Word: fcc
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After eight months of hearings and three more of a process that the bureaucrats call deliberating, the Federal Communications Commission handed down a semifinal decision on color television. Like many FCC decisions, it proved an enigma wrapped in federalese and tied with red tape...
...FCC decided it liked the partly mechanical CBS color system better than its all-electronic competitors made by RCA and Color Television, Inc., of California (TIME, Nov. 28 et seq.). But RCA and CTI, or any other hopefuls, were told they still had three more months to prove they could outperform the CBS system...
Turning to set manufacturers, FCC suggested that they get right to work turning out sets that, at least, could pick up CBS color telecasts in black & white. As a prod for the reluctant manufacturers, who are having trouble making enough sets for the current market, FCC hinted that if the manufacturers' response is lukewarm it might make a final decision in favor of CBS next month...
Both CBS and RCA have been waiting more than a month for the Federal Communications Commission to decide whether it will authorize color television. This week CBS gave FCC a nudge, announced that it will offer color television for industrial and scientific uses, over closed telephone lines which are not involved in the color decision...
McDonald has FCC permission to make a three-month test in Chicago this fall of Phonevision (TIME, May 1). His gadget, inexpensively hooked onto a TV set, would enable the home viewer to order movies by telephone, at $1 each, for his living-room screen. The fee, charged on the monthly phone bill, would be split among the movie producer, the TV station and the phone company...