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Federal Communications Commission

independent U.S. government agency

7 dated entries naming Federal Communications Commission, drawn from 7 separate years between 1927 CE and 1987 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1927February 23 – The U.S. Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.source
  • 1941July 1 – Commercial television is authorized by the Federal Communications Commission in the United States.source
  • 1942April 13 – The United States Federal Communications Commission's minimum programming time required of television stations is cut from 15 hours to 4 hours a week during the war.source
  • 1950October 11 – The Federal Communications Commission in the United States issues the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS (RCA will successfully dispute and block the license from taking effect, however).source
  • 1953December 17 – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approves color television (using the NTSC standard).source
  • 1961May 9 – In a speech on "Television and the Public Interest" to the National Association of Broadcasters in the United States, FCC chairman Newton N. Minow describes commercial television programming as a "vast wasteland".source
  • 1987August 4 – The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine, which had required radio and television stations to present alternative views on controversial issues.source

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