Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moonlit Mackerel. When Franklin Roosevelt appointed Fly to the FCC chairmanship in 1939, FCC was a seven-man tangle of bickering members. Its job was to regulate radio, telegraph and telephone communications, but it was not having much success. Radio, as Fly saw it, was a newly rich business which had little idea of its public responsibility. It was, he decided, a "duopoly" dominated by two national networks (NBC and CBS), and Fly set out to break...
...Fcc. BRENA ALVIREZ...
...thinking that the U.S. public would like to hear the famed Japcaster goes to KYA's 6-ft., 31-year-old, South Dakota-born president, Don Fedderson. He got the idea one morning at 4 o'clock. It stood the test of daylight. It pleased both the FCC and the Office of Censorship. It delighted Roos Bros, who, in a trial poll on the propriety of the program, got 97% approval. The poll's heavy mailbag indicated that the program would collect a sizable audience...
Married. Gwladys Sheleagh Boake Carter, 19, daughter of Newscaster Boake Carter, whose scripts are under investigation by the FCC for anti-union bias; and Ensign James Wallace Jr., 21, Philadelphia socialite; in Germantown...
Suspicious Signals. The man most entitled to take the bow is rumpled, bashful George Sterling, 49, a native of Peaks Island, Me., who built his first radio station in 1908, assisted in organizing a U.S. Signal Corps radio intelligence section in France in 1917, joined FCC in 1935, became RID's boss...