Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...microwave technique, however, puts TV Cable under the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission-and the FCC recently ruled that TV Cable must delay any network program for up to 15 days whenever requested to do so by the Johnsons KTBC-TV. The FCC has a general rule providing such protection for local stations against competition from microwave importation of outside programs. In this case it rejected the argument that KTBC-TV did not need such protection because it already monopolized all three networks and has a financial interest in Capital Cable...
...control over an industry vital to the American public, A.T. & T. has virtual control of the U.S. itself. Government agencies may be finally realizing the awesome power exercised by this company and taking measures to prevent a further contempt of the democratic free-enterprise system. Thank God for the FCC...
...spoken messages over big bundles of circuits. The commission felt that A.T.&T. had originally priced this fast-growing service abnormally low in order to attract big users. At the same time, the FCC denied A.T.&T.'s request for permission to send printed as well as spoken messages through its own transatlantic cables, but granted that right to international competitors that lease channels within the cables...
...open admission of favoritism for such companies as RCA, Western Union International and International Telephone & Telegraph, one FCC official said: "They're the little boys, so they deserve the breaks...
...forests for the convenience of hunters, offer phones with gentle chimes for those who cannot stand the regular bells. Even former FCC Chairman Newton Minow, a voluble critic of many other institutions, told a Senate committee last year: "Having just returned from Europe, I would say hooray for the phone service you get here...