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  2. Radio Act of 1927 - Wikipedia

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    The Radio Act of 1927 (United States Public Law 632, 69th Congress) was signed into law on February 23, 1927. It replaced the Radio Act of 1912, increasing the federal government's regulatory powers over radio communication, with oversight vested in a newly created body, the Federal Radio Commission. It also was the first legislation to mandate ...

  3. History of radio - Wikipedia

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    After World War II, FM radio ... The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was the first significant overhaul in over 60 years amending the work of the Communications Act ...

  4. Radio Act of 1912 - Wikipedia

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    The Radio Act of 1912, formally, known as "An Act to Regulate Radio Communication" (37 Stat. 302), is a United States federal law which was the country's first legislation to require licenses for radio stations.

  5. Air-to-ground communication - Wikipedia

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    The earliest communication with aircraft was by visual signalling, ground-to-air only. Air-to-ground communication was first made possible by the development of two-way aerial telegraphy in 1912, soon followed by two-way radio. By the Second World War, radio had become the chief medium of air-to-ground and air-to-air communication. Since then ...

  6. Office of Censorship - Wikipedia

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    Manhattan Federal Building with Office of Censorship at 252 7th Avenue in 1945. The Office of Censorship was an emergency wartime agency set up by the United States federal government on December 19, 1941, to aid in the censorship of all communications coming into and going out of the United States, including its territories and the Philippines. [1]

  7. Regulation of radio broadcast in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1911: A radio division was established by the Department of Commerce to govern the Radio Act of 1910. [1] 1912: Congress passed the "Marine Act" to regulate communications. This was the first general US law to oversee the use of radio transmissions. [1] 1927: The Federal Radio Act formed the Federal Radio Commission. [1]

  8. History of amateur radio - Wikipedia

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    Again during World War II, as it had done during the first World War, the United States Congress suspended all amateur radio operations. [9] With most of the American amateur radio operators in the armed forces at this time, the US government created the War Emergency Radio Service which would remain active through 1945.

  9. Federal Radio Commission - Wikipedia

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    The FRC was established by the Radio Act of 1927, [1] which replaced the Radio Act of 1912 after the earlier law was found to lack sufficient oversight provisions, especially for regulating broadcasting stations. In addition to increased regulatory powers, the FRC introduced the standard that, in order to receive a license, a radio station had ...