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...what are these but minor objections compared to the ABC "Political Obituary of Richard Nixon," which saw Alger Hiss himself displaying the unbelievable presumption of sitting in judgment of Mr. Nixon. As Senator Thomas Dedd of Connecticut, a liberal Democrat, commented in a protest telegram to ABC and the FCC, "It seems to me incredible that millions of viewers who tuned in to see a Veterans Day program about our armed forces should have been treated to the spectacle of a distinguished American public servant being vilified by a convicted perjurer." Yet Mr. Schwarts can find no fault with...
...CRIMSON is planning to lodge a formal complaint with the Federal Communications Commission against radio station WMEX for possible violation of FCC regulation...
This-long a favorite dream of FCC Chairman Newton Minow-should eventually relax the stranglehold of big-time commercial television, making room for dozens of new stations, most of them noncommercial. "If we don't expand television," says Minow, "soon we will have unnecessarily few people deciding what larger and larger numbers of people will be seeing. Without UHF we wouldn't get educational stations into more than a fraction of the communities that want and need them...
Handsome Payoff. To FCC Chairman Newton Minow, WFMT has long been a sort of vast tasteland. Chicagoan Minow admires the station because it is making what he calls "a real cultural attack." Its programming is about 80% classical music, and the other 20% includes shows of uniformly high quality, ranging from plays and readings by minor and major poets to heady discussions and adequate but not repetitive news. Most celebrated WFMT character is Studs Terkel, who runs a daily 10-11 a.m. program of literate talk with both itinerant and local celebrities, such as Tennessee Williams and Chicago Novelist Nelson...
Goodbye to all that. By early summer, complete air-ground telephone service is expected to be available to airlines on routes east of the Mississippi and north of Virginia; and within three years, pending FCC approval, 72 transmission stations across the nation should make in-flight telephoning commonplace on U.S. flights...