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WHRB has once again been threatened with suspension by the Federal Communications Commission. It seems that our unfortunate brethren have been "over-radiating," a radio term for sending out a signal more powerful than the FCC allows. Under a law passed in 1932, the FCC is given power to order any guilty station off the air, even if, as in WHRB's case, it is doing no appreciable harm...
...WHRB was forced to close down because of "over-radiating;" for the FCC to suspend it again because of its signal has been stronger than the rule book allows would needlessly inconvenience an entire College community. If WHRB were infringing on another's rights, suspension would be justified. But under the present circumstances the suspension represents not praiseworthy alertness in execution of the law, but merely a bureaucratic nuisance...
...Federal Communications Commission is planning "strong action against WHRB and other college stations that persistently flaunt the law," an FCC official said yesterday...
...least they can expect is a 'put up or shut up' letter similar to the one we sent Wellesley," Nathan A. Hallenstein, FCC's Chief Engineer in Boston, said yesterday. The Commission told the Wellesley station Tuesday to "comply at once" with spurious radiation regulations or suspend operations. The station then went...
Meanwhile, another FCC official in Washington said that the Commission would seek court injunctions against some college stations "if they continued to disregard Commission orders...