Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sold to the present management, WBMS Incorporated, in July, 1948, having lost $100,000. Since that time the station has lost an additional $50,000. One of the troubles the new owners inherited from the old was an FCC license which permitted only daylight broadcasting on the frequency used. This meant and still means that more commercials must be crammed into operating time to pay salaries and upkeep...
...pumping out lucky numbers twelve times a day, and professional listeners were already popping up offering to keep tabs for anyone who was too busy to listen himself. The only check in sight seemed to be the Supreme Court, which is expected to hand down its decision on the FCC's anti-lottery ban on giveaways within the next three months...
...same time, the Wirless Club announced that it would transmit, free of charge, messages to any friends or relatives of students that it could contact in Great Britain or Europe. Additional equipment had given the transmitter a 1000-watt kick (the FCC maximum) by that date, and W1AF had already circled the globe, establishing contact with a British ham in New Zealand...
This is the situation at present, W1AF is barely alive, mostly due to the efforts of William Coburn, a former member of the Geographical Institute's staff. He has renewed the FCC license whenever necessary, thereby keeping the call in Harvard's name should the University propose facilities for the 15 known amateurs (some inactive) in College at present. W1AF, meanwhile, has been intermittently used by the Institute to keep in contact with groups on exploration in Mexico...
This week in Washington RCA and its closest rivals, CBS and Color Television Inc., begin what may be the final tests before FCC. Whatever the result of FCC's deliberations might be, it seemed clear that color TV had suddenly moved a bit closer from the distant future...