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(For full story on Veterans Housing Order VHP-1, see Special Report herewith)
FMs PASS idlE 890 MAPK: As March draws to a close, 32 more applications for new FM stations can be reported (Supplement No. 14H herewith). Of these, 21 are from AM operators, 7 request Community stations. Also announced was Elias Godof sky's amendment of his Brooklyn application to ask instead for Community in Hempstead, L.I., which means one less among the 24 FM applicants set down for New York area hearing July 1 (see FM hearing schedule in our Special Report, March 16).
Veterans figure prominently among new applications — Lt. Col. Lewis Rock, publisher of Dayton (0.) Journal-Herald; the brothers Tweel, of Huntington, W. Va. ; and a group from Allentown, Pa. Also disclosed is fact that Bing Crosby has minority interest in application of Dick Richards' KMPC, Los Angeles.
This v/eek brought 13 more conditional grants (Supplement No. 33B) , so total is now 375. Disclosed among new conditionals is Commission's plan to give New Britain, Conn., one of Hartford's 6 Metropolitan channels; also that Pottsville,
Pa., originally down only for Community channels, will get a Metropolitan. The addenda and changes reported in 14H bring total applications on FCC's books beyond 800 mark for first time. If you have Supplements No. 14A to 14H inclusive, you have a complete directory of all FM applications to date.
WHY WZ'RE HOT GETTiHS SETS: Not steel, not condensers, not resistors, but w'ood is the bottleneck in radio receiver production. Cabinet makers who make radio consoles — and all but a few FM receivers and all TV sets will be console-type jobs — are (1) making furniture for their regular customers, (2) not making radio cabinets because, they say, OPA price increases are too low to allow a profit on the narrow margins on which they operate for the radio trade.
This, and other pricing problems of radio set production, was revealed at an RMA press conference last Tuesday after an industry committee saw OPA Administrator Paul Porter. Parts makers, committee members emphasised, are not producing because increase factors granted last year are not sufficient for profitable manufacture. Shortage of materials, wage increases, etc., must be taken into account by OPA and higher ceilings must be fixed, they declared.
Only 300,000 radio sets, practically all AM table models in plastic housings, were produced from V-J Day to Christmas 1945 by 141 manufacturers, RMA reported. In 1941, some 3,500,000 sets were turned out by only 54 firms.
OPA indicated a sympathetic approach to the radio industry problems. RMA has set up a liaison committee to work with pricing agency officials, and is optimistic about quick action. OPA has lifted price controls from transmitters and completed associated equipment — amplifiers, modulators, rectifiers, control panels and consoles, TV camera units and projectors, synch generators. It warned, however, that if prices jumped too far out of line, controls would be reimposed.
Tube manufacturers were also given a ceiling price jump; 15.5% extra when tubes are sold to manufacturers, 20% when shipped to retailers.
Copyright 1946 by Radio News Bureau