Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Western Union did just that. It asked FCC for permission to: 1) raise its rates 10%; 2) end special low rates for "tourate" messages and the 20% discount to the Federal Government...
...these faults continue, said FCC, it will consider suspending some licenses...
...many soap operas glut the daytime hours. The two largest networks, NBC and CBS, carry some 40 between them. Once, in 1940, 55 of the 59½ daytime hours a week were filled with twittering throbbers. Polling U.S. homes, FCC found that during soap-opera hours 76.8% of available listeners had their sets turned...
...Radio favors the sponsor before it favors the public. What are needed, said FCC, are more noncommercial sustaining programs, of wide variety; less sponsored, pat-formula shows. As an example of the attitude it does not like, FCC quoted a New York advertising executive who said: "The best radio program is the one that sells the most goods...
...FCC noted that commercials have been getting longer, more frequent, and more offensive. Station KMAC, San Antonio, hit an alltime high in January 1945. In one 133-hour period of broadcasting, it carried 2,215 plug-uglies, an average of 16.7 an hour...