Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Federal Communications Commission, which operates on the theory that radio is here to stay, last week warned the industry that many listeners might not be. In a 140-page report, FCC told radio that bad programs were losing devotees by droves. Radio's most common and obvious faults: soap operas, too many commercials, allowing the sponsor to have free reign...
...Said FCC...
...purposes, the fabulous Gene McDonald has lived ashore and lumped it, a subdued family man who sticks to a couple of beers, plays with the children while his wife studies Russian and music. His most strenuous recent struggle: a safari last week to Washington to row with the FCC over FM wave lengths...
...Federal Communications Commission allocated 400 U.S. television stations, doled them out to cities on a basis of population and area served.-This order heartened television pioneers who feared a free-for-all fight, once receiving sets were on the market. But the best part of the FCC ruling was an order to commercial television stations to get busy, increase their broadcasting time to a minimum of 28 hours a week (twice as much as the present best average in New York). This boost in time will encourage manufacturers to rush new sets. Thus far, a price...
...Congress, trying to knock off three minor New Dealers in one of its rows with Franklin Roosevelt, had tacked a rider onto an appropriations bill denying salaries to Robert Morss Lovett, Government Secretary of the Virgin Islands, and FCC employes Goodwin B. Watson and William E. Dodd Jr. The excuse: the Dies Com mittee said the three were "radicals." All three continued working for awhile, then filed suits for back salary...