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DENNY QUITS FCC, SUES T0 HBS: It's pretty generally agreed that, in the 20 months
of his chairmanship, "Charley" Denny gave the FCC its best administration in history. And few will deny NBC is big gainer in getting the 55-year-old Government career man as its v. p. and general counsel. He will be first ex-commissioner NBC ever engaged. His resignation, announced by White House Thursday, is effective Oct. 31. He goes on vacation Oct. 25, is expected to report to Radio City in a month or so. Nov/ everybody’s guessing about his successor, and the amateur and professional kingmakers are already at work. Best guess would seem to be an appointment that v/ill enhance Democrats' 1948 political prospects, since Commission is still loaded with career men, already has one particularly strong GOP member (Comr. Jones).
iESTAMENT TO RADIO'S FUTUBE: All this talk about TV bypassing FM, rendering FM ob
solete even before it gets on its feet (Vol. No. 3, No. 38), is arrant nonsense.
It's of a piece with saying radio will do away with newspapers, or that autos and airplanes will wipe out railroads. For whatever it's worth, here's how we see American radio trending and developing:
TV v/ill become the dominant radio medium — in popular interest, advertising appeal, dollar volume. FM v/ill displace most if not all present regional and local broadcasting channels — that seems to be today's official thinking, if not actual policy. AM will eventually be confined to high powers, probably clear channels — those serving rural and remote listeners, who don't otherwise get good service, having the best chance to survive.
We stick our necks out with this testament because the foregoing is our best answer to the questions most often put to us. There are many ifs, ands and buts : no. of stations, no. of sets, kind of programs, eye vs. ear appeal, investment, return on investment, etc., etc. Maybe your theories and guesses are better than ours — but the first 7-year cycle of radio set ownership (from 1946) should begin to tell the story. Meanwhile, TV and FM are both taking hold, slowly but surely, moving forward, despite great obstacles, as inevitably as Time itself.
As for AM, you already have a broadcast band becoming so .jam-packed (nearly 1900 stations authorized in this country alone) as to render many signals futile, many stations worthless. Certainly the future is beclouded. More than that, the beginnings of shrinkage in the 550-1600 kc band are readily discernible in incipient demands of NARBA nations for a reallocation.
FM BIDS FOB TV CHANNEL 1: It's extremely unlikely the FCC. after repeated deci
sions against returning 44-50 me band to FM, will reverse itself on basis of strongly worded, 56-page printed brief with 11 exhibits submitted this week by Maj . Armstrong. FCC’s avowed purpose in proposing to take that band (now TV Channel No. 1) away from TV is to make place for fixed and mobile services, eliminate sharing (Vol. 3, No. 33, 34). Maj. Armstrong's latest pitch was made in his request to be heard on Channel 1 issue, which TV and other communications interests will argue before Commission Nov. 17 (postponed from Oct.' 13). He won't be alone in his~stand ; NAB, for example, says if 44-50 me is taken from TV, it should go to FM (Vol. 3, No.
Copyright 1947 by Radio News Bureau