Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...salesmen, doctors, businessmen, housewives-just about everyone." Unlike "ham" radio, which calls for considerable expertise and costs at least $700 for a good set, a CB unit takes no more skill to operate than a telephone and costs only about $120. No exam is needed for the $4, FCC-required CB license, but only a minority of buyers bothers to get one in any case...
...Family tune is a cynical compromise reached by the FCC and the networks to deflect mounting protests, in and out of Congress, about the rising tide of TV violence. Criticism peaked last fall when NBC aired at 8 p.m. a seamy story (Born Innocent) about a rebel teen-ager who was raped with a broom handle. With a glow of virtue, the networks "voluntarily" agreed to police themselves with their own censors and wrote into the National Association of Broadcasters' television code what amounts to a rule clearly intended to ban sex and violence from the air between...
...FCC has not yet had to test its cross-ownership rule, but the Star is, to put it mildly, a special case. For one thing, the paper is the capital's only alternative to the fat, influential and steadfastly liberal Washington Post (circ. 536,000). For another, the Star is in the middle of a remarkable transformation. Allbritton, 50, took over the paper last September with a $5 million payment to descendants of the Adams, Kauffmann and Noyes families that have owned it since 1867, plus a $5 million loan to the paper. He brought in James Bellows...
...dropped 3% since Allbritton took over, and recession-hit 1975 advertising revenues are down 11% from last year. According to the purchase agreement, Allbritton can pull out of the deal at any time and get back his $5 million loan. He has carefully avoided threatening to withdraw if the FCC refuses to give him relief, but he would have little incentive to suffer Texas-size losses. In the absence of any other acceptable buyer, the Star's owning families could elect to fold it and live off broadcasting...
...word in Washington last week was that FCC members may order public hearings before they rule. Further delay, however, may be the last thing the cash-starved paper needs. Still, Jim Bellows does not think his Star will fall. Says he: "There are enough people in this area who don't move their lips when they read to support two quality newspapers." Breslin is also cheering hard. "Things are changing here," he told TIME Correspondent Arthur White. "The editorial policy no longer sounds like it was written by Jefferson Davis' press secretary. The morale is good. People work...