Word: fcc
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...critic was Newton N. Minow, 35, new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and his audience was the National Association of Broadcasters' convention in Washington. Accustomed to a mild FCC that never interfered with programing, the TV owners and operators were more deeply shaken by Minow's blast than they had been by the quiz scandals or anything else in TV history...
...Bridge the Gap. While promising that there would be no censorship, Minow announced that the FCC will no longer automatically renew the licenses of stations that insist on lowest-common-denominator programing. In the future, the agency will hold public hearings on stations whose performance has not measured up to their promise to offer a diversified output. "For those few of you who really believe that the public interest is merely what interests the public," said
UNIFIED SPACE PROGRAM for a satellite communications system may be authorized by FCC, A.T. & T., RCA, G.E. and International Telephone & Telegraph want to experiment, but FCC is investigating whether they should form a combine...
Appearing before the Senate Commerce Committee prior to his confirmation as chairman of the FCC, Chicago Lawyer Newton N. Minow, 35, enunciated a television creed to build a dream on: "I will work toward more wide-open spaces between the westerns and more public affairs instead of private eyes...
...official of the Bureau said that WHRB "didn't seem to understand the problem" when he reported the complaint to them. The head of the FCC in Boston, however, yesterday explained that the difficulty is experienced by many people who use phonographs or tape recorders in the vicinity of radio transmittors...