association of
MAXIMUM SERVICE TELECASTERS / INC.

1785 DeSales St., N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20036
District 7-5412

July i, 1969 Lester W. Lindow, Executive Director

Professor Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics
Stanford University

Palo Alto, California

Dear Professor Lederberg:

l read your July 5 article in the Washington Post entitled "Street Crime
Provides a Case for Rationing Radio Channels" with considerable interest
since the Association of Maximum Service Telecasters has done a great deal
of study and analysis in the land mobile radio area during the past year. We
believe, and other authoritative sources believe, that an examination of the
facts surrounding land mobile's use of its assigned spectrum will indicate
that this particular portion of the spectrum is in dire need of rational manage
ment.

We are sending you under separate cover our comments filed with the
FCC on April 30 which cover the two»way radio situation very completely.
I suggest that you read in particular pages 1*53 in the Reply Comments booklet
and pages lell in Exhibit 6 (the Nathan study). If you are interested in the
reaction of UHF»TV stations (48% of UHF-«TV spectrum allocations are for
educational TV stations) to the proposal of land mobile radio proponents that
the Commission reallocate UHF*TV channels 14-21 to twomway radio use, you
will find such reaction described in Exhibit 5.

I hope that you will find this information interesting, informative, and

 

useful.
Lester W. Lindow
Executive Director
LWL/dlf Board of Directors
Jack Harris, KPRC-TV, Houston, Texas—President John H. DeWitt, Jr., WSM-TV, Nashville, Tennessee James M. Moroney, Jr., WFAA-TYV, Dallas, Texas
Charles H. Crutchfield, Jefferson Standard Joseph B. Epperson, Scripps-Howard Broadcasting John T. Murphy, Avco Broadcasting Corp., Cincinnati, Ohio
Broadcaating Co., Charlotte, N. C.—1st V. P. Company, Cleveland, Ohio C. Wrede Petersmeyer, Corinthian Broadcasting Corp.,
Lawrence H. Rogers II, Taft Broadcasting Co., A. M. Herman, WBAP-TV, Fort Worth, Texas New York, N. Y.
Cincinnati, Ohio—e2nd V. P. C. Howard Lane, KOIN-TV, Portland, Oregon Ward L. Quaal, WGN-TV, Chicago, Illinois .
Harold Essex, WSJS-TV, Winston-Salem, N. C.— Terry H. Lee, Storer Broadcasting Company, A. Louis Read, WDSU-TV, New Orleans, Louisiana
Secretary-Treasurer Miami Beach, Florida Laurence E. Richardson, Post-Newsweek Stations,
Lester W. Lindow, AMST, Washington, D. C.— Arch L. Madsen, KSL-TV, Salt Lake City, Utah Washington, D. C.
Assistant Secretary-Treasurer August C. Meyer, WCIA, Champaign, Illinois Harold C. Stuart, KVOO-TV, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Roger W. Clipp, WFIL-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Robert F. Wright, WTOK-TV, Meridian, Mississippi

William B. Quarton, WMT-TV, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Director Emeritus