Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just trips a lot over his Italian accent. The remaining replacement series are game shows. The Generation Gap from David Susskind's Talent Associates, pits a team of three teen-agers against a trio of adults. The kids, it turned out, could not identify Eddie Cantor or the FCC. The fogeys didn't know an "axe" (a guitar) from a hole in the ground. Mostly the show just proved that people who appear on such programs have an intelligence gap. Finally, ABC is adding a prime-time version of Let's Make a Deal, the afternoon show...
Last week the FCC delivered what could be the heaviest blow of all. By a 6-to-1 vote, the commissioners ruled that all cigarette advertising should be banned from TV and radio. Whether the FCC really has the power to order and enforce such a ban will be decided ultimately by Congress, and perhaps in the courts. Last week's ruling was the opening shot in what shapes up as an incendiary battle that will carry through 1969 and probably beyond...
Sales Down. The Tobacco Institute, spokesman for the industry, called the FCC's proposed ban "arbitrary in the extreme." A number of Congressmen from North Carolina, Kentucky and other primary tobacco-growing states also raised objections. They had some important economic arguments. Altogether 18 states raise tobacco in significant amounts; millions of Americans are somehow involved in tobacco growing, processing or marketing; cigarettes last year contributed $8.4 billion to the gross national product and $4.1 billion to federal and local taxes. Beyond that are the intricate legal and moral questions of whether the Government has the right to limit...
...Federal Communications Commission has long been concerned with what Commissioner Nicholas Johnson calls "the media barons"-newspaper publishers who also own local TV and radio stations and thus threaten "the free exchange of information and opinion." Last week, in an unprecedented ruling, the FCC denied renewal of the license of Boston's WHDH-TV, which is owned (along with AM and FM radio stations) by the Herald-Traveler Corp. Taking over the CBS-affiliated channel will be Boston Broadcasters Inc., a consortium of 30 Boston businessmen and Cambridge intellectuals...
Explaining its decision, the 3-to-l FCC majority said that "the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources is in the public interest." The philosophy is admirable, of course, but complicated in practice. In many U.S. cities, financially ailing papers only manage to keep publishing because of profitable broadcasting sidelines. The Herald-Traveler is a case in point; in 1967 it gave up its losing afternoon competition with the Boston Evening Globe and concentrated on the morning. But the outcome is still in doubt. Although circulation is climbing, the Herald-Traveler is still lagging behind...