Broadcasting Oct 31 - American Radio History

applied for 46 markets through RCA Net-
work Services.
Bonneville International, Salt Lake City,
applied for Chicago; Dallas; Kansas City,
Kan.; Los Angeles; New York; Salt Lake
City, and San Francisco.
Chronicle Broadcasting applied for 50
markets; Charisma Telecasting, Columbus,
Miss. -a subsidiary of Charisma Communi-
cations Group, a Starkville, Miss. -based ra-
dio group owner -applied for 101; Hubbard
Broadcasting applied for 160; Inner City
Broadcasting Corp. applied for 36; King
Broadcasting Co. applied for nine; Lee En-
terprises Inc. applied for 13; the New York
Times Co. applied for Burlington county and
Camden, N.J., Fayetteville and Fort Smith,
both Arkansas; Florence and Huntsville,
both Alabama, and Memphis; Stella A. Pap-
pas, who along with her husband, Harry,
owns KMPH(TV) Visalia -Fresno and
KGEN(AM) Tulare, both Calif., and WHNS -TV,
which is under construction in Asheville,
N.C., applied for 105; Shamrock Communi-
cations, Scranton, Pa., applied for 11; Taft
Broadcasting Co. applied for 93; the Wash-
ington Post Co. applied for 34; J. Hobart
Wilson, Florence, Ore., chairman of the
board, Pacific Northwest Broadcasting
Corp., applied for 106; American Television
and Communications Corp., Englewood,
Colo., applied for Colorado Springs and
Denver, Colo., and Reading, Pa.; MDS op-
erator Contemporary Communications
Corp. applied for 125; Cox Cable Communi-
cations applied for 26; Group W Cable Inc.
applied for Chicago, Jacksonville, Tampa/
St. Petersburg, Los Angeles and New York;
Westinghouse Broadcasting applied for 10;
MCI Telecommunications applied for 83;
Daniels MDS Co. (MSO Daniels & Associ-
ates) applied for 104; AT &T's Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Co. applied for
Washington; Chesapeake and Potomac of
Maryland applied for Baltimore; Chesa-
peake and Potomac of Virginia applied for
Norfolk and Richmond, both Virginia; Illi-
nois Bell Telephone Co. applied for Carbon-
dale, Champaign, Chicago, Moline, Nor-
mal, Rockford, Springfield, and Sunnyland,
all Illinois; New Jersey Bell Telephone Co.
applied for Atlantic City, New York and
Philadelphia; Pacific Northwest Bell Tele-
phone Co. applied for Bellingham, Wash.,
and Bend, Eugene, and Medford, all Or-
egon; Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co.
applied for Bakersfield, Fresno, Los Ange-
les, Sacramento, San Diego and San Fran-
cisco, all California; GCZ MDS Partnership,
whose managing partner is Dr. Michael Gel -
fand, a Bethesda, Md.- nephrologist, applied
for 77, and Abe J. Voron, executive vice
president of the National Radio Broadcasters
Association, applied for Philadelphia. "I
still own a tower in town, and it would give
me excellent coverage in what could be a
viable MDS market," Voron said.
Some of the other larger applicants includ-
ed Associated MDS Corp., Pittsburgh, 46;
Baillon MDS Corp., St. Paul, Minn., 70;
B.F. Investments Inc., Scottsdale, Ariz.,
205; Belwen Inc., Guilderland Center, N.Y.,
150; Lawrence N. Brandt, Washington, 203;
Capital Cities Entertainment, Bloomfield
Hills, Mich., 88; Champion Industries Inc.,
Chandler, Ariz., 205; Columbia Communi-
cations, Washington, 63; Continental Mi-
crowave, San Francisco, 84; Digicom Inc.,
Parsipanny, N.J., 83; Figgie Communica-
tions, Los Angeles, 92; George Fritzinger,
Los Angeles, 100; Thomas Glab, Clare-
mont, Calif., 118; Greater Media MDS Inc.,
East Brunswick, N.J., 109; HDH Telecom-
munications, Roslyn, N.Y., 104; Kannew
Broadcast Technologies (A.G. Newmyer III
is a general partner), Washington, 203; Kan-
sas City Southern Industries, Kansas City,
Mo., 148; Krisar Inc; Guilderland Center,
N.Y., 155; William M. Ledford and Robert
D. Hanna, Dallas, Tex., 180; Line of Sight
Inc., Scottsdale, Ariz., 205; Low Power
Technology Inc., Boulder, Colo., 192; Max -
cell Telecom Plus, Washington, 107; Mc-
Donald Group Inc., Birmingham, Ala., 119;
Mettler Communications, Oswego, Ore.,
205; Microwave Video Services, Scottsdale,
Ariz., 206; Multi -Micro (DBA), Phoenix,
205; Multi-point Distributors Inc., Tucson,
Ariz., 208; Multichannel MDS Inc.,
Wynnewood, Pa., 114; Multichannel Media
Inc., Washington, 171; Multichannel Tele-
communications, New York, 160; MWTV
Inc., Phoenix, 206; National Wireless Vid-
eo, Research Triangle Park, N.C., 275; Ken-
neth E. Palmer, Denver, 101; Paul Commu-
nications Inc., Phoenix, 205; Presco Corp.,
Lexington, Ky., 209; Private Networks Inc.,
State and Commerce agreement
reached in implementation of
worldwide telecommunications policy,
with one side happier than other
An agreement designed to resolve differ-
ences between the State and Commerce De-
partments as to which does what in interna-
tional telecommunications policy appeared
to survive an early test two weeks ago, when
officials of those departments appeared be-
fore á subcommittee of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. Even those looking
for signs of discord in the testimony failed to
detect any.
The differences had provided ammunition
for conflict between the departments during
the summer in Washington, until the cabinet
officers involved signed off on the agree -
ment-on Aug. 31 by Secretary of State
George Shultz and on Sept. 28 by Secretary
of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige. The differ-
ent missions of the two departments provide
grounds for speculation that conflict may
break out again.
The one -page document notes those dif-
ferences but treats them as compatible. It
says that international communication and
information policy is shared among several
departments and agencies. Then it says
Commerce is "responsible for the develop-
ment and presentation of telecommunication
and information policy for the executive
branch and federal government spectrum
management." As for State, that department
is said to be "responsible for incorporating
this area with other aspects of U.S. foreign
policy, consultations and negotiations with
other governments, and maintenance of
U.S. relations with intergovernmental orga-
nizations."
At the hearing, before the Senate Sub-
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Turf fight over?
New York, 104; Pro- Communications Inc.,
New York, 150; Ralph Larson & Son Inc.,
Burlingame, Calif., 100; Revcom, Escon-
dido, Calif., 75; Sackett Broadcasting Co.,
Akron, Ohio, 67; Sports and Cable Enter-
tainment Corp., Milwaukee, 100; Stephen
Communications Inc., Sandy, Utah, 205;
Star Channels Associates, L.P., New York,
157; Sun Multi- Channel MDS, Los Ange-
les, 198; TN Communications Associates,
Irving, Tex., 133; United Paging Corp.,
Denver, 117; Universal Telecommunications
Network Inc., Washington, 100; Video/
Multipoint, Phoenix, 205; Virginia Commu-
nications Inc., Scottsdale, Ariz., 201; Vi-
sionaire Inc., New York, 185; Walter Com-
munications Inc., Provo, Utah, 205;
Whitney Communications Corp., New
York, 54, and Wireless Services Inc., Phoe-
nix, Ariz., 205.
Kevin Kelley, deputy chief of the FCC's
domestic facilities division, said the com-
mission will now try to find applicants that
aren't mutually exclusive with others, grant-
ing those that are acceptable. Kelley de-
clined to speculate on when the first MMDS
grants would be ready.
Kelley added that the commission hasn't
decided how it should handle the rest of the
applications yet.
committee on Arms Control, Oceans, Inter-
national Operations and Environment
(BROADCASTING. Oct. 24), William
Schneider, Under Secretary of State for Se-
curity Assistance, Science and Technology,
and Ambassador Diana Lady Dougan, coor-
dinator for international communications
and information policy, representing State,
and David Markey, head of Commerce's Na-
tional Telecommunications and Information
Administration, testified at length on their
respective departments' responsibilities and
plans in the field of international telecom-
munications policy without seeming to vio-
late the other department's turf. And sub-
committee chairman Larry Pressler (R-
S.D.) did not ask any questions that would
generate controversy.
Later, a Commerce official declared him-
self satisfied the "turf war," as it had been
called, is over. He cited the sentence in the
agreement describing Commerce's responsi-
bilities and noted it repeated language in the
executive order issued by President Carter
establishing NTIA. A State Department offi-
cial was not as sanguine about the durability
of the peace that had broken out. The docu-
ment signals "a truce, a meeting of the
minds, but not a total agreement," he said.
Indeed, Shultz, in his Aug. 31 letter to
Baldrige expressing State's acceptance of
the agreement, found it necessary to stress
two points. He said the "evolution of com-
munication and information technology and
its international significance makes it a for-
eign policy concern of the first magnitude,
since the ultimate course of communication
and information policy can affect every di-
mension of our foreign relations." Then he
said that "the pervasive character of commu-
nication and information policy reinforces
the critical character of effective interagency