Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...page report on "monopoly" in radio that has been three years a-gathering, the Commission declared that free competition in the U.S. radio industry was impossible so long as the three great networks dominated the 883 U.S. stations as completely as in recent years. In eight revolutionary new decrees, FCC offered what it called a "Magna Charta for American broadcasting stations...
Practices between the chains and the outlets which FCC intends to stop...
...Exclusivity." By this arrangement a station can carry only the programs of the chain with which it is affiliated. FCC now says a station may carry programs offered by any network...
...Territorial exclusivity" - by which a network was prevented from sending a program to another station in an area served by its affiliated station, even though the affiliated station should reject the program. FCC now says a network can send to the other station...
Last fortnight, despite FCC's reluctance about granting licenses to publishers, Jesse Jones was given a green light to increase the power of his Chronicle station, KTRH, in Houston. He is one of three exceptions to the FCC's policy of holding newspaper applications until after its hearings...