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OUB AM B1B2CT0BY SERVICE: To meet an insistent demand, intensified since the FCC quit publishing station lists, we now have a staff at work preparing an AM Directory Service much along the lines of our FM Directory Service, This service will be made available to our subscribers only. It will start immediately after the present AM "freeze" ends May 1.
All of our subscribers, the first week in May, will be sent a printed, loose-leaf AM Directory consisting of five parts: 1) List of all licensed or authorized U.S., Canadian, Mexican and Cuban stations by States or Provinces, with name of company, street address, frequency, power, network affiliation; 2) Same list by frequencies; 3) List of U.S.. stations by call letters; 4) List of applications for new stations and new facilities by States, with addresses, FCC file numbers, present facilities, requested facilities; 5) Same list by frequencies.
After each week's FCC decisions, we will publish and mail to our subscribers loose-leaf addenda sheets, to be filed with the printed Directory, so that you can know the exact status of AM in any given place or on any given frequency at any time (same as we do now for FM) . The Directory itself will be brought up-to-date and reprinted periodically.
FX STANDARDS IB THE WORKS: Long-confused picture of facsimile should begin to
clear soon, now that RMA committee (W. G. H. Finch, chairman) has agreed ,on commercial standards. RTPB's Panel No. 7 (John V. L. Hogan, chairman) is expected to Send proposed standards to FCC-Industry committee (C. M. Braum, FCC, chairman)
Y/ithin a month; it will then Submit them in final form to FCC' for adoption.
Meanwhile, latest to announce intention of going on air with FX "in a few months" is Jack Knight's Miami-Herald, via WQAM-FM, one of 25 subscribers to Hogan's Broadcasters Faximile Analysis. Publisher Knight is quoted in last week's Editor & Publisher as saying facsimile forecasts "the most radical change’ in newspaper publishing methods since the invention of typesetting machines." He's publisher also of Chicago Daily News, Detroit Free Press, Akron BeaconJournal, besides being president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
As in FM, receivers are still biggest stumbling block to mass use of FX. Finch, GE and Press Wireless are only names mentioned with any prominence in current manufacturing. All sets, so far, are custom-built — GE making those for Miami tests. Manufacturers say set costs, in mass production, should parallel figures for radio-phonographs.
YOUR 0 m FM AND TV CENSUS: RMA's monthly radio production reports enable us to
maintain, v/ith reasonable exactitude, a running census of FM and TV sets. Thus 1947 's first figures, covering January, when added to previous counts, tell us just about how many sets are in public's hands. Totals don't bulk very large yet, but they show satisfying gains, which trade reports indicate will be bettered when February figures are out.
January FM set production was 51,318, highest yet (previous record: December, 40,903). But it Still wasn't much against the month's total radio Set produc
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