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...experts will discuss FM (frequency modulation) broadcasting. The experts: FM's inventor, Major E. H. Armstrong, General Electric's Dr. W. R. G. Baker, and Walter J. Damm, president of FM Broadcasters, Inc. (also vice president of the Milwaukee Journal). Interest was aroused by: 1) the recent FCC acceptance of postwar FM station applications; 2) among newspaper applicants, such stalwarts as the New York Times and News, Omaha World-Herald, Washington Star, Atlanta Constitution, the three major St. Louis dailies. Another straw in the air-news wind: some 120 publishers signed to see a newspaper television demonstration...
...watchdog of U.S. radio, FCC's James Lawrence Fly, said last week that it made no difference to him whether radio time for controversial discussion was paid for or given free- so long as both sides got a hearing. WMCA assured both sides of just that (provided the station editorially approved of the discussion at all). WMCA was not entirely reassuring about what it would do if there were, say, seven sides to a question. But it became a highly interesting case study for students of freedom of speech...
Hogan's carefully nursed baby in the broadcasting field has been WQXR, and he remained its president when the Times completed negotiations last week (pending FCC approval). Present station policies will be maintained, but in smart, inventive President Hogan and WQXR, the Times got a handy hedge against the postwar day when its famed slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print" might have to be augmented by "All the News That's Fit to Facsimilize...
Married. Navy Lieut. Joseph Willard Roosevelt, 25, son of the late Major Kermit Roosevelt; and Nancy Thayer, 24, socialite translator (of foreign broadcasts for FCC); in Manhattan. Roosevelt, whose father Kermit died on Alaskan duty last June, is on leave after a year's service in the South Pacific...
GOPsters were outraged at this partisan use of a city-owned station. They demanded equal radio time for an answer. The Little Flower virtuously appealed to FCC Boss James L. Fly for advice. The Fly decision: "The public is entitled to a balanced presentation...