The commission superseded the Radio Act of 1912, which gave regulatory powers over radio to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. It was replaced by the Federal Communications Commission in 1934.

The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created by Congressional statute to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire ...

What the new Federal Radio Commission later deemed "five years of orderly development" (1921–26) was disrupted by strategic regulatory dancing that preempted enforcement of such property rights.

When Congress passed the Federal Radio Act in 1927 it suspected the existence of an “air trust.” Therefore in Section 13 of that law it directed the Federal Radio Commission to void all ...

T he Federal Radio Commission last week decided to eliminate about 300 of the 694 radio broadcasting stations in the U. S. Reason: to clear the air “in public interest.” Those will remain who ...

So the Commission authorized the service way up in the 12 and 17GHz bands without too many ownership restrictions. And the government even let DBS providers decide if they wanted to function as ...

The Federal Election Commission, better known for deadlocks than decisions, has unanimously agreed to take a first step against anonymous political advertising on the internet. The proposed rule ...

Holding: The Federal Communications Commission's 2017 decision to repeal or modify three of its media ownership rules was not arbitrary or capricious for purposes of the Administrative Procedure Act.

Police radio communications have been public ever since the Detroit Police Department began broadcasting one-way transmissions to mobile officers on station KOP in the 1920s. In fact, in those ...