Brinkley ACT (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Brinkley Act is the popular name given to 47 U.S.C. 325(c) (originally section 325(b) of the Communications Act of 1934). This provision was enacted by the United States Congress to prohibit broadcasting studios in the U.S. from being connected by live telephone line or other means to a transmitter located in Mexico. Prior to World War II, Dr. John R. Brinkley controlled a high-power radio station, XERA, located in Villa Acuna, Coahuila, on the U.S.-Mexican border. The programs on Brinkley's stations originated from studios in the United States, which were connected to his transmitters via international telephone lines. Brinkley broadcast programs advertising quack cures, supporting fascism, and other controversial subjects. Since Brinkley's transmitters were licensed by Mexico, which at the time had very limited regulation of broadcast content, his broadcasting licenses could not be directly threatened by the U.S. government.