Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congress 87 years ago to bring the freewheeling railroad barons into line, the regulatory agencies have proliferated by the score into today's alphabet soup. In 1920, Congress set up the Federal Power Commission (FPC) to watch over the burgeoning hydroelectric industry; in 1934, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to monitor the new radio industry; in 1938, the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) to police the airlanes; in 1946, the Atomic Energy Commission...
...Connor's three-night burst of invective, which must be a bizarre first for television news, was the high point of an incestuous melodrama starring the crusty silver-maned commentator, Illinois politicians, station and network executives, the FCC and a couple of public-spirited wives...
Sagan complained to WMAQ executives, who offered him rebuttal time. Instead of accepting, Sagan filed a formal protest with the FCC. The complaint was dismissed by the commission's staff, and the issue seemed dead...
Sagan was not ready to quit. He appealed to the FCC, asking for a reversal of the staff finding. During the summer, NBC lawyers in Washington began negotiating with Sagan's lawyers to give the publisher ah-time acceptable to him if he would drop his formal complaint...
Cable companies unanimously do not want to assume censorship responsibility. Says a spokeswoman for New York's Manhattan Cable TV: "It is not our channel; it is the public's channel." But many operators would like some sort of community-review system to try to implement the FCC'S obscenity clause...