WORKING IT OUT TOGETHER - RADIO POLICY FROM HOOVER TO THE RADIO ACT OF 1927

A complex pattern oi radio regulation emerged during the mid-1920s, on e in which a close-knit relationship arose between regulator and regul ated. Working together to get radio service to the public were the ''r egulators''-Herbert Hoover and the Department of Commerce-and the ''re gulated''-Westinghouse, General Electric (G. E.), the Radio Corporatio n oi America (RCA), and American Telegraph and Telephone (AT&T). Toget her, these two groups set radio's agenda and policy through 1927. This essay shows how that synthesis became the blueprint used even today f or broadcast license allocation and station licensee assignments.