Word: fcc
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...decision this week by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to rescind many of the regulations on radio stations will not affect WHRB's programming, but will greatly reduce the station's paperwork, Nancy I. Kalow '82, WHRB programming director said yesterday...
...FCC voted 6-1 to delete maximum limits on commercials and minimum percentage requirements for news and public affairs programming. The commission also dropped the requirement that station's keep detailed program logs...
...FCC's decision does not affect other FCC requirements, such as obeying the fairness doctrine and equal time standards, serving the public interest, Martin Blumenthal, an FCC spokesman said yesterday...
...Falwell and Co., this looks like an election-eve attempt to stir a religious backlash against Reagan. But Lear, a contributor to John Anderson's campaign, denies partisan intent. PAW involves a wide assortment of public figures both secular and spiritual (among them: Editor Norman Cousins, former FCC chairman Newton Minow, Notre Dame President Theodore Hesburgh, Ecumenical Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, President M. William Howard of the National Council of Churches). PAW, moreover, is only one of several groups. Similar alarms have been sounded in recent weeks by the bishops of the Episcopal Church, Lutheran and Baptist lobbyists in Washington...
...upheavals at AT&T, though, are hardly over. The FCC has ordered the company broken down into two parts by March 1982, but the giant firm claimed that such a deadline was virtually impossible. Said the company in a petition to the commission: "This will be one of the largest corporate reorganizations ever carried out." AT&T's restructuring plan will not be totally carried out for about eight years. The FCC did not say last week whether it would give the company more time. Meanwhile, a computer industry trade group representing more than 50 companies that are fearful...