Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Twelve hours behind schedule, WHRB-FM began broadcasting at 8 p.m. last night. After a delay of more than the prescribed 10-day waiting period, official notice of program test authority arrived from the FCC in Washington...
...complications began when WHRB-FM moved its antenna to the top of the new Holyoke Health Center. The FCC granted permission to construct a new tower last July, but the installation was not finished until the second week in September...
...XERF. just across the Rio Grande from Del Rio. Texas. XERF's transmitter boasts 250,000 watts, five times more than any U.S. station is permitted, and it can even be heard across the Canadian border. Moreover. XERF is gloriously free of the restrictions that the FCC puts on U.S. stations. Such a setup seems made to order for huckstering baubles, panaceas-and marked-up thingumabobs that cannot get airspace in the U.S. -and it is. But XERF's prime evening time is given over to what the radio trade calls the schlockm'misier (from schlock...
This testimonial to the absurdity of TV ratings was given at a special FCC hearing in Manhattan. The commission was collecting the views of "a number of persons who are actively engaged in the creation, production, writing, casting, sale and licensing of programs." Their recommendations were not revolutionary-tighten licensing requirements, weed out the Madison Avenue orchids-but the testimony was considerably more entertaining than most TV fare...
...test the potentialities of pay TV. Zenith got FCC permission to conduct a three-year test in Hartford, Conn. The experiment has been stalled by lawsuits brought by local theater owners, but Wright hopes to be able to push on with it within nine months. If the Hartford test is successful. Zenith will be in the enviable position of holding patents for the nation's first proven system of over-the-air transmission of pay TV to private homes...