44. Radio-Television Utilities,, 1927-1982

Summary:Documents CR's interest in the technologies of radio and television as they emerged and became entangled in legal, free speech, technical, and consumer issues. CR was especially interested radio in the 1930s. Includes correspondence, magazine and newspaper clippings, technical journal articles, printed matter and other materials. Subjects include radio and television, advertising, quack advertising, advertising control of radio, censorship, consumer programs, RCA control of radio, commercial vs non-commercial, critiques of radio and television, the Federal Communications Commission, government control, programs, suppression, and suppression of F.J. Schlink's anti-NRA radio address (1934). Also includes material on telephones, public utilities, electrical service, gas rates and the U.S. Postal Service. See technical files for the testing of televisions and radios.