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Last week's FCC ruling could spur a move in Congress to deregulate both cable and broadcast...
...regulatory climate is turning more favorable for cable operators too, after many years during which the Federal Communications Commission almost strangled the industry's growth by severely restricting the number of signals that cable operators could transmit. The FCC began to ease up in 1972, and last week it took a long further step: the agency's commissioners voted 6 to 1 in favor of a proposal to allow cable operators to pick up signals from as many distant broadcast-TV stations as they wish. Currently, there is in most cities a limit of two-so that...
...Kermit might say. The Muppets did guest appearances for everyone who had air time, and were well established by the time Sesame Street took form. Henson had everything except his own series, and this the networks refused to provide unless it was aimed strictly at children. Finally the FCC opened the 7:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. slot to local programming suitable for both children and adults, and HA! bypassed the networks by signing an extraordinary deal with Lord Grade's ACC group: 24 shows a year, international syndication, a healthy budget and complete artistic control...
Housed in a basement office underneath Sanders Theater, WHRB boasts a collection of some 30,000 record albums and a total staff of about 100 people. It is one of only seven college stations in the country that owns its own licence. (The FCC, says Barol, is rather stingy about dispensing licences because it wants to avoid interference between stations operating at frequencies too close to one another...
...mask for a face, clothes-dryer exhaust hoses for arms, rubber gloves for hands and a firm, manly handshake. He is remote-controlled by FM radio signals (there is a microphone in his control panel and a speaker in his head). Skora, in fact, had to apply for an FCC license to ensure that commands to Arok would not be competing with Led Zeppelin or the 1001 Strings for air waves...