Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parents retreat from the living room when the children's TV shows come on. A group of-dedicated San Francisco mothers did just the reverse: they cooked their family suppers early, then sat down for four uninterrupted hours of watching TV moppet shows. In Washington last week, the FCC published the results. The outraged mothers saw: 13 murders and assorted killings, 14 sluggings, six kidnapings, five holdups, three explosions, three instances of blackmail and extortion, three thefts, two armed robberies, two cases of arson, one lynching, one torture scene and one miscarriage. One mother clocked 104 gunshots during...
...request is technically feasible: an exclusive channel in the ultra-high-frequency wave band over which M.P.A. could televise both movies and public events directly to U.S. theaters. With TV broadcasters mulling over the M.P.A. scheme, FCC slated hearings on it for later this month...
...station WDSU, whose broadcast license was up for a routine renewal. Last year, in a mayoralty campaign, WDSU refused to let Candidate Alvin Cobb make a radio speech because the station's lawyers decided that some of his proposed statements were obviously libelous. The refusal, said the FCC, was a clear violation of the law which requires a station to give radio time to all candidates or none, and forbids any altering of any candidate's speech...
What about libel? The FCC expressed its bureaucratic regrets, but insisted that if a candidate libels his opponent or anyone else, the station must take its chances in court with the libeler. Explained an FCC spokesman: "We can't protect the stations in such instances. Congress has established the law, and the commission is forced to enforce...
...Government's three-year-old freeze on new TV stations, said FCC Chairman Wayne Coy, will probably be lifted within six months. Even then, cities without stations (e.g., Denver, Des Moines, Corpus Christi) will probably not get them built for another year at least-until FCC has had a chance to screen all the applicants. But in five years, the U.S. should have 1,500 TV stations, v. 171 now; in ten years, said Coy, there should...