FCC Annual Report refs.
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Link to the ‘27 report:

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1927 Report:
Intro: To the Congress of The United States
p.2.>> “The act embraces the whole field of radio communication, but the public interest was concentrated almost wholly on the single section of it devoted to radio broadcasting. >> (read on)
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“Open Door Policy Adopted”
p.1.4: Chairman Bullard in explaining the views of the commission with relation to its contact with the public said on one occasion:
The commission has no desire to arrive at any conclusions without taking the public into its fullest confidence, and while its membership is limited by law to five members yet the commission would like to consider that really every (?) and every broadcaster, whether owner or operator, is a potential member for submitting constructive ideas to keep the other channels clear… (read on…)
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“An Appalling Responsibility”
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The spirit with which the commission has approached it’s task… (
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That in those four words is what congress has told us to do. …
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“Hard To Measure Conflicting Claims”
p.2.2. Congress has said that we shall be free to play the great part it ought to play in building up and strengthening the understanding of our people.
Pg. 7
p.3.>Every broadcasting station exists for one sole purpose -the creation of public good will for its owners or for the sponsors of its programs.
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“Public Must Guard Freedom Of Air”
P.1.1 >> Above all it is for you, not for us of the commission to safeguard the so-called freedom of the air. Here is a problem which, because your are primarily interested in radio as a means of political education, touches you very closely. You would be quick to see the danger if there could be only a fixed and rather small number of newspapers and magazines published in the United States; you would rightly fear that the newcomer, the nonconformist, the representative of a minority, would have small chance to present his ideas to the public. This is just the situation which exists in broadcasting and which inevitably must continue to exist unless some fundamental change in the science of radio transmission comes about as the result of new discovery, to make possible a totally unforeseen increase in number of stations which can broadcast simultaneously.
p.2.1 The radio law tells us that we shall not fix any condition “which shall interfere with the right of free speech by means of radio communication.” and yet, if radio communication of any kind is to be possible at all >>>