Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago named Lar Daly (TIME, March 30) claimed that it also governed straight newscasts, charged that WBBM-TV had violated the act by not giving him equal time after showing film clips on a newscast of two of his opponents, including Mayor Richard J. Daley. Rereading the law, the FCC agreed with Lar Daly, 4-3, and last week, after the networks had pleaded for a reconsideration, the FCC stubbornly reaffirmed its opinion...
...that he might eventually make $250. But with most of KFMA's listeners cheering him on, Marathoner Bandy won a raise to $110. Sighed Dorsey, cringing at the specter of hearing another eight hours of Only the Shadow Knows: "What the hell! I've got an FCC license to worry about...
...Transfer to Puerto Rico "from time to time" of specific federal functions, "except those which the Federal Government should retain in order to fulfill the nature of this permanent association." (Possible example: FCC functions...
WBBM-TV protested that the equal-time provision did not and should not apply to regular news broadcasts-as the FCC had applied it in the Daly case. During the Chicago campaign, the station admitted, it had used film clips of Candidate Sheehan (e.g., filing his petition for nomination) and Mayor Daley (e.g., greeting Argentine President Frondizi) on scheduled newscasts, but as legitimate news. CBS President Frank Stanton, longtime foe of Section 315, pointed out that giving equal time on newscasts would make a farce of radio and television coverage of political news, thereby dealing a serious blow...
President Eisenhower echoed Stanton's "ridiculous," instructed U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers to look for solutions. The FCC, in full accord with the presidential action, suggested that any real remedy will have to come from Congress, which has the power to amend or strike out Section 315. But until the Attorney General or Congress finds an answer, Chicago still has Lar Daly on its wave length, and radio-TV newsmen elsewhere are wary. Wiped out in the primary as usual, Daly bought an ad in the Chicago Tribune to announce himself as a write-in candidate for mayor...