Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal Communications Commission has begun an inquiry into the operations of closed-circuit college radio stations-a move which FCC critics charge is aimed at gaining closer control over the content of the stations' programming...
...bert, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, filed an official complaint with the Federal Communications Commission, charging that the documentary's producers misleadingly edited film in order to disparage the Pentagon's publicity effort (TIME, April 5). Representative Harley Staggers not only complained to the FCC but also threatened to open an inquiry by his Special Subcommittee on Investigations. The Washington Post, though praising the import of the documentary, published two more lengthy editorials, again challenging the film's production techniques and accuracy. Not surprisingly, CBS News President Richard Salant saw the Government attack...
...encore when the series deals with King George III. But the next confrontation, tentatively scheduled for September, will feature either Firebrand Samuel Adams or "Washingham" himself. CBS hopes to land Richard Burton to play Adams, George C. Scott as Washington. Sevareid will do the interrogating again, though under the FCC "Fairness Doctrine" the British Empire might properly demand that he be replaced by David Frost...
...Schenkel extolled the charm of "the Moravian settlement" in the heart of "the rolling hills of North Carolina." Wallace Carroll, publisher of the Winston-Salem Journal & Sentinel, asked the Federal Communications Commission if his city was henceforth to be known as "Blip-Blip." William B. Ray, chief of the FCC's broadcast complaints division, jokingly replied that the capital of the state (Raleigh) might be known as "simply 'Blip'-after the English explorer, Sir Walter Blip." NBC officials have instructed their Broadcast Standards Department to watch for any reference to cigarettes that would violate the spirit...
...prizes and promotion and plans a "parade of stars," including Miss Winston Cup, who will ride around the track in a specially-built "Winston red" Mercury. Lorillard is buying commercials on closed-circuit TV screens scattered around major horse-race tracks. Closed-circuit TV is not regulated by the FCC...