HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE SEVENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 814 A BILL TO AMEND THE COMMUNICATIONS ACT NOVEMBER 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12, 15-19, 22-24, 29–30; Printed for the use of the Committee on Interstate Commerce CONTENTS TABLE OF WITNESSES Antonini, Luigi, president, Italian-American Labor Council; general secre- Page 875 669 Bingham, Herbert M., member of subcommittee of the executive com- mittee, Federal Communications Bar Association, Washington, D. C. 141, 481 Brown, Edgar G., director, National Negro Council; president, United Burke, J. Frank, president, Pacific Coast Broadcasting Co. (radio station Craven, T. A. M., member, Federal Communications Commission, Wash- Cullum, A. Earl, Jr., radio research laboratory, Harvard University, 887 Elias, Don S., vice president, Asheville Citizens Times Co., Asheville, Fly, James Lawrence, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission Hanson, O. B., vice president and chief engineer, National Broadcasting 857 Jansky, C. M., Jr., consulting radio engineer, Washington, D. C.... Jett, E. K., Chief Engineer, Federal Communications Commission, Wash- Lord, Nathan, manager, radio station WAVE, Louisville, Ky. 322 Miller, Neville, president, National Association of Broadcasters, Wash- 165, 233, 359 Mosby, A. J., general manager, radio station KGVO, Missoula, Mont. 421 Pearl, Philip, publicity director, American Federation of Labor, Washing- 87 532 Reinsch, Leonard, manager, radio stations WHIO, Dayton, Ohio; WSB, 303 Richter, Irving, United Automobile Workers (Congress of Industrial 291 Seymour, Whitney North, attorney, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, New 436 Wakefield, Ray C., member, Federal Communications Commission, Wash- 620 Woodruff, James W., Jr., radio station WRBL, Columbus, Ga. 351 cision, ner TO AMEND THE COMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1934 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1943 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE, The committee met at 10:30 a. m., pursuant to call, in room 318, Senate Office Building, Senator Burton K. Wheeler, chairman, presiding. Present: Senators Wheeler (chairman), Clark of Idaho, Tunnell, White, Shipstead, Tobey, Reed, Gurney, Brooks, Hawkes, and Moore. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will please come to order. We have met this morning to consider S. 814. (The bill under consideration, S. 814, is as follows:) [S. 814, 78th Cong., 1st Sess.] A BILL To amend the Communications Act of 1934, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 3 of title I of the Communications Act of 1934 be amended by adding after paragraph (aa) of said section the following: "(bb) The term 'license', 'station license', or 'radio-station license' means that instrument of authorization required by this Act, or the rules and regulations of the Commission enacted pursuant to this Act, for the use or operation of apparatus for the transmission of energy, or communications, or signals by radio, by whatever name the same may be designated by the Commission." SEC. 2. Amend paragraph (b) of section 4 of said title I by striking out the last sentence of said paragraph and by inserting in lieu thereof the following: "Not more than four members of the Commission and not more than two members of either division thereof shall be members of the same political party.' SEC. 3. Amend section 5 of said title I by striking out the whole of said section and by inserting in lieu thereof the following: "(a) The members of the Commission, other than the Chairman, shall be organized into two divisions of three members each, said divisions to be known and designated as the Division of Public Communications and the Division of Private Communications, and no member designated or appointed to serve on one division shall have or exercise any duty or authority with respect to the work or functions of the other division, except as hereinafter provided. The President shall designate the Commissioners now in office who shall serve upon a particular division, but all Commissioners other than the Chairman subsequently appointed shall be appointed to serve upon a particular division and the Chairman subsequently appointed shall be appointed to serve in that capacity. "(b) The Division of Public Communications shall have jurisdiction over all cases and controversies arising under the provisions of this Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission enacted pursuant to this Act relating to wire and radio communications intended to be received by the public directly, and shall make all adjudications involving the interpretation and application of those provisions of the Act and of the Commission's regulations. "(c) The Division of Private Communications shall have jurisdiction over all cases and controversies arising under the provisions of this Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission enacted pursuant to this Act relating to wire and radio communications by a common carrier or carriers, or which are intended to 1 |