Word: fcc
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...Examination by the FCC of radio and TV license renewal applications, to see whether stations are encouraging health-food quackery by "nutrition commentators" with an advertising...
Horses & Crime. The oat still thrives. CBS's Marshal Dillon (James Arness) now has one solid hour to thicken the air with Gunsmoke; and the imitable Paladin, clearly out to impress the FCC's rootin' tootin' Newton Minow, was reading a Dostoevsky novel during an episode of this year's Have Gun, Will Travel...
...crime shows want to impress Minow too. The FCC chairman thinks television is unfit for human consumption, does he? A cultural slag heap? They'll show him. Result: the cultured, well-heeled flatfoot. Robert Taylor's retooled Detectives (NBC) now wear button-down collars, glen plaid suits, and shoot professorially from the mouth. "A beatnik," said one Taylor gumshoe last week, "is a vagrant with intellectual pretensions.'' ABC's The New Breed celebrates Lt. Price Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and the new, soft-spoken young cops of the Los Angeles Police Department, college men and nearly...
...than ever. Practically all new record releases are available in stereo as well as mono. Stereo tapes, of the four-track variety, are winning a surprising chunk of the recorded music market. But the biggest development since stereo first became commercial in 1957 was the recent approval by the FCC of a system for broadcasting stereo music over FM radio...
Continuing its investigation of TV programing, the FCC summoned representatives of the major advertisers to hearings in Manhattan. With no seeming embarrassment, the big advertisers explained some of the fine points that any TV producer must understand if he is to enjoy their patronage...