Word: fcc
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...Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ordered the nation's broadcasters to stop airing songs and spoken selections whose lyries tend "to promote or glorify the use of illegal drugs...
Under the order, stations which do not comply may lose their licenses. The five-to-one decision, reached on February 24, was not announced until Saturday. The FCC stated, "In short, we expect broadcast licensees to ascertain, before broadcast, the words or lyrics of recorded musical or spoken selections played on their stations...
Under consideration by the FCC are rulings that would provide for two-way communications through cable TV and a proposal that would limit cable TV ownership to people not involved in the local media. This ruling is significant in that once the investment is made by commercial interests, it heavily tips the scale against future innovation...
...FCC were only to move a little faster, it might well become the closest friend the alternate television movement...
...only opportunity for public viewing of their work is when about thirty people gather in the small downtown Manhattan studios every two or three weeks. But most of the video groups are not in show business. A lot of the work that has been done-work with the FCC-cannot be seen at all. And potentially the most exciting things will not happen until the airwaves are really free for public...