Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long last, the grand paladins of television confronted their tormentor, FCC Chairman Newton ("Wasteland") Minow, as the FCC last week came to the scheduled closing round of its three-year investigation of television. First man to step up to the microphone, according to the script, was to be CBS's suave President Dr. Frank Stanton. But in a prologue that could turn into a theme, the FCC first put on the stand one of its economists, Dr. Hyman H. Goldin, who in staggering detail spun out the story of network TV's rich growth from earnings...
...rest of the week's performance, the elaborately polite principals acted as if that bristling question had never been suggested. Playing Alphonse, Minow was full of assurances that the FCC is only an interested monitor and does not want to take an active hand in network programming, and he added ceremoniously that "this is the way it should be in a free society. We are determined that it shall so remain...
Looking something like Jack Paar. the FCC's Chief Counsel Ashbrook P. Bryant roamed about with a microphone around his neck, seeking truth. What about sponsor control? How about all those pressures and taboos? "Flyspecks," said CBS-TV President James T. Aubrey. "Completely insignificant." Why did Playhouse go-probably the best dramatic show in TV's brief history-disappear from the air? Because, said Stanton, the audience "became much smaller than we thought it should be." In television a few million viewers are not enough...
Next week it will be NBC's turn, and after that ABC. Then the FCC, which has already collected some 10,000 pages of testimony in its various hearings, will produce a written report to the Administration with proposals for legislation. Beneath all of the politeness at the hearings, the blunt issue is government regulation of network practices...
...will be an asset when the time comes to renew their license with the Federal Communications Commission. The complete futility of expecting even these benefits from subscribing to the NAB Code is shown by the fact that some stations presently subscribing to the Code are under investigation by the FCC because of complaints brought by local citizens' groups...