Radio & TV: Rest Cure

Television's growing pains have been showing up on receiving screens as wobbly pictures and queer noises. Last week FCC Chairman Wayne Coy ordered a halt of from "three to nine months" on approvals of new TV station applications.

During the rest period, engineers will confer with FCC on some sort of new formula for giving the public better TV service. An example of the kind of subject to be discussed: the spacing of TV stations, which engineers are not yet agreed on. Some think that stations should be widely separated, others that they can be packed together like sardines without interfering...

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