Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Federal Communications Commission's antimonopoly hearings which begin in Washington this week will not mar the youngest network's celebration, will probably be a sick headache for rivals CBS and NBC. Mutual's position is dandy. As a cooperative, it has little to fear from FCC's projected chain-busting...
Baltimore's WFBR and Pittsburgh's WCAE, MBS's two new outlets, were among the many stations being jogged around by NBC preparatory to selling its Blue network out of fear of FCC's frown. WFBR and WCAE had been Red network stations and chose to go Mutual rather than be put in the Blue package. Besides its acquisitions in Baltimore and Pittsburgh, Mutual will also take over next fortnight Buffalo's WGR, a CBS outlet, which decided to shift allegiance when its sister station WKBW moved to CBS. Next year Mutual will absorb three...
Married. Frances Lulu Wheeler, daughter of isolationist Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler of Montana; and Allen Sayler, FCC employe; in Sandy Springs...
Like most gossips, Jimmie Fidler, onetime extra, onetime editor of Screenland, does not underestimate his own importance. As soon as he broke with CBS, he prepared an official statement, lugubriously entitled "Radio Censorship Unbearable," sent it to FCC Chairman J. Lawrence Fly, and Senators like Wheeler & Nye. His chief gripe: CBS wouldn't let him rate pictures (according to a chromatic scheme running from "No bells" for rotten to "Four bells" for a smash) the way he wanted to. Moaned...
...live up to FCC specifications for commercial broadcasting, manufacturers are now altering all the sets now in use. These receivers were built to reproduce an image of 441 lines. Authorized transmitters will broadcast 525 lines and FM sound, so that televisionaries tuning in on NBC broadcasts will probably get murky pictures and fuzzy sound if their sets are not changed over. Nobody will hear or see CBS television, murky or otherwise, on unaltered sets. CBS is on a band no layman can currently pick up. As a matter of fact, CBS is not ready yet for commercial operation...