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When Franklin Roosevelt died, the Patroon Broadcasting Co. in Albany, N.Y. asked the Federal Communications Commission if it might use the call letters WFDR. The FCC, deciding that the President's initials should not be identified with a commercial venture, said no. But last week in Manhattan, a nonprofit, FM station called WFDR went...
Though mildly successful, WCFL was not copied by other unions until the FCC's postwar decision to open a new band for FM transmitters made the gamble seem worthwhile. Publicity-conscious unions were in the forefront of the scrambling applicants for construction permits. In the past year, the United Auto Workers have gone on the air with station WDET in Detroit, and this month will open WCUO in Cleveland. The I.L.G.W.U. beams its message to the South through Chattanooga's WVUN, and last November invaded the West Coast with Los Angeles' KFMV, "the FM Voice of Southern...
WAAB was not penalized, but the decision was a strong hint that the FCC could revoke licenses whenever it thought broadcasters were slanting the news.* Radio's biggest guns began hammering away at the decision as an unwarranted shackling of freedom of speech. To FCC's defense hurried the legions of the C.I.O. and A.F.L. and assorted left-wingers, who argued that broadcasting was a public trust and should, therefore, be impartial...
Last week, after studying all the arguments, the FCC made up its mind, issued a 13-page "clarification" and "reexamination" of its views. The gist of the tortured Government prose: news broadcasts may "include the identified expression of the licensee's personal viewpoint...
...conference room four floors below, the 60 medicos and reporters who had just watched (on three TV screens) a full-color reproduction of Hoffman's technique were inclined to agree with him. So, apparently, was the Federal Communications Commission. Last week in Washington, the FCC announced that color television would be licensed just as soon as the color image can be received "satisfactorily" by ordinary black & white sets "with relatively minor modifications...