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Civil rights groups and NYC mayor Adams urge FCC to quickly review the acquisition as it faces a May 22 financial deadline

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Minow, who as Federal Communications Commission chief in the early 1960s famously proclaimed that network television was a "vast wasteland," died on Saturday.

Former Federal Communications Commission head Newton Minow, who famously described network TV as a “vast wasteland,” has died

ATSC 3.0 was meant to transform broadcast TV, but stations have been slow to implement the new standard, and few sets support it.

Says USAC is sufficiently subordinate to pass constitutional muster

Questions raised make FCC right to refer Standard General’s acquisition for hearing

In a widely quoted New York Times column, the paper of record called his TV program “an electronic peepshow.” The Times’ media critic, Jack Gould, accused him of “making a commercial virtue of cheap sensationalism” and exploiting the worst in human behavior, just to get ratings.

Astronomers are becoming increasingly concerned of being blinded by the light from an estimated 400,000 satellites planned for low Earth orbit in the coming years.