Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-24
RADIO FOR PRESS
MUST Be UNIFIED
Commission Orders News
Group to Draw Up New
Form OF Incorporation.
ny MARTIN COnEL.

The American press must be repre-
sented as whole in any radio COM
| municationS enterprise undertaken by
| the American News Traffic Association
| This was ruled by the Federal Radio
| Commission Yesterday in ordering the
| press group To draw up new plan of
| Incorporation and organization for the
| utilization Of the 20 short wave chan
| nels recently granted to its member
| newspapers and press associations for
| the purpose Of carrying their own
| tranSoceanic word trafflc.
Separate ownership and control OF
the radio stations in the projected press
| network was definitely discouraged
| when Judge E. o. Sykes told sponsors
| Of the project at a public hearing that
| their proposals were entirely out oil
| accord with the authorizations con-
! tanned in the construction permits for
! the l6 radio stations issued by the
| commission last May.
The American News Traffic ASsocia :
| ton proposed to have its individual
| members own their transmitting ana
| receiving stations and TO allot to them
| the use of specific wave lengths. While
| agreeing to open these separate sta
| tons to rival press associations or news
| papers. the American News Traffic As
! snciation was unwilling to organize n
! single public service communications
| unit which would handle traffic for all
| the American press on basis of equal
| ity.
| Commission BalkS.
When the proposals we're outlined.
members Of the commission halWd
unanimously. Chairman Robinson d.
| clared that his conception o. the prof.
eCt was that all the press Of the United
! States should be enabled to file dis
| patches on equal terms. whether or not
| the newspapers or newspaper CORE
spondents here or abroad were men,
| berS OF the association
Judge Sykes asserted that the con-
Struction permits were never intended
| to give the wave lengths to individt-
| ally-owned stations. or he would never
| have approved their issuance.
Counsel tor the association. Dwight
| P. Green Of Chicago. explained that the
| reason for the suggested scheme of
| separate operation was that the aSSo-
| citation wanted TO avoid the necessity
| IF investing large capital to build up a
| large radio communications company
| The project he said is experimental
and the members are unwilling to take
| the risk collectively
The upshot of the hearing was a
! demand by. the commission that the
| press group present more favorable
| scheme Of organization or have its
| wave length assignments revoked The
| association was allowed until October
| TO present its plan. ano has until
| January 80, 1929, to build its stations.
Allowed is Stations.
Under its construction permits is
sued last May, the press group was
granted authority to build six short
wave transmltters at New York. two
| at Chicago, two at Los Angeles and one
each at Boston. Philadelphia, Wash
| ington Milwaukee and San Francisco
| for communicating with Halifax. Nova
Scotia London. England, and Mexico
City. Another station was authorized
to be built at San Francisco for radio
circuits to Honolulu and Fairbanks,
| Alaska
II was proposed TO parcel out the
wave lengths to separately owned sta
tions at each Of these points. 1t also
has been proposed to extend some of
these radio circuits for inland com.
munication between New York. Chicago
and Los Angeles. butt this has not been
authorized in the construction permits.
Copyright, 1929. by North American News.
paper Alliance
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