# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S332
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

332 Miscellaneous Matters

ing KFUO filed an application with the Federal Communications
Commission for authorization to purchase and construct a 5,000-
watt transmitter and to utilize half time instead of the small
fraction of time now used. Power of 5,000 watts during the day
would increase. our potential audience by approximately three
million persons. The Federal Communications Commission granted
our request that they instruct Examiner Seward, who heard the
case, to withhold his report until we had opportunity to be heard
on our application for 5,000 watts power and half time, that is,
full equality with KSD. This second hearing was held May 11 and
12, 1937. We showed the Commission that we intended to use half
time, an increase from 26 to 60 hours a week, in the following
manner: one third of the hours for religious programs; one third
for educational, cultural, civic, government, and other public-
welfare programs; and the remaining third for high-class com-
mercial programs, so that the station might have a steady income
and thus finance and improve its enlarged and diversified service
to the public. Of course, none of the religious programs are to be
commercialized. The formal recommendations of Mr. P. W. Seward,
Examiner for the Federal Communications Commission, Wash-
ington, D.C., who heard the KFUO-KSD case in September of
1936 and again in May of 1937, are: 1. That the application. of
KFUO for installation of a 5,000-watt transmitter, using 5,000
watts during the day and 1,000 watts at night, be granted. 2. That
the application of Station KFUO for one-half-time operation on
the frequency of 550 kilocycles be granted. 3. That KFUO have
the following hours: Monday to Saturday, inclusive: 7 A.M. to
10:30 A.M., 12:30 P.M. to 2 P.M.; 3 P.M. to 5:45 P.M.; 8 P.M.
to 9 P.M.; Sundays: 8:30 A.M. to 12:30 P.M.; 3 P.M. to 5 P.M;
8 P.M. to 9:30 P.M. The Examiner’s recommendations were not
final, but were subject to approval by the seven members of the
Federal Communications Commission, who heard oral argument
in the case Dec. 2 and 3, 1937. On Ash Wednesday, March 2, 1938,
the Commission rendered its decision and denied both the appli-
cation of KSD for the deletion of KFUO, and KFUO’s application
for increase in power and hours. Therefore KFUO will remain
on the air and continue its blessed work. While we are thankful
that we did not lose any of our facilities, we are not satisfied with
the Commission’s decision and therefore have appealed the case
to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. This appeal
will indefinitely delay final disposition of this matter, which is so
vitally important to KFUO. In the mean time we request our
friends to continue to give KFUO their moral and financial support.
Our great program of expansion, which has been approved by the
Board of Control of the Seminary and by the Board of Directors