Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FCC attempt to cure the CB pollution of the air waves by allotting more channels [July 26] has the same chance for success as a scheme to cure smog by building more roads...
...Bumper Thumper, Foxy Lady and all the other 5½ million "good buddies" out there in CB-radio country, there is good news from the Federal Communications Commission. Starting Jan. 1, the FCC will open 17 more channels (raising the total to 40) to the towering babel of the citizens, and may add still more in the future. New sets will be needed to use the added air waves, but for those who stick to their current models, traffic on the now crowded original 23 channels will probably be lightened-for a while...
...forestall further violence, FCC is working to increase the number of available CB channels, while Congress is considering legislation by Ohio Representative Charles A. Vanik that would require manufacturers to install filters on all new TV and radio sets as a shield against RFI. But nature may have the last word. By 1978, increasing sunspot activity may cause atmospheric changes that could interfere with, and sometimes blot out CB transmissions...
...Bulgarian hour. (Only twelve of those hours went to Midnight Blue when it was on.) New York State law specifically states that cable companies carrying public-access broadcasts shall have no say in program content and absolves them from all liability for such content, including obscenity. But the FCC regulations, while also barring content control, provide that cable companies "shall establish rules ... prohibiting the presentation of ... obscene or indecent matter." In addition, New York City, which has the power to franchise further cable expansion, says the cable companies can only censor to conform to the "applicable" law-but does...
...demonstration of a product called "candy pants," in which a woman chewed part of the spun-sugar underpants off a man who was wearing them. Congress or the courts will have to decide whether or not that sort of thing can be allowed within the context of the FCC's goal of "opening new outlets for local expression [and] the promotion of diversity in television" and, if it cannot, who is to be held responsible...