Lowell Thomas - Sept. 29, 1930 Press-radio war - April 1933 Schechter at NBC; Klauber, White at CBS 1934 Communications Act - "public interest" FDR's New Deal - a "national public forum" Senator Burton Wheeler cut off in East Earl Browder dropped in New England Hawariate relayed but Aloisi refused by BBC Edward VIII's abdication Dec. 1936 Murrow organizes CBS European bureau Shirer, LaSuer, Collingwood, Smith, Sevareid Murrow critical of BBC Nov. 1937:
"radio has enormous power but it has no character, no conscience of its own."
March 13, 1938 - multipoint shorwave roundup Sept. 12-30 - Munich - Kaltenborn in Studio 9 1939 - The World Today at 6:45 p.m. every day 1943 - On Oct. 12, NBC Blue became the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)