Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sixty-two broadcasting clergymen, paced by Manhattan's Harry Emerson Fosdick, last week denounced FCC's antimonopoly rulings against the radio chains, put God squarely on the networks' side. Wrote they to Franklin Roosevelt...
This word from the Cloth came opportunely for the chains, belabored by attacks by FCC Chairman James Lawrence Fly made in current hearings before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. In response to FCC's charges, the networks have assembled a battery of high-priced lobbyists, and rallied women's clubs and educators to their defense on the ground that a threat to them is a threat to their unsponsored cultural features. CBS has even printed 800,000 copies of a defensive "White Paper...
Preliminary investigations of the talent bureaus by the Anti-Trust Division of the Department of Justice are also believed to have inspired the two networks' scurry from under. Rumored next step to be taken by NBC and CBS towards placating antimonopolistic FCC: the sale of their transcription libraries...
...Blues were noticeable around Mutual. MBS, theoretically a non-profit-making organization which lacks any real central executive, and functions in fact as a glorified switchboard (stations pay wire charges themselves), is in position to meet the rigorous new network limitations imposed by FCC. If, as the decrees in effect ordain, all stations are made mutual, and any station may buy any station's programs, MBS will be on a par with the other chains...
Last week, MBS signed up next October's worldseries baseball broadcasts (sponsor: Gillette Safety Razor Co.). If the FCC order goes into effect as scheduled, MBS will be able to buy time for the event on any station that wants to sell it. It may be the first big event of its kind to go on the air under the new regulations...