Word: rca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First they stopped an RCA recording crew and an NBC-TV team from taping a Black Sea blast in the resort of Sochi, then they banned the distribution of B.C. buttons, next they arrested a fan for fraternizing with foreigners ("We will be lucky if we see him again," mused a bystander), and finally they tried to bar Benny's ig-year-old daughter Rachel from going backstage, thinking she was one of the local cats. Said Good-Wilier Good man: "It shows a terrible weakness on their part, doesn't it?" Back from an eleven...
Asking for treble damages of $174 million, RCA pointedly noted that Ford assumed "all liabilities and obligations" of Philco when it bought the company...
Early this month RCA launched a new, double-pronged attack seemingly designed to convince Ford that this inherited squabble would be excessively costly to pursue. Though RCA now holds patents on the only color television tube to meet FCC standards. RCA lawyers charged that since 1953 Philco has been conspiring to set up a patent pool that would establish a monopoly position for Philco's own color television equipment. In the process, asserted RCA, Philco plotted to withhold color television from the public until the last dollar was squeezed from black and white sales and sought to undercut public...
Dark Threat. Last week came the second prong of RCA's offensive-an attempt to involve Ford in FCC hearings on license renewal for WRCV. RCA's Philadelphia TV station. Philco. which owned the station until 1953 and wants to get it back, has long tried to convince FCC that because RCA has been involved in a number of antitrust actions, it is not qualified to hold "a grant which must be exercised in the public interest." In rebuttal, RCA last week filed a counterreport reminding FCC that if Philco got the station it would be tantamount...
violations of the antitrust laws" as an automaker. What's more, added RCA darkly, if Philco proposed to examine "ancient history," RCA would do likewise-a clear hint that RCA was ready to rake up memories of some of old Henry Ford's highhanded tactics in the 1930s...