Word: fcc
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...plans to work eventually for Newsweek changed when the Wall Street Journal hired her in 1974 as a correspondent for their Washington Bureau. The editor assigned her to cover the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and other regulatory agencies, an area in which, House admits, she did not want to become an expert, lest she be condemned to cover it for the rest of her career. She made the best of it by covering the human interest angle of her beat. When the FCC issued a regulation limiting the number of newspapers, television and radio stations a single family could...
...that the viewer neither cares nor notices; but the viewer has never been presented with an alternative. During preparations for the network showing of Close Encounters, Spielberg inquired about showing the movie masked. He says an ABC executive told him flat out that this was impossible, that FCC regulations did not permit...
This is not the case. As an FCC official told TIME, "If I were a licensee, I would not be worried about broadcasting with masking...
...poor and program choices are few, and to city dwellers in areas not wired for cable. "Our primary market will be the nonserved and the underserved," predicts a spokesman for Satellite Television Corp., one of nine companies that have lined up to start the new service, hoping for FCC construction permits within 90 days. Admits William Bresnan, chairman of Group W Cable, a subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric: "They are needed in rural areas we can't reach." Unaffected by the new FCC rules are the large (12 ft.) backyard dishes that can already listen in on a whole variety...
Some of the FCC commissioners were uneasy about the new policy, which makes a slice of the broadcast spectrum available without requiring some kind of community service from the broadcasters. But in the end the seven-member body, led by Reagan-appointed Chairman Mark Fowler, acted unanimously in deciding that it was up to the public, not the commission, to determine what kind of shows should be offered. Indeed, while some new satellite broadcasters say they plan to offer the kind of programming generally available on conventional and cable TV, the satellite-to-home connection could also make the living...