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Hi.
Oh, c'mon! We have the best regulators that money can gbuy!
73, de Lou, K2LKK
At 02:16 PM 7/2/2004 -0600, you wrote:
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>k2lkk wrote:
> >Ok, who on the list knows what the name of the regulatory agency
> >was that preceded the FCC?
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>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.
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>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
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>Richard Webb
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>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
Louis Kim Kline
A.R.S. K2LKK
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