Quotes about Radio Regulation

Clinton B. DeSoto

Times without number a commercial station manager would call an amateur station and tell him to shut up. Equally as often the reply would be, ‘Who the hell are you?’ or ‘I’ve as much right to the air as you have.’

The small commercial and amateur, and community radio stations were thriving but they could only afford small transmitters that only reached the local area. The large commercial radio stations wanted by be able to broadcast to the entire country and could afford huge transmitters but if a local station was on the same frequency the small station would be heard in the local area and not the large. The large corporations then lobbied the Federal regulators and thousands of small radio stations were kicked off the airwaves so that the large stations could have “clear channels” across the country. It turned out that the small entities did not have equal rights. See {641990}) & {641992}). This quotation is an excellent example of large businesses who usually claim to oppose Federal regulation and interference with private enterprise, really urging more Federal Regulation so as to interfere with smaller firms whose markets they coveted. The Republican administrations of Presidents Harding, Coolidge & Hoover were instrumental in eliminating the competition of the large radio stations and networks.

Wolfman Jack

When I started at XCRF in 1960, Mexico was the most lenient country in the world when it came to radio.

Aimee Semple McPherson

Please order your minions to leave my radio station alone. We cannot expect the Almighty to abide by your silly wavelength rules.

McPherson was the first woman who preached over the radio. With the advent of radio for all purposes, stations were being erected all over the country and began to interfere with each others broadcast. Herbert Hoover saw this as a Federal Problem and authorized his administration to regulate the power and wavelength frequencies that stations could use for their broadcasts. McPherson had built the Angelus Temple in Echo Park with two huge radio towers but she was broadcasting “the word of God” and did not want to be restricted to broadcasting on a single frequency. She and others, even today, see any regulation of a religious activity as an impingement of freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

Mike Rogers

The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message to the broadcast industry that Alabama families, like the rest of American families, have had enough.

Gene Green

The Federal Communications Commission licensed satellite radio to be a national-only radio service.

Howard Stern

I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.

Charles Lindbergh

We are disturbed about the effect of the Jewish influence on our press, radio, and motion pictures. It may become very serious. (Fulton) Lewis told us of one instance where the Jewish advertising firms threatened to remove all their advertising from the Mutual System if a certain feature was permitted to go on the air. The threat was powerful enough to have the feature removed.

Frank Zappa

Well the thing is that under the [Ronald] Reagan administration, excesses have occurred in terms of over regulating certain types of behavior, and excesses have occurred in the opposite direction, in de-regulating other types of behavior. As a matter of fact, if they continue to regulate the airlines, we might have safer skies, and if they slack off on the radio, we might have better radio. If they just use it as a threat, eventually there's going to be another test case like the one that the 7 dirty words ruling came out of, and basically, its extortion.

Radio Regulation Quotes