Word: fcc
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...Even FCC chairman Hundt, the most pro-regulation head of that agency in years, seems to be treading lightly around broadcasters on the children's-TV issue, possibly because he lacks support from his fellow commissioners: "I would like the sweet power of persuasion to be the key to success." He might have a receptive audience in Winnetka, Illinois, where members of the Winnetka Alliance for Early Childhood became so concerned over the pervasive negative influence of the Power Rangers that they organized a TV Tune-Out week last winter. Says Winnetka developmental psychologist Jeanne Beckman: "If parents would...
Despite years of efforts by parents, educators, children's-TV activists, and occasional FCC commissioners and members of Congress, the forces of commercial television are overwhelming the true believers in quality children's programming. Peggy Charren, founder of the now defunct advocacy group Action for Children's Television, says, "There are more choices than when I began act 27 years ago because of cable and the vcr, but broadcast television has just gotten worse. What's so sad is that's all that's available to poor children, and they are the ones who need the most help." Newton...
...Efforts to put some regulatory teeth into the Children's Television Act of 1990-- which requires that TV stations air at least some "educational and informational" programming for kids -- are long overdue. FCC chairman Reed Hundt is soliciting comment on several proposals, including one that would require broadcasters to air at least three hours of quality children's fare each week but would allow them to pay other stations -- presumably PBS stations -- to run two of those three hours. Representative Edward Markey, the Massachusetts Democrat who sponsored the 1990 act, has said that the proposal "completely fails children...
RUPERT MURDOCH FCC says his foreign vs. domestic holdings hold no conflict...
However, the report openly condemned Fox's March 1994 response to a commission query requesting that Murdoch disclose exactly how much of the original TV stations' equity News Corp. owned. Murdoch's lawyers replied that the matter was "immaterial," prompting the FCC to repeat the request. Only then, and for the first time ever, did Fox explicitly disclose that News Corp. owned 99% of the Fox stations. Fox's attorney stated that even though the company had never disclosed this before, the overall level of ownership "has always been recognized." But the commission disagreed and blasted the attorney for trying...