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THREE KOBE APPLICANTS FSB TV: At least a dozen new TV applications are in the
making, should be filed within next few weeks — that's our cumulative information from Washington radio lawyers and engineers who prefer not to disclose identities of principals as yet. This week 5 more went into FCC hopper, bringing total pending applications to 19 (Supp. 18-D) . Hartford's WDRC applied for Channel No. 10 (192-198 me), stipulated GE equipment, transmitter on West Peak, Meriden Mt. It's Hartford's third application for 2 available channels (Vol. 3, No, 37); Yankee's is on way (also one more from area is known to be in the works), so competitive hearing is inevitable. Trenton's V/TTM applied for Channel No. 1 (44-50 me), RCA equipment, transmitter in station's present dov/ntown site; this is planned as move to "protect" that community class channel, which FCC threatens to take away (Vol. 3, No. 33), and attorneys are proceeding despite fact WTTM is about to be sold to Philadelphia's big Albert M. Greenfield interests (for F. Carl Mark, son-in-law). And Chicago Times has filed for Channel 15 (210-216 me), RCA equipment, transmitter in Carbon-Carbide Bldg.; this makes third applicant for city's 3 remaining channels (Supp. 18-D).
LET'S LOOK AT THE FM RECORD: There was so much "talking down" of FM at Atlantic
City, that it almost seemed someone had started a whispering campaign. Deprecatory
talk came mostly from well placed AMers, smug in their present profitable positions, fearful of change or simply reluctant to risk new investment. One of their main new arguments was that FM is going to be by-passed by TV. What's the real score?
First, admittedly, there are retarding, sometimes discouraging factors — Petrillo, poor demonstration signals from too many low power STAs, slow receiver production, plenty of AM program choice in most areas. As for TV, it's obviously
a different breed of cat ; to argue it's going to by-pass FM is to argue that sound
broadcasting as such will disappear entirely. Nobody can blink away these factors:
(1) FM offers a superior system of broadcasting. Most engineers and such successful and eager toilers in the radio vineyard as Shepard, Damm, Nafzger, Dillard, Jansky, Manson, Baker, to mention only a few also deep in various phases of AM, aren't jeopardizing their businesses and reputations by backing a chimera.
(2) FCC is solidly and unequivocally behind FM. Witness Chairman Denny's speeches at NAB and Walker's at FMA (Vol. 3, No. 37). (3) Receiver manufacturers, by and
large, look to FM as a major merchandise appeal. Despite slow start, many more are getting going. Even RCA, deep in TV, is also now deep in FM despite Maj . Armstrong's lambasts against his hated rival for allegedly holding the art back.
(4) Equipment makers are turning out ever'improving facilities. ArmstrongJansky demonstration of relay and pickup system, same previously shown ITC foreign delegates (Vol. 3, No. 31, 33), so impressed some 500 NAB auditors Thursday that they burst into spontaneous applause. \
Inescapable also is fact AM band is becoming so congested, due to plethora of new stations [AM total to date: 1,873], that Comr. Durr's remark of year ago becomes a truism. We're making such a "mess" of AM, he said, that only FM can save
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