Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...television, operating a six-station network in the East, and ready to link it to a seven-station Midwest network in December. By the end of the year, NBC will be up to half-steam, owning all the stations FCC allows (five), and beaming programs to 31 affiliates. Paramount Pictures already has two stations in operation, and a 29% interest in the Du Mont network. A fortnight ago, Warner Bros. applied for a station in Chicago; last week 20th Century-Fox asked for a San Francisco license...
...Since FCC is not in the business of selling or publicizing radio sets, Chairman Coy did not go into any details. But radiomen predicted that the "tranceivers" (transmitters-plus-receivers) will have a range of one to two miles in cities, five to ten miles in open country. They will be tunable (with a screwdriver) to several frequencies, which will reduce interference somewhat. If many are sold (and the industry has great hopes), it will be a great day for the peeping Toms of radio...
...President Frank Stanton, who had huffily cut down on television expansion when FCC refused to go along with CBS's color system, was busily making up for lost time. He was hustling to finish two studios in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal building, at an estimated cost of $700,000. He said the studios would be the "nation's largest television studio plant." CBS, which has a network of four stations, also bought 33% interest in Madison Square Garden Corp. to strengthen its franchise on big sports events...
Paramount was empire-building as fast as time and the FCC would permit. Last week KTLA, the big Paramount-owned station in Los Angeles, had one of the fullest logbooks of any television studio in the U.S. (35 hours a week). Another Paramount production is Chicago's WBKB, and the company has a big (29%) interest in DuMont, one of television's Big Three networks...
...Appointed Wayne Coy, Washington radioman and onetime assistant to Franklin Roosevelt, to be chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, succeeding Charles R. Denny, resigned; and upped George E. Sterling, FCC's chief engineer, to be a commissioner, succeeding Ewell K. Jett, resigned...