# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S720
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

720 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

Conclusion KG a

Your Committee joins in giving thanks to almighty God “for
His outstanding and overflowing benediction on the work of ‘Your
Lutheran Television Productions Committee. At this writing, tele.
vision looms even more importantly on the national scene, now
that the television “freeze” has been lifted. A total of 157 outlets
is operating in the United States, of which 49 are Post-freeze-: sta.
tions, 29 VHF and 20 UHF. The total TV authorizations in the
United States now stand at 447, including the 108 outlets operating
before the “freeze.” Post-freeze grants now total 339 —114 VHF
and 225 UHF. The Federal Communications Commission has be.
fore it 550 further applications, which are to be acted upon within
a year. Thus, with a potential of nearly a thousand television out-
lets throughout the country within the immediately foreseeable
future; with a current count of 21,500,000 television receivers
within the country, and a rapid rise due to follow ‘as new areas
are open for television, it appears certain that the twentieth-cen-
tury miracle of television has an even greater potential than ap-
peared possible two brief years ago, when your Lutheran Television
Productions Committee came into being.

‘All glory to God alone!

LurTHERAN TELEVISION Propuctions Commirtes
E. R. BerTeRMANN, Pu. D., Chairman
O. A. Dorn, Treasurer
Ewatp C. Gurz, Secretary
H. Harms, D. D.

CLARENCE AMLING

Paut FRiepricu

Oscar P. Brauer

Joun A. FLEIscan1

Ricuarp E. Mrmr

M. F. Scuuaxke, Executive Secretary
H. W. Gocxet, Religious Advisor

ACTION
Committee 13 recommended, and Synod resolved:

Resolution 5

Wuereas, History has been made, since the 26th Delegate
Synod at Milwaukee, by the television program “This Is the
Life”; and '

Wuereas, Countless of unchurched people have been reached
with a Christ-centered message, produced by the Lutheran Tele-

- vision Productions Committee, each week since its first showing on

television, September, 1952; and