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June 8, 1946
NEXT ON THE TV AGENDA: Philadelphia TV hearing in Washington June 17, next on
Fee's agenda, looks like it will have 5 applicants for that city's 3 available channels (one channel being already occupied by Philco's V/PTZ) . Withdrawal of Seaboard Radio Broadcasting Co. (WIBG) is anticipated next week, leaving the following in the running; Westinghouse (KYW) ; Philadelphia Inquirer (WFIL) ; Pennsylvania Broadcasting eo. ( Gimbel ' s-WIP) ; William Penn Broadcasting Go. (Philadelphia Bullet in-WPEN) ; Philadelphia Daily News, reportedly negotiating to purchase WDAS.
TV hearing docket will then be cleared except for San Francisco hearing scheduled there July 15, with 6 applications still on file for 6 channels. That hearing may possibly be dropped since all but two of applicants (Associated Broadcasters Inc. and San Francisco Ghronicle) have already laid their cases before t Gommission in Los Angele.s hearing where they are also seeking video outlets.
^ The other 4 are: Hughes Productions, Don Lee, American Broadcasting Go., Dorothy
S. Thackrey (New York Post).
Four more TV applicants withdrev/ this week: Stromberg-Garlson Go.,
' Rochester (WHAM) ; WEBR Inc. , Buffalo (Buffalo Gourier Express) ; WFBM Inc. , Indianapolis; Jam Handy Organisation, Detroit.
'RE3EHVS PLAN' FOB CHANNELS: a proposal that every fifth FM channel allocated for Metropolitan and Rural stations be held in reserve for one year in certain areas was advanced Friday by FGG. Although at first blush the plan to "cold storage" channels would seem to be radical, by actual count it would hold back only enough for 93 stations inasmuch as it is applicable only to those communities allocated more than 4 channels. Move v;as proposed in order to provide backlog for late-coming veterans and small business men, although Gommission' s formal order merely states as its reason that the radio act "may be better effectuated and the public interest may be better served by a reservation of metropolitan FM channels under certain conditions."
No such plan is suggested for the 20 channels in the non-commercial educational band (88.1-92.2 me), even though there are so few applicants for these that the band is still literally wide open. Nor are all of the commissioners sold on the proposal, which must be formally acted upon after oral arguments ordered for July 12 for which interested parties must file appearances by July 9.
Proposal obviously is result of Gommissioner Durr's insistence since he first suggested reserving channels last year, bolstered by Senate Small Business Goramittee Report (Vol. 2, No. 15). No city as yet has had all its channels assigned. But in several cases, the proposal if it becomes final, may play hob with hearing plans. In Ghicago, for example, the 12 eipplicants who think they are Seeking 12 available channels (see story in this issue) may find they have been contesting for only 9. In New York, the 20 remaining applicants may be bidding for only 5 channels (20 are assigned, 11 occupied, 4 may be reserved).
Under the proposed policy, no channels would be held back if a community was assigned a maximum of 4 in the I'M Allocation Plan of last. Dec. 19 (Supplement
Copyright 1946 by Radio News Bureau