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While pay increases are crucial to a settlement, by far the stickiest point in the strike is the question of "supplemen tary markets"- inflight movies, pay and cable TV, and cassettes. Presently allot ted no share at all, the Guild is demanding 1.2% of the gross revenues from such supplementary markets. The Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the networks are offering only .6%. With the costs of developing the markets estimated in the millions of dollars, the studios argue that the invesment would hardly be worth it if they must share any larger portion...
...American," received enough funds to assure its production next season. Yet, in all three cases, no more than one half of the required funds were allocated by CPB. The rest of the money will have to come from private sources, principally from the Ford Foundation. Ford has yet to allot any money to WGBH, hinting that it will continue to refuse such money until the public stations are assured of programming independence from...
...television viewers might suspect, the Federal Communications Commission takes a permissive position on how much time stations may allot to commercials. The general rule: stations that want favorable FCC consideration when their licenses come up for renewal should hold their commercials to just a mind-numbing 16 minutes an hour in non-prime time and 9½ minutes in prime evening time, which is the limit specified by the nonbinding code of the National Association of Broadcasters...
...military aircraft of seven air forces: West Germany's own, the U.S., British, French, Dutch, Belgian and Danish. Commercial pilots have charged that fighter planes deliberately use passenger craft as targets for dummy runs, which is like playing chicken at the speed of sound. By refusing to allot more personnel and modern equipment to air traffic control, Bonn is playing a similar game of chicken with passengers' lives...
Neither the U.S. nor China made any significant public mention of the ensuing negotiations for two months. The Mainland press did allot considerable space to worker and peasant denunciations of Nixon's inaugural address, but it did not refer to the talks until in late January, 1969, when the U.S. State Department announced the defection of Liao Ho-shu, a Chinese diplomat in the Netherlands. Then, on February 4, a spokesman of the Foreign Ministry Information Department in Peking said that both the removal of Liao Ho-shu to the U.S. and American hostility to China show that "U.S. President...