Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's main NABusiness at Atlantic City was to approve a code, drawn up under Neville Miller's supervision, designed to minimize the possibility of collision between broadcasters and FCC at several other danger points...
...last year, Radio is a blue-chip big business. But it has one great obstacle to its future: so long as all station licenses come up for review before the Federal Communications Commission every year, no radio station can guarantee its existence for any longer period. Since FCC took up its cudgel in 1934, it has conked no heads to speak of, and last week Steve Early turned up in Atlantic City, reiterated the "unofficial" reassurances of his White House chief that that big stick is just a lath. Unfortunately, at the moment the big stick was very much...
...hearings before the FCC in Washington was a ruling promulgated by the Commission eight weeks ago that had kicked up more fuss than anything in radio since Mae West. In permitting stations to sell advertising time on their short-wave broadcasts to Latin America and other foreign parts, FCC inserted a provision that the programs "shall render only an international broadcast service which will reflect the culture of this country and which will promote international good will, understanding and cooperation." Behind the provision, Washington observers felt, was the State Department's Good-Neighborly tact toward Latin-American autocrats...
Chief witness at FCC's hearing was Neville Miller, who made just that point. The FCC suspended the debated ruling pending completion of its hearings, issued a huffy disclaimer: "It has not been the practice of the Communications Commission in the past nor is the intention of the Commission now ... to require the submission of any program, continuity or script for editing, modification or revision, or for any other purpose prior to its use by a station...
...FCC's statistics on radio as an employer revealed radio as the highest-paying industry in the U. S. Of its 1938 payroll of $45,663,757, some 18,300 full-time employes averaged $45.20 a week, 4,000-odd part timers, $23.55 weekly. This put radio, by comparison with 1937, a cut above cinema ($41.33), well above Wall Street ($34.47), way above manufacturing...