Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since late September the hearings before FCC in Washington's chastely paneled Department of Commerce Auditorium have been crowded with TV experts, near-experts, publicity men, lawyers, Congressmen and corporate presidents and vice presidents. Witnesses spouted reams of technical testimony. Some witnesses were branded as liars, and their motives were viewed with alarm...
Early this fall letters were sent to college stations all over the country, stating that the FCC would like to know more about the possibility of small, unlicensed stations interfering with the reception of larger networks...
...only alternative the FCC could offer to cutting down the Network's power output would be to convert completely to an FM educational-broadcast band, Doane said...
Last month, a ham in Memphis got suspicious and reported station W5BNK to the Federal Communications Commission. With its long-range direction finders in Washington, FCC tracked down Moody's transmitters to a loo-mile area. In the process, two other unlicensed operators were caught. Finally, after three weeks, busy FCC field crews pinpointed station W5BNK at the Parchman prison farm...
Last week, though still in the vertical stripes of a trusty, Bill Moody faced a possible $10,000 fine and two years in prison for breaking FCC rules. But Bill was not much worried: for long-ago robberies and other matters, he still had some 40 years to serve...