Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After seven years of often bitter debate, the Federal Communications Commission said last week that it will "consider" applications from any television station that wants to take a try at pay-as-you-see TV. FCC opened the door to all the many pay-TV systems now being developed instead of okaying only one or two, as telecasters had expected. Each system thus will scramble to sign up stations for its service and to corner the limited supply of performing talent and first-run movies. This may pinch the viewer; since his set can be adjusted to receive only...
Static. Many FCC commissioners predict privately that not enough of the public will pay for toll TV to make it practical. Although the FCC's decision will help resolve the issue, it will also set up many hurdles for pay-TV proponents...
...commercial well blew in last week. It was the most ambitious test to date of pay-in-the-parlor TV. From the Lyric Theater, a double feature (The Pajama Game and Mississippi Gambler) flashed from noon to midnight into 300 living rooms via coaxial cable, thus presumably avoiding FCC supervision...
...member of the commission, but not in the top job. The senior post goes to John C. Doerfer, 52, a tough, middle-roading lawyer who has been an FCCommissioner since 1953. A West Virginian born and educated (West Virginia University, '31), Lawyer Ford first went to work for FCC in 1947 after a stint at the Office of Price Administration, within six years worked up from hearing commissioner to chief of the hearing division of the Broadcast Bureau, before shifting to the Justice Department in 1953, where he became first assistant to the Deputy Attorney General...
TRANS-OCEAN TV will go from Florida to Cuba. FCC okayed American Telephone & Telegraph Co. plan to send U.S. programs to Cuba via "scatter propagation" system, which deflects TV waves off particles high in atmosphere, transmits them over horizon without relays...