Charles W. Chook Bryant

If everyone has to apply for a license who wants to broadcast, it's just – it was very key in the setup and then, like I said, eventual downfall of the Fairness Doctrine.

Right.

The 1927 Radio Act, while it did establish that, it kind of –

made some errors, basically, in how they set it up.

There were a lot of misspellings.

Yeah, there were a lot of misspellings.

But they would say, basically, to the broadcasters, you have to air content in support of, quote, public convenience, interest, or necessity, end quote.

But they didn't really define what that was.

You have to air content about public toilets.

But this is a big problem because if something isn't clearly defined, then it can't be enforced.

So in 1934, they knew that this was a problem.

This was how many years later?

Like seven years later.

And they said, you know what?

We need to issue another act because we're the federal government.

And so the Federal Communications Act replaced the Radio Act.

The FCC was born, replaced the Radio Commission.

And the FCC said, all right, the first thing we got to do is define what this public interest thing is all about.

Yeah.

That's right.