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STATUS OF m RECAPITULATED: We'll have our quarterly FM directory for you next
week, giving new channel assignments and consolidating everything in Supplements No. 50 and pink addenda Nos. 50-A to 50-J. We're using a new format, making mechanics of keeping it up to date much simpler. Perusing our data, it's readily apparrent FCC's job in cleaning up backlog is just about wound up — 48 licenses, 603 CPs, 249 conditionals. Only some 50 applications can be granted without hearing. Rest of ungranted applications, about 90, are involved in hearings.
This week, besides routine grants (Supplement No. 50-J herewith), Chicago decision was made final, Philadelphia decision proposed. Former was as shown in Supplement No. 50, except that WAIT was permitted to apply for reserved channel. In Philadelphia, Unity (ILGWU), WHAT, Franklin Bcstg. Co. were favored: Patrick Stanton (WJMJ-CP) continued in hearing; WDAS dismissed without prejudice. Grant to Unity is its sixth; only other outfit with 6 is West inghouse . These hearings remain to be decided: Cleveland-Akron and Dayton-Springf ield (both due soon), Baltimore,
Mansfield, Los Angeles.
Regarding end of reservation (Vol. 3, No. 24), v/e detect no wind as yet of a heavy demand for newly available frequencies. However, New York can expect at least one — from National Cooperative Federation.
luR. V/AXEFIELD AHD MS. J0.NES: Lots of political byplay, some of it reminiscent of
"good old days" of radio regulation under Hoover and Roosevelt, lay behind President Truman's surprise withdrawal Wednesday of FCC Comr. Ray C. Wakefield's renomination, replacing him with a down-the-line Republican, 40-year-old Congressman Robert Franklin Jones, of Lima, 0. Not only radio but political circles buzzed with reports which, when checked and winnowed, amounted to this:
President Truman has been bedevilled lately with complaints about certain FCC decisions, notably one in which NAB's Bob Bartley, nephew of ex-Speaker Sam Rayburn, had application for new station in Houston turned down, largely on grounds of non-local residence; another in which it proposes to reject new Cincinnati station sought by group headed by Leonard Reinsch, White House radio advisor, now head of Gov. Cox radio stations in Ohio and Florida; and another in which it has failed to grant new station in Rochester, N. Y. sought by ex-secy of the Senate Leslie Biffle and associates.
Rayburn's boiling anger, in particular, spilled over to GOP Speaker Joe Martin, thence to GOP policy makers who saw chance to put their ov/n man in key position to be groomed for FCC chairmanship when, as one of them put it to us, "we take over next year." Though personally popular Mr. Wakefield had endorsement of whole California Republican delegation in Congress, plus Senator Downey and Rep.
Lea, the Republican leadership has looked at him askance as too New Dealish. Speaker Martin knew Rep. Jones wanted the job, arranged the appointment via Rayburn. Now in his fifth term in Congress, Jones has never been identified with radio legislation, has made quite a party record on appropriations (slashing mercilessly), is
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