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...will get a dress rehearsal in Washington. To demonstrate its Phonevision system of toll TV to FCC, Congressmen and a broadcasters' convention this week, Zenith Radio Corp. has teamed up with WMAL-TV to transmit live programs and special movies during the morning hours to some 50 Zenith receivers set up in the capital...
...poll conducted by the Federal Communications Commission is running heavily in favor of the idea, sponsored by three companies (Zenith, Skiatron, International Telemeter Corp.). In the three months since FCC invited "public advice" on whether it should permit toll TV, it has received nearly 10,000 letters, telegrams and postcards from viewers, with all but 1,500 approving the plan...
RADIO & TV PROBE by the Federal Communications Commission, likely for this year, will be the first full-scale look at the industry since the famed "chain broadcasting" investigation of 1938. FCC wants to take a close look at the economics and operation of the industry, especially the role played by sponsors, talent and ad agencies, has asked Congress for an $80,000 appropriation as a starter. The House has approved the money; the Senate will probably consider it next month...
...biggest blow to the Government's case came from its star witness, prim Marie Natvig. In October Mrs. Natvig held the stand for 13 days, and under questioning by FCC Attorney Walter R. Powell Jr., told luridly and convincingly of meeting "Comrade Lamb" at a Communist Party gathering. The two discussed Communism in a Columbus, O. bistro named the Purple Cow, she swore, and ended the discussion in a hotel room, where she committed her "first act of infidelity." Three months later the grey-haired grandmother recanted. On the stand Mrs. Natvig said that she had been "brainwashed...
After hearing this, FCC Examiner Herbert Sharfman announced that he considered her testimony "completely incredible"and worthless. Last week in Washington, a federal grand jury indicted Marie Natvig on nine counts of perjury. None of them, however, had anything to do with the main issue of the Lamb case. The indictment merely charged that Mrs. Natvig had perjured herself when she 1) charged FCC Lawyer Powell with "coercing" her into lying, and 2) denied she had told the FBI that she had been...