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...YORK: Rupert Murdoch outlined Tuesday his plans for a new 24-hour television news channel run by Roger Ailes. Murdoch, the former Australian publishing magnate who launched the Fox television network and has a sizeable television presence in Europe, and partner MCI are fresh from winning an FCC bidding war for direct broadcast satellite television rights in the U.S. Ailes, the former media consultant to Presidents Nixon, Reagan and Bush, resigned last week as president of NBC's successful cable network. "It's a logical place for Ailes to be," says TIME's Richard Zoglin, "especially if Murdoch is serious...
...bolster American firms in a race with Japan to develop a new technology called High-Definition Television. Then hdtv was eclipsed by so-called digital television, which promises extra-sharp pictures and CD-quality sound. The Japanese are barely in the digital race, but the fcc decided to ladle out the frequencies anyway...
...medium like a newspaper, protected from government censorship, or a broadcast medium like TV, whose content is closely regulated by the Federal Communications Commission. Thoughtful members of Congress, led by Washington Republican Rick White, had sought to clarify the matter. A compromise proposed by White would have ruled out fcc oversight of the Internet; it also would have replaced the problematic word indecency with the phrase harmful to minors, a more narrowly defined standard that keeps magazines like Penthouse shrink-wrapped in convenience stores...
...address, Forbes also advocated a return to the gold standard, as well as the elimination of the Department of Commerce and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). In the arena of foreign policy, Forbes stated his support for arming the Bosnian Muslims and enforcing resolutions with NATO air power...
...reputation for tightfisted management, which could mean some job layoffs or restructuring. But the merger shows a real commitment on Westinghouse's part to network broadcasting. Whether or not it will help CBS in the competition with the other networks, we'll just have to wait and see." The FCC decision was unanimous because the five commissioners were satisfied that Westinghouse would make good on its pledge to broadcast at least three hours of educational programming per week...