Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal Communications Commission (FCC) judge last week revoked the operating license of the University of Pennsylvania's FM radio station because of obscenity violations...
...students operating the station broadcasted "licentious slime and nauseating verbiage, "FCC Judge Walter C. Miller said last Monday...
...more than two years later, the letter campaign has picked up new momentum-so that the FCC has had to add two extra staffers to clear out its clogged mailroom. On an average working day, the postman now carts in some 7,500 antipetition letters-for a total of nearly 5 million pieces of mail...
What really miffs the FCC is that there is no reason for it. In August 1975, eight months after the petition was filed, the FCC summarily denied its requests. Thus the letter writers are flogging an issue that long since died aborning...
...news's content--is dictated by the ratings. But the chief reasons for the news's timidity and sporadic honesty have much more to do with the government, which licenses them, than the ratings. UBS executive Frank Hackett's casual rejoinder to questions about controversial news programming--"The FCC can't do anything except rap our knuckles"--is dangerously misleading. The heads of the three networks fear the government's ability to impinge on their programming far more than they care about their news programs' audience...