Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...future, Teleguide will extend its service to two other hitherto unused New York channels. One will be reserved for special broadcasting of conventions and exhibitions; the other will offer short foreign-language programs telling visitors from abroad how to enjoy themselves in New York. Not covered by FCC regulations, Teleguide will restrict its advertising to 2½ minutes for each 15 minutes of air time. Telad's advertising is subliminally inserted into the running chatter. Sample: the announcer, listing ten Broadway plays, pauses and expands on the one whose producers are paying for the time...
Thus Feiffer himself must have winced during a skit entitled FCC, when the biggest laugh of the afternoon thundered down on an allusion to Robert Welch, that was neither funny nor original. The skit, however, met his demands for fresh commentary, as it turned the Birch Society's rise into the logical extension of Kennedy's plea for a unified, anti-Communist attitude during "this time of crisis...
...FCC completed its investigation of network programming last week, it heard from the American Broadcasting Co., which followed CBS and NBC like a bat boy tagging after Maris and Mantle...
That exchange probably summarized the result of the entire three years of FCC hearings. The FCC, troubled by internal dissensions and all but certain that Congress will not put real teeth into the commission's regulatory powers, will undoubtedly be forced to settle for what Commissioner Frederick Ford calls "regulation by the lifted eyebrow...
Kennedy's only concession to the communications companies was the proposal to create a second issue of common stock-class B-which would be sold only to FCC-approved communications companies. Class B stock would carry neither voting rights nor dividends, but the companies would be able to treat the cost of the shares as capital investments, thus increasing the base upon which their rates to customers is calculated...