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Archive for April, 2011

The Federal Radio Commission, A Look Back

Thursday, April 28th, 2011

The FCC, Federal Communications Commission, created June 19, 1934 by the Communications Act, is responsible for regulating all broadcasting and wired communications. By merging the administrative responsibilities of the FRC, Federal Radio Commission and the ICC, Interstate Commerce Commission, the FCC began to regulate all non-federal government use of broadcast, telegraph, and telephone communications that [...]

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Meet the Chairman, Julius Genachowski

Saturday, April 16th, 2011

Julius Genachowski became the chairman of the FCC on June 29, 2009. Before taking the post as chairman, Julius was a businessman and also worked as a lawyer. Genachowski received Bachelors from Columbia in 1985, and his Juris Doctor from Harvard in 1991. One of classmates was Barack Obama. He then clerked on the U.S. [...]

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Great Moments in FCC History

Monday, April 4th, 2011

By 1934, communications technology in the United States had advanced to a high level: Cables had been laid down in 1859, the transcontinental telegraph completed in 1869, the telephone invented in 1877, and radio and television were in their infancy. In that year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), an independent agency (not part of the [...]

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