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...these terms it becomes imperative that the cable TV industry's early growth be structured in such a way as to keep it an "open" medium, and obviously the Federal Communications Commission plays a key role in this. Though the FCC has been moving cautiously in making rulings regarding cable TV, it has in the words of Beryl Korat, editor of Radical Software, been "surprisingly helpful" in keeping CATV open and in fighting the commercial pressures that have made network television what it is today...
...FCC "common carrier" ruling, for instance, puts cable TV in an altogether different realm than network television by visualizing cable service in the same terms as telephone service; i.e., as a common carrier. This ruling precludes the possibility of censorship of any kind. Likewise, the FCC has gone a long way towards guaranteeing the decentralization of cable television by delegating the authority to grant franchises to local municipalities...
Equally significant is the FCC report on programming origination released July 1. In terms of the decentralization of cable TV, the most important of the rulings released in this report is the requirement that all cable stations with more than 3500 subscribers originate their own live cablecasting by April 1, 1971. A spokesman for the FCC says that the ruling is purposely vague about the number of hours of programming and insists the rule will be clarified after a period of experimentation. Moreover, the spokesman says that though the FCC has yet to decide exactly what will constitute programming...
Under consideration by the FCC are rulings that would provide for two-way communications through cable TV and a proposal that would limit cable TV ownership to people not involved in the local media. This ruling is significant in that once the investment is made by commercial interests, it heavily tips the scale against future innovation...
...FCC judges the complaint to be valid, a formal hearing may be held, or action might be put off until WHRB's license comes up for renewal. As of last night WHRB had heard nothing from the FCC...