Hi Shawn.

I believe that the Navy regulated the use of radio during World War I, but
relinquished it to civilian regulation once the war was over.

73, de Lou K2LKK

At 01:36 PM 7/2/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>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
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> > "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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