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IS TV CUBS W0STH THE LOSS? Two schools of thought seem apparent among TVers pondering FCC's proposal to delete Channel No. 1 in order to obviate interference from channel-sharing mobile services (Vol. 3, No. 33). What organized TV broadcasters want done should be decided at TBA board meeting Aug. 25. One school feels that, though drastic, FCC's solution is best since it does cut out interference which June engineering conference plainly showed exists (Vol. 3, No. 24). It’s understood this is opinion of TBA engineers who met Thursday. Other segment feels TV must fight to hold scant number of channels now assigned it, must at least be compensated for any loss. They want industry to demand two or three additional channels in what they claim are "watered" government bands between TV Channels 6 and 7 as price of concurrence to loss of Channel 1. They point to necessity for at least two channels in small cities and towns in order to make TV truly competitive. Under proposed plan even Bridgeport and Trenton will be left barren of TV.
SEASONAL DIP IH RADIO OUTPUT: July was 5-week month in RMA's audited calculations
of radio production (June 28-Aug. 1). But it also was usual month of vacation shutdowns and slowdowns. Hence output dropped somewhat. Total sets of all kinds produced by RMA members (95% of industry) reached 1,155,456 in July, compared with 1,213,142 in June (Vol. 3, No. 29). Total for first 7 months of 1947: 9,766,100.
July TV output was 10,007 sets, compared with 11,484 in June; it breaks down to: 5,546 table models, 2,406 direct-view consoles, 187 projection sets, 1,860 radio-phono combinations, 8 converters. Seven-month total TV output: 56,396. July FM total was 70,649, compared with June's 76,624, and breaks down to: 55,988 AM-FMphonos, 485 AM-FM consoles, 14,176 table models. FM's 7-month total: 516,212.
TALKING SOFT BUT ACTING TOUGH: We certainly called the turn wrong on Petrillo.
But, then, so did just about everybody else, including our chief sources of information — Rep. Kearns, FMA, the networks, Jimmy himself. This week's bad news adds up to no AM-FM duplication, for the time being at least. They're two separate fields, Petrillo says, "like a theater and a night club." Even the FCC licenses them separately, and besides "the FM station with no AM affiliation [our count: 289 out of 1,124] . . . should not have to suffer this competitive discrimination." So went the Petrillo arguments as he announced his edict from his Chicago throne room Tuesday.
"This does not mean that the same musicians cannot play on both AM and FM , " he conceded magnanimously. "It only means that the AM operator must pay the union scale if he wants a musician to play over his station, and the FM operator must do likewise." He said 12 FMs are already paying the union pipers, but won't tell who they are — hasn't even informed House committee yet, as promised. (We know only of Chicago Tribune's WGNB, CBS's WBBM-FM , Stromberg-^Carlson' s WHFM) . As for unauthorized duplication already going on (Vol. 3, No. 32), it's apparently up to AFM locals to squawk first.
Not much doubt about it — Jimmy has given the industry another kick in the slats. But there isn't any doubt, either, that he's going to have to do a lot of
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