Television digest with electronic reports (Jan-Dec 1952)

Record Details:

Title:
Television digest with electronic reports
Date:
Jan-Dec 1952
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Radio News Bureau
Volume:
Television digest with electronics reports (Jan-Dec 1952)
Leaf #:
000432
Language:
English
Subjects:
Television broadcasting -- Periodicals, Television -- United States -- Periodicals","Radio broadcasting -- United States -- Periodicals.
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
University of Maryland, College Park
Sponsor:
LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
A weekly digest of brief reports tracking recent developments in the U.S. television marketplace. Published out of Washington, D.C. with much more focus on the retail of TV sets than the other D.C.-based trade paper, BROADCASTING. -- Eric Hoyt, 2015
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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4 cations FCC License Division says it had received as of 5 p.m. July 18, find that 22 applications are still uncontested — 6 of them vhf , no less: Group A: Portland, KGON No. 21; Youngstown, Polan Industries No. 33 ; Spokane , KSPO No. 2; Sacramento , John Poole No. 46; El Paso, KROD No. 4, KSTM No. 9; Mobile, WALA No. 8, WKAB No. 48; Scranton, WGBI No. 22 & Appalachian Co. No. 73; Knoxville , WROL No. 6; Savannah, WTOC No. 11; South Bend, WSBT No. 34; Peoria, Hilltop Bcstg. Co. No. 19. Group B: Bridgeport , Harry L. Liftig No. 49; Fall River, New England Television Co. No. 40; Harrisburg, WHP No. 33; New Castle, WKST No. 45; Battle Creek. WBCK No. 58 & W.S. Butterfield No. 64; Ft. Lauderdale, WBRD No. 17 & WFTL No. 23. Some of these may be held up for various reasons, but from standpoint of competition they're free for FCC approval as of this writing. A couple very handy documents, incidentally, as you try to keep track of applications, are our Supplements No. 81 & 81-A. First shows the order in which cities are being considered for grants. Second is our own rearrangement of those cities by States and alphabetically within States ; it saves a lot of time when you want to find a particular city's position on processing lines. FCC CAUTIOUS ON SATELLITES & WIRED SYSTEMS: FCC's first action on "satellites" and community antenna systems, taken this week after long study by staff, was to authorize very limited experimentation with satellites (and boosters) and to set the stage for exhaustive hearing on community systems. Action on satellites comprised grant to Sylvania to rebroadcast signals of WJAC-TV, Johnstown, over experimental uhf station KG2XDU, Emporium, Pa. (Channel 22) — midnight-7 a.m. , one hour between 9 a. m. -noon and one hour between 1-6 p.m. Sylvania was also granted CP for new experimental uhf station on Channel 82, with 30 watts, in heart of Emporium. KG2XDU is on nearby hill. Sylvania 's program is to determine coverage and interference factors (Vol. 8:25). Booster authorization went to WSM-TV, Nashville, to build 5-watt station in Lawrenceburg, Tenn. , rebroadcast WSM-TV's signals on same channel (No. 4), polarized to cut co-channel interference (Vol. 7:50). Hours are limited to midnight-7 a.m. Reason for severely circumscribing hours of operation and specifying that operations are of "a non-continuing nature," is to avoid giving impression Commission has authorized such stations on regular commercial basis. Commission also defined satellites and boosters. Former rebroadcasts signals of originating station on different frequency; booster uses same frequency. * * * * Community antenna action dealt with application of J.E. Belknap & Associates, Poplar Bluff, Mo., which proposes to build microwave system to feed signals of St. Louis' KSD-TV and Memphis' WMCT to number of prospective community systems in the area. Application was set for hearing, with date and subject matter to be specified in near future. Reasons for hearing, given in letter to Belknap: (1) FCC isn't sure whether operation would be true common carrier. (2) Availability of programs to Belknap isn't certain, particularly since KSD-TV and WMCT have objected to proposal, claiming property rights in signals. (3) "Several important questions with respect to the status of community antenna TV systems under the Communications Act" must be resolved before FCC can determine whether Belknap's applications should be granted. Comrs. Hyde and Jones dissented from action setting application for hearing ; they would have granted it. Others (Walker, Hennock, Bartley) voted for hearing for various reasons: fear of infringing stations' property rights in programs; fear of fostering "monopolies," i.e., extending coverage of big-city stations and discouraging growth of local outlets, etc. It was coincidence that brought both subjects before FCC the same day, but there's no question that they're related — inasmuch as community antenna systems are bound to suffer if satellites and boosters are authorized ultimately.