Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regarding the FCC and Richie Mack story [March 10]: One might think that Truman was still in the White House...
...pages of testimony, at a cost of $1,500,000 to the Government and companies without reaching a decision. ¶| The Federal Communications Com mission has been listening to the arguments of seven applicants for a Toledo TV channel since 1952, with no end in sight. Says an FCC official: "We'd do just as well to draw a name from...
...cause of the paralyzing slowness of decisions is the fact that the agencies are two-headed, quasi-judicial bodies, thus are not only involved in fact-finding but must also judge the facts they find. The paradox was pointed up last month at congressional hearings by FCC Chairman John Doerfer, who remarked that as an administrator he should be out talking to people, but as a judge he should not. Under the fact-finding process, every citizen has the right to be heard before the agencies-and thousands use it. Lawyers have made an art of dragging out a case...
...Congress, which controls their purse strings, the White House, which can overrule them (in the case of the CAB), or the courts, where all decisions can be appealed. While a strong commissioner could ignore most of these influences and make his own decisions, it rarely happens in practice. The FCC has declined for seven years to make a decision on pay TV because Congress has frowned on it. FPC let gas companies put increases into effect while waiting for an FPC decision; a court recently upset the practice when the city of Memphis complained (TIME, Dec. 23). Until the Supreme...
...regulatory agencies are swamped with work, partly because most of them were set up without anticipating later business changes that have greatly increased their scope. The FCC was set up to police radio, telephone and telegraph, but in the last six years has had to pass also on 400 TV permits without a commensurate increase in staff. Despite the tremendous growth in stock issues...