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WASHINGTON, Nov. 6--Oren Harris (D-Ark.), turning off a House investigation of quiz show rigging, said today Congress should pass new laws to assure program honesty and take a hard look at other channels of television activity...
Kinter testified before a House commerce subcommittee, which has uncovered numerous instances of backstage maneuvers to fix the outcome of quiz shows, even to giving contestants the correct answers in advance...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5--Robert E. Kinter, admitting his own National Broadcasting Co. had been victimized by quiz show fakery, suggested Thursday that Congress pass a law to jail TV program cheaters...
Kinter, NBC president, said his network is taking every step it can to prevent any repitition of the quiz show connivance which shocked millions of television viewers...
...asked Congress and the public not to judge the broadcasting industry by disclosures that many big money quiz contests had been rigged...