Didn't the navy have something to do with it before
Hoover?
Shawn
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> k2lkk wrote:
>    >Ok, who on the list knows what the name of the
> regulatory agency
>    >was that preceded the FCC?
>
> IIRC it was the Federal Radio commission, part of
> Herbert Hoover's
> commerce department back in the '20's.  A friend of
> mine did his
> master's thesis on Hoover's history with the
> regulation of radio,
> making an orderly system out of the chaos that was
> broadcast radio
> back in the '20's.  An interesting read.
>
> IF I'm recalling correctly from his thesis, the Post
> office department
> and the commerce department were kind of fighting
> over regulation of
> radio, but Hoover trumped them by actually <gasp>
> meeting with the
> broadcasters and getting them to work with him on
> meaningful
> regulations which would actually serve the listening
> public.  tHese
> days it seems the FCC works with the broadcasters
> and big business
> types to do other things to the public, definitely
> not serve them.
>
> 73 de nf5b
>
>
>
> Richard Webb
>
> Electric Spider Productions
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
> little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>
> --- Benjamin Franklin, NOvember 1755 from the
> Historical review of Pennsylvania
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