Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last spring the FCC decided to clean things up. It notified college stations, including WHRB, that they would have to meet requirements for regular non-profit stations or lose their permits. Most of the requirements were perfectly legitimate--they involved assigning stations to specific channels and approving their equipment...
...present time, the final adoption of these rules will be held up until the FCC finishes talking about color television. When they finally come up for approval, the FCC ought to reconsider its clause on cutting power. The rest of the regulations can eliminate the problem of interference quite nicely, and college radio does not deserve to be short-circuited out of business...
Dream Tube. Other color systems besides those of the main contestants have been proposed to FCC. The "line sequential" system of Color Television Inc. uses a single picture tube with three blocks of different colored phosphors on its face. The colored pictures are combined by projection lenses on a common screen. But C.T.I. has not shown its color pictures officially, and no one is sure how good they are or will...
...FCC, most of whose commissioners are not electronic experts, will hold many more hearings, stage more demonstrations. The commission may dump the problem of color TV into the lap of some such scientific body as the National Bureau of Standards. While the decision waits, laymen can draw a few conclusions for themselves...
...such color programs (when & if they are telecast), the owners of existing sets will have to spend something like $100 each for attachments. The pictures will be good, but probably not so good as those supplied by some radical system not yet invented. The public, which ultimately controls FCC, can eat its color-cake now, thus commit itself to eating it from now on. Or it can wait for a better, as well as a less expensive, cake that may be ready five or ten years from...