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Page 6 - Southwestern, initiated a general inquiry "to explore the broad question of how best to obtain, consistent with the public interest standard of the Communications Act, the full benefits of developing communications technology for the public, with particular immediate reference to CATV technology . . . .
Page 33 - ... for them. Similarly, while each new cable service would require relatively expensive special facilities if offered alone, these services can be aggregated and the requisite facilities can be combined so that these costs can be shared, but no one has emerged to lead and coordinate such a joint effort. The Committee believes the Federal Government has a responsibility to help identify the public services that can best be provided via cable communications and to evaluate appropriate privacy safeguards....
Page 33 - Committee recognized the potential of using cable for public services that traditionally are promoted or provided by Government agencies. We feel there is a need for the Government to make sure that this potential is fully explored and realized. We are concerned that relying solely on the commercial marketplace for the development of cable services may cause commercial applications to outstrip the development of public services. Unless cable's use for public services is thoroughly explored and developed...
Page 3 - ... should be as low as possible. Fifth. Television has become so fundamental a medium of communication in our society that we must seek to make it available to as many people as possible, rural as well as urban, poor as well as affluent. Hence, unnecessary cost barriers to viewing should be avoided. Sixth. The fundamental values of a democratic, pluralistic society require that, within the limits of the spectrum, and of economic realities, policy should guard against excessive concentration in the...
Page 3 - Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC 20410.
Page 2 - encourage the larger use of radio in the public interest." Although the terms are vague, in practice they have been interpreted to define a widely accepted set of objectives. First. — The structure of the industry should make it possible to cater to as wide a variety of tastes as possible, the tastes of small audiences and mass audiences, of cultural minorities and of cultural majorities. Ours is a pluralistic society, in culture as well as in the ethnic origins and the life-styles of its people....
Page 25 - ... 1. Almost all of the new applications will require additional local expenditures, particularly for programming. Few, if any, will yield long-term savings; but, as in education, cable television can improve the quality of information and services available to citizens. 2. Many applications will not dramatically improve municipal services. They may improve communications between municipal officials and citizens, and make public services more accessible, but improving the services themselves is...
Page 4 - PLATO: A Computer-based System Used in the Engineering of Education," Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 59, 960 (1971).
Page 5 - Adult Education and Television: A Comparative Study in Canada. Czechoslovakia and Japan.
Page 14 - Center for Communications Policy Research, Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California, 1974.