Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FCC announced that henceforth it will issue regular licenses permitting short-wavers to broadcast sponsored programs. Instead of cheering, the big short-wavers grumbled as they inspected the gift horse's mouth. Reason: they fear that sponsored programs would be unpopular abroad, that their friend the State Department would then sponsor a Government radio station, that a Government station might soon become a rival at home as well as abroad...
...With its blessing on sponsored shortwave broadcasts, FCC slipped in a proviso that: "A licensee of an international broadcast station shall render only an international broadcast service which will . . . promote international good will, understanding and cooperation." In plain talk, this means the broadcasters will have to follow the line laid down by the State Department. To broadcasters who are already used to working hand & glove with the State Department, this proviso was just part of the game, but the sensitive press began to spit and fume...
...Vice President and Chief Engineer Oscar Byron Hanson appeared last month before the FCC monopoly investigators, read a 91-page statement. In his lapel he wore a black spherical button marked with the number 8 in white. When he left the stand, he gave the button to the next witness, who pinned it to his lapel, passed it on to his successor. Last week, when the hearings recessed, the button returned to Manhattan. Last man to wear it on the stand was NBC's Vice President William S. Hedges. When it appeared in his lapel, FCCuriosity boiled over. Commissioner...
While he had his lavish array of microphones, the chairman also denied reports that he was about to resign from FCC. He said he would return to the Power Commission only when his FCC job had been finished...
...declared that his reorganizing was completed,"in the main any way," and that FCC was now "going to town." First sally toward town came this week-the opening of the Commission's radio monopoly hearings...