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...Solon, wise beyond quibble. During the four hours of prime TV time from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. (E.S.T.), the networks would be allowed only three hours, with the remaining time reserved for local stations. The local stations would be forced to come up with their own programming, the FCC reasoned, and hitherto untapped creative energies would be released. Said Commissioner Nicholas Johnson when the rule was announced: "I think television ought to be like a typewriter that's available to everyone...
...company another $23 million. Under a new hiring policy, the company will try to hire enough men to make up 10% of the operators' force and 25% of the clerical staff. As part of the agreement, the EEOC will withdraw its discrimination charges against the company before the FCC...
...screenings of two Maude episodes on CBS-TV, the show has been assailed for its humorous (and sympathetic) treatment of abortion and vasectomy. The most prominent critic so far is St. Louis' John Cardinal Carberry, who wrote to CBS Executives William Paley, Frank Stanton and Fred Silverman-and FCC Chairman Dean Burch-last month. Mass media have an obligation to treat controversial subjects, the cardinal conceded, but Maude "injected CBS-TV as advocate of a moral and political position that many not only oppose but find positively offensive as immoral." In any case, Carberry wrote, the themes were...
...since cable signals do not travel through the air or across state lines, local governments can still claim jurisdiction. The FCC has not yet asserted absolute control over cable TV (though it is moving in that direction...
...WITH THE FCC ALREADY in its pocket, the interest groups would like to prevent the Mass. Cable Commission from taking up any of the important issues facing the industry. They will be perfectly satisfied to have cable TV take the same road as broadcast TV preserving the status quo and their profits...