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Ferris, Charles D. | 4 |
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Ferris, Charles D. – Today's Education, 1980
The chairman of the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) looks at new developments in television and discusses the advantages and problems that may surface with the expansion of television. (CJ)
Descriptors: Cable Television, Childrens Television, Futures (of Society), Programing (Broadcast)
Ferris, Charles D. – 1978
If cable television is to survive in the competitive marketplace, it will have to show increased foresight in designing new services and facilities. Cable television regulations, which may have been an impediment to past growth, should be fully reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and deleted or corrected if necessary; but cable…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Cable Television, Childrens Television, Communications
Ferris, Charles D. – 1979
This speech by the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission discusses some of the issues facing the broadcasting industry concerning the First Amendment such as guidelines for the percentage of adult informational programing, the Fairness Doctrine, government censorship, regulation of news programs, and access of the electorate to…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Broadcast Television, Childrens Television, Constitutional Law
Ferris, Charles D. – 1979
Viewer disenchantment with children's television can be allayed by creative programing that will also provide incentives to the broadcast industry. News and information programs, as well as entertaining and sensitive dramatizations of children's issues, have already fared well in the marketplace, proving that innovative children's programing can…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Childrens Television, Commercial Television, Communication (Thought Transfer)