Word: minow
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Almost everyone but Newton Minow and a small group of diehards have stopped expecting new Shakespeares, or even new Jean Kerrs, to come popping out of the tube. Occasionally, TV specials do dart guiltily into advanced culture, like the flashlights of burglars in the Metropolitan Museum. Prodded by Minow, the industry has raised its public affairs programming to an admirable level, as was evident last week from Oxford, Miss., to Cape Canaveral. But people who really care about TV-the ones who habitually watch it-are devoted to the weekly programs that contain the real stuff of television...
Barry Goldwater is many things to many people: a bugaboo to the liberals, a savior to the conservatives, and a man of parts to the compilers of biographies. But no one ever thought of him as a TV critic -until last week. Aware that Newton Minow got a lot of acreage simply by calling TV a "vast wasteland," Goldwater rared back his onager at a Greek-American dinner in Chicago and let the rocks fly at U.S. television. "Have you looked at your TV set lately?" he asked the audience. "What wallowing in self-pity! What vast and contorted expressions...
This-long a favorite dream of FCC Chairman Newton Minow-should eventually relax the stranglehold of big-time commercial television, making room for dozens of new stations, most of them noncommercial. "If we don't expand television," says Minow, "soon we will have unnecessarily few people deciding what larger and larger numbers of people will be seeing. Without UHF we wouldn't get educational stations into more than a fraction of the communities that want and need them...
Handsome Payoff. To FCC Chairman Newton Minow, WFMT has long been a sort of vast tasteland. Chicagoan Minow admires the station because it is making what he calls "a real cultural attack." Its programming is about 80% classical music, and the other 20% includes shows of uniformly high quality, ranging from plays and readings by minor and major poets to heady discussions and adequate but not repetitive news. Most celebrated WFMT character is Studs Terkel, who runs a daily 10-11 a.m. program of literate talk with both itinerant and local celebrities, such as Tennessee Williams and Chicago Novelist Nelson...
...time disquisition on "Stresses Within the Communist Bloc," Washington's WTTG TV last week began to broadcast a series of uncompromisingly erudite lectures on international affairs by professors of New York's Columbia University.* Behind this brainstretching venture, which drew a rare rave from FCC Chairman Newton Minow, stood an unlikely figure: Investment Banker Armand Grover Erpf, 64. In 26 years as a partner in Manhattan's prestigious Carl M. Loeb. Rhoades & Co.. elfinlike Armand Erpf has displayed an uncanny nose for investment opportunities that has led fellow financiers to label him "a professionals' professional...