Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Federal Communications Commission last spring it seemed proper to question the advisability of one company's controlling two out of four national networks and one quarter of U.S. radio outlets. FCC also pointed out that vast NBC was only a detail in Radio Corp. of America-whose activities included not only NBC but the manufacture of its equipment, the sale of radio sets, the management of artists, a share (through RKO) in the production of movies, the manufacture of movie sound equipment, phonograph records, etc. But FCC did not observe how nearly indispensable...
This autumn, amid all these, NBC has 1) elected to fight FCC's regulations (TIME, Oct. 20), 2) distinguished itself for its work in short-wave broadcasts to Europe (TIME, Nov. 3), 3) proved its responsible and impartial conduct in awarding time to both isolationists v. interventionists (TIME...
...licensed by the New Deal's FCC, might possibly be surmised to favor interventionist over isolationist organizations in allotting radio time generally. But NBC dug into the record at the request of FCC's Chairman James Lawrence Fly. It showed that on both NBC networks, from Jan. 1 through Oct. 31, 1) interventionists had 68 programs, 77 speakers, 25 hours, 14 minutes; isolationists, 72 programs, 76 speakers, 25 hours, 2 minutes; 2) the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies and the Fight for Freedom Committee together had 14 programs; America First had 14; 3) the average...
...When FCC last month issued an amended set of regulations cramping the style of the radio chains by forbidding them to tie up tributary stations.as tightly as before (TIME, Oct. 20), Chairman James Lawrence Fly said he would be "surprised if anybody goes to court." Last week Chairman Fly must have been surprised. Both NBC and CBS sought an injunction in Federal court against FCC's regulations on the ground that FCC lacked the right to make them...
...analysts swiftly collected by the Colonel, they gathered that a propaganda bureau was being prepared, and that short-wave broadcasters would be required to take dictation, or else. Enough young men around Washington talked like fools to give point to this suspicion. Already stirred up (for other reasons) against FCC, the industry felt that any plan to flim-flam its short-wave audience -built up by years of honest news reporting-should be fought at a hat's drop...