Word: fcc
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More important, the FCC gave this advantage to A.T. & T.'s chief rivals- RCA, Western Union International and International Telephone and Telegraph. The FCC ruled that these competitors may go into transatlantic voice communication, offer a combined telephone-teletype service. They will thus break A.T. & T.'s monopoly on transatlantic phone calls. Said an FCC aide about the fortunate three: "They're the little boys, so they deserve the breaks...
...well as thousands of subscribers (the stations use no commercials). The complaints piled up, and when the Federal Communications Commission sat last week to decide whether to grant or renew the licenses of the various Pacifica stations, there was an air of supreme courtsmanship about the judgment. The FCC supported Pacifica and granted the licenses, saying that if it were to throw Pacifica off the air because some people were offended, the Bill of Rights would be violated and, moreover, "only the wholly" inoffensive, the bland, could gain access to the radio microphone or TV camera" thereafter...
Died. Richard Alfred Mack, 54, former Federal Communications Commissioner, who was forced to resign in 1958 over a scandal involving the FCC award of Miami's Channel 10 to National Airlines (Senate investigators charged that he had taken "loans" from National's lawyer), after which his longtime alcoholism reached the point where he was unable to stand trial for fraud, lived his last years in and out of hospitals and on handouts; in Miami, where police found his body in a Skid Row room five to eight days after death, presumably of cirrhosis of the liver...
...When new FCC Chairman E. Wil liam Henry stood before a thousand broadcasters in Manhattan last week, what could he do to be as wastelandish as his predecessor Newton Minow? Since Minow had attacked TV programming, commercials were obviously the largest remaining target. Henry went after them. Citing a recent case in which a disk jockey was told by his station to "play a record between each commercial," Henry told the broadcasters that there are just too many commercials being rammed at the public. He complained about the "bait, hook, switch, and stuff" tactics of late movies, which offer...
...real surprise when ABC announced that Hagerty would now become a vice president in charge of corporate relations for the network's parent company, American Broadcasting-Paramount Theaters, Inc. In that post, he will most likely serve as a spokesman for A.B.-P.T. before Congress and the FCC, where a politician is a politician...