Word: fcc
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Speaking unofficially, one FCC official complained: "It's got so you can't turn on the radio without hearing a giveaway scheme. It's really quite a nerve-racking business . . ." The major networks were cluttered with 40 giveaway programs, flinging away $150,000 worth of prizes every month. Last week, acting officially, the FCC cracked down with a new set of rules, which reinterpret a 1934 anti-lottery statute...
There will be a month's grace period for complaints; on Sept. 10, FCC will either conduct hearings (if the squawks are loud enough) or else just put the rules into effect. Loopholes may develop later, but at first glance the FCC proposal looks tough for the easy-money shows...
Like the corner saloon and professional wrestling in the old days, the seven-member Federal Communications Commission had long been a man's affair. But last week it, too, succumbed. Beamed FCC Chairman Wayne Coy: "We've had rectitude, fortitude, and solemnitude, but never before pulchritude." Thereupon pulchritudinous Frieda Hennock, successful Manhattan lawyer and active Democrat, was sworn in as the 24th commissioner in FCC's 14 years...
After more than ten experimental years, the FCC last week approved commercial transmission of facsimile (TIME, Jan. 12). On July 15 any FM station that is ready for the job may start printing "fax" newspapers by radio. If it can be done satisfactorily in color (several experimenters think they have workable techniques), that will be all right with FCC...
...Hollywood was now almost knee-deep in TV. Warner Brothers closed a $1,000,000 deal (contingent on the FCC's sanction) with New York Post Publisher Dorothy Thackrey to buy her two West Coast radio stations and a precious Los Angeles TV permit. Paramount already owns two stations, is bidding against 20th Century-Fox for a San Francisco channel. Twentieth Century-Fox announced that it will now also produce films specially for television. Only two major studios (MGM, RKO Radio) still hang back. "The whole industry," said one film maker, "is either jumping or jumpy...