Word: fcc
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...months of hearings, the Federal Communications Commission last week approved a merger of United Paramount Theaters (710 movie houses and one TV station) and the American Broadcasting Co. (15 radio & TV stations, 429 radio & TV affiliates). It was the first time big movie and TV interests have merged, and FCC gave its approval to the new company, to be called American Broadcasting-Paramount Theaters, Inc. In doing so, FCC overruled a preliminary FCC report, which had recommended against the merger on the ground that it was the first step by the movie industry to take over the whole radio...
...Frank Beatty, assistant editor of Broadcasting Publications, Inc., and Sol Schidhause of the FCC testified in regard to the scope of televised professional football yesterday...
Actually, the Baltimore incident was merely one chapter in the story of education and TV. Though U.S. educators may never be ready to take over the 242 channels that the FCC allotted them last year, many have at least begun to take TV seriously. Today go colleges and universities, as well as 65 school systems, produce their own shows. Some recent examples...
...Fred Allen quit radio, muttering: "When people can get listeners by giving away three iceboxes instead of two, this is a silly business anyway." The next year Parks met, and has so far mastered, an even tougher opponent: the Federal Communications Commission. By a vote of 3-1, the FCC banned giveaways from the air (TIME, Aug. 29, 1949). The networks promptly appealed to the courts, where the case still rests. But public apathy was able to do what FCC couldn't: dozens of giveaways, including such big-money ventures as Truth or Consequences and Hollywood Calling, have faded...
Once the Council had the money, the FCC promised to grant them channel 2, one of the two very high frequency channels allocated to the Boston area. The other was opened to commercial bids. The Council, which includes Harvard, five other universities, the Boston Symphony, the Museum of Fine Arts, and the New England Conservatory, hopefully cast about for money. Its first touches were naturally the foundations; all refused, although they still keep the issue under consideration...