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...news's content--is dictated by the ratings. But the chief reasons for the news's timidity and sporadic honesty have much more to do with the government, which licenses them, than the ratings. UBS executive Frank Hackett's casual rejoinder to questions about controversial news programming--"The FCC can't do anything except rap our knuckles"--is dangerously misleading. The heads of the three networks fear the government's ability to impinge on their programming far more than they care about their news programs' audience...
...Russians have cut back the Kiev buzz saw's schedule from hours at a time to scattered one-and two-minute bursts. To stem criticism, they are also dodging vital safety service and amateur frequencies. "It's become a cat-and-mouse game," says Douglas Spalt, an FCC treaty branch official. Meanwhile, Western states can do little else about the big noisemaker except ask for cooperation...
...high-volume sales of Citizens Band radios received another boost on New Year's Day, when a Federal Communications Commission ruling that delighted CB bugs went into effect. The FCC authorized the use of 17 more channels to supplement the 23 already crowded by 7.8 million licensed CBers. Although retailing biggies like Sears, Roebuck will gain much from demand for the new, higher-capacity radios, the firm that stands to benefit most is a fast-growing Texas-based chain of consumer electronics stores called Radio Shack...
Real Life. What is one to say? That the kind of corporate shenanigans detailed in Network have public consequences, and that someone - the FCC, those concerned ladies up in Boston - would raise a hue and cry about the odd programming coming out of the tube? That in real life, network executives tend to err on the side of timidity rather than on the side of even innovation, let alone the sort of madcap invention Chayefsky has them endorse here? That realism is fatal to the kind of social-science fiction he has written...
...President Nixon appointed Hooks to the FCC where he was a strong defender of the rights of minorities and women. Though he stood a good chance of becoming FCC chairman during the Carter Administration, he felt that his powers would not in fact be enlarged. Until the N.A.A.C.P. job came along, his chief desire was to return to preaching. Accepting the N.A.A.C.P.'s offer required some soul searching, he concedes, but "it does give me a chance, in the secular sense, to deal with my concern for people. At the FCC, I dealt with institutions." Besides, he adds...