Television digest and FM reports (Jan-Dec 1946)

American Broadcastinp; Co., Los Angeles (KECA) , granted Channel No. 7 (174-180 me), 4.5 kw visual power, 2.7 kw aural power, 2,831 ft antenna height. Transmitter site, Mt. Wilson. Equipment, GE.. Company also holds CPs for TV stations in Chicago, Detroit, has applications still pending for New York, San Francisco. Times-Mirror Co.. Los Angeles (Los Angeles Times) ,, granted Channel No. 11 (198-204 me), with 19.15 kw visual and aural powers, 3,096 ft antenna height. Transmitter site, Mt. Disappointment. Equipment, RCA. Company also holds CP for uhf experimental ' color station and conditional for FM. Dorothy S. Thackrey, Los Angeles (KLAC-New York Post), granted Channel No. 13 (210216 me), with 16 kw visual cind aural powers, 2,841 ft antenna height. Transmitter site, Mt. Wilson. Equipment, RCA. Mrs. Thackrey also owns WLIB, Brooklyn, and KYA, San Francisco; has dropped applications for TV in. New York and San Francisco ; is applicant for FM in New York, but has dropped FM applications for Los Angeles and San Francisco. National Broadcasting Co., Los Angeles, granted Channel No. 7 (66-72 me), with 15 kw visual power, 8 kw aural power, 3,130 ft antenna height. Transmitter site. Occidental Peak, Mt. Wilson. Equipment, RCA. NBC operates TV station WNBT, New York, holds CPs for TV also in Washington, Chicago, Cleveland, thus filling its quota limit of 5 stations. Earle C. Anthony Inc., Los Angeles (KFI ), granted Channel No. 9 (186-192 me), v/ith 16.1 kw visual power, 17 kw aural power, 3,037 ft antenna height. Transmitter site, Mt. Wilson. Equipment, RCA. Comrs. Durr and Hyde were outvoted in asking grant to be held up pending AlA renewal. Broadcasting Corp. of America, Riverside, Cal. (KPRO-William L. Gleeson) , granted Channel No. 1 (44-50 me), 1 kw aural and visual powers, 5,132 ft antenna height. Transmitter site, Cucamonga Peak, San Bernardino. Equipment, DuMont. This is first Community Class TV station authorized to date under Sec. 3.603 of, TV Rules (Supplement No. 17). Though located on ideal high site, it may radiate no more than 50 watts toward Ventura area, cutting its signal into Los Angeles (43 mi. away) to less than 500 uv/m. Radio Sales Corn., Seattle, V/ash. (KRSC), granted Channel No. 5 (76-82 me), 18.95 kw visual power, 9.79 kw aural power, 408 ft antenna height. Transmitter site. Third Ave. N. & Galer, in downtown Seattle. Equipment, RCA. This station is owned by Capt. Palmer K. Leberman, publisher of Family Circle Magazine, part owner of FM station WGYN, New York. * * « Only movie concern still showing active interest in TV station operation. Paramount was held in FCC's opinion, issued late Friday (Docket No. 7264), to be amenable to Sec. 3.640 of TV Rules limiting commercial TV grants to any one company to 5 (Supplement No. 17). First, Commission cites Paramount's stock interests in DUiMont (42,200 out of 1,471,040 outstanding Class A shares, and all of 560,000 Class B shares which are entitled to elect 3 out of 8 directors). Then, it points out that Paramount controls Chicago and Los Angeles TV subsidiaries, plus these applicant companies: United Detroit Theatres Corp.; New England Theatres Inc., Boston; Interstate Circuit Inc., Dallas. Paramount was found to have no interest in Maison Blanche Inc, application for New Orleans, as previously reported, so that grant should come soon. Commission also held Paramount's involvement in Government's anti-trust patent suit against Scophony (Vol. 1, No. 1' "does not appear to be such as to require a denial of a grant on that ground." On its part, DuMont holds one TV license for New York, one CP for Washingto and seeks outlets also in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh. Thus Paramount-DuMon have 2 grants each, so jointly are entitled to only one more station. However, because it is so keen about getting into TV on its own. Paramount may next take one of these steps: (1) dispute FCC opinion in courts, an unlikely course; (2) dispose of its DuMont holdings, a more than likely course; (3) ask FCC to lift 5-limit rule, v;hich TV-rninded Commission might very well do if it means more stations in cities where no one else has applied.