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...Federal Communications Commission's Radio Intelligence Division. Not to be confused with FCC's FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service), which monitors foreign broadcasts, RID is a detective agency working solely with the U.S. Army, Navy, FBI and State Department. Its business is counter-radio-espionage...
Television standards, said CBS, were fixed by FCC three years ago, and remain unchanged. If they continue so, postwar television will not be in a position to take advantage of the fact that the war has stimulated electronics to the point where a much clearer television image is almost a certainty. To get these war-born improvements into commercial television, CBS proposes that the radio industry write off the $20,000,000 it has already-spent, that owners of the 7,000 U.S. television receivers scrap them, and that television start afresh with the wartime improvements. CBS thinks such...
...FCC, which will have to decide the matter, was also heard from. Said Commissioner E. K. Jett: "In my opinion there will be two systems of television in the future: 1) a system patterned along the lines of the presently recognized commercial system; 2) a vastly improved system of television based on new development...
...experts will discuss FM (frequency modulation) broadcasting. The experts: FM's inventor, Major E. H. Armstrong, General Electric's Dr. W. R. G. Baker, and Walter J. Damm, president of FM Broadcasters, Inc. (also vice president of the Milwaukee Journal). Interest was aroused by: 1) the recent FCC acceptance of postwar FM station applications; 2) among newspaper applicants, such stalwarts as the New York Times and News, Omaha World-Herald, Washington Star, Atlanta Constitution, the three major St. Louis dailies. Another straw in the air-news wind: some 120 publishers signed to see a newspaper television demonstration...
...watchdog of U.S. radio, FCC's James Lawrence Fly, said last week that it made no difference to him whether radio time for controversial discussion was paid for or given free- so long as both sides got a hearing. WMCA assured both sides of just that (provided the station editorially approved of the discussion at all). WMCA was not entirely reassuring about what it would do if there were, say, seven sides to a question. But it became a highly interesting case study for students of freedom of speech...