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Word: fcc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Television's growing pains have been showing up on receiving screens as wobbly pictures and queer noises. Last week FCC Chairman Wayne Coy ordered a halt of from "three to nine months" on approvals of new TV station applications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Rest Cure | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...give-away shows have been unable to think of any reason (except the watchful FCC) why they should change their ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Comes September | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...WASHINGTON, WMAL-TV celebrated the lifting of an FCC ban by presenting "Mentalist" Robert L. Friend. In short order, he reduced three giggling university coeds to a trance-like state (a fourth coed continued to giggle and was excused). Hypnotist Friend, who was careful not to beam his big, brown eyes at the television audience,* will not do another hypnotic show, he says, until televiewers "clamor and clamor and clamor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Busy Air, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

Some studios smiled through their tears and hastily applauded the FCC proposal. NBC, which runs the big Truth or Consequences (its Miss Hush prizes amounted to more than $21,000) and nine lesser quiz-bangs, primly pointed to its own "longstanding policy of stressing the entertainment, educational and news values of its programs . . ." WOR, key station for Mutual, another leader in the giveaway field (Queen for a Day, Three for the Money), solemnly assented: "The giveaway craze and large prizes have begun to overshadow the entertainment value of programs. Such overemphasis is not healthy for radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Goodbye, Easy Money | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...preparing to defend its shows, including the sensational Stop the Music (TIME, July 19). Others had still not decided whether to fight 'em or join 'em. But it seemed certain that no sponsor would want to take on a new giveaway program while FCC was in its disapproving mood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Goodbye, Easy Money | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

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