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    "ocrText": "August 26, 1949\nTRUMAN\nNATIONAL\nARCHIVES ANS\nPACOROS\nSERVICE\nROVERNATER\nDear Mr. Chairman:\nThis is with further reference to your letter of\nAugust 1, 1949, in which you state that it has come to your\nattention that representatives of the Radio Manufacturers\nAssociation plan to call on me shortly to urge that I advise\nthe Federal Communications Commission to postpone for a year or\nmore the allocation of television channels in the ultra high\nfrequency band. In your letter, you express the view that the\nCommission should not be deterred from proceeding with its pending\nproposals designed to revise its television allocation table by\nallocating channels in the very high and ultra high frequency bands.\nAt this writing I have not received a request for an\nappointment from the Radio Manufacturers Association. However, I\nhave read your letter with keen interest and I have obtained from\nthe Commission further information concerning the subject of your\ninquiry.\nFrom your comments and the facts supplied to me by\nthe Commission, it appears that the Commission's pending television\nproceedings are of a broad and comprehensive nature; that ample\nopportunity exists in those proceedings for interested persons,\nincluding the Radio Wanufacturers Association, to submit evidence\nin support of their claims; that the date on which the Commission's\nhearings on this subject begin was extended (on July 27) from\nAugust 29 to September 26, 1949, to give interested parties full\nopportunity to present their views; and that the Commission's\nproposals are designed to carry out the twofold objective of the\nCommunications Act of 1934 - to provide television service, as\nfar as possible, to all the people of the United States and to\nprovide a fair, efficient and equitable distribution of television\nbroadcast stations to the several states and communities.\nI feel confident that the Commission will base its\nconclusions concerning the issues in the pending television proceed-"
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