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...last week, seven of the nation's most powerful education associations* had banded together in a Joint Committee on Educational Television, engaged Brigadier General Telford Taylor, U.S. prosecutor at the Niirnberg trials, to argue their case before the FCC. The Joint Committee's demands: 1) at least one television channel (in the current very high frequency band) in each large city exclusively for educational use; 2) 20% of the channels in the ultra high frequency band, if & when these channels are opened up for television...
...Washington this week, as the educators went before the FCC, they were not yet ready to say just how they would run or finance their TV channels if they got them. All they were after right now, in General Taylor's words: to "see to it that commercial television does not pre-empt all the television channels and thus 'freeze out' the educators...
...FCC was expected to listen to the argument with sympathy, take the whole proposition under study...
...contending that the FCC order was invalid and would cause "irreparable damage" to the TV industry and the public, asked a three-judge federal court in Chicago for an injunction. After two days of hearings, the judges issued a temporary restraining order against CBS to take effect while they studied the evidence. Said...
...remedy the basic defect of the system you adopted, namely, its total inability to receive any picture whatsoever on the 9,000,000 sets outstanding . . . today." t With that off his chest, Folsom went right ahead with his and Pilot Radio Corp.'s suit to stop the FCC from enforcing its color decision. Then he found a new ally. Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp. filed a parallel complaint with RCA's suit-which a Chicago court will hear this week...