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...belief of greying, sad-faced Robert Harold Scott, 57, is deep and abiding. Its single tenet: there is no God. For five years godless Robert Scott pestered San Francisco radio stations to let him air his atheism. Last week, more than three months after an FCC decision in his favor (TIME, Aug. 5), Station KQW gave him 30 minutes of Sunday morning time to rehash the arguments that have been the unbeliever's stock-in-trade for many a Christian year. Excerpts...
...hoped that last week's public reception of its sets might influence the Federal Communications Commission to decide in favor of its black & white television, rather than Columbia Broadcasting System's color televising. The more sets RCA sells, the harder FCC will find it to decide in favor of CBS's color, which RCA sets cannot receive. If RCA can force black & white television now, it hopes to capture a big chunk of the market, hold it till it is ready with its own electronic color, some five years hence...
...until the people realize it." Said a shrewd radio editor, veteran of many an N.A.B. convention: "At least they had it thrown in their faces by one of their own kind. They had to face it. And they're going to have to face it from now on. FCC has licensed more than 400 new stations in the last year and there's more coming. That means competition for the boys. And the stations with good programming are going to get the listeners. Radio will just have to learn that good radio is good business...
...afraid that its New York outlet, WABC, might be a free ad for its rival, American Broadcasting Co., changed the station's call to WCBS (effective Nov. 1). Last week, NBC was at it, too. Said the network: FCC had okayed changing WEAF, New York, to WNBC. It was a good bet that to most listeners these changes in call letters made not a kilocycle's difference...
...third deal, AVCO was planning to buy a large broadcasting station in the Midwest, add it to the present stations it owns, Cincinnati's WLW and New York's WINS. (This week FCC will be asked to approve the deal...