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1626 K STREET, N. W.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Vol. 7, No. 2, JANUARY 13, 1939
NAB to Press FCC on Questionnaire
The NAB will continue its persistent efforts to get the Federal Communications Com¬ mission to simplify its latest questionnaire, concerning ownership and control of broad¬ casting stations.
Each member will be advised immediately of any change the Commission decides to make.
Meantime, it must be assumed that the questionnaire, sent out January 5, must be filed with the Commission on or before January 25.
Commission officials have advised the NAB that any station unable to answer any question completely should answer to the best of its ability, with notice that an amended answer would be filed as soon as necessary information could be obtained.
NAB staff members held several conferences with Commission officials this week, in an effort to obtain some simplification of the questionnaire. Many broadcasters have let it be known that they felt answering the questionnaire in its present form would be an unjust burden.
Consultation with some of the leading radio attorneys in Washington developed the opinion that stations should answer the questionnaire, but that requests for its simplifica¬ tion should be pressed.
On the legislative front, all was comparatively quiet. Senators Capper (R-Kan) and Johnson (D-Col) reintroduced their bills to ban liquor advertising on the air, while Senator Sheppard (D-Tex) reintroduced his bill to forbid employment of radio operators less than 21 years old. In California, bills to free broadcasters from responsibility for remarks of speakers on their stations were introduced in the state legislature, while in the New York Assembly, several bills to forbid broadcasts which would stir up racial or religious enmity were dumped into the hopper.
A seasoned Capitol observer in Washington predicted that little if any “secondary” legislation, such as radio legislation, had much of a chance at the present session of Congress.
Neville Miller, NAB President, will leave Monday night for a swing through the West that will carry him to district meetings in Denver, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Mineral Springs, Texas.
A joint committee from NAB and the Radio Manufacturers Association is pushing forward plans for the greatest program to promote the American System of Broadcasting
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