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If any of you guys ever run across a copy of "Behind the Tube:A History of Broadcasting Technology & Business",by Andrew Inglis, don't hesitate: Buy it! It gives a very good history of the entire radio/TV business from the 1920s til '88 or so, by a guy who was there. Kinda heavy into the "hardware" you get to see a lot of experimental TVs, cameras, etc. You get to see what an SOB Sarnoff was, but how he & a few others basically created not one, but two industries-radio & television. Anyway, sez here that on 27 june 1945, the FCC decided to move the FM band from 42-50 MC to 88-108 MC, because"stations at distances of one to two thousand miles would suffer substantial sky-wave interferennce at the outer edges of their service areas, & it was felt that at the higher freqencies, the interference would be neligible .-Sandy G.
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