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...control of the company. "I know Ted very well," Malone says. "His life-style is such that he doesn't want to be in there running anything. Jerry is king. We're giving him the power to be a really strong CEO." Because Malone controls a huge cable system, FCC rules bar him from controlling more than 5% of the voting stock of another system--Time Warner's. (The rule has been struck down in one court, but Malone is abiding by it anyway). In a move some analysts consider the most dramatic part of the deal, he gave control...
...under the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission, which enforces, among other rules, the injunction against using the famous seven dirty words on the radio. In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, respondents were sharply split on the issue: 42% were for FCC-like control over sexual content on the computer networks; 48% were against...
...Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said. Viewers probably won't notice any difference. The ruling doesn't apply to the cable television, which parcels out most of the material in question. And over the airwaves, nearly all shows now scheduled in the forbidden timeframe meet FCC standards of decency...
...governing radio and television broadcasting, the Federal Communications Act of 1934, gives broadcasters free and exclusive use of broadcast channels on condition that they serve the "public interest, convenience and necessity." Because the act did not define what the public interest meant, Congress, the courts and the fcc have spent 60 frustrating years struggling to figure it out. To me the answer is clear. The public interest meant and still means what we should constantly ask: What can television do for our country, for the common good, for the American people? Most important, I believe, the public interest requires...
Until recently, however, broadcasters ignored the law. After researchers discovered that stations throughout the country were claiming cartoons and old episodes of Leave It to Beaver and The Jetsons met the law's requirements, the fcc began a proceeding to make them clean up their act. There are more good children's television shows today than there have been in more than a decade, but even now 60% of the programs broadcasters claim meet the minimal requirements of the Children's Television Act air between...