Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FCC warned the movie industry that it might face restraint of trade charges unless it stopped...
...decision this week the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the CBS system of color TV (TIME, Dec. 4). In upholding the approval given to CBS color last October by the FCC, the court rejected RCA's charge that the FCC was "arbitrary and capricious" in rejecting RCA's own color system. Crowed CBS President Frank Stanton: "Color television will sweep the country just as fast as sets can be produced...
...deal has still to be approved by FCC and the stockholders of both companies; it will probably be months before it is finally okayed. If all goes well, Goldenson will combine ABC's 294 affiliated stations with Paramount's 950 theaters (600 wholly owned, 350 partly owned), in a new colossus of the U.S. entertainment industry...
...Washington, the Federal Communications Commission decided that Hollywood's refusal to let TV use its top box-office films, or its name stars for guest appearances, sounded suspiciously like monopoly and restraint of trade. The plain implication: unless Hollywood relented, FCC would be forced to rule against movie producers' applications for new TV stations. Harry Brandt, the outraged president of the Independent Theater Owners Association, promptly charged that FCC was trying to "blackjack the motion-picture industry into committing hara-kiri...
...FCC plan will not go into effect immediately. In May the TV industry will be asked to discuss the plan in open hearings, and on the basis of those talks FCC will make its final decision. Still unresolved and due to be fought out: 1) what place color TV will have in UHF; 2) how close together the new transmitters can be placed; 3) what adjustments will be necessary so that existing sets can receive UHF telecasts; 4) whether educators or the TV industry will settle for the proposition that 10% of the new stations be restricted to noncommercial...