Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everybody talks a good deal about educational TV, but, in the view of Federal Communication's Commissioner Robert E. Lee, *- nobody seems to do much about it. More than two years have passed since the FCC set aside 242 tax-exempt channels for education, and 195 of them are still going abegging. Is educational TV worth the long wait, or should the unused channels be thrown open to commercial use? By last week Lee's public statements had created enough of a stir to set educators to examining their TV records...
...FCC Act which forbids wiretapping...
...high member of the University Corporation has joined with Clifford L. Alexander '55 in writing to the FCC and praising the work of the station in hopes that WHRB might be helped, if it becomes necessary to seek special permission to exceed the new restrictions...
McElroy explained that WHRB would explore the possibility of becoming a commercial FM station should the news FCC ruling make it reduce present operations. Commission regulations, however, would call for 12 months a year operation under this plan, and McElroy was not certain whether this was possible. He also ruled out the prospect of obtaining an AM broadcast channel for the station or the addition of television facilities...
...Washington, the Supreme Court ended a five-year battle between the networks and the Federal Communications Commission. By a unanimous vote the court, reversing FCC, decided that giveaway shows are not lotteries, and therefore, the networks may put as many of them on the air as they wish...