In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Daniel C. Roper, Secretary of Commerce, to appoint an interdepartmental committee for studying electronic communications. The Committee reported that "the communications service, as far as congressional action is involved, should be regulated by a single body". A recommendation was made for the establishment of a new agency that would regulate all interstate and foreign communication by wire and radio, telegraphy, telephone and broadcast.
In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Daniel C. Roper, Secretary of Commerce, to :appoint an interdepartmental committee for studying electronic commun:ications. The Committee reported that "the communications service, as far as congressional action is involved, should be regulated by a single body". A recommendation was made for the establishment of a new: agency that would regulate all interstate and foreign communication by wire and radio, telegraphy, telephone and broadcast.