Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Industrialist Lew is Hill in 1949 "to create new formulas for radio," also has its enemies. In 1963, the U.S. Senate Internal Security Sub committee investigated Pacifica for Communist infiltration. In 1964, the FCC dismissed a battery of complaints against Pacifica, including obscenity charges, after Berkeley's KPFA broadcast readings of poems by Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and a frank talk among eight homo sexuals about their problems and attitudes. The latest and most bitter com plaints were raised early this year after a militant Negro guest on Manhattan's WBAI read an anti-Semitic poem...
...most of its momentum, the crusade against cigarettes is indebted to a regulatory windfall: the antismoking ads that are broadcast free on TV and radio under the FCC's "fairness doctrine." The ten-year-old doctrine, designed to ensure airing of opposing views on controversial issues, had never been applied to the advertising of a product until 1967. Then the FCC ruled that broadcasters must devote "significant" time to antismoking messages, meaning one of them for every three cigarette commercials...
...Still chanting, they marched around the Loeb and back to the Yard via Garden Street. After passing through the north doors of University Hall one more time, the march disbanded on the Mem Church steps, with some of the marchers sitting down to listen to the broadcast of the Faculty meeting and the rest going back to whatever it was they were doing before it all began...
...Brother Dick were not about to mend their ways. They refused to cut out such things as an antiwar song by Pete Seeger and an off-color Romeo and Juliet skit. "We feel it's important," said Tommy, "to stay and continue to push for new standards of broadcast content." That same week, CBS-TV President Robert Wood wired the brothers: "You are not free to use the show as a device to 'push for new standards.' " The response, CBS claimed, was a refusal to provide tapes of new shows in time to meet contractual deadlines...
...Front's first public response was to be expected. An N.L.F. broadcast called the bid "a crafty trick," and in Paris both Hanoi and N.L.F. negotiators heaped scorn on Thieu's offer. For all the obloquy, however, no spokesman for either group flatly refused the offer of private talks, and Western sources privately described the statements as a matter of routine propaganda, entered for the record before the real talks begin in secret-if they have not already...