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...tiny radio station WLIB and the Bronx Home News, a neighborhood paper that concentrates on marriages and bingo parties. She tried and failed to buy the San Francisco Chronicle, then as a consolation prize bought two radio stations, Los Angeles' KMTR and San Francisco's KYA (FCC approval of the purchases is pending...
...Modulation), radio's mysterious baby, was lifted last week out of its swaddling clothes. After ten months of study, the Federal Communications Commission decided that FM's postwar transmission band should be hiked from its present 42-to-50 megacycles up to 88-to-106. This change. FCC said, meant that FM would have ample space to expand and less interference, which should make its high fidelity and staticless reception even better...
...experimenters like General Electric and RCA, as well as some FM manufacturers whose stake is pegged in the present wave bands, had opposed FCC. Many complained that equipment would be made obsolete, feared that FM's development would be set back anywhere from one to five years. FCC countered that converters, at about $10 apiece, would make old sets workable, declared that future interference would have brought about the move anyhow. To all concerned, any decision at all was a relief...
Most Blue listeners probably shared Juliet's unconcern about the significance of names. But the network had its own solid reason for the change. Ever since FCC set the 197 station Blue on its own two and a half years ago, the Blue has longed to forget that for 15 years it was only a little brother to NBC's powerful Red network...
Thunderstruck, the Mester brothers promptly damned the FCC dictum as "very vicious," protested that their little trouble with Washington had been "all cleared up 100%." Then the brothers sat down to answer the charges in detail. They had 20 days to reply to FCC...