Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reorganization of AT&T is part of the Federal Communications Commission's plan to loosen Government control over the communications industry. Last April the FCC ruled that the phone company could enter the field of computer communications, from which it has been previously barred. But at the same time, Washington required that AT&T separate its new computer operations from its traditional telephone services. The new corporate structure will result in two almost separate companies, one to handle the regulated phone business and Baby Bell to sell the rapidly expanding array of equipment, from picture phones to computers, that...
...another, thereby eliminating, among other things, the need for companies to shuffle bulky reels of electronic tape back and forth between offices by mail or messenger service. But in April the Federal Communications Commission ruled that the restriction was stifling the growth of the entire communications industry. Thus the FCC declared that the company could start offering just about any sort of computer-based telephone service it wished...
Miller's corral full of voices is spacious enough to accommodate Johnson's personal weaknesses. But the superficial treatment of the Bobby Baker scandal, the relationship between the Johnsons' business interests and the FCC and the Tonkin Gulf deception lets L.B.J. off the hook. Miller also fails to reflect strongly enough the extent of the damage caused by Johnson's Viet Nam policy. Eulogistic gloss tends to soften some of the harder truths. Perhaps this is the nature of oral biography. At one point the author notes that "memory is a gentleman." True. But when memory...
...minute the long-awaited FCC decision was announced, broadcast executives began protesting vigorously. A few Congressmen suggested that the action would require a revision of the copyright laws governing TV programs. Said the National Association of Broadcasters president, Vincent Wasilewski: "The FCC is permitting cable systems to use an unlimited amount of broadcast programming for token fees." Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, complained that the ruling allows cable TV to "get what it wants with no permission from the owner...
...FCC Chairman Charles D. Ferris, 47, insists that the action is necessary to make the fledgling cable industry truly competitive. The FCC ruling, unless stopped by court action, will also provide the 17 million cable TV subscribers with a choice of shows that should satisfy even the most compulsive tube addict...