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Allegheny-Kiski Broadcasting Co. 5
distorted view of the amount of interference to be suffered by WKPA
as a result of a grant of the WKPA application. In view of these
exceptions, a somewhat detailed discussion of the problem is necessary.
15. The difference between the two methods may be summarized
in the following manner. The applicant, in making its population
count, has excluded persons living in urbanized areas as well as those
living in cities having a population of 2,500 or more, where these
areas are located between the 0.5 mv./m. and the 2 mv./m. contours of
the proposed operation. Between the same contours, the intervener
has excluded those persons residing in cities having a population of
2,500 or more, but did not exclude those persons residing in urbanized
areas. In the areas which will receive a signal of between 2 mv./m.
and 10 mv./m.,2 the intervene's count will exclude a percentage of the
population of cities with a population greater than 10,000. Applicant
does not make these percentage exclusions. The urbanized area ex-
clusions of the applicant and the percentage exclusions of the inter-
vener have this in common; they are not specifically prescribed by
the rules. However, for the reasons which will hereinafter appear,
their acceptability is not to be decided on the basis of a literal inter-
pretation of sections 3.182 (g) and (f) of the rules.3
16. The common purpose of these different methods of counting
population is to eliminate from the population count those persons who
do not receive a signal that is satisfactory to overcome man-made
noise. These differing methods present two problems. (1) The
treatment of urbanized areas located between the 0.5 and 2 mv./m.
contours of a station, and (2) the treatment of cities of over 10,000
population.
17. WWVA bases its contention that the percentage exclusion in
cities over 10,000 is in accordance with the rules primarily upon a
statement made by Commission counsel in the Fort Industry proceed-
ing." Counsel said "* * * we have no objection to deductions for
2 U. S. Bureau of the Census, Census of Population: 1950, vol. 1, p. XXVII, "Urbanized
areas, Definitions.-';Urbanized areas' have been defined for the first time in the 1950
census * * * The effect of the adoption of the urbanized area concept was to include
in the urban population 6,203,596 persons living under distinctly urban conditions in the
immediate environs of our larger cities who under the old definition would have been
included in the rural population * * *
"An urbanized area is an area that includes at least 1 city with 50,000 inhabitants
or more in 1940 or later according to a special census taken prior to 1950 and also the
surrounding closely settled incorporated places and unincorporated areas that meet the
criteria listed below. Since the urbanized area outside of incorporated places was defined
on the basis of housing or population density or of land use, its boundaries for the most
part are not political but follow such features as roads, streets, railroads, streams, and
other clearly defined lines which may be easily identified by census enumerators in the
field * * *
"The urban fringe of an urbanized area is that part which is outside the central city
or cities. The following types of areas are embraced if they are contiguous to any
area already included in the urban fringe:
"1. Incorporated places with 2,500 inhabitants or more in 1940 or at a subsequent
special census conducted prior to 1950.
"2. Incorporated places with fewer than 2,500 inhabitants containing an area with a
concentration of 100 dwelling units or more with a density in this concentration of
500 units or more per square mile. This density represents approximately 2,000 persons
per square mile and normally is the minimum found associated with a closely spaced
street pattern.
"3. Unincorporated territory with at least 500 dwelling units per square mile.
"4. Territory devoted to commercial, industrial, transportational, recreational, and other
purposes functionally related to the central city * * *"
3 For sees. 3.1.82 (f) and (g) see appendix II.
4 The Fort Industry Co., WJBK, 7 Pike & Fischer R. R. 151, 171, footnote 21 (1950),
"All populations are based upon United States Census, supplemental maps of civil divisions,
metropolitan districts and census tracts, unless otherwise specifically noted. From the
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