Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past fortnight the Federal Communications Commission has handed down two momentous decisions, one releasing Frequency Modulation broadcasting from the confines of experiment, the other locking television tight within it. By awarding FM the number one television sending band (44,000-50,000 kilocycles), FCC opened the heavens to FM broadcasting. Including the band it .had previously been allocated experimentally, it now has 42,000-50,000 kilocycles, will presently be able to spot stations all over the land. Meanwhile, television must plainly label television experimental, must readjust its transmitters in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles...
...raft of new laws and regulations. Still undecided by FCC are the rules that will govern FM transmission, the licensing of stations, power, coverage and engineering...
...Hundreds of new stations. When the FCC decision came through, 22 FM permits had already been allotted, several stations were in the process of being constructed. When FCC issues new licenses, these 22 and 135 other applicants who are now clamoring to operate FM stations will all start from scratch...
...immediate is the problem of clearing television's number one band for FM. Now in the position of a landlord owning an apartment from which the tenant has not yet cleared out, FM will not really start to go to town until Jan. 1. By that time FCC expects to have the space cleared. Included in the megacyclic housecleaning will be 13 maverick Government short-wave services...
...power authorized for any commercial station by the FCC is 50,000 watts; enough on good winter nights to make Midwest stations audible on the Pacific coast...