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...incident is the basis for one of many allegations that will be brought against WPIX in the continuing hearing in Manhattan's Federal Building. Several days before the Putzel caper, the FCC says, WPIX ran a scene identified as Prague with the subtitle "Via Satellite" when in fact it was not a satellite transmission but a dusty old film. Another night, a voice report out of Vienna was labeled as Prague. Similarly, the channel stands accused of passing off canned footage of a disturbance in a Boston high school as a later, ghetto riot...
Before the hearing finally adjourns, the station will be under attack as well for the quantity of its news coverage -2% of its air time in 1968, less than any other channel in New York State. Besides the FCC, other complainants allege that 1) WPIX has discriminated against blacks and other New York minorities in hiring, 2) it has made no effort to program for such groups, and 3) from 1963 to 1967 it demanded kick backs or "payola" from some singers...
...radio costs were by far the largest single component of the total. According to reports filed with the Federal Communications Commission, the cost of air time alone in 1968 was $58,888,101. In addition, producing and promoting what appeared on the air cost perhaps another $20 million. FCC figures show that political spending for television and radio quadrupled between 1956 and 1968, though the price of air time increased by only 21 times. In this nonpresidential year, the best-informed but rough guess puts total candidate spending at $150 million, with about $63 million going to the electronic media...
After all, if the FCC has forced the electronic media to carry messages against cigarettes because of the suspected link between smoking and disease and death, why not compel them to admit that war, too, may be injurious to human health...
...week brought another development that may radically change presidential broadcast habits. The Federal Communications Commission handed down an order that networks must give responsible critics of Mr. Nixon's Viet Nam policies a free prime-time forum to rebut his views. The FCC memorandum invoked the fairness doctrine and said that President Nixon's series of five speeches on Viet Nam during a seven-month period tipped the fairness balance by giving undue exposure to "the leading spokesman of one side...