Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next four or five years, perhaps longer, anyone who wanted to buy a television set would have to be content with a black & white receiver. The argument before FCC was highly technical. But the issues were dollars & cents. The real question was whether Radio Corp. of America-and NBC-or the Columbia Broadcasting System got a head start, and possible control, of the lusty young television baby...
Sick & tired of conventional radio, some 125 Washingtonians* put up $100,000 for a "station for intelligent listeners," hired FCC analyst Edward Brecher (who helped put together the FCC's famed "Blue Book") to run the show. Last week station WQQW began broadcasting according to its owners' lights: ¶ No plug-uglies or singing commercials; only four one-minute commercials an hour (says Manager Brecher: "We believe that a listener is entitled to a program after every commercial...
...will not have color before 1951; part-mechanical (CBS), which has already developed color telecasting. The 12,000 U.S. sets today are black & white electronic, and many experts contend that in the end some sort of electronic method will be universally adopted for colors. It is up to FCC to decide whether color shall be introduced now, with mechanical television, or whether it must wait on all electronic development. Until FCC makes up its mind, few want to buy a television set, quite apart from the cost-from $225 to $2,500, plus a minimum $45 installation...
...screen of television's future is not wholly dark: 1) a new, supersensitive pickup tube, four to five times brighter than its predecessor, makes candlelight do the job of a battery of floodlights; 2) construction of 44 new stations is expected to begin after FCC gives its ruling; 3) the Radio Manufacturing Association says that the U.S. is ready to build from 330,000 to 360,000 television sets...
...Washington. Because of his cotton interests (Cleveland Cloth Mills) and various directorships, he was able to lead the life of a prosperous lawyer. An early New Dealer, he attracted the favorable attention of Franklin Roosevelt, for whom he did odd jobs such as acting as special counsel to FCC. But he fought the court-packing plan...