Word: hundt
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Even FCC chairman Hundt, the most pro-regulation head of that agency in years, seems to be treading lightly around broadcasters on the children's-TV issue, possibly because he lacks support from his fellow commissioners: "I would like the sweet power of persuasion to be the key to success." He might have a receptive audience in Winnetka, Illinois, where members of the Winnetka Alliance for Early Childhood became so concerned over the pervasive negative influence of the Power Rangers that they organized a TV Tune-Out week last winter. Says Winnetka developmental psychologist Jeanne Beckman: "If parents would...
...Efforts to put some regulatory teeth into the Children's Television Act of 1990-- which requires that TV stations air at least some "educational and informational" programming for kids -- are long overdue. FCC chairman Reed Hundt is soliciting comment on several proposals, including one that would require broadcasters to air at least three hours of quality children's fare each week but would allow them to pay other stations -- presumably PBS stations -- to run two of those three hours. Representative Edward Markey, the Massachusetts Democrat who sponsored the 1990 act, has said that the proposal "completely fails children...
...Hundt might have a tougher audience at the Los Angeles headquarters of the Fox network, home of the most popular children's programming in America. Murdoch's Fox Children's Network has virtually all the top-rated shows on Saturday morning, including the Power Rangers, Spider-Man and Eek!Stravaganza. Says Margaret Loesch, president of fcn: "I'm trying to do in our entertainment what I as a parent want broadcasters to do . We are trying to present fantasy. We drive home the point that this is not real, and we tell children not to play karate at home." Some...
Murdoch wrote directly to FCC chairman Reed Hundt, declaring his "personal anguish" at the whole affair. But he backed his tears with bullets. That same day his Washington attorney, William Reyner Jr., also wrote to Hundt, at one point accusing NBC parent General Electric of having engaged "in a pattern of illegal activity, including criminal fraud, antitrust and anticompetitive conduct." He listed a series of examples, including GE's 1992 guilty plea on four counts of fraud associated with a sale of aircraft engines to Israel. These sins, Reyner continued, called into question "NBC's basic qualifications to continue...
...shows) and the networks (which view the rules as an outmoded relic of the days when the networks were the only game in town). The FCC has finally come down on the networks' side. "Broadcast television is doing great against all its competitors," says FCC chairman Reed Hundt. "((The agency)) wants to make sure they have the opportunity to exercise all of their competitive energies...