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...radiomen are trying to conquer radio's last frontier-the ultra-high frequencies. Most avid explorers of this wilderness are television engineers. But televisors cannot simply establish squatters' rights, they must compete before the Federal Communications Commission with other services that seek room for expansion (TIME, July11). Meanwhile the inventors and engineers are concentrated on the problem of stretching this narrow field, increasing its effective range beyond the horizon. RCA-NBC boosted its television transmitter to the top of Manhattan's Empire State Building, claims reliable reception for its experimental telecasts over a radius of 43 miles...
...ultrashort waves do spray beyond the horizon. When they travel far, however, they become as shifty and unaccountable as ricocheting bullets, cannot be relied upon to hit any particular target. Radiomen are appalled at the cost of setting up a network of ultra-short-wave stations, piping programs from station to station by cable or ordinary short-range radio-relay links. Last week was announced the invention by RCA's Inventor Vladimir Kosma Zworykin of a system designed to eliminate such costly cables...
Forced thus to censor themselves, radiomen were placed not only in the position of having to observe a special set of taboos, but of daring to err only in one direction, by being too conservative. Frank McNinch's letter was as good as official notice to the radio industry that its future lies in entertainment and education but not in rivaling the press...
More interesting to Texans last week was the question of whether Hearst, is involved in the deals. Elliott Roosevelt is continuing in his berth at Hearst Radio, Inc., and local radiomen in Fort Worth and San Antonio last week freely declared they thought he was merely acting as a front for William Randolph Hearst. According to Elliott's friends, however, the move represents an attempt to free himself from the exploitation of his name which has attended his other business ventures. Asked to clarify the matter last week, Radioman Roosevelt stiffly announced: "The Frontier Broadcasting Co. is being wholly...
...place to which admission is charged. This restriction, however, may not help musicians much because few saloons, roadhouses, poolrooms charge admission, or even employ musicians. In the more important matter of sending canned music over the air, the musicians and record men reached an agreement which made radiomen squirm. Under terms not made public last week, broadcasters will have to pay considerably larger fees to use records on programs, the increase presumably to be passed on to the musicians in increased record royalties...