Commission, but his remarkable grasp of technical problems is such that he can discuss intelligently even the most abstruse engineering matters, as evidenced at recent hearings on FM and TV. Ho taught himself the science of radio. His home is a maze of wireless gadgets with which he likes to
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