Communication Act of 1934 Frequency interference FCC set up to be a stronger regulator given jurisdiction over both wireless radio and wired telephone media like ATT and RCA It gave license to serve the public interest what that actually mean One criteria was that it should produce local programming never been effectively implemented Many commercial places begin with local programming then decide they want to change to gain more money They wanted to plan for new media they could tell radio wasn t going to last word Coming of FM Edwin Armstrong thought FM would have higher sound quality and less susceptible to interference be localized only cover 30 miles You could have two stereo channels David Sernoff in charge of RCA decided that even more money could be made from TV a competing technology at the time RCA then left FM aside and invested in TV Therefore Armstrong was so depressed that he killed himself that they weren t taking his technology and developing it A great man ending in tragedy because another great man made a decision that may not have been rational
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