FCC Reports, Volume 23, July 12, 1957 to December 27, 1957 Page: 74
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74 Federal Communications Commission Reports
on present operating facilities or on that which may be expected in
the reasonable future rather than on maximum power. The parties
submit that the Commission's action violates section 307 (b) of the
Communications Act in depriving Springfield of its sole VHF channel
and in reducing the total number of VHF channels in Illinois from
11 to 10; while, on the other hand, St. Louis obtains a fifth VHF
channel and Missouri's total number of VHF facilities has increased
from 17 to 18.
10. WMAY-TV was the successful applicant in the Springfield
channel 2 comparative proceeding, and under the Commission's
Springfield decision would be awarded channel 36 in place of channel
2. WMAY-TV has filed a petition opposing the Commission's action
deleting channel 2, urging that such action is inconsistent with other
cases where deintermixture proposals were rejected. WMAY-TV
states, however, that if the Commission adheres to its decision deleting
channel 2 from Springfield, channel 36 should be shifted from St. Louis
to Springfield to replace channel 2.
11. Cape Girardeau Television Co. participated in the rulemaking
proceeding by filing a counterproposal urging that channel 2 be as-
signed to Cape Girardeau, Mo., rather than St. Louis. Although Cape
Girardeau has not filed a petition for reconsideration, it filed a state-
ment noting that it intended to file a request for review in court, and
that it opposed any action looking toward the use of channel 2 in St.
Louis or channel 36 in Springfield until the court has acted on its
appeal.2
12. Lafayette Broadcasting, Inc., which operates UHF station
WFAM-TV in Lafayette, Ind., seeks the shift of VHF channel 10
from Terre Haute to Lafayette. Lafayette Broadcasting states that
it is faced with competition by four VHF stations; that only slightly
more than half of the sets in the area are equipped for UHF; and that
inadequate coverage is obtained because of rugged terrain and "other
factors." Lafayette submits that Terre Haute, on the other hand,
receives three VHF signals, and that Terre Haute and Lafayette should
each have one VHF outlet.
13. Wabash Valley Broadcasting Corp. operates station WTHI-TV
on channel 10 in Terre Haute, but has applied for a construction permit
for channel 2 in that city. Wabash Valley states, with respect to
Lafayette's proposal for shifting channel 10 from Terre Haute to
Lafayette, that it opposes any procedural device which would deprive
it of channel 10 piior to its receiving a valid, final grant for channel 2.
With respect to the authorization of Signal Hill to operate on channel
2 from its present site at less than 170 miles from both the center of
Terre Haute and also from the site proposed by Wabash Valley for
channel 2 in Terre Haute, Wabash Valley expresses opposition. Signal
Hill's site in St. Louis is only 163.5 miles from Wabash Valley's pro-
posed site for Terre Haute; and Wabash Valley alleges that, because
of other cochannel stations and airspace problems, there is no feasible
2 Cape Girardeau, Louisiana Purchase, and KWK have filed appeals in court which are
pending. Requests for stay of the Commission's action were denied by the court.
23 F. C, C.
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