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...whatever the practicalities, television prefers another image of itself as a high-minded public service. And slowly, the feeling got around that Ollie Treyz had become a poor front man. When FCC Chairman Newton Minow talked darkly about the TV wasteland, no one doubted that he viewed Treyz as the chief waster...
...Federal Communications Commission should be authorized to prescribe that new television sets be equipped to receive both UHF (ultra-high-frequency) and VHF (very-high-frequency) signals-an idea obviously inspired by FCC Chairman Newton Minow. Most sets receive only the twelve-channel VHF stations. UHF can deliver as many as 70 channels, and Minow's argument is that more channels will encourage development of more educational and commercial programming...
...Minow: Now the Government isn't going to get into this and say "put this one on or take that one off," because our whole theory is that you are going to make the judgments. Right...
...Minow: But you are going to have to make them, it seems to me, with some kind of responsibility...
Help or Force. Sitting back in his office one afternoon last week, Chairman Minow looked back over the hearings and offered his own informal conclusions: "If I had to name the single most important thing to come out of these hearings," he said, "I'd say it is the recognition by the industry that you must have more television channels. They're either going to have more channels or they're going to have more regulation. The networks have all said that they want to please large audiences. There...