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...long deplored TV's "discouraging degree of sameness." Commission investigators have been busy pinpointing the power over TV programming held by what the industry calls "the three men": ABC's Tom Moore, NBC's Bob Kintner, and until last week, CBS's Jim Aubrey. The FCC's Draconian cure: divest the big three of half their prime programming time (7-11 p.m., E.S.T.), hand the task over to sponsors and independents...
...rejoinder, the FCC claimed that "the great diversity among advertisers should equate with the diversity in audience taste." As the FCC's 1962 report indicates, "a willing advertiser who does not rely entirely on mass circulation finds it difficult to persuade [rating-obsessed] network managers to place his program in a desirable time period...
Having originally hoped to promulgate the new rule last week, the FCC at the last minute delayed it for perhaps another fortnight. And even when the regulation is issued, the networks will be given several years to appeal and adapt. But as one network vice president said last week, "Just talking about it could take dollars off our stock...
...Justice Department, where he cleaned up its seamy, scandal-ridden investigative division and established "that monument to bureaucratic endeavor-a central fingerprint file." In the course of his career, Hoover has regularly exaggerated the FBI's accomplishments, writes Kraft. But why not? All federal bureaus, from the FCC to the Reclamation Bureau, do the same. While Hoover has a reputation for being his own boss, he is shrewd enough always to cultivate close relations with the man in the White House-Republican or Democratic. "That explains the flowers sent to Walter Jenkins when he first entered the hospital...
Some of the clergymen who asked the FCC to deny Mclntire's seminary a broadcasting license seemingly felt ill at ease. "I must confess that in the interest of fairness this man's point of view should be heard," wrote the Rev. Manuel C. Avila Jr. of the Springfield, Pa., Baptist Church. But Avila thought that Mclntire should not have the right to control the entire broadcasting content of a station. The complaints say that Mclntire is grossly biased and twists facts, but the FCC notes that he offers the individuals he attacks time on his programs...