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...president, Oliver Treyz, complained that ABC would display more quality if so many cities were not set up for two channels only, cutting ABC out of markets and profits. Thus Treyz came out strongly for Newton Minow's plan to open up the U.S. television spectrum with new Ultra High Frequency channels...
...first week of hearings, the FCC and CBS had tilted with polite amiability. But it was NBC's turn last week, and NBC Chairman Robert Sarnoff bristled from the start. He began by charging that, for all Newton Minow's protestations, what the FCC obviously sought was Government control of network programming. Nettled and irritated, a couple of commissioners broke in to insist that the FCC had never said any such thing. Later, at his press conference, President Kennedy himself reiterated that the FCC had no intention of "changing the basic relationship which already exists...
...most the commission could get out of Sarnoff was a grudging concession: "I think there are occasions when a slap on the wrist, or a little harder than that, helps. I don't object to that." Said Minow tartly: "Unless we are going to have more than slaps on the wrist, the industry is going to have to be forthcoming with some proposed changes...
...justifiable bragging about the best part of television, pointing out that 17% of the network's total programming is in the news area, and that this year CBS has almost half again as many public-affairs shows as it had last season. (If this was in response to Minow's prodding, he did not say so.) Stanton picked up the theme of TV's inherent greatness -"new worlds, new horizons, new experiences"-and promised that in the American cultural boom of the soaring sixties, television would develop its own classics. Early examples, according to Stanton...
...Hearings (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). Summary of Newton Minow's nibbles at the networks' top executives and their retorts, as developed during the previous week's testimony...