Word: fcc
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When affiliates of the new Blue Network Co. (TIME, Jan. 19) met in Chicago last week, FCC's Chairman James Lawrence Fly rose to address them-in great good humor and in a blue suit, blue shirt and bright red necktie. Said...
Since last May the National Broadcasting Co., pricked by FCC (TIME, May 12, Oct. 20), has swelled gently in two directions like a cell about to divide. Last week the outlines of approaching division became clearer. NBC announced separate staffs for its Red and Blue networks, announced further that the Blue Network Co. would provisionally become a subsidiary of RCA on the same footing as NBC, and more importantly let it be known that various prospective buyers were dickering for the Blue. If such a deal goes through, NBC's Red and the Blue Network Co. will be genuine...
Behind the stiff regulations the network men warily suspected a tough New Dealer's dislike of their urban glamor. They sensed a desire to break them down in favor of regional networks. And they thought they sensed something much more dangerous. If the stories they told were true, FCC's Chairman Fly wanted to reform not only their business methods but their programs...
...place of a determinable "circulation," they offer to advertisers time on a fixed number of stations they can be sure of. To remove that certainty, they say, would be like removing a publisher's certainty that he can deliver his magazine in certain cities. For FCC to threaten such action through its licensing power, they say, corresponds to an attack on the freedom of the press...
...anti-trust suits made all the points FCC had made in its report last spring, including some that were out of date because the networks have fixed them. But this time the networks could not argue that the charges were being brought by the wrong body. Sample points: NBC and CBS "control" 50 of the country's 52 clear-channel stations; have at their disposal 85% of the night-time radio power available; are without any possible full-time competition in 45 cities of 50,000 or more population, because they hold dominant contracts with stations...