Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tolerant toward people or ideas they oppose, a lot of liberal groups want to mute his voice. More than 40 organizations-including the Greater Philadelphia Council of Churches, the N.A.A.C.P., the Philadelphia chapter of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, and the Roman Catholic weekly Commonweal-asked the FCC to ban the sale of radio station WXUR in Media, Pa., to Mclntire's Faith Theological Seminary in nearby Elkins Park, which trains preachers for his American Council of Christian Churches and other fundamentalist churches...
...Ease. Mclntire obtained copies of the letters, which by law became a matter of public record once the FCC received them, and published a selection of them in his weekly Christian Beacon. The FCC thereupon received 900 more letters, 95% of them urging it to grant the broadcasting license to the seminary. The seminary wants to run the station as a commercial enter prise, but would allocate about five hours a day to religious programs, including Mclntire's daily "20th Century
American Telephone & Telegraph Co.has been trying to reach an 8% return on its invested capital for years,but it keeps getting cut off by a Washington operator: the Federal Communications Commission. Last week the FCC announced an annual $100 million reduction in long-distance telephone rates that will decrease A.T. & T.'s rate of return on interstate telephone operations from its present 7.9% to only 7% . A.T. & T.was obviously displeased. Chairman Frederick Kappel termed the reductions "out of step with the Government's efforts to encourage economic growth." But there is little doubt that subscribers will be happy...
...hired Boyden Associates, a management consulting firm, to help in the search, and the names of outsiders reportedly under consideration got an almost daily workout in the New York press. The list seemed endless: McCall's Publisher A. Edward Miller, former Oil Company Executive Raymond D. McGranahan, former FCC Chairman Newton Minow, and Shelton Fisher, McGraw-Hill publication division president. Then last week the Curtis board of directors announced that its search had ended at last. The man had been found right at home...
...greatest communication innovation of our lifetime must not be denied the people through manipulation by vested interests," cried Weaver, promising to seek redress through the Department of Justice, the FCC and Congress. But meanwhile he was through in California. Last week he shut down operations and will soon remove the special adapter boxes from subscribers' sets. Californians had apparently decided that they just were not going to risk the chance of having to pay to listen...