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...Zenith Radio Corp. Neither firm expected to make a profit with such a small test market. But both were encouraged enough by the steadfastness of subscribers to continue the experiment. Zenith is working on a more sophisticated decoder with automated billing and has long petitioned the FCC for a go-ahead in other markets. Now, after years of knuckling under to the anti-pay lobby and its friends in Congress, the commission approved more fee-vee, but hesitantly. The authorization will not take effect for six months, pending congressional review. And the new pay-TV charter contains so many safeguards...
...Hedged Go-Ahead. In the first place, under the suggested regulations, pay TV would be restricted to markets where at least four standard stations are al ready operating. As of now, that means 89 cities and about 81% of the U.S. TV households. As for programming, the fee-vee system would not be allowed to bid for TV fare that is now available free. Pay operators, for ex ample, could not in most cases telecast movies more than two years old; or series-type shows with continuing casts; or the latest of any sports event that had been telecast...
Despite the FCC's well-hedged go-ahead, therefore, the future of pay TV is still uncertain, at best. Joseph Wright, board chairman of Zenith Corp., believes that start-up and production of sufficient decoding devices will mean a year's delay between FCC authorization and actual premiere of a new pay channel. And that would be in just one market, perhaps where Zenith maintains its headquarters: the city of Chicago...
...result of De Gaulle's go-ahead, Bercot and Agnelli last week were hard at work trying to iron out details, such as what the "organism's" corporate name should be and where it should be head quartered (perhaps in Switzerland). Still, Bercot, for one, felt confident enough about the outcome to hail the agreement as a purely "European solution" to the threat of American industrial dominance on the Continent...
...coach Seamus Malin '62 and Bruce Johnstone '62 scored in the second period to put the alumni in the lead 2-1. Late in the same period Samuel Thompson '65 capitalized on a Crimson defensive lapse to tally the go-ahead goal. Bill Shaefer '67 added the final alumni goal in the third period...