Word: fcc
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...White House National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane on behalf of a tax break for Puerto Rico, and his participation in a meeting last October with the special U.S. envoy to Canada concerning the acid rain issue. One new area emerged that Seymour might delve into: Deaver's approach to FCC Chairman Mark Fowler last year on behalf of his client CBS during the Ted Turner takeover bid for the network. Deaver says he merely wanted to talk about the timing of a procedural matter...
...identity remains a mystery. Ordinary home dishes are able only to receive signals, not to send them; thus experts think the pirate signal probably came from a TV station or other commercial facility. Wherever the stunt originated, TV executives were not amused. HBO has lodged a complaint with the FCC, threatened to prosecute the pirate and made technical adjustments that it claims will prevent any repeat attack. "He probably thinks this was just a prank," says HBO Vice President David Pritchard. "But the fact is someone has interfered with authorized satellite transmissions." The incident has raised concerns that other satellite...
...finances have suffered continual ups and downs. In 1979, after the Charlotte Observer charged that money ostensibly raised for overseas work was diverted to expenses at home, the FCC held preliminary hearings on stripping Bakker's license to a TV station in Canton, Ohio, then let him sell it to Anti-Communist Crusader Billy James Hargis. Last month the Observer asserted that, during the FCC deliberations, former PTL executives had testified the Bakkers used donations to buy a sports car, a houseboat, a mink coat and other personal perks. Seething, Bakker produced documents to rebut the accusations and called them...
...loose confederation and build the business gradually, first offering perhaps an hour of programming per night. Says one Fox executive: "When you get to the point of selling a few nights of programming a few years down the road, you're looking very much like a network." Concurs FCC Commissioner James Quello: "Whether you call it a network or not, this makes Murdoch one of the major players in broadcasting...
Besides forming the foundation for a network, Murdoch's independent stations already produce plenty of profits. The total advertising revenue among independents has grown from $1.3 billion in 1980 to $2.5 billion last year. An FCC ruling last April is particularly encouraging to Murdoch and other operators of independent TV chains: it allows an individual or company to own as many as twelve independent stations, up from seven. Predicts Lee Isgur, who follows the entertainment industry for the investment firm Paine Webber: "Murdoch will buy more stations as soon as he can finance them...