FCC Born
Regulating and deregulating
Today in 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law The Communications Act of 1934.
The act replaced the Federal Radio Commission with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). It also transferred regulation of interstate telephone services from the Interstate Commerce Commission to the FCC.
On January 3, 1996, the 104th Congress of the Unit…
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