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Though the Defense Communications Board was formally empowered to commandeer radio facilities. FCC Chairman James Lawrence Fly declared emphatically that the Government was not going to "take over" radio. Broadcasters, feeling their responsibilities, rather desired than feared censorship. But what precise form it would take-other than at the sources of news-remained to be worked...
...could unanswerably justify the business of broadcasting as now conducted, CBS's news coverage since 1938 might well be it. But the radio business as now conducted has been challenged by the Government's powerful Communications Commission. An observer at the banquet could note the glint of FCC Chairman James Fly's glasses down the table as CBS's earnest, boylike President William S. Paley, praising Murrow, promised to fight for freedom of the air "no matter whence, nor how subtly or how boldly comes the attack...
...Federal Communications Commission last spring it seemed proper to question the advisability of one company's controlling two out of four national networks and one quarter of U.S. radio outlets. FCC also pointed out that vast NBC was only a detail in Radio Corp. of America-whose activities included not only NBC but the manufacture of its equipment, the sale of radio sets, the management of artists, a share (through RKO) in the production of movies, the manufacture of movie sound equipment, phonograph records, etc. But FCC did not observe how nearly indispensable...
This autumn, amid all these, NBC has 1) elected to fight FCC's regulations (TIME, Oct. 20), 2) distinguished itself for its work in short-wave broadcasts to Europe (TIME, Nov. 3), 3) proved its responsible and impartial conduct in awarding time to both isolationists v. interventionists (TIME...
...When FCC last month issued an amended set of regulations cramping the style of the radio chains by forbidding them to tie up tributary stations.as tightly as before (TIME, Oct. 20), Chairman James Lawrence Fly said he would be "surprised if anybody goes to court." Last week Chairman Fly must have been surprised. Both NBC and CBS sought an injunction in Federal court against FCC's regulations on the ground that FCC lacked the right to make them...