Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Denny, high-strung and high-powered is no novice in the job. He has been acting chairman for the past ten months. He had been a commissioner before that, and FCC counsel also. And he has definite ideas about radio's place and purpose. He voiced some of them last winter when he helped to write FCC's now-famous "Blue Book," which demanded that radio serve the public first, advertisers second-or stop broadcasting. Despite the storm the "Blue Book" raised, Denny stands by it. He told broadcasters at their Chicago convention last October, "We will...
...sees FCC's relations with the radio industry as definitely a two-way street. Said he last week: "Our whole effort is to try to have an intelligent working relationship with the industry. In Broadcasting, in particular, we are 'engaged in building two things of tremendous importance-FM and television, and if the job is to be done right, we've got to join together. There's no time for name-calling and bickering. In the main, our objectives coincide...
...FCC, by all its policies and thinking, points in the direction of the freest possible use of radio for the purpose of keeping the public fully informed on both sides of all questions...
...belief of greying, sad-faced Robert Harold Scott, 57, is deep and abiding. Its single tenet: there is no God. For five years godless Robert Scott pestered San Francisco radio stations to let him air his atheism. Last week, more than three months after an FCC decision in his favor (TIME, Aug. 5), Station KQW gave him 30 minutes of Sunday morning time to rehash the arguments that have been the unbeliever's stock-in-trade for many a Christian year. Excerpts...
...hoped that last week's public reception of its sets might influence the Federal Communications Commission to decide in favor of its black & white television, rather than Columbia Broadcasting System's color televising. The more sets RCA sells, the harder FCC will find it to decide in favor of CBS's color, which RCA sets cannot receive. If RCA can force black & white television now, it hopes to capture a big chunk of the market, hold it till it is ready with its own electronic color, some five years hence...