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...live up to FCC specifications for commercial broadcasting, manufacturers are now altering all the sets now in use. These receivers were built to reproduce an image of 441 lines. Authorized transmitters will broadcast 525 lines and FM sound, so that televisionaries tuning in on NBC broadcasts will probably get murky pictures and fuzzy sound if their sets are not changed over. Nobody will hear or see CBS television, murky or otherwise, on unaltered sets. CBS is on a band no layman can currently pick up. As a matter of fact, CBS is not ready yet for commercial operation...
...before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee last month. Said he: "We are now ordered to divest ourselves of one of our network services . . . while at the same time, the licensing policy of the Commission encourages our entrance into the operation of new stations in the fields of television and FM. The older service of broadcasting is profitable, but the new services are yet to produce any revenue. Apparently the Commission favors our loss of present investments and revenue, but wants us to invest in new fields...
Spotted over the U. S. now are eleven FM stations privileged to operate commercially, and ten more experimental outfits. On tap are 54 applications, which FCC will shortly pass on. Liveliest developments in FM are taking place around New York City, to which FCC has allotted eleven channels. With seven of these already assigned to stations, FCC has received ten applications for the other four spots. Among those that would like to take over a place on the FM band are Joseph Medill Patterson's News, Musak, The Yankee Network, and an outfit called FM Radio Broadcasting Co., headed...
...give everybody a chance at FM, FCC has established the rule that no station can bounce its signals beyond the basic trading area of the city in which it is located. All FM stations in the same area must give identical coverage. Because of this rule, the biggest FM station in the land, The Yankee Network's 50,000-watter at Paxton, Mass, may not benefit by FCC's decision. The Paxton station, which cost $300,000, booms over Boston, Worcester, Providence, Springfield and Hartford, will probably have to receive special treatment if its experimental activities...
...FM set owners in the U. S. are currently entertained mostly with music, occasional network shows. Not until this summer, when commercial FM is expected to be better organized, will programming become a major item with FMers. Nowadays their chief worry is the installation of commercial transmitters. Best place for transmitters is upon mountain tops. Trouble is that mountains crop up in sparsely populated areas, don't often soar over cities where the largest audiences are available...