Word: licensees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fundamental disagreement occurs on the issue of what erotica does to the consumer. Critics of the new permissiveness assume as obvious that it is damaging to people, particularly the young, and that it leads to sexual license. But in the age of the in-depth survey and the microscopic sexual...
Burger's decision, reached before he was sworn in as Chief Justice, revoked the license of WLBT-TV of Jackson, Miss., an NBC affiliate. The reason: racial discrimination in programming. The station, owned by the Lamar Life In surance Co., had been accused of permitting racial slurs on the...
About Face. Burger not only specifically ordered WLBT's license "vacated forthwith" but generally scolded the FCC for showing a prejudice in favor of established broadcasters and "profound hostility" to public-interest groups contesting license renewals. "Broadcasters," ruled Burger, "are temporary permittees - fiduciaries - of a great public resource, and...
Even before the Burger decision, the FCC early this year denied a license renewal for Boston's Channel 5 on the ground that the station's ownership by the Boston Herald Traveler created a news monopoly. In San Francisco, KRON-TV has run into license-renewal delays because...
Lap Dogs. Many of the attacks, including that against Mississippi's WLBT, have risen from a common source: the United Church of Christ, a group long active in civil rights work. The Rev. Everett C. Parker, 56, director of the church's office of communications, has not only...