Word: fcc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...With the FCC's decision, jubilant CBS hoped that the color war was over and that profits could be reaped. Sponsors were eager to underwrite color programs; more than 50,000 requests for tickets to the first week of demonstrations had poured in. On the executive 20th floor of CBS's Manhattan office building there were happy visions of $50 million or so in royalties as CBS-licensed color sets streamed from the nation's assembly lines...
Then RCA counterattacked. RCA's Board Chairman David Sarnoff, no man to break away from any fight, denounced the FCC decision as "scientifically unsound and against the public interest," ordered battalions of RCA lawyers, publicity men and engineers into the fray. In Chicago, Sarnoff stopped the CBS victory march dead in its tracks by getting a federal court order suspending the FCC decision until three judges can pass on its merits (TIME, Nov. 27). In practice, this means that CBS may telecast in color, but only at its own expense. Until the court decides, no CBS color programs...
...answers to the other questions, the TV fan has to wrestle with the six-syllable words "compatibility" and "convertibility." Around these words swirled the fiercest arguments of the FCC hearings...
...witness stand, CBS President Stanton offered to withdraw his system if a really workable compatible system could be developed. The FCC has given RCA good marks for compatibility. The trouble, as FCC sees it, is that RCA's color is not good enough...
...system stumbles over convertibility. Though it claims to have a workable converter, RCA will not estimate its possible price. The FCC "First Report" states flatly that "no practical [RCA] converter was demonstrated at any of the demonstrations on the record...