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National Broadcasting Company
This company had 22 affiliates which then became known as the Red Network. The blue network or NBC's second network had 6 affiliates. By 1933 NBC had nearly 15 percent of all affiliates. -
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Federal Radio Commission- First deal
Regulated United States radio and communication. It was established from the Radio Act of 1927 which replaced the radio act of 1912. It was a reform. -
Commission members confirmed
Three members of the commission's members were confirmed; W.H.G. Bullard, Orestes H. Caldwell, Eugene O. Sykes, Henry A. Bellows, John F Dillon were members of the commission. -
Initial action by Commission
The radio commission ordered 129 stations which operated on unassigned frequencies to return to the previously assigned frequencies by the Department of Commerce. -
FCR General Order 10
It improved reception for daytime service programs especially for educational, religious and civic institutions. -
First achievment
In the first three months of the established CCC 250,000 men were enrolled. -
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Civilian Conservation Corps- Second deal
3 million young men worked on environmental projects. It was a relief program which employed young men during the Great Depression. It was one of the more successful programs during the New Deal era. -
rapid peacetime mobilization
1,433 camps put 300,000 men to work -
First presidential visit
President Roosevelt, the National Park Service Director Arno Cammerer, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickles and other dinitaries visited the camps in Shenandoah Valley. Their visit as well as visits from celebrities gave the camps and programs attention. -
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Federal Communcations Commission
It was established from the Communication's act. To merge administrative responsibilities for regulating broadcasting and wire communications into an agency. It is still around today but now focuses on the regulation of all non-federal government use of telecommunications. It was a reform of communications -
enrollment peak
Three million, about 5 percent of the male population, were enrolled in the CCC. 500,000 corpsmen were spread out in 2,900 camps. -
Silent motion pictures
At the beginning of 1933 motion pictures were made to campaign and collect support for Roosevelt's administration and the New Deal programs. By 1935 there was up to 30 films made about the CCC. The films showed the work being done in multiple national parks including Glacier National Park, Morristown National Historical Park, and Mesa Verde National Park. -
The royals tour the camps
King George VI of Great Britain and and the queen visited the CCC camps in Virginia and Roosevelt gave them a memento of a photo album of their trip -
Freezing TV stations
The FCC froze new television station licenses because of the conflicts the fast pace of licensing made. They didn't issue new television licenses until 1952 -
Telecommunications act
AT&T broke up into smaller companies which concluded in the telecommunications act that allowed competition among phone companies. It fostered the marketplace's ability to have a competitive industry. Major carriers allowed new companies to lease services off of their lines and sell those services to customers.
