Word: fcc
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...Heartened by reports from the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke, where International Telemeter Corp. is trying toll television (TIME, March 14) in competition with three regular channels from Buffalo and two from Toronto, Chicago's Zenith Radio Corp., in association with RKO General, is asking the FCC for permission to make a similar test in Hartford...
Future Problems. Toll TV's opponents, who tried to convince the FCC that even a test of pay TV must be avoided at all costs, could do little about Etobicoke. The Canadian town is not only outside FCC jurisdiction, but the Telemeter closed-circuit system uses leased cables, not the public air waves. Affirmative results are piling up. Of 13,000 homes that are potential FeeVee customers, close to 4,000 have subscribed (initial fee: $5). New installations of the coin boxes-they fit any standard TV set-are going on at the rate of 100 a day. With...
...topnotch attractions that have been inaccessible to TV so far-opera at the Met, Broadway shows, first-run movies. Sarnoff's dismal prediction, say pay TV's supporters, merely represents a part of the networks' long lobbying against pay TV. Pay proponents have complained to the FCC that the networks have editorialized against them on the air, formulated a phony "grass roots" campaign to impress Congressmen, taunted kids with the prediction that Rin Tin Tin would disappear if pay TV were authorized...
...TEST, first major one in U.S. to be broadcast instead of transmitted over a closed circuit, will be started in Hartford, Conn, on station WHCT, if FCC approves. Operators: Zenith Radio Corp. and the broadcasting subsidiary of General Tire & Rubber...
...been a notable friend of the broadcasting industry. His successor as FCC chairman: Frederick W. Ford, 50, a tough, shrewd West Virginia lawyer, a member of the FCC for three years, a good friend of Attorney General William Rogers, and an advocate of stern new regulations to curb the excesses of the industry...