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PAGE 41. broadcasters, Loevinger and Cox in a rerun of their dialectic days on the FCC, Johnson with a reminder that HIGH MARKS AGAIN Latest Roper study for TV finds a he's still Nick Johnson, Pastore as the old lion and little slippage for TV in public esteem, but it remains far Washburn as the reluctant deregulator. PAGE 21. and away the dominant medium. PAGE 43. FITTING FINALE Then at the last session of the FUTURE OF RADIO Better revenues, much improved convention, FCC Chairman Wiley and his crew of status for FM, deregulation and automation are parts of an commissioners Are on the hot seats in a discussion of upbeat forecast for the medium by 1985. PAGE 45. free -press rights and their relationship to radio and television. PAGE 28. GAP CLOSING Representatives of citizen groups and broadcasters agree they still have some differences, but WASHINGTON WEEK THAT WAS NAB'S 55th was, if that both sides have become more understanding and nothing else, big. Upwards of 12,000 were in attendance less acrimonious. PAGE 50. in one capacity or another, and not one of them would have been able to attend all the sessions that took place TWO FOR ONE It was SRO at an NAB session on AM or see all of the equipment and services that were on stereo; hope is expressed for FCC standards soon. sale. PAGE 27. PAGE 85. BIGGEST OF THEM ALL It's clear now why Joe Allbritton WARNING WORD ON MUSIC Leslie Arries, chairman of went to all that trouble to acquire the Washington Star the All- Industry TV Stations Music License Committee, and its associated broadcast properties. He's sold tells an NAB session that ASCAP will be seeking rate WMAL -TV to Combined Communications for a record - increases. PAGE 73. smashing price of $65 million in nonvoting stock and KOCO -TV Oklahoma City in trade. PAGE 28. BETTER DAYS O Syndicated programing is better than ever and in the next two years new concepts in prime SHOCKER ON PAY TV The appeals court decision on access will improve first -run syndication programing, the FCC's pay -cable rules was so stunning that those says NAB panel. PAGE 74. affected have no set idea on what to do next. PAGE 29. CABLE'S ROSY FUTURE Some participants at an NAB NEARING END OF TRAIL FCC Chairman Wiley's workshop predict an annual cable growth rate of from farewell to the NAB calls for less government presence in 14% to 17% in the next decade. PAGE 75. broadcasting but emphasizes that the deregulatory burden will be on local Stations to provide quality service. A STAR IS BORN One -inch video -tape recorders are a PAGE 33. stand -out among stand -outs at the NAB convention equipment exhibits. Other big draws include time -base SOLACE FOR WILEY An NAB panel of former FCC correctors, switchers, editors, cameras, still -storers, noise chairmen sympathizes with the current commission head reducers and more. PAGE 80. in his stunning court defeats. Looking back at their own records, most say they would not have done things much MIDDLEMAN Sam Vitt believes in thinking cautiously, differently. PAGE 34. but moving fast. It's a philosophy that has helped him build one of the leading media service organizations. HOPE FROM HOLLINGS NAB delegates are pleased by PAGE 105. the new Senate Communications Subcommittee on PAGE 40. chairman's thoughts broadcasting. Editor's note. "Where Things Stand" which normally appears the first issue of the month, will appear in the April 1I issue due to the volume of NAB conven- lion- related reporting in this issue. 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LEVISION STATIONS ClosedNCircuit R Insider report: behind the scene, before the fact basis for speculation that broadcasters Authority (along with CBS and CBS -TV Heavy support were indeed denied newsy speech. affiliate WFMY-TV Greensboro, N.C.) is FCC Commissioner Joseph Fogarty, who being sued now by astrologer whose has not hidden his ambition to be efforts to buy commercial time have been chairman, is expected to get boost at Home -size dishes rebuffed. Association is hearing regularly White House from colleague, FCC and National Aeronautics and Space from others besides astrologers as well - Commissioner Benjamin L. Hooks. Mr. Administration are cooperating with gambling enterprises and weight - Hooks, who had been regarded as Japanese in testing Japanese -built reduction clinics using hypnotists, for President Carter's sure-shot choice for receiving antennas designed to pick up examples. chairman until he was picked by National television signals from direct -broadcast Complainants' argument -that if their Association for Advancement of Colored satellites. NASA has permitted Japanese goods or services are legal they should be People to be its executive director, says to test equipment in NASA facilities, and able to advertise them -is one NAB itself Commissioner Fogarty would make good is now transmitting signals to U.S.