FCC Reports, Volume 23, July 12, 1957 to December 27, 1957 Page: 7
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Allegheny-Kiski Broadcasting Co.
and industrial areas of cities of over 10,000 population which are
located between the 2 and 10 mv./m. contours of the proposed opera-
tion have been included in the population to gain service figures even
though these persons may not receive adequate service because of ac-
centuated manmade noise problems existing in such areas.
21. In the area between the applicant's 2 mv./m. and 0.5 mv./m.
contours, a different situation prevails, and it will be clear from the
ensuing discussion that the urbanized area exclusions which the appli-
cant made give the most accurate picture. Both the applicant and
WWVA, in making their population counts in this area, excluded the
populations of towns and cities of over 2,500 persons. This was done
pursuant to section 3.182 (g) of the rules. The provision of this
rule that a signal of 2 mv./m. is satisfactory for towns of 2,500 to
10,000, and the resulting requirement that in making population
counts towns of this size must be excluded if they receive a signal of
less than 2 mv./m., is based upon the engineering judgment that a
signal of this strength is necessary to overcome manmade noise. An
urbanized area, by definition, is obviously similar in essential respects
to a town, for, in addition to a city of 50,000 or more inhabitants, it in-
cludes all persons living under distinctly urban conditions in the
immediate vicinity. This is evidenced by the criteria which are fol-
lowed by the Census Bureau. (See footnote 2, above.) In general
terms, such areas have a population density similar to that found in
all but the smallest towns, and such a distribution of this population
over an area of substantial dimensions that the problem of manmade
noise will arise. For these reasons, it is in accord with the purpose
of the rule to treat urbanized areas in the same manner as towns of
2,500 or more inhabitants and to exclude them if they do not receive
a 2 mv./m. minimum signal.
22. Applying this discussion to the instant case illustrates the im-
portance of following it in many cases. The proposal at issue here
will provide primary (0.5 mv./m.) service to a substantial area in-
cluded in the Pittsburgh urbanized area. An entirely inaccurate
picture of gains in people to be served would be portrayed if exclusions
were limited to towns with populations exceeding 2,500, and if per-
sons residing under substantially similar conditions in urbanized areas
are included in the count. There is no reason to expect that the latter
group would be satisfactorily served with a signal of less than 2
mv./m., but the theory followed by WWVA falls to recognize this
fact.
23. In our judgment, the method used by the applicant, taking ac-
count as it does of urbanized areas, gives a more accurate picture than
does the method employed by WWVA-even though applicant's show-
ing is less accurate in the area between the 2 mv/m. and 10 mv./m.
contours. The latter area appears to be far less significant, popula-
tionwise, in this case than the area from the 2 mv./m. to 0.5 mv./m.
contour which includes an appreciable segment of the Pittsburgh
urbanized area. Under the facts of this case, and since it is not
possible, as we have already observed, to use part of one method and
part of the other, the population figures submitted by the applicant
will be accepted.
23 F. C. C.
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