Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FCC...
...first week of hearings, the FCC and CBS had tilted with polite amiability. But it was NBC's turn last week, and NBC Chairman Robert Sarnoff bristled from the start. He began by charging that, for all Newton Minow's protestations, what the FCC obviously sought was Government control of network programming. Nettled and irritated, a couple of commissioners broke in to insist that the FCC had never said any such thing. Later, at his press conference, President Kennedy himself reiterated that the FCC had no intention of "changing the basic relationship which already exists...
...Well, what bill do you think we should have put in?" asked FCC's Chief Counsel Ashbrook P. Bryant...
...virtually none of the same people had bothered to watch the opera and the philosophy lectures that had been broadcast in Pittsburgh that week. One commissioner wanted to know who had watched NBC's Sunday evening summary of the first week of the FCC hearings. Not too many people, Beville grinned-the FCC had been heavily outdrawn by ABC's Maverick and also CBS's Mr. Ed, the talking horse...
...FCC TV Hearings (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). Summary of Newton Minow's nibbles at the networks' top executives and their retorts, as developed during the previous week's testimony...