Financial Disclosure: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Communications of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 5430 ... March 4, 1980 |
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advertisers AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANIES Annual Financial Report Association of Broadcasters available for public bill BOLGER broadcast financial broadcast industry broadcast licensees BROADCAST REVENUES Chairman cial CITIZENS COMMUNICATIONS COLLINS commercial broadcasters Communications Act community of license competitive harm competitors Congress Congressman Mottl Court DEERLIN disclose disclosure of financial dollars employees expenditures expenses FCC Form 324 Federal Communications Commission filed financial data financial disclosure financial information Freedom of Information HARGROVE Information Act KAPLAN LANDICHO legislation licensee's LIONEL VAN DEERLIN National North Carolina November 16 Office oil companies omit cents operating Peggy Charren percent President profits program categories public affairs public inspection public interest public stewardship question radio stations regulation regulatory REUBEN COOKE routine salary Sale of station SHIBEN Sittrick small businesses specific statement station's financial SWIFT television stations Thank tion TOM LOEFFLER viewers and listeners
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Page 43 - Whoever being an officer or employee of the United States or of any department or agency thereof, publishes, divulges, discloses, or makes known in any manner or to any extent not authorized by law...
Page 43 - Whoever, being an officer or employee of the United States or of any department or agency thereof, publishes, divulges, discloses, or makes known in any manner or to any extent not authorized by law any information coming to him in the course of his employment or official duties or by reason of any examination or investigation made by, or return, report or record made to or filed with, such department or agency or officer or employee thereof, which information concerns or relates to the trade secrets,...
Page 19 - I am president of the National Radio Broadcasters Association, a nonprofit trade association representing approximately 1,200 AM and FM radio stations located throughout the United States. I am also an officer, director, and major stockholder of Sis Radio, Inc. and am actively involved in the day-to-day management of the radio stations licensed to Sis Radio— WAYS-AM and WROQ-FM, Charlotte, NC, and W APE-AM, Jacksonville, Fla.
Page 25 - Chairman. I thank you and the members of the subcommittee for the opportunity to appear before you today.
Page 68 - But the Act does not essay to regulate the business of the licensee. The Commission is given no supervisory control of the programs, of business management or of policy. In short, the broadcasting field is open to anyone, provided there be an available frequency over which he can broadcast without interference to others, if he shows his competency, the adequacy of his equipment, and financial ability to make good use of the assigned channel.
Page 68 - In contradistinction to communication by telephone and telegraph, which the Communications Act recognizes as a common carrier activity and regulates accordingly in analogy to the regulation of rail and other carriers by the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Act recognizes that broadcasters are not common carriers and are not to be dealt with as such. Thus the Act recognizes that the field of broadcasting is one of free competition.
Page 71 - SBA's effort in resolving these problems, the President on October 31, 1979, named the SBA as a member of the Regulatory Council. Secondly, in an Executive Memorandum of November 16, 1979, the President directed all Executive Departments and Agencies to take the following steps: (1) Ensure that any new rules and regulations issued by your agency will be applied whenever possible in a flexible manner, taking into account the size and nature of the regulated businesses and organizations while fulfilling...
Page 5 - Documents shall be furnished without charge or at a reduced charge where the agency determines that waiver or reduction of the fee is in the public interest because furnishing the information can be considered as primarily benefiting the general public.
Page 13 - ... whether and to what extent the incumbent has reinvested the profit on his license to the service of the viewing and listening public.
Page 50 - ... others. On the contrary, their interest in television programming is direct and their responsibilities important. They are the owners of the channels of television indeed, of all broadcasting.