Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with hypertensive Democratic Party Chairman Bob Hannegan, accepted Hannegan's decision to quit the chairmanship with few regrets. With quiet irritation, the President dropped his speech coach, J. Leonard Reinsch, from the Rio passenger list. For weeks, columnists had spread a false rumor that Reinsch would be appointed FCC chairman to succeed Chairman Charles R. Denny. The President suspected Reinsch of what he considers a cardinal sin: starting the rumor himself. Washington heard that Harry Truman had acidly been asking his close associates if they knew anybody who wanted a radio announcer...
While Standley's first messages were crackling along the Gulf Coast, the hams of STEN (South Texas Emergency Network) were given a red alert, went on the air to monitor the messages along to their destinations. In Washington, FCC hastily authorized STEN to use emergency frequency bands. Amateurs all over the U.S., Bermuda and Puerto Rico stood by to pick up and relay the messages...
...call themselves hams? During the war, the armed forces found that they were a ready-made pool of trained communications experts. Since the war, the number of hams in the U.S. has risen to nearly 80,000 operators, with 50,000 stations (two-thirds of the world total). The FCC is now granting over 1,000 new licenses a month. Some predict that within five years there will be 250,000 U.S. hams...
...request of the exhausted stations, declared public domain, and licensing made a function of the Federal Communications Commission. This means that the American people are "sleeping partners in the great enterprise of radio" and that through the judicious granting of licenses to the new Frequency Modulation stations the FCC can force radio to approximate standards set up by the listeners' councils which Sieppmann urges. This is all good thinking, and is complemented by the suggestion of Frederick Wakeman, author of "The Hucksters," that stations set up their own programs and offer them for sale take-it-or-leave-it, eliminating...
Listeners' councils, voluntary censorship by the industry itself, the setting up of FM stations by disinterested groups, and FCC regulation, are finding that a fight against 90 millions is rough going. But certain it is that radio is one medium that need not yet be written off the books as lost to the Philistines...