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Symptom of N.A.B.'s growing confidence in itself was a play put on for the delegates at convention's end. It did a good job of spoofing radio in general and FCC in particular. Sample chorus by the show's FCCommissioners, made up to look like seven Disney dwarfs...
Three years ago Maine's salty Republican Senator Wallace Humphrey White Jr., grandfather of FCC, took a squint at the nation's ethereal affairs, promptly clamored loudly for a Senate investigation of radio networks and of his grandchild. But before Senate guns could be trained on the agency, Franklin Roosevelt whisked lively little Trouble Shooter Frank Ramsay McNinch of the Federal Power Commission to the chairmanship of FCC. Chairman McNinch cut out a lot of FCC deadwood, then began an investigation of the whole radio industry...
...Soon FCC findings on super power set 50 Kw. as the maximum strength for commercial transmission. Not so rapid was the progress of FCC's monopoly-investigating committee, first presided over by Chairman McNinch, later by fat-jowled, cautious Thaddeus Harold Brown, Republican wheel horse of the Commission. Starting in November 1938, with NBC's David Sarnoff as its first witness, the committee rambled on until the following May. Then it began to brood. Not until last week did it make known the results of its inquiry. They were enough to send a network tycoon gibbering...
...committee found undertones of monopoly all through the $165,000,000-a-year (1938) broadcasting industry. Whacking NBC and CBS around without gloves, FCC-men charged them with "many arbitrary and inequitable practices." Grimly they pointed...
Still to be solved by FCC is the problem of preventing foreign hams from getting information through local amateurs. A seemingly innocent conversation from the mainland to Hawaii might conceivably contain a wealth of information for a listener in Tokyo...