Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miss Craig's 21-Day Shape-Up Program for Men and Women, Craig...
Though the Nixon Administration has yet to formulate a program for rural America, some corporations have tried to encourage migration back to the country. For example, McDonnell Douglas Corp. has five plants in Tennessee. Initially, job seekers were local residents, but within a month applications were pouring in from former Tennesseans fed up with city life. The Daisy Manufacturing Co. moved lock, stock and gunbarrel from Michigan to Rogers...
Sword of Damocles. Despite such network fears, some stronger form of program censorship may yet prevail. One possible way to bring it about: pressure on individual stations. In the N.A.B., individual stations outnumber and outvote the three networks. And in recent months, TV station owners have become increasingly jittery over the activities of the suddenly rambunctious Federal Communications Commission. Though the FCC has no direct jurisdiction over the networks, it can influence individual stations through its licensing power. Recently, the FCC has begun to question once-automatic license renewals and seriously consider competing applications from would-be broadcasters. Well aware...
Even if adopted, Pastore's watchdog plan could prove about as effective as having the National Rifle Association regulate gun sales. Only 399 of the nation's 619 TV stations subscribe to the N.A.B. Code. It has no control at all over program syndicators, not to mention 220 individual stations producing their own programs. Even where it would have authority, the N.A.B. body would confront an enormous task. Either it would try to supervise the entire production process for every TV show or it would be forced to rely on each network to submit its most controversial programs...
...helpful guidelines. They rarely socialize together during off hours; on tour, they try to avoid the same train or plane, and often stay in different hotels. They also divvy up business responsibilities: Steinhardt handles travel, Dalley is in charge of money, Soyer manages overseas tours, and Tree is the program chairman. "We're just like a corporation," says Steinhardt. "We work together, but must we play together?" When they try, it can cause trouble. Last year Steinhardt broke his own self-imposed rule by challenging Tree on the tennis court and fractured his wrist...