Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Collection Agency Practices) investigates abuses in poor Washington neighborhoods, collecting affidavits from citizens harassed by bill collectors who pose as lawyers and policemen. TUBE (Termination of Unfair Broadcasting Excesses), charging that many television commercials are deceptive, demands that the FCC monitor commercials before they are shown. PUMP (Protesting Unfair Marketing Practices) accuses gasoline retailers of selling identical gasoline under a broad spectrum of brand names and ratings. SOUP (Students Opposed to Unfair Practices) is pressing the Federal Trade Commission to fine the Campbell Soup Co. for a commercial in which glass marbles allegedly were employed to push soup solids...
...case of the medium getting the message when the FCC received a 900-signature petition from indignant Nassau Bay Texans demanding toll-free service to nearby Houston. Heading the list of signatures was that of Astronaut Rusty Schweickart, followed by those of nine other angered astronauts, members of the Committee on Sane Telephone Service (COSTS). "We find it intolerable," says Mrs. Schweickart, "that in this age of instant communication with men on the moon, we of the space community should be denied basic communications services...
...minutes. Kenneth Cox, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, complained last week that one station, WAGF in Dothan, Ala., shows 41 minutes of commercials in an hour. Since the number of commercials is limited only by a voluntary but unenforceable code of the National Association of Broadcasters,* the FCC feels powerless to cut the clutter...
Sneak It to 'Em. TV stations, expected by the FCC to give a certain amount of viewing time to public-service programming, usually relegate full-length religious shows to the somnolent Sunday-morning hours. A slick, quick spiritual ad, on the other hand, may well win an unsold prime-time minute. Now that Christmas commercials are out of the way and advertising budgets depleted, there may be more religious spots on the air than usual...