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...licensed by the New Deal's FCC, might possibly be surmised to favor interventionist over isolationist organizations in allotting radio time generally. But NBC dug into the record at the request of FCC's Chairman James Lawrence Fly. It showed that on both NBC networks, from Jan. 1 through Oct. 31, 1) interventionists had 68 programs, 77 speakers, 25 hours, 14 minutes; isolationists, 72 programs, 76 speakers, 25 hours, 2 minutes; 2) the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies and the Fight for Freedom Committee together had 14 programs; America First had 14; 3) the average...
...analysts swiftly collected by the Colonel, they gathered that a propaganda bureau was being prepared, and that short-wave broadcasters would be required to take dictation, or else. Enough young men around Washington talked like fools to give point to this suspicion. Already stirred up (for other reasons) against FCC, the industry felt that any plan to flim-flam its short-wave audience -built up by years of honest news reporting-should be fought at a hat's drop...
...Chairman Fly does not work that way. For radiomen to digest over last weekend, he and a majority of the Commission (four of six) issued an amended set of regulations, to go into effect Nov. 15, on which FCC was obviously prepared for a showdown. Columbia Broadcasting System immediately signified its intention to seek an injunction against FCC in a Federal court. The battle was joined...
Professed aim of FCC's original regulations was to put small radio stations in a better business position relative to the chains, to open up competition and to afford new networks more weaving room. The Commission held that its rules would exhilarate the industry; the chains held that they were violent, unjustified, and would wreck the industry. Last week's amendments acknowledged the cogency of some of the chains' arguments by making sizable concessions to them. The amendments...
...seemed reasonable to the Commission, but they were rejected hotly and in toto by both NBC and CBS. Said CBS: "The Commission . talks of stability when in reality it is creating instability ... it talks of promoting competition whereas it is merely forcing chaos. . . ." The chains contended, as before, that FCC has no power to make such regulations, that its action constitutes a threat to the freedom...