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Week 5 Chapter Assignment

Week 5 Chapter Assignment

Q Please answer all of the following questions from Ch. 4: The 1940s. Please send me your answers via the designated link (located directly under this post within this "Assignment" section of Blackboard) by Saturday by 6:00PM. 1. What actions were taken to prevent monopolistic control of broadcasting in 1941? 2. What helped and hindered radio s development in 1942? 3. How did the US handle its propaganda needs in 1942? 4. Describe the various attempts to challenge the FCC s anti-trust / cross-ownership investigation in 1943? 5. Describe the events of August 6th, 1945 and the impact of FDR s fireside chats? 6. What was the Blue Book and its provisions? 7. Describe the impact of the Red Scare 8. What were the Mayflower Decision and the Fairness Doctrine?

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The FCC's investigation into network monopoly practices that began in 1938 was completed with a Report on Chain Broadcasting. This report aimed to protect individual affiliate stations from what the FCC felt was undue control by the networks. Among other things, it limited affiliate contracts to one-year renewable periods, permitted stations to use programs from other networks, prevented networks from interfering with station programming and scheduling prerogatives and stopped networks from controlling affiliate stations' advertising rates for other than that network's programs. However, the report's most dramatic determination was that NBC's ownership of two networks constituted an unacceptable monopoly (Hilliard & Keith, 2012).