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(This is the second of a series of
<r articles on the coming of a naK ontvide television service.)
Large sections of Western, Central and Southern United States have no television. Fifteen states were caught in the “freeze” on TV station construction which was imposed by the Federal Communications Commission in 1948. A dozen others are being covered by a single station.
Many of these states, like North Dakota and Montana, cannot even pick up the video signals of neighboring states because the nearest stations are out of television range. For millions of Americans television has been just something to read about in newspapers and magazines. or something to look at briefly on trfps to the East or West Coasts.
New this pattern of regional television is on the verge of abolition. Liko the capillaries in the human bedy, video signals will ‘soon begin coursing from the main channels of the visual broadcast industry into the remotest regions of the nation. The people, of Cut Bank and Deer Lodge, Mont., may soon have the opportunity to see national network television shows — and on their own stations, not those o* neighboring communities. New Range Opens
The expansion into non-TV areas is based on the FCC’s plan to open up tf new section of the radio spectrum, known as the Ultra-High Frequency Range, for commercial and educational television. This will'permit 70 new channels for TV broadcasts, as compared to the 12 channels now in use in the limited Very High Frequency Range. By opening UHF and expanding VHF, the FCC will offer licenses for nearly 2,000 new stations, divided among every state in the finion.
The FCC has indicated that it will put it up to private enterprise in the towns- and cities concerned. If they want television they can apply for it. and, following final allocations expected soon, licenses will be granted to applicants found acceptable. On the basis of tentative allocations and provided each state fulfills its license quota under the expansion progratn, the nation Will have this number of TV stations: Alabama, 45; Arizona, 30; Arkansas. 38; California, 80; Colorado, 36; Connecticut, 14; Delaware, 4; District of Columbia, 6; Florida, 56; Georgia, 53; Idaho, 28; Illinois, 56; Indiana, 45; Iowa, 58; Kansas, 49; Kentucky, 32; Louisiana, 42; Maind, 29; Maryland, 12; Massachusetts, 23; Michigan, 65; Minn*, sota, 48; Mississippi, 39; Missouri, 53; Montana. 39; Nebraska, 34; Nevada, 22; and New Hampshire, 12. Also, New Jersey, 9; New Mexico 35; New York. 55; North Caro
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