Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the fight began in earnest-the fight of their lives between the big broadcasting companies-NBC and CBS -and FCC's tough-minded Chairman James Lawrence...
...their businesses, both sides have had their say in rough-&-tumble hearings of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, and in conferences during the summer. The effective date of the new regulations was once deferred, once postponed, then suspended. Lately the word went round Manhattan agencies and studios that FCC had been lobbied to a standstill, was lying...
...Chairman Fly does not work that way. For radiomen to digest over last weekend, he and a majority of the Commission (four of six) issued an amended set of regulations, to go into effect Nov. 15, on which FCC was obviously prepared for a showdown. Columbia Broadcasting System immediately signified its intention to seek an injunction against FCC in a Federal court. The battle was joined...
Professed aim of FCC's original regulations was to put small radio stations in a better business position relative to the chains, to open up competition and to afford new networks more weaving room. The Commission held that its rules would exhilarate the industry; the chains held that they were violent, unjustified, and would wreck the industry. Last week's amendments acknowledged the cogency of some of the chains' arguments by making sizable concessions to them. The amendments...
...seemed reasonable to the Commission, but they were rejected hotly and in toto by both NBC and CBS. Said CBS: "The Commission . talks of stability when in reality it is creating instability ... it talks of promoting competition whereas it is merely forcing chaos. . . ." The chains contended, as before, that FCC has no power to make such regulations, that its action constitutes a threat to the freedom...