Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year after he told the National Association of Broadcasters that they were the overlords of a "vast wasteland," FCC Chairman Newton Minow stood before the same group in Chicago last week. "My speech last year ran about 6,000 words," he said. "Only two of those words seem to have survived. All of you know the two words I mean-public interest" The broadcasters chuckled manfully...
...without bringing more in, could thank him for the new prestige and new power they enjoy within their companies. Though he has to make do with rhetoric when he cannot compel reform, Minow, 36, a onetime law partner of Adlai Stevenson, has exercised greater influence over broadcasting than the FCC has ever shown before...
...whatever the practicalities, television prefers another image of itself as a high-minded public service. And slowly, the feeling got around that Ollie Treyz had become a poor front man. When FCC Chairman Newton Minow talked darkly about the TV wasteland, no one doubted that he viewed Treyz as the chief waster...
...Federal Communications Commission should be authorized to prescribe that new television sets be equipped to receive both UHF (ultra-high-frequency) and VHF (very-high-frequency) signals-an idea obviously inspired by FCC Chairman Newton Minow. Most sets receive only the twelve-channel VHF stations. UHF can deliver as many as 70 channels, and Minow's argument is that more channels will encourage development of more educational and commercial programming...
While the FCC is trying to irrigate American culture in the "wasteland" of television, the Post Office is threatening to kill it off where it has long flourished, in the little magazines. If the Senate approves the general postal rate increase urged by Postmaster General J. Edward Day--the House has done so already--many small journals will be faced with the choice of merger or extinction...