Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obliged to drop its Blue network, as FCC has demanded, it may not be able to find a spot for its expensive hour-and-a-half symphonic program. In any case it may not be able to get a conductor of the caliber of Toscanini or Stokowski. Last week, in the face of these many painful ifs, NBC said merely that the Symphony would continue...
When N.A.B.'s board met Mutual's challenge by endorsing everything President Neville Miller had said about FCC and Mutual's treaty with ASCAP, Mutual's three principal members-Manhattan's WOR, the Chicago Tribune's WGN and California's Don Lee network-resigned N.A.B. membership. Mutual withdrew from the N.A.B. board...
Blue Blue? Even before sessions ended, network men were back on their business beats seeing agents and sponsors, watching for first trade trends after the FCC decrees. NBC was expected to fight the decrees to the end. But if NBC and CBS found no relief in court or Congress in the next 90 days, what would happen to their business...
...lesser Blue network, likely to be sold or partitioned as a result of one FCC decree, answered jubilantly that it had just landed a new program sponsored by General Electric Co. To his staff, Blue's vice president in charge of sales Edgar Kobak memoed: "Who's blue-not the Blue...
...months the industry has had a pretty good idea that FCC would tell NBC to get rid of Blue. Plenty of people have tried to buy Blue, such as ex-District of Columbia Commissioner George Edward Allen, and even more have been said to have tried, such as Tommy Corcoran; but with all radio in flux, all such attempts have come to nothing. Radiomen guessed the likeliest turn at Blue would be no sale to outside interests, but independent status for the network as a separate corporation, with its stock going to R.C.A.'s present shareholders...