Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawyers made it plain who had given the pictures to the legislative com mittee. The photostats, they said, were "supplied by Ham Fisher." But when the lawyers for Capp tried to introduce affidavits from document and handwriting experts to prove that the drawings had been doctored, the FCC said no. The matter of the cartoons was closed so that the hearings could get back to the main business...
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...spoke, too. The Columbia network had been "frozen out" of Boston in 1948, and it made a heart-rending plea to the FCC for a chance at the huge profits of a regular VHF channel in Boston. One of Columbia's public-spirited suggestions was to strip Providence of one of its two TV stations: another proposal would have relegated the Boston educational channel to an unusable UHF range...
...When the FCC overruled the CBS suggestions, the Lowell Broadcasting Council went after construction funds with fervor, and dug up more than were really expected. The Fund for Adult Education contributed $150,000; the Filene Foundation added $450,000; and a surprisingly strong Massachusetts Citizens' Committee for Educational Television donated...
Lamb is not worried about his troubles with the FCC, has flatly denied any pro-Communist sympathies. A Republican "until F.D.R. came along, of course," Lamb now claims to be a political independent, campaigned for Dewey in '48 and Stevenson in '52. In his home town, the independent Toledo Blade has been grudgingly inclined to side with him: "Mr. Lamb has always seemed to us to trim his sails to suit his own advantage . . . And we will grant that one has to get up very early in the morning to get the better of him in anything...