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Clothed under early New Deal blanket legislation with mighty authority over the air, FCC announced that limited commercial telecasting could begin on Sept. 1 -i. e., that advertising sponsors could pay program production costs, leave telecasters out of pocket only for their air time and technological expense...
Natural but catastrophic was RCA's next step: a full-page advertisement in Manhattan newspapers announcing regular program service, advertising its highest-priced home receiver ($395). Two days later the blow struck: an FCC order summarily suspending its permission for commercial telecasting. Its reason: "television promotional activities" by RCA. Television sets should not be foisted on a large public, FCC implied, until there has been more improvement in the quality of transmission. This week, FCC begins further hearings "to determine whether ... the achievement of higher standards for television transmission are being unduly retarded by ... the Radio Corporation of America...
...room in Russell Sage Dormitory. Its audience: 40 other students in Russell Sage whose rooms are within WHD's broadcasting range-50 to 75 feet. WHD's transmitter: a one-tube gadget like those used in remote-control record players (and permitted license-free by FCC...
...Dryfoos got another sponsor, a stationer. From all three he now nets a cool $5 a week. Right now Hugh Dryfoos' WHD has no competition, but early in its career other students started up a two-tube rival enterprise which they called the Illegal Broadcasting System. One night FCC listened in, found IBS illegal indeed, since its unlicensed broadcasts could be heard beyond the dormitory walls, way over in Vermont...
...Gold. Some came from straight moralists, a few from folks who thought they should have won. But most were from radio stations which had refused similar programs in the belief they were lotteries-and from cinema exhibitors who were losing customers on Tuesday nights. Last week FCC did something drastic-sounding about Pot o' Gold: handed the whole file of complaints over to the Department of Justice, got the G-Men started on the radio rainbow's trail...