Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until the people realize it." Said a shrewd radio editor, veteran of many an N.A.B. convention: "At least they had it thrown in their faces by one of their own kind. They had to face it. And they're going to have to face it from now on. FCC has licensed more than 400 new stations in the last year and there's more coming. That means competition for the boys. And the stations with good programming are going to get the listeners. Radio will just have to learn that good radio is good business...
...afraid that its New York outlet, WABC, might be a free ad for its rival, American Broadcasting Co., changed the station's call to WCBS (effective Nov. 1). Last week, NBC was at it, too. Said the network: FCC had okayed changing WEAF, New York, to WNBC. It was a good bet that to most listeners these changes in call letters made not a kilocycle's difference...
...third deal, AVCO was planning to buy a large broadcasting station in the Midwest, add it to the present stations it owns, Cincinnati's WLW and New York's WINS. (This week FCC will be asked to approve the deal...
...Pearson & Allen petition put FCC on a hot seat it had warmed for others. Last spring, FCC's now famous "Blue Book" (TIME, March 18) threatened to revoke broadcasting licenses of stations that preferred commercials to programs. As a glaring example, it cited Hearst's Baltimore station, WBAL, which once broadcast 507 spot commercials in a single week. That is the station Drew and Bob want...
Pearson & Allen will fight Hearst in the open when they air their radio plans in an Oct. 1 hearing. Whatever the outcome, FCC will suffer. If Hearst wins, the Blue Book threat will lose its starch; if Hearst loses, FCC will be accused of knuckling under to Washington's gossip boys. Said Pearson's & Allen's attorney: there is so much interest already in the hearing that "they're selling tickets...