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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...
...with hypertensive Democratic Party Chairman Bob Hannegan, accepted Hannegan's decision to quit the chairmanship with few regrets. With quiet irritation, the President dropped his speech coach, J. Leonard Reinsch, from the Rio passenger list. For weeks, columnists had spread a false rumor that Reinsch would be appointed FCC chairman to succeed Chairman Charles R. Denny. The President suspected Reinsch of what he considers a cardinal sin: starting the rumor himself. Washington heard that Harry Truman had acidly been asking his close associates if they knew anybody who wanted a radio announcer...
While Standley's first messages were crackling along the Gulf Coast, the hams of STEN (South Texas Emergency Network) were given a red alert, went on the air to monitor the messages along to their destinations. In Washington, FCC hastily authorized STEN to use emergency frequency bands. Amateurs all over the U.S., Bermuda and Puerto Rico stood by to pick up and relay the messages...
...call themselves hams? During the war, the armed forces found that they were a ready-made pool of trained communications experts. Since the war, the number of hams in the U.S. has risen to nearly 80,000 operators, with 50,000 stations (two-thirds of the world total). The FCC is now granting over 1,000 new licenses a month. Some predict that within five years there will be 250,000 U.S. hams...