[Rinehart]

A correspondent of mine, a media historian, has pointed out to me something I wasn't aware of: that the FCC, in order to placate the broadcast industry, essentially ignored their own engineers and repeatedly reduced the distance requirement for both same-channel and adjacent-channel stations. It's the old story: hire high-priced talent and then ignore them. I have attached the sources she cited: Fifties Television by William Boddy and Stay Tuned by Sterling and Kitross.