Broadcasting

“ Perhaps the next time the radio set begins to howl as if a dozen cat fights were mewling inside of the loud speaker, it is not static that is interfering with the reception from the broadcasting station, but a newspaper photograph which is being sent through the air. ”

“ Radio is certainly getting to be a country-wide craze. Only the other day I was at one of the big broadcasting stations, and the manager told me that they were actually having trouble to get performers, there is such a demand for them. They seem to be especially hard up for novelty acts—something out of the ordinary. ”

“ Similarly, we do at least the price of marks and mutton for the reason that marks and mutton are a matter of real concern to thousands who listen. Broadcasting has created a business without parallel in life to date. It has brought into service a means of communication—a medium—which, owing to its romantic and fascinating character, has cast a spell over all classes of society, over persons of all ages and of every intellectual standard. It has set those responsible for its conduct a task of extreme difficulty, one that can never be performed to the satisfaction of everyone. ”

“ Likewise, a television program or commercial holds us in its spell as much through the magic of broadcasting technology as its script. Whoever has power to get inside that magic box has the power to write the story we end up believing.
We don't call the stuff on television 'programming' for nothing. The people making television are not programming our TV sets or their evening schedules ”

“ The rapidity and yet sureness with which it built its organization, and the far-sighted policy by which it was inspired, convinced not only myself, but every member of the Committee, that the public had got now and powerful friends in those responsible for the managerial, engineering and programme departments working together with remarkable smoothness to add a new interest to the lives of the people.
It is impossible to foretell the social effects that broadcasting is likely to have in the course of years. ”

“ A radio or television broadcasting station, including a cable or satellite television operator, programmer, or producer, that broadcasts materially deceptive audio or visual media prohibited by this section as part of a bona fide newscast, news interview, news documentary, or on-the-spot coverage of bona fide news events, if the broadcast clearly acknowledges through content or a disclosure, in a manner that can be easily heard or read by the average listener or viewer, that there are questions about the authenticity of the materially deceptive audio or visual media. ”

“ Appellant's total property devoted to its broadcasting business exceeds $18,000,000 in value; its earnings from the network exceeded $3,000,000 in both 1939 and 1940.
Chain broadcasting is the means by which radio programs are made available to all or a large part of the nationwide radio audience. It is defined by the Communications Act, 47 U.S.C. § 153 (p) , 47 U.S.C.A. § 153 (p) , as the 'simultaneous broadcasting of an identical program by two or more connected stations'. ”

“ The Commission has been charged with broad responsibilities for the orderly development of an appropriate system of local television broadcasting. The significance of its efforts can scarcely be exaggerated, for broadcasting is demonstrably a principal source of information and entertainment for a great part of the Nation's population. The Commission has reasonably found that the successful performance of these duties demands prompt and efficacious regulation of community antenna television systems. ”

“ Thus, for example: a singer is performing when he or she sings a song; a broadcasting network is performing when it transmits his or her performance (whether simultaneously or from records) ; a local broadcaster is performing when it transmits the network broadcast; a cable television system is performing when it retransmits the broadcast to its subscribers; and any individual is performing whenever he or she plays a phonorecord embodying the performance or communicates the performance by turning on a receiving set. ”

“ Broadcasting, according to the allegations of the complaint, is accomplished by the generation, at the broadcasting station, of electromagnetic waves, which pass through space to receiving instruments which amplify them and translate them into audible sound waves. ”

“ The collective management organization of broadcasting right via radio, television, and cable television of the broadcasting organizations shall require the recognition of the Ministry of Information. ”

“ With my two radio sets, including the one that is installed in my dressing-room at the Palace Theatre, London, I have listened to nearly all the stations on the Continent and in America now broadcasting, and I have yet to be satisfied that any of them provide better entertainment than those here at home. ”

“ The Commission is given no supervisory control of the programs, of business management or of policy. In short, the broadcasting field is open to anyone, provided there be an available frequency over which he can broadcast without interference to others, if he shows his competency, the adequacy of his equipment, and financial ability to make good use of the assigned channel.' Federal Communications Comm. ”

“ Program of a broadcasting organization shall mean a body of live performance or fixed material containing images and/or sounds, or other information, meant for dissemination, which has been prepared by an air or a cable broadcasting organization, or another person on its commission and with its funds. ”

“ The Federal Communications Commission has for many years imposed on radio and television broadcasters the requirement that discussion of public issues be presented on broadcast stations, and that each side of those issues must be given fair coverage. This is known as the fairness doctrine, which originated very early in the history of broadcasting and has maintained its present outlines for some time. ”

“ Such winner or winners are required to answer correctly a question, the answer to which is given on a program broadcast over the station in question or where aid to answering the question correctly is given on a program broadcast over the station in question. For the purposes of this provision the broadcasting of the question to be answered over the radio station on a previous program will be considered as an aid in answering the question correctly ”

“ With this spectacular demonstration he administered the deathblow to all plans for high power ultra-long-wavelength transmitters, and from then on the commercial companies concentrated their efforts on developing equipment for international communications on the short waves.
With present-day electronic news gathering and world-wide satellite links, the problems faced by broadcasting organisations fifty years ago when transmitting programmes which did not originate in a studio were thought to be very complex. ”

“ Frank replied. “Pretty good, eh, what?”
“Certainly is,” said Jack. “Let me try it. Maybe, someone is broadcasting now.”
“No use,” said Frank. “I took a look at the local paper this morning and read the broadcasting program. Nothing on until 4 o’clock. ”

“ Territorial exclusivity.-No license shall be granted to a standard broadcast station having any contract, arrangement, or understanding, express or implied, with a network organization which prevents or hinders another station serving substantially the same area from broadcasting the network's programs not taken by the former station, or which prevents or hinders another station serving a substantially different area from broadcasting any program of the network organization. ”

“ This statute prohibits the broadcasting of '* * * any lottery, gift enterprise, or similar scheme, offering prizes dependent in whole or in part upon lot or chance * * *.' [1]
The appellees are national radio and television broadcasting companies. They are, in addition, the operators of radio and television stations licensed by the Commission. Each of the appellees broadcasts, over its own and affiliated stations, certain programs popularly known as 'give-away' programs. ”

“ A broadcasting organization shall have the exclusive right to transmit its broadcasts to the public, by use of special equipment to enlarge images, following reception of its television broadcasts or its wire-broadcasts made following reception of said broadcasts. ”

“ Producer of sound recordings: A natural person who, or a legal entity which, first fixes sounds for any work or performance for a performer, other than fixing of the sounds on images in preparing an audiovisual work.
(14) Broadcasting: Sound or audiovisual transmission, by wireless means for public reception, of a work, performance, sound recording or recording of a work or a performance, including transmission by satellite. ”

“ Political parties, trade union and professional organisations and organisations that represent economic activities, and other social organisations with a national scope have the right to broadcasting time on the public radio and television service, in accordance with their prominence and representativity and with objective criteria that shall be defined by law. ”

“ That's why the entire Radio industry is calling for trained men. Radio is thrilling work ... easy hours, vacations with pay and a chance to see the world. Manufacturers and broadcasting stations are now eagerly seeking trained RCA Institutes men. Millions of sets need servicing ... ”

“ We are satisfied that the reception of a radio broadcast and its translation into audible sound is not a mere audition of the original program. It is essentially a reproduction. As to the general theory of radio transmission, there is no disagreement. All sounds consist of waves of relatively low frequencies which ordinarily pass through the air and are locally audible. Thus music played at a distant broadcasting studio is not directly heard at the receiving set. ”

“ Underlying the whole law is recognition of the rapidly fluctuating factors characteristic of the evolution of broadcasting and of the corresponding requirement that the administrative process possess sufficient flexibility to adjust itself to these factors. ”

“ Radio and television have the task of contributing to the formation of public opinion by offering a variety of programmes. In addition to the public service broadcasting institutions, private stations shall be permitted pursuant to a law. ”

“ The remarkable growth of the radio-phone has, of course, been due to the radio broadcasting stations which have been established in all parts of the country, and from which concerts, speeches, market reports, baseball reports, news reports, children's stories and religious services are sent out. ”

“ Maybe my license will come; or the inspector may appear; or O'Connel may send tidings; or news may come from New York. Something is sure to happen. Why don't we all go over to the station and listen in on the broadcasting to-night. We are sure to get something that will be interesting and now that the 'loud speaker' is in position we shall be able to hear without using individual receivers. You haven't any of you really heard what our wireless can do. ”

“ Nor can we doubt that CATV systems are engaged in interstate communication, even where, as here, the intercepted signals emanate from stations located within the same State in which the CATV system operates. [29] We may take notice that television broadcasting consists in very large part of programming devised for, and distributed to, national audiences; respondents thus are ordinarily employed in the simultaneous retransmission of communications that have very often originated in other States. The stream of communication is essentially uninterrupted and properly indivisible. ”

“ The splendid work of our engineers has, within an incredibly short time, enabled us to guarantee a programme which can be broadcast simultaneously from any or every station to the rest of the country. This first issue of the Magazine contains some simultaneous broadcast programmes and indicates wonderful possibilities for the future. The individuality of local stations will still he preserved, as the nights for general broadcasting will be limited.
Our policy is a policy of development to serve the greatest needs of the public, and our faith is that the public will loyally support us. ”

“ Chain broadcasting makes possible a wider reception for expensive entertainment and cultural programs and also for programs of national or regional significance which would otherwise have coverage only in the locality of origin. Furthermore, the access to greatly enlarged audiences made possible by chain broadcasting has been a strong incentive to advertisers to finance the production of expensive programs. ”

“ He plays Rugby football on Saturday afternoons. The two black eyes and broken nose he invariably brings back as souvenirs of his afternoon's enjoyment are powerful arguments against the application of tele-vision to broadcasting. ”

“ You also say that amateurs should confine their activities to the open period. Most of the licensed amateurs work and have long hours that make it impossible for them to sit down any time during the day and transmit. When a fellow has to get up at 6 o'clock in the morning and go to bed at 10 o'clock at night in order to get up the next day, there is no reason at all why he should sit back and let the broadcast listeners hog the air. Since broadcasting started, the amateurs have gone half way in many cases with the broadcast listeners, but give some people an inch and they want a yard. ”