Talk:Brinkley Act

[edit] Still needs work

I just saved a substantial revamp of this article. However, there are some things I'm still not comfortable about....

The dates. According to the notes in the United States Code, this provision was enacted as an original section of the Communications Act of 1934. However, the article on John R. Brinkley suggests that he was still operating the studios in Del Rio as late as 1939. What gives? Did the newly-created FCC actually grant him a permit the first time around, or was there a legal challenge, or what?
International comparisons. I'm not sure the British comparison belongs here, particularly as it is the only one and it is so removed in time from the passage of the Brinkley Act. If it's going to stay, it should be joined by similar cases from other countries. I'd particularly like to see a summary of the situation with respect to Canada in the heyday of CKLW, which is the only obvious candidate from about the same time as the British situation. (There's also the more modern case of CKEY-FM, which has gotten in hot water with the CRTC about its relationship with stations in Buffalo.) Are there any examples from other countries (say, China and pre-handover Hong Kong, or Malaysia and Singapore, or Venezuela and the Leeward Islands)?

121a0012 05:06, 25 February 2006 (UTC)