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...spokesman for the Federal Communications Commission said yesterday that Cambridge radio station WCAS will probably not switch to religious programming if the FCC grants a public hearing on the sale of the station...
Carol Foelak, attorney for the FCC, said yesterday in Washington that if a hearing is scheduled, Family Radio Inc. will probably bow out of ownership instead of facing a long court battle...
...FCC announced last week that it will decide within 90 days whether to grant a hearing on the case...
...Other Side. NBC is obviously worried that the FCC decision, if upheld, will doom investigative reporting on the air. "There is no documentary," network lawyers argue, "dealing with and exposing any social problem to which the reasoning of the [FCC] staff opinion could not apply." Lawyer Floyd Abrams, who is representing NBC, says that the FCC "is moving into the newsroom more than ever before." Charges Executive Producer Reuven Frank, NBC news president at the time the documentary was shown: "If this were a rule, it would mean that television news must never examine a problem in American life without...
...FCC disagrees in its commission report: "The issue is not whether NBC or any other licensee or network is free to deal with an issue as it sees fit, but whether it may constitutionally be required to present the views of others who may see the issue from a different perspective." It says that NBC is not obliged to air an hour program on happy pensioners, only to offer defenders of the system the "reasonable opportunity" to speak demanded by the fairness doctrine. As an FCC spokesman puts it: "It's a simple fairness-doctrine case...