Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Made unhappy by one FCC announcement (see below), radiomen were overjoyed by another. FCC had finally voted to modify the eight-year-old "Mayflower decision...
...ruling grew out of the Mayflower Broadcasting Corp.'s unsuccessful application in 1941 to take over the radio frequency used by the Yankee Network's Worcester station WAAB. FCC had been blasting WAAB for broadcasting "socalled editorials . . . urging the election of various candidates . . . or supporting one side or another of various questions in public controversy." WAAB's license was grudgingly renewed but only on the station's promise not "to color or editorialize" the news...
WHRN was to be the new code, but then the FCC informed the board that a Treasury Department Coast Guard radio station is using that combination...
Zenith Radio stirred up a high wind and some heavy dust when it advertised that all TV sets - except Zenith's - were in danger of becoming obsolete (TIME, March 21). Last week, the wind was dying and the dust settling. In a Baltimore speech, FCC Chairman Wayne Coy announced: "I think the question of obsolescence of television receivers is something of a tempest in a teapot . . ." No matter what decision FCC eventually makes about using Ultra High Frequency bands, Coy said, the present twelve channels will continue to be used. Furthermore, until FCC makes its decision, "the radio manufacturing...
...much truth there was behind Zenith's cry of changing frequency could only be answered by the FCC in Washington. At week's end, the FCC protested that Chairman Wayne Coy had already discussed the situation in a letter. And so he had, without giving a jot of information. With masterly ambiguity and in pure Federalese, Coy had written: "New developments cannot be scheduled, and therefore it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to determine when any piece of radio receiving equipment may become obsolete. We are unable, therefore, to make any recommendation regarding the obsolescence of equipment...