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Westinghouse estimates that it would cost $1,000-an-hour to operate each such stratovision station, and considers that dirt cheap. Stratovision, which is Westinghouse's name for the scheme, will probably be tested in the fall. Engineers are sure that it will revolutionize television, and possibly FM radio too. Not so sure is NBC's President Niles Trammell. Said he: "If it works it will be revolutionary...
...FM (Frequency Modulation), radio's mysterious baby, was lifted last week out of its swaddling clothes. After ten months of study, the Federal Communications Commission decided that FM's postwar transmission band should be hiked from its present 42-to-50 megacycles up to 88-to-106. This change. FCC said, meant that FM would have ample space to expand and less interference, which should make its high fidelity and staticless reception even better...
...experimenters like General Electric and RCA, as well as some FM manufacturers whose stake is pegged in the present wave bands, had opposed FCC. Many complained that equipment would be made obsolete, feared that FM's development would be set back anywhere from one to five years. FCC countered that converters, at about $10 apiece, would make old sets workable, declared that future interference would have brought about the move anyhow. To all concerned, any decision at all was a relief...
During his year in liberal arts high school, Peter envied his vocational school friends who spent six months working on big new mockups of rocket planes and FM distributors, and six months making money at a job. But after the first of his monthly field trips to Mexico and Canada, he began to take a broader interest in the world, got to thinking that the Great Books his teachers talked about might really be worth reading after all. During his 100-day, 10,000-mile tour of the country, he found himself more interested in the business side of things...
...which presumably does understand FM, listened to the arguments for three days, then called a secret session for next week. There, under the War Department's watchful eye, a Signal Corps expert and the industry's experts will get together to decide on FM's next move...