Editing Federal Radio Commission (section)

====KGEF deletion====
{{Main|Trinity Methodist Church, South v. Federal Radio Commission}}

KGEF was a broadcasting station first licensed in late 1926 to Trinity Methodist Church, South, in downtown Los Angeles.<ref>[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435066938390&view=1up&seq=42 "New Stations"], ''Radio Service Bulletin'', December 31, 1926, page 4.</ref> Its programming was dominated by long denunciations made by pastor [[Robert P. Shuler|Robert "Fighting Bob" Shuler]],<ref>Not to be confused with the Robert Schuller of the [[Crystal Cathedral]] a generation later.</ref> who stated that he operated the station in order to "make it hard for the bad man to do wrong in the community", but his strident broadcasts soon became very controversial.<ref name="smead"/> After a 1931 evaluation of the station's renewal application, chief examiner Ellis A. Yost expressed misgivings about Shuler's "extremely indiscreet" broadcasts, but recommended approval.<ref>[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1931-08-11/ed-1/seq-21/ "Rev. Bob Shuler Wins Radio Plea"], ''Washington (D.C.) Evening Star'', August 11, 1931, Page B-5.</ref> However, a review by the Commission concluded that the station should be deleted, because it "...could not determine that the granting thereof was in the [[public interest]]; that the programs broadcast by its principal speaker were sensational rather than instructive and in two instances he had been convicted of attempting over the radio to obstruct orderly administration of public justice".<ref name="KGEF">[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011384305&view=1up&seq=709 "Trinity Methodist Church Case"], ''Seventh Annual Report of the Federal Radio Commission'' (Fiscal year 1933), page 11.</ref>

The [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit|Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia]] affirmed the Commission's decision and held that, despite [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] protections:  "...this does not mean that the Government, through agencies established by Congress, may not refuse a renewal license to one who has abused it to broadcast defamatory and untrue matter. In that case there is not a denial of the freedom of speech but merely the application of the regulatory power of Congress in a field within the scope of its legislative authority".<ref name="KGEF"/> The court also ruled that denying license renewal as not in the public interest did not violate the Fifth Amendment's prohibition of "taking of property" without due process of law.<ref>[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1932-12-04/ed-1/seq-57/ "Third Crusader is Taken off the Air"], ''Washington (D.C.) Evening Star'', December 4, 1932, Part 4, page 5.</ref> This ruling became final after a petition for ''writ of certiorari'' requesting review by United States Supreme Court was denied.<ref name="WIBO-WPCC">[https://archive.org/stream/broadcasting04unse#page/n133/mode/1up/ "Government Petitions Supreme Court To Review Ruling in WIBO-WPCC Case"], ''Broadcasting'', February 15, 1933, page 28.</ref>