JOUR 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Herschell Gordon Lewis, National Educational Television, Terry Date
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Taxpayers protection alliance wants clinton, trump to talk fcc . Godfather of gore" herschell gordon lewis dies aged 87. Commercial services leave big educational, cultural, and informational gaps that can be filled without pressure to make a profit. Fm radio: the fcc reserved 20 out of 100 channels for non-commercial use. This provides programming for the local systems. 1970 national public radio created by cpb. Npr get money from cpb and pay a fee to npr for its services. 1939 zworykin and this team of 40 engineers expand tv broadcasting capabilities at the world fair. In 1948, the fcc paused all broadcasting. In 1952, supplemented 12 vhf, channels with 70 new uhf channels. Tv channels assigned to 1291 cities, most of the allocation were uhf (13-72) channels. Reserved 10% for noncommercial use, mostly uhf. Number of stations more than tripled in the first post-freeze year. Effectively limited tv industry to 3 major national networks.