Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago FCC Chairman James Lawrence Fly had cut loose with a report on radio as a monopoly, a report which threatened to topple the whole controlling superstructures of the two big chains, NBC and CBS (TIME, May 12). Mark Ethridge, liberal, sense-making general manager of the Louisville Courier-Journal, the industry's keyman and ex-radio tsar, had just promised President Roosevelt to make a general survey of the industry. After the report, to start the survey would have been like beginning a census of Yugoslavia the day after the Nazis launched their Blitz...
Master of Ceremonies George Jessel announced a song: "You Can't Come Into My Parlor, Said the Networks to the Fly." Then radio men turned homeward, determined to get a Congressional investigation of FCC, but more than a little leery of what such an investigation might turn into. They saw no help from their onetime great friend, Franklin Roosevelt. When reporters had asked him to comment on the scrap he waved an airy hand, said there were more important things to think about. And the new week's news was worrisome: Congress suddenly got ready to give Trust...
...Garrison finish at St. Louis won ratification from a majority of its 169 member stations. By signing on the eve of the National Association of Broadcasters convention in the same city, at which the battle of music was to be a topic secondary only to the FCC antimonopoly report (TiME, May 12), Mutual and ASCAP did the big broadcasters...
...once they put a hand to net-outlet relations, FCC threatened the whole delicate basis of present chain broadcasting. Last year the two big networks sold $68,000,000 worth of commercial time; local stations got 28% of that sum as their share. In addition the networks spent nine millions on such worthy sustaining programs as Columbia's School of the Air, NBC's Symphony Orchestra, which they supplied to their members. If local outlets no longer can be made to promise cooperation, this whole intricate system of paid and unpaid programs may well break down. In that...
Roars. What burned up the broadcasting industry as much as anything was the manner in which FCC let fly. Dissenting Commissioner Tunis Augustus Macdonough Craven, home sick in bed, had been assured nothing would happen till he got back. The report appeared on the day of the Kentucky Derby. Neville Miller, president of the National Association of Broadcasters, and NBC President Niles Trammell got the nasty news at Churchill Downs. CBS President William S. Paley was weekending on Long Island...