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After more than ten experimental years, the FCC last week approved commercial transmission of facsimile (TIME, Jan. 12). On July 15 any FM station that is ready for the job may start printing "fax" newspapers by radio. If it can be done satisfactorily in color (several experimenters think they have workable techniques), that will be all right with FCC...
...Hollywood was now almost knee-deep in TV. Warner Brothers closed a $1,000,000 deal (contingent on the FCC's sanction) with New York Post Publisher Dorothy Thackrey to buy her two West Coast radio stations and a precious Los Angeles TV permit. Paramount already owns two stations, is bidding against 20th Century-Fox for a San Francisco channel. Twentieth Century-Fox announced that it will now also produce films specially for television. Only two major studios (MGM, RKO Radio) still hang back. "The whole industry," said one film maker, "is either jumping or jumpy...
...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...