The Federal Radio Commission was a government agency that regulated United States radio communication from its creation in 1927 until 1934, when it was succeeded by the Federal Communications Commissi
In 1926, station WJAZ successfully challenged the government's authority to assign transmitting frequencies under the Radio Act of 1912.
From left, Henry Adams Bellows, Eugene O. Sykes, Rear Admiral William H. G. Bullard (chair), John F. Dillon and Orestes H. Caldwell at the first meeting of the Federal Radio Commission in Washington, D.C. (1927)
The Davis Amendment was a provision attached to the March 28, 1928 reauthorization of the Radio Act of 1927, which mandated an "equality of radio broadcasting service" within the United States. It spe
Partial list of CBS network affiliates, including their Davis Amendment "quota units" (1934)