Television digest and FM reports (Jan-Dec 1946)

»s I mm CODECS 1 authoritative news service OF THE VISUAL BROADCASTINS AN£> : FREQUENCY MODULATION ARTS AND INDUSTRY / FDSliSHEO WELUY 3T gADlD D^SEAg. 1519 C3^^^iECTlCgT AVI r4.W, tJASaiSSTOH 8, D.C. imMM UlDira 2323 • VOL. 2, MO. 40 October 5, 1946 TV GRANTEE LIST GROWS: At the rate it’s now going, FCC by year’s end should dispose of nearly all, if not all, of the remaining low-band TV applications (Supplement No. 18A). This week, it issued CPs to two more: Philadelphia — ^William Penn Broadcasting Co. (WPEN-BMZ/e^m), granted Channel No. 10 (192198 me) with 25 kw visual power, 26.4 kw aural power, 676 ft. antenna height. Quaker City now is assured of three TV outlets, with Philco’s WPTZ already operating and the Inquirers station authorized; possibly another if Daily News gets CP too. Minneapolis — Minnesota Broadcasting Co. (WTCN), controlled by Bidder Newspapers (St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press), granted Channel No. 4 (66-72 me) with 17.9 kw visual power, 9.2 kw aural power, 490 ft. antenna height. Twin Cities are now assured of two TV outlets, all asked for, inasmuch as St. Paul’s KSTP Inc. also holds a CP. So you can take these two out from under the “Applications Pending” heading (now only 39) and add them to “CPs Outstanding” (now 33), as listed in Supplement No. 18A. Soon to be granted, because FCC says they are now “being processed,” are applications of WON, Inc., Chicago; William H. Block Co., Indianapolis; Associated Broadcasters Inc. (KSFO), San Francisco; Broadcasting Corp. of America, Riverside, Cal. And though the Commission, in its own recapitulation of last week, lists 10 “applications awaiting information requested,” our inquiry develops that it has been given all requisite data on at least four of them — Crosley’s three (Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton), and Fort Industry’s one (Toledo). The remaining six whose applications will be processed if and as soon as requested data is submitted, are; Radio Sales Corp. (KRSC), Seattle; Connecticut Television Co., Bridgeport (Darien), Conn.; Institutum Divi Thomae Foundation, Cincinnati; E. F. Peffer (KGDM), Stockton, Cal.; Jacksonville Broadcasting Cox’p. (WPDQ), Jacksonville, Fla.; Philadelphia Daily News. Several of these are expected to drop out. Other applications are held up (1) because hearing decisions are awaited on New York and Los Angeles cases, and (2) pending disposition of hearings in related cases, e.g., determinations on multiple ownership, Paramount-DuMont relationship, etc. WEEK'S B30 BATCH 0? ms: FCC made up for last week’s lost time (no meeting) by gathering twice this week, granting 18 FM construction permits, modifying 8, making 4 conditional grants (Supplement No. 44A herewith) . Total CP holders to date is now 298. Most grantees are still AM licensees, but examination of the 24 new applicants (Supplement No. 14-0 herewith) shows 11 are new to radio. Trend among newcomers is to file for both FM and AM, or, having filed for one, to mull the problem over and file for the other. Class A is undoubtedly gaining in popularity — 11 of these latest 24 being in that category. GOOD PLACE TO SIZE BP TV: If you have any interest whatsoever in TV, economic or academic, you should make it a point to attend the Television Broadcasters Association’s conference and exhibition at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria next Thursday and Friday, Oct. 10-11. Listening to the speakers, seeing the sets on exhibition, exchanging views with the experts, you should be able to appraise the status of TV for yourself. And your observations certainly ought to help you decide just where and how you fit into the new scheme of things the budding \ddeo art will inevitably bring about in radio. The grand scale of this affair, as arranged by RKO Television Corp.’s Ralph B. Austrian, is extremely impressive — a dozen big-name speakers at general and banquet sessions; 14 exhibits of receiving and transmitting equipment; regular A. Copyright 1946 by Radio News Bureau