Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, the Federal Communications Commission threw its Sunday punch at radio's gaudy giveaway shows which have been showering the U.S. with more than $185,000 in prizes every week (and thereby holding an audience estimated at over 30 million). After a year's study, FCC voted 3 to 1 last week to ban giveaways from the air, effective...
...FCC found its justification in Section 1,304 of the Criminal Code, which makes unlawful the broadcast of "any lottery, gift enterprise or similar scheme." But what, precisely, was a lottery? To FCC it was any program on which a prize "of money or a thing of value is awarded to any person whose selection is dependent in whole or in part upon lot or chance." The FCC ruling was aimed directly at the flourishing telephone giveaways (where names are found by chance in phone books), but it would eliminate most others as well...
...Colorado's Ed Johnson, chairman of the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, stormed that the radio plans of "certain large distillers" were "vicious" and "reckless," and called the wavering radiomen "stupid." The Federal Communications Commission, which has indirect power to keep radio in line, reacted more mildly. FCC Chairman Wayne Coy was in Europe, and Commissioner-in-Charge Paul A. Walker would admit only that he had received some complaints against giveaway shows and other radio practices which he declined to specify. Said Walker soothingly: "The matter is under consideration, but I would hesitate to say anything until...
...mysterious announcement meant, but it looked important. It could mean that all TV sets in use today will be obsolete unless they can be converted to the UHF band. It could also mean that color television, which works only on UHF, is just around the corner. Even so, the FCC moves so slowly and cautiously that something it "proposes" to do might take years...
...fuzzy vagueness of FCC announcements, usually tricked out in federalese, has long irritated members of the Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. New Hampshire's crusty Charles Tobey has been trying to pry a definite word from Edward M. Webster, who is up for confirmation for a new term as FCCommissioner...