Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last May FCC decided that Frequency Modulation was sufficiently advanced to warrant its undertaking commercial operation. Freed from the confines of experiment, staticless FM began to loom formidably on radio's horizon. But while some operators were struggling to transform their experimental stations into high-powered outfits for commercial use, the national-defense program suddenly slowed down delivery of equipment. Last week FCC did right by FM once again, announced that it would permit experimental FM units to operate commercially (provided they had received commercial construction permits) until big-league transmitters are delivered...
...When FCC succeeded the old radio commission, it did its best to straighten out the tangle in Brooklyn, recommended that they merge. But the three operators-Metropolitan Broadcasting Corp. (WMBQ), Arthur Faske (WCNW), and Long Island Broadcasting Corp. (WWRL) -had long since given up speaking to each other...
First break in the case came in 1936, when WMBQ plopped into receivership. Thereupon the fight between the survivors got really hot. While they squabbled along, FCC tried to figure out which station was best equipped to take over, discovered that WCNW was continually wobbling off its frequency, was operated as haphazardly as a Model T. Thereupon FCC decided to give WWRL sole right to the frequency it once shared with the others...
...kick had anyone with FCC's engineering findings. But papers like Manhattan's New York Post screamed long and loud against the squelching of WCNW. Pointing out that WCNW had broadcast Chinese and Negro programs, while WWRL was busy airing Father Coughlin and similar stuff, the Post demanded that the case be reexamined. Last week WCNW's Owner Faske followed suit, requested FCC to reconsider its decision. Although Owner Faske is no chum of FCC, the Commission at week's end wearily prepared again to try to clear the cluttered air around Brooklyn...
...called the "bit parade." Meanwhile B. M. I. President Neville Miller, hero-mayor of the 1937 Louisville flood, boasted that many a station had been complimented on "the freshness and adequacy of B. M. I. music." Some listeners reacted otherwise. Ten thousand musicians, composers, educators signed petitions asking FCC to knock both B. M. I.'s and ASCAP's heads together so that radio listeners would have something fit to listen...