Logansport Broadcasting Corp. v. United States

WASHINGTON, Circuit Judge.

Logansport Broadcasting Corporation, petitioner, complains of the action of the Federal Communications Commission in assigning VHF (very high frequency) television Channel 10 to Terre Haute, Indiana, rather than to Logansport, Indiana, and Owensboro, Kentucky. The latter cities were granted UHF (ultra high frequency) channels. 1

Petitioner’s principal attack is against the Commission’s nation-wide system for allocating television frequencies, finally adopted in 1952 after elaborate and detailed hearings on the subject. 2 The Commission says that it sought to…