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SPRINGFIELD TEL. BROAD CORP. v. FEDERAL COM. COM'N

Nos. 14050, 14051.

259 F.2d 170 (1958)

SPRINGFIELD TELEVISION BROADCASTING CORPORATION and Greenfield Television Broadcasting Corporation, Appellants, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, Appellee, The Travelers Broadcasting Service Corporation and The WGBH Educational Foundation, Intervenors. SPRINGFIELD TELEVISION BROADCASTING CORPORATION and Greenfield Television Broadcasting Corporation, Petitioners, v. The UNITED STATES of America and Federal Communications Commission, Respondents, The Travelers Broadcasting Service Corporation and The WGBH Educational Foundation, Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided June 19, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Vernon L. Wilkinson, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. James A. McKenna, Jr., Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants in No. 14050 and petitioners in No. 14051.

Mr. Richard A. Solomon, Asst. General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, with whom Mr. Edgar W. Holtz, Acting General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, Mr. Charles C. McCarter, Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, and Mr. Daniel M. Friedman, Attorney, Department of Justice, were on the brief, for appellee in No. 14050 and respondents in No. 14051.

Mr. Percy H. Russell, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Aloysius B. McCabe, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for intervenor The Travelers Broadcasting Service Corporation.

Mr. Edgar F. Czarra, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Ernest W. Jennes, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for intervenor The WGBH Educational Foundation.

Before PRETTYMAN, BAZELON and BASTIAN, Circuit Judges.

PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.

These cases are a petition to review and an appeal from orders of the Federal Communications Commission. They involve a phase of the UHF-VHF problem in television. The locale involved is a portion of the Connecticut Valley centered about Hartford.

Allocation of UHF channels began in 1952 with the Commission's Sixth Report and Order. In the Connecticut-Rhode Island area thirteen UHF stations and four VHF stations were allocated, two...

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