Show t DISCOVERS ERS MAIN STREET rl lT Z l T Too Technical iii a Ii Limitations nifa ions Restrict c TV T e i t J 0 tI b et kl oti fj th ib timing 0 oJ ci 4 d Il II-Il m II J The expansion of Dt video into non non- TV en on the Federal Communication Communications Commissions Commission's plait Uh to open up a hew section of the radio spectrum known at as the Ultra UltraHigh UltraHigh High With Frequency Range flange for tor Commercial com commercial commercial mercial and educational tet television Ilon This will permit 70 10 new channel thannel for TV bro broadcasts as a. compared d to the 12 channels channel now in to use in hi the limited s v Very Vary r- r High Frequency Range Hangel By Dy opening UHF and expending expending ex pending VHF the tM FCC will offer licenses for tor nearly 2000 new stations eta sta divided amo among every evert state tate in the union The FCC ha has ha indicated that it h will put It up to private tnt enterprise in n the towns and cities concerned If It they want television they can un a aply apply ap ply for It and following final allocations nib allo callons expected soon oon licenses will bei granted grante to top appl tIc cants to found d. d the llie bas basis of ot t tenta tentative tenta nta five tive aU allocations nuon and d j state fu I nse quota under the expansion program the nation will wUl have this this number number of ot TV eta eta- stations sta Alabama 45 49 Arizona SO 30 Arkan gas sas 38 33 California SO 80 COlori Colorado o 30 Connecticut 14 Deleware Delaware 4 District of Columbia 8 6 FlorIda 53 6 53 Idaho 28 kt LL 50 SO 58 Indiana a 45 49 Iowa 58 68 Kans Kansas s. s 49 Kentucky 32 Louisiana 42 Maine 29 Maryland 12 Massachusetts Massa Massa- A chusett 23 Michigan 69 63 Minne Minnesota Iota sota 48 Mississippi 39 Missouri 83 53 3 Montana 39 39 aka i Ne Nevada e evada e. e vada 22 a hire Also AIo Ne i co 35 39 Ne y I lIna Una 51 81 Nor t i 87 57 Oklahoma 54 Or r Pennsylvania P kt e Island land 4 South Carolina u 30 Tennessee 1 lay T hf 70 Utah 19 Ve t t lQ l a a. a 37 31 st I 23 Wisconsin I 27 71 This ThI expanded service contrasts dramatically with l rj- rj gional allocations In many station one cities ll lk Albuquerque and Seattle network network programs program have been unobtainable because relay relar facilities either microwave or coaxial c rt donDt fUt reach them But the cables and the radio rela relay re re- la lay towers are today pushing steadily stead ily Into new nee nevi areas A chain of lofty microwave towers which wh ch rela relay v video i 1 d e o a III signals al with split split- second precision was completed Coaxial cables able from to coast are spreading through the BOU south from Kansas City to Wichita to Dallas San Antonio and Houston Jackson Miss a southern terminal term nal I Is e being tied to New Orleans a northern branch is f. beaded headed for tot Montreal and cables are ne P being l g glaId laid from Los Angeles through Arizona Art Ari zona zona Texas and New Mexico to cover the southwest This v vast st expansion of video relay re reo reola la lay facilities means i that i scoter scores i s 's of of f new tale tele Ube r UHF or orto orp it t S 9 M J to tap Int into the terminals ri the t route and relay the majo major network programs through remote rural Mal areas y 7 s Main Streets Street's Role Rol f fIt f i It is difficult to forecast accurately accurate ly 1 today how quickly Main Street USA U.S.A. will wID erect the nearly neady 2000 new stations for which licenses licenses' might be available and bow how quickly quick ly 17 extensive homo borne coverage will be obtained There is question the the of material shortages in a defense economy ot of local financing of new lil Eit S JEt the speed peed with which the FCC processes license application 9 avY Y t ta l a regional pattern established since 1946 1940 when the National National National Na Na- Company In introduced Introduced regular commercial televIsIon tel tel- in the s was the 13 t till f In a any ways firo y A a it it Ni M mr F For r exa Ies present te t a maintained a a fa faIn 1 In 1951 1051 t t et stair t w r m Hies mes residing f tn 1 a areas ne type d of Signal howe however be picked up on home receivers Of this total had purchased tea r Since e people reside in tM thi th ratio of at TV set et sales sates to individuals is about one oneto oneto oneto to six In terms of ot families it is a atie IJ tie Ue better than better an one set one tse ee for tor each And p 0 as ertL And I e e pattern Is fairly con con- consistent consIstent consistent between different size cities New York for example has 00 families and they y own own home lome receivers Omaha Neb has families and they own TV sets Using the same ame yardstick the scores of ot towns which look forward t to 6 Ter h fr- fr frown own transmitting stations can expect t an audience of one out of ot every two families in their municipal municipal mu mu- and suburban regions They Theyan an te ct within with with with- in 1 three e oit Or r four foul years ears after their first video signal is bf broadcast d st The number of at listeners of course lr e of stations erected Recent history ea ehat go up fast tast In h when the freeze on on staJon sta eta ton Jon construction was VIas imposed by the he FCC too for fear tear of ot over extending the he VHF channels channel and and- thus ere creating creatIng creat- creat at- at Ing ng Interference between s station station- stations stations- scores town of town small business radio station tatlo owners and newspaper publishers had hat applications applications ap ap- for tor station licenses licensee on file A new technical phrase is being projected into the national vocabulary lary It is Ultra High Frequency and it is the operative phrase in a government plan to extend tele tele- J vision bey beyond T d major P population P cen cen- ter tern Into the farms rt rAnch s and small towns of bt America merl a. a To Too the scientist Ultra nigh High Frethe Fre Fre- quency rR m or of the n nam n for tor the spectrum tr The air wa ol course belong to the the people andI the Job lob qt of gfa gov government W t divide among various private and govern govern- Ilene service channels ch t in which to transmit information elec elec- c J Ji 1 i The services to o which the BOV- BOV the airwaves air airwaves waves waves adib fele in Un the Very the o Vary Ver- High FUgh frequencies I cies cled FM FIK pro broadcasts radio amateur radio government g ve nt wireless wire yli i less maritime wireless s ship J stations sta sa i coastal maritime I navigation general navigation ra radar dar air nir eon 1 airport airport- con control industrial scientific and med medi medical cal il s I a Fixed Channels h nn s 's 1 Each I of t. t th t service It has j charm chann channels Is Is' in iii n the aIr aJr waves and nit cannot cannot intrude upon its its' sister ices With television the number of I channels used today is not sufficient cuff um dent to carry carry video signals to every part of ot the nation Since the Inception of ot commercial commer commer- cial TV telecasts have bave been beamed over 12 channels channel in the rel ref relatively limited Very VerT High Frequency Frequency Frequency Fre Fre- quency section n of ot the air waves s. s but with new ne' stations mushrooming around the country the Federal Communications Commission decIded decided decided de de- de- de it had better call caU calla a halt balt before be be- before fore TV signals signal began b bumping into each other Its decision was prompted prompt ed b by the realization that two television television television tele tele- vision signals transmitted over the same channel within range of one another will collide and thus hash bash up Up the home bome viewing screen The be one untapped section of f the sp spectrum which promised plenty lenty of room wea w This was the area area in which nd d ez engineers of ot the Radio Corporation of America began looking for tor new television channels Up until RCA engineers began looking into it according to OB Hanson nanson Vice President and Chief engineer of ot the National Broadcasting Broadcast ing Company the UHF was the Antarctic of ot the air waves Everybody Every Every- body knew where it t was on the map of the radio spectrum but nobody i had bad m much cb practical knowledge i about It it This plunge into the upper frequencies frequencies fre tie was was doubly necessary because be cause television is a great space pace grabber A television picture requires re quires quins much more information to be transmitted electronically than a radio broadcast As a matter of tact fact tad a ai TV TV- station requires es times as much room in ether as a aradio aradio radio broadcast station it uses a band width of cycles 8 6 S meta megacycles cycles compa compared d to eyelet cycles ele for tor standard tamIani radio broadcast broad broad- cast Equipment Developed Out of ot years of expensive research re re- research search earch and field tests equipment was developed which made UHF practical It that UHF station proper properly situated and nd properly oper op op- er a ted furnish home bome viewers a picture that equalled in clarity fend and definition the standard VHF picture It was found found that present home borne bornet t television sets set could uld receive UHF i telecasts lecasta through tta tM addition of a simple tuner hat receivers Could be lie built to ec th UHF had and M VHF telecasts It w the un the t-the- of 70 10 stew ew UHF channels channell for tele- tele on would permit as an tf orderly ex x- x tension Ion of t V VIF i service without fe hr r o of st station u Thud findings provided the bu basis bails ol or the fCC plans plan it to o lice license n se n near e ar lr 17 n s GuJ u America t i t II |