Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio pioneer Lee DeForrest, and columnist Robert C. Ruark contributes these adjectives: "Corny, strident, boresome, florid, repetitive, offensive, moronic, and nauseating." Occasionally big radio wheels like Mr. Stanton or Mr. Paley rise and plunge the dagger in their bressiz by decrying their own low standards. And groups like the FCC and Listeners' Councils are bee-busy trying to urge radio over the 13-year-old level...
Then CBS, which spent some $2,000,000 on a color system stepped in. CBS asked FCC to grant it a license to televise in color. RCA, which had nearly $100,000,000 at stake, opposed this...
Enterprise to the Rear. In its decision, FCC stuck close to potent RCA's arguments. FCC was not satisfied that the CBS system was "as good as can be expected ... in the foreseeable future." And, added FCC, it could not give CBS a license and let the public pass on color because ". . . there are not enough frequencies available . . . for more than one color television system...
Many a radioman agreed with FCC, even though the decision was bound to delay color. CBS's Stanton said sadly that CBS could not afford to spend much more cash on color. Black & white would have the field to itself, and RCA would be out ahead. (It now manufactures most of the sets being turned...
...there were those who thought that FCC had not done too well, that some way should have been found to let CBS test the public's reaction to color. As the New York Times snapped: "The public will wonder what has become of free enterprise. It will also wonder if television must be monopolized by the company that has had the foresight to develop a system of color transmission and reception which will be acceptable to the FCC...