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...While FCC scanned the air waves for any trace of an adman's use of "subliminal perception" in a pitch to the viewer's subconscious mind (TIME, Nov. 18). one TV station announced that it has been trying the technique for two months. WTWO in Bangor, Me. superimposes the suggestion "Write W-TWO" once every eleven seconds on certain of its TV shows, in a flash too swift for conscious perception. The station promised to keep FCC posted on the experiment; so far, a spokesman admitted, the results in the station's mail volume have been...
Last week FCC Chairman John C. Doerfer assured Utah's outraged Republican Representative William A. Dawson that the FCC was investigating whether such sly brainwashing was already being practiced on unsuspecting viewers. All three networks hastily denied that they had touched the Orwellian gimmick developed by Manhattan's Subliminal Projection Co., Inc. and Experimental Films Inc. of New Orleans, but some network executives seemed curious and interested. If the FCC discovers phantom plugs on the air waves, explained Doerfer, it must still make up its mind whether it has any control over them. But Representative Dawson is champing...
...electronic navel, we decided we had grown too fast and too big to keep on being just a Negro outfit." WILY found that its mesmerizing music and offbeat programs were attracting up to three times as many white as Negro fans. So WILY, after filing new call letters with FCC, became what Tannen believes to be the first Negro station to move into the general market...
Each station that wants to try pay TV will have to petition FCC for permission. Furthermore, the commission will not entertain any applications until after March 1. Thus it skillfully tossed the problem to Congress, many of whose members oppose pay TV because powerful pressure groups, e.g., unions and veterans' organizations, have protested that it will be an added expense on family budgets. Congress could effectively discourage pay TV by setting up rigid standards for performance. Arkansas Democrat Oren Harris said that his House Commerce Committee will investigate, and Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler has authored a bill to make...
...pave the way. many local stations will start out with the toll systems that go out on wires via telephone poles, and thus presumably elude control by FCC, which holds jurisdiction only over the airwaves. Pay TVmen are enthusiastic about the success of a cable test in Bartlesville, Okla. (TIME, Sept. 16). Skiatron has 60 legmen mapping every house in Los Angeles for wiring, and Telemeter expects to start wire TV in Los Angeles "in the very near future." If the wired systems pack in the viewers, pay TV may grow up in a hurry...