Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little Pilot Radio Corp. filed suits asking that the FCC order be set aside as "contrary to the public interest." Pilot soon dropped its complaint, to make way for a clear-cut battle between RCA-NBC and the FCC...
...FCC warned that it would "vigorously oppose . . . any injunctive relief to . . . RCA-NBC," canceled NBC's authorization to continue experimental compatible color telecasts during regular broadcasting hours...
...Defending FCC, Chairman Edwin C. Johnson of the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee charged that RCA and its friendly setmakers were on a "sit down strike." Said he: The FCC's order "makes it possible for [people] to have color television if they want it. What is so wrong about that...
Though the court approved the sale, there were still several obstacles. General Tire, which already owns New England's Yankee Network, will also have to get FCC approval to take over Don Lee. Before CBS can buy KTSL, it will also have to get FCC approval and sell its present 49% interest in the Los Angeles Times's competing television station, KTTV. On the off chance that some hitch would develop, Les Hoffman let his bid stand. After last week's surprise, radiomen would not believe that the Don Lee network had been sold until General...
Almost without exception, the major TV manufacturers denounced the FCC decision in favor of CBS. Board Chairman David Sarnoff of RCA labeled it "scientifically unsound and against the public interest." TV Pioneer Allen B. Du Mont snorted: "The decision just says to hell with the people who already own television sets." Pilot Radio Corp. threatened federal court action against FCC because it had "exceeded its jurisdiction." The Radio-Television Manufacturers Association called a special closed meeting on color TV, refused admittance to a CBS representative...