COM JO 357 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nbc, Federal Radio Commission, Lee De Forest
23 Jul 2018
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Point to mass communication: radio stations communicated information far and wide with far reaching signals to thousands of people, take one message and communicate it to many. Issue: constitutional debate over free press: listener sovereignty: the idea that the listeners (u. s. people) owned the space above the country (air waves) as a common public natural resource; unlike private papers. People were exercising their sovereignty from congress with the argument of natural resource: spectrum scarcity: radio magnetic spectrum; natural face that only a certain number of signals can exist without interference. Limited spectrum; unlike hundreds of papers, someone needs to regulate who gets the space. Frc: hoover created the federal radio commission in 1927 to regulate broadcasting, later changed to fcc, federal radio act of 1927: the commission was created to regulate radio use "as the public interest, convenience, or necessity" requires.
