Word: fcc
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Early this month RCA launched a new, double-pronged attack seemingly designed to convince Ford that this inherited squabble would be excessively costly to pursue. Though RCA now holds patents on the only color television tube to meet FCC standards. RCA lawyers charged that since 1953 Philco has been conspiring to set up a patent pool that would establish a monopoly position for Philco's own color television equipment. In the process, asserted RCA, Philco plotted to withhold color television from the public until the last dollar was squeezed from black and white sales and sought to undercut public...
Dark Threat. Last week came the second prong of RCA's offensive-an attempt to involve Ford in FCC hearings on license renewal for WRCV. RCA's Philadelphia TV station. Philco. which owned the station until 1953 and wants to get it back, has long tried to convince FCC that because RCA has been involved in a number of antitrust actions, it is not qualified to hold "a grant which must be exercised in the public interest." In rebuttal, RCA last week filed a counterreport reminding FCC that if Philco got the station it would be tantamount...
...themselves into publicly franchised jukeboxes." And, unfortunately, "radio stations do not fade away, they just multiply." To consider everything from a tightening of regulations over radio commercials to a possible moratorium on licenses for new AM stations, he proposed an "informal, face to face, shirtsleeves working conference" between the FCC and radio executives...
Picture Window. Punctuating his message with such quotable slogans as "Man does not live by ratings alone" and "Public trusts are not to be sold like sacks of potatoes," Minow also reviewed the commission's accomplishments in TV during his tenure. The FCC has set up an education branch to help the growth of educational TV. It is pushing for dozens of new channels in the ultra-high frequencies to open up competition and hopefully lift the general quality of commercial television. Experiments in pay TV have been both condoned and conducted. Some 14 stations have been...
With a breakfast-time disquisition on "Stresses Within the Communist Bloc," Washington's WTTG TV last week began to broadcast a series of uncompromisingly erudite lectures on international affairs by professors of New York's Columbia University.* Behind this brainstretching venture, which drew a rare rave from FCC Chairman Newton Minow, stood an unlikely figure: Investment Banker Armand Grover Erpf, 64. In 26 years as a partner in Manhattan's prestigious Carl M. Loeb. Rhoades & Co.. elfinlike Armand Erpf has displayed an uncanny nose for investment opportunities that has led fellow financiers to label...