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Show County Included In Proposed New TV Stations WASHINGTON Iron county can look forward to its own television tele-vision on a new station which may be built under a plan of the Federal Communications - Commission, Com-mission, in Cedar City. The FCC plan, which has just been adopted calls for 20 new stations in Utah. Most of them wlli operate in the Ultra-High Frequency range, which is an untapped section of the radio spectrum. Use of this UHF band and expansion of the present Very High Frequency . service should eventually permit nearly 2,000 new television stations in every section of the nation. The 108 television stations now operating op-erating in the Unitel States are in the VHF range. "The adoption of the UHF plan in conjunction with the expansion expan-sion of VHF means the beginning begin-ning of a truly nationwide television tele-vision service, with visual entertainment enter-tainment and education brought to remote areas miles from the nearest cities,' stated Dr. C. B. Jolliffe, vice president and technical tech-nical director of the Radio Corporation Cor-poration of America, which pioneered pio-neered the development of UHF television. " We are ready to build the transmitting and receiving re-ceiving equipment to bring about this national television service." The FCC decision to use UHF for television is based on years of scientific research and on field tests conducted by RCA and the National Broadcasting company com-pany at Bridgeport, Conn., where in 1949 they built the country's first UHF television station to operate on a regular basis. These field tests, Dr. Jolliffe reported, showed that UHF when properly allocated geographically . and properly used, was compared to service provided by present VHF broadcasts. When new stations .are built, home television receivers will follow quickly, judging from the experience of present television televi-sion areas. Based on the national nation-al pattern, Utah can anticipate more than 100,000 sets a year or two after the new stations begin be-gin operation, with more than 1.500 sets in Iron county alone. Under the FCC plan, Utah cities cit-ies and towns which may obtain new stations, in addition to the two stations already in operation in Salt Lake City, are: Brigham, Cedar City, Logan, Ogden, Price, Provo, Richfield, St. George, Salt Lake City, Tooele and Vernal. |