Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Modulation), radio's mysterious baby, was lifted last week out of its swaddling clothes. After ten months of study, the Federal Communications Commission decided that FM's postwar transmission band should be hiked from its present 42-to-50 megacycles up to 88-to-106. This change. FCC said, meant that FM would have ample space to expand and less interference, which should make its high fidelity and staticless reception even better...
Most Blue listeners probably shared Juliet's unconcern about the significance of names. But the network had its own solid reason for the change. Ever since FCC set the 197 station Blue on its own two and a half years ago, the Blue has longed to forget that for 15 years it was only a little brother to NBC's powerful Red network...
Thunderstruck, the Mester brothers promptly damned the FCC dictum as "very vicious," protested that their little trouble with Washington had been "all cleared up 100%." Then the brothers sat down to answer the charges in detail. They had 20 days to reply to FCC...
When a radio station is about to be sold, FCC has the authority to say yes or no to the whole deal. It usually says yes. Last week it uttered a firm, cold no. FCC did not approve of the prospective buyers of Manhattan's station...
...station's present owners, who also own WNEW, have to sell because of an FCC ban on anyone's owning two stations serving the same area. But, said FCC, the would-be buyers, Brothers Murray and Meyer Mester, Brooklyn dealers in edible oils, have had brushes with the Federal Trade Commission-and other Government agencies. They had sold cottonseed oil, in containers decorated with "olive branches . . . and wording in Italian . . . for the apparent purpose of misleading buyers into thinking that the contents consisted of imported olive oil." Besides, FCC added, the Mesters had not been entirely frank with...