The U.S. Supreme Court last week dropped a blockbuster on the radio industry. The Court ruled that the Federal Communications Commission has the power to enforce its regulations on the industrythereby validating a whole series of reforms that the trembling industry has fought for two years.
Maintaining that free competition was impossible so long as the big chains (NBC, CBS) dominated the 900-odd U.S. stations, FCC set up new rules (some of them unofficially in effect for several months, all now to become effective on June 14). The most important are:
>That stations affiliated...
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