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...grownups are opening new fronts in the wars for dollars and youthful minds. Incensed by plans for a Fox network cartoon series that would star Chester Cheetah, a pitchman for Frito-Lay's Chee-tos snacks, Action for Children's Television and six other groups last week asked the FCC to bar the program. While Fox said it will not show spots for Chee-tos during the series, ACT said the program itself would amount to a commercial and would violate FCC rules that require the strict separation of advertising and entertainment fare...
...FCC, prodded by its chairman, Alfred Sikes, has proposed a more sweeping set of rules -- which it may enact later this year -- allowing phone companies to provide a "video dial tone" that would allow people in effect to attach their television sets to their phone lines and call up shows they want to watch...
...same time, cable operators, such as Cox Cable, Comcast and Continental Cablevision, have received permission from the FCC to develop a new "wireless" telephone service...
...documentary on rock music? A "pro-social" cartoon like Captain Planet?) Squire Rushnell, the former head of children's programming at ABC and now a producer of kids' shows, is pessimistic. "Until there is an impetus from the White House that would create a snowball effect with the FCC and on down, nothing is going to really happen...
...able to demand that the phone company automatically block their numbers from being displayed at any time. The conflict may have to be resolved in the courts or Congress. The Senate has before it a bill that would permit the per-call restrictions proposed by the FCC. The House is considering a version that would allow the broader limits favored by some states. Telephone-company executives expect the two measures to be reconciled by the end of the year...