Word: fcc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unit, which shares its channels with car phones, operates in the 150-megahertz band. It has an output of 25 watts, which makes it normally serviceable within 30 miles of a mobile operator. No matter how distressing the conversation turns out to be, profanity is not advisable. The FCC prohibits swearing, and mobile operators are quick to interrupt when the language turns blue...
...quality programming is a fourth network, run by Washington. Another visiting professor, Lee Rich, TV vice president of the Leo Burnett ad agency, said that there is nothing original or worth watching on the air. He blamed the industry primarily, but thought the government could do more. "The FCC should be taken out and machine-gunned," he said half facetiously at one point. Rich cited particularly the violent Saturday-morning cartoon shows, which he said are "almost as dreadful for kids as the atom bomb." He then admitted that his own agency's clients sponsored two of them...
With that sort of mind-blowing work load, the FCC, according to its critics, has all but given up and become a popsy of the industry it is supposed to regulate. Its ultimate power, the license revocation, is rarely invoked. And when it proposes an industry rule, the commission invariably backs down before implementation. In 1963, it recommended a regulation codifying the National Association of Broadcasters' own gentleman's agreement of 18 minutes' maximum ad time per hour on radio, and 16 minutes on TV. But as soon as the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee began...
Short Circuit. While much of the FCC's impotence can be attributable to congressional and industry manhandling, it is also true that the commissioners themselves have short-circuited their own power. One staff member calls the commissioners "the Magnificent Seven," referring sarcastically to the beleaguered gunfighters in the western movie of that title...
...James Wadsworth, 62, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Robert T. Hartley, 58, nephew of the late Speaker Sam Rayburn; and Lee Loevinger, 54, a former Justice Department trustbuster who barely conceals his contempt for television ("the literature of the illiterate") or for the FCC itself. "I think," he once told a congressional committee, "that there is grave danger that the commission is going to be so busy trying to repress yesterday's technological advances that we will still be working on them by the time they are replaced by tomorrow's technological advances...