Radio (NCER) with the aim of getting Con- gress to reserve 15 percent of the broad- cast channels for educational use.
But the opposition movement faced in NBC, CBS, and the National Association of Broadcasters, "one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington." FDR had more important battles to fight, and on June 18, 1934, he signed into law the Communica- tions Act of 1934 which created the Fed- eral Communications Commission and marked the effective end of the war over the airwaves....