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Issues and Answers (ABC. 2:30-3 p.m.). Guest: new FCC Chairman E. William Henry...
Many people think that as FCC chairman, Henry will have an even louder bark than Minow. He speaks dourly of the "discouraging degree of sameness" in network programming and of the "lack of expression of varying tastes, ideas and opinions." And he speaks with the air of someone who intends to try to do something about it. As for Minow's accomplishments, Henry says, "I think there are some green shoots in the wasteland." It might also be said that there is one as chairman of the FCC...
After months of rumor, FCC Chairman Newton Minow resigned last week. He is leaving his job to go back to Chicago as the executive vice president and general counsel of Encyclopaedia Britannica. To replace him, President Kennedy picked E. William Henry, 34, FCC commissioner only since October and now the youngest chairman in the history of the commission...
...accurate, uncluttered view of the universe, radio astronomy needs at least one UHF window that is not blocked by scattered TV chatter. And if the FCC keeps Channel 37 clear of commercial broadcasts in the U.S., the International Telecommunications Union, which meets this fall in Geneva, is likely to do the same for the rest of the free world...
...annual convention of the Na tional Association of Broadcasters in Chicago, President LeRoy Collins declared: "It is incredible that the rating services have not instituted greater changes than they have, with all the indicated faults and weaknesses of their methodologies and services." Addressing the convention next day, FCC Chairman Newton Minow told the broadcasters he hoped the hearings "may encourage you to put more trust in the people and more faith in your own judgments of the public's capacity to respond to the best that is in you. I should hope that sometimes you would cancel the ratings...