FCC limits network programming
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Thursday limited the amount of network television programming most Americans can see in one night to three hours.
This ruling becomes effective
Sept. 1, 1971. The FCC said it hoped this would give viewers a wider selection by encouraging new sources of programs.
On a 5-2 vote, with Chairman Dean Burch and Commissioner Robert Wells dissenting, the commission restricted commercial
television stations in the top 50 markets to three hours of network fare between the primetime hours of 6 and 10 p.m.
CAPE KENNEDY (UPI)—The U. S. Space Agency Thursday delayed the launch of Apollo 14 from October to December at the earliest and retargeted its astronauts for a landing in the moon valley originally assigned to the abortive Apollo 13 flight.
Apollo 14 astronauts Alan B. Shepard, Stuart A. Roosa and Edgar D. Mitchell originally were scheduled for launch Oct. 1 on a mission to explore a relatively smooth plain near the Crater Littrow on the southeastern edge of the Sea of Serenity.
Space Agency Administrator Thomas O. Paine said a delay of at least two months would be needed to modify the Apollo 14 command ship and make sure the explosion that ripped Apollo 13 will not be repeated.
Space agency announces Apollo 14, retarget in landing
"We will take whatever time is necessary and will not commit to a specific launch date until the Apollo 13 review board completes its work and makes its findings and recommendations," Paine said in Washington.
This means that network stations in big cities will have to turn elsewhere for programs to fill the remaining hour. The FCC said it did not envision that local programming would fill the hour, but hoped other sources would start producing programs of nationwide interest now that they will have access to top rated television time.
14 crew drop that landing site and head for the Fra Mauro formation that the men in Apollo 13 had planned to explore. Paine agreed.
Scientists at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston recommended, however, that the Apollo
Company said it could adapt to the rule and might benefit from it.
Fra Mauro is an area of high scientific interest. Geologists believe it is made up of rocks gouged from deep beneath the lunar surface by the impact of a giant meteroid billions of years ago.
The three top networks now produce or co-produce 97 percent of all commercial programs. Their reaction was mixed to the rule, which grew out of an original proposal in 1965 to limit network programs to just half of the prime time.
The Columbia Broadcasting System said the rule would cost the American viewing public more than 10 hours of popular entertainment programs weekly. The American Broadcasting
The National Broadcasting Company said the rule was "mis-guided."
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Burch said that while the rule exempted smaller television markets, the practical effect would be on all network stations, since the networks have indicated they would not supply four full hours of prime time viewing once the major stations were eliminated from an hour of it.
The only exemption to the three-hour time limit was for special news programs involving coverage of such things as a moon mission, a major political speech or a political convention.
Regular news, interview and documentary programs were not exempted. Burch, writing for himself and Wells, said: "I strongly believe that the commission cannot properly adopt a policy of subordinating news programming, which informs the
Crude bomb found behind KC tavern
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) — A crudely made bomb was found Thursday behind a tavern in this bomb-conscious city's East Side.
The explosive, comprised of 15 sticks of decomposed dynamite, was fused, but a police department arson investigator said it would not have exploded. The fuse was not connected to a blasting cap, he said.
The bomb was discovered by Fred Gates behind the tavern he operates. He told officers the fuse was burning when he found it. He extinguished the fuse and called police.
Kent four deserved death says university president
Officers said the device, found behind the Community Bar, was wrapped with black plastic tape.
GREENVILLE, S.C. (UPI) The four students killed at Kent State University "got exactly what they were entitled to," the president of Bob Jones University told students at chapel Thursday.
"I'm all for the police shooting to kill when anyone is in mob violence attempting to destroy property and attack law enforcement officers," said Bob Jones. "More power to them."
"While I grieve for their families, I say those young people got exactly what they were entitled to, and what they should have expected and what they
ought to get out in Berkeley, too," said Jones.
"I wish they would bring some mortars in and restore order at Berkeley," Jones said. "It's time the government took a firm hand in dealing with this thing."
public and is surely not in oversupply, to entertainment programming, which exists in far greater amounts and seeks but to amuse."
Jones, son of the late Bob Jones Sr., a widely-known evangelist and founder of the Fundamentalist, non-denominational university, became president after his father's death in 1968.
The school, surrounded by a high fence, permits no student dissent and issued a statement several years ago taking pride in being called "the nation's squarest university."
As written, the rule applies to 377 television stations in the top 50 markets in which there are three or more operating commercial television stations. The top 50 are determined by the American Research Bureau on the basis of evidence, size and advertising revenues. They serve 40.6 million of the $8.5 million homes with television.
Congressmen react to war
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The number of congressional opponents to American involvement in Southeast Asia has now risen to the highest level since the massive U.S. military expedition began seven years ago, a UPI survey showed Thursday.
For the first time, according to the survey, at least half the Senate has openly challenged a decision to expand the conflict--President Nixon's move to send American troops across Vietnam borders into Cambodia.
In the normally docile House, the antiwar ranks have swelled to perhaps one-third of the membership, judging from record votes Wednesday.
In both houses, however, opposition to expansion of the war does not appear to be sufficient to pass legislation to limit or stop the conflict. The prevailing sentiment, for the time being, is that cutting off funds for the war or imposing a timetable for American disengagement would lead to a constitutional crisis and endanger American lives.
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