The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 31, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 14, 1979 Page: 28 of 90
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taken their knocks in pro-
moting such notions,
though Holiings' approach
to deregulation is not
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mittee that Introduces one
bill a year," he says, "We
don’t pass It.... We just In-
troduce tt."
Now, Van Deerlln
make his second effort of
1979, albeit with lowered
sights, to revamp the 45-
year-old law governing the
nation's communications
Industry. VCancel the
wake," he says. "And stay
tuned.
Van Deerlln, a one-time
newspaperman and televi-
sion news editor, wants to
hurry the day when office
file cablnets,wlll be replac-
ed by video computers,
when Americans can shop
and bank and get their news
and comics at the push of a
few buttons,
On the entertainment
front, he believes the
answer to questions about
the jiggle and violence of
network television lies not
In censorship but In the
opening up of programming
and technology so thut
every Home, viewer has
dozens of channels from
whlchtochoo.se,
.The chairman of the
House Communications
subcommittee ^convinced
that this is not only possi-
ble, but inevitable. To Van
Deerlln, the issue 1$
whether It happens
smoothly or In belated,
court-entangled fits and
tat “times
are changing .--‘natural
monopoly’ and ‘economy of
scale'are words of the past,
Competition and diversity
are ideas of the future."H|
The highly complex issue
ide satellite
ons, computer
links and other specialized
Still, data services
Van Deerlln hoped to end
regulation of radio and
cable television, while
phasing out controls on
regular television over 10
years. Broadcasters would
may has not escaped the notice have been freed of such
rt of of lobbyists, Including "public Interest" standards
labor, the PTA, the majdr
networks, the National
Association of Broad-
casters, professional
sports, Hollywood
producers, corporate giants
like AT&T, RCA and ITT,
church groups, Ralph
Nader and even the Grand
Ole Opry and,the National
Organization for Women.
Virtually all have had
some good things to say
about deregulation - and
all have found their
special faults with It.
"It takes a certain
genius," commented
Broadcasting Magazine,
"to draft' legislation
which (Industry critic)
Nicholas Johnson and Vin-
cent T. Wasllewski
dent of the NAB) can both
find objections.”
rndeed.thesevbices
left committee members
with little more
ringing in their-ears.
Deerlln, for his part, claims
.to know what “life is like
for the marble in a pinball
machine."
Some friends predicted
the buffeting would prompt
him to retire, especially In
light of a then-secret 7-7
ll.ivt'
immediately all federal While sortie of the pro-
posals are technically still
alive in Rollings' bill, Van
Deerlln concedes the House
as the equal time and
fairness doctrines, requir-
ing them to air conflicting
views on some issues.
But the'Industry objected
to other provisions, such as
a restructuring of frequen-
cy allocations to allow more
stations and a requirement
that they pay some fees to
the government for use of
the public airwaves
area for some time.
But he sees brighter pro-
spects for telecommunica-
tions deregulation, and that
would involve massive
change. The telecom-
munications sector ac-
counts for more than 1
million employees and an-
950 billion, and the effects
of a free market could
make reforms In the airline
and other industries pale by
comparison.
Van Deerlln was
especially heartened when
President Carter declared
support for spelt an
is not likely to move In that approach.
Virtually no- one would
argue that years of
technological i m-
provements have far
outstripped the vision of the
authors of the 1934 act.
Universal telephone ser-
vice was then seen as a na-
tional goal which could be
nual revenues exceedlng|accoroplished only through |its primary service. It also
protection of the "natural
monopoly" of the telephone
company. Broadcasting,
too, was viewed as a fledgl-
ing Industry of promise,
meriting such help aJfree
and exclusive access to
assigned frequencies on
public air waves.
But while government
helped with one hand, it
restrained with the other.
AT&T, in exchange for its
monopoly on interstate
lines, was effectively
barred in a 19'5€L antitrust
agreement from entering
any other domestic market than the Bell System’s.
not directly connected with
was forbidden to compete
with such other corporate
giants as ITT and RCA in
including AT&T, are wary
(ft what deregulation en-
international clear they find a clearcut
communications........._ legislative course
Recent court decisions
and steps by the FCC
already have broken some
ground toward
deregulation. For example,
consumers may now shop
among several manufac-
turers for telephone sets. At
least one firm even offers
businesses a way to make
long-distance calls between
major cities at rates lower
AT&T could market such
products unless they relate
tails, they have made it directly to telephone ser-
vice. On the other side of
the coin, existing data pro-
somewhat desirable.
Already, AT&T ^work-
ing on low-cost computer
terminals for office and
home. One device reported-
ly would provide an
automated Yellow Pages,
allowing the customer to
obtain quick information,
say, Qn all the plumbers in
bis area. Such devices also
cessing firms cannot
establish competing
transmission facilities.
Whatever the fate of his
legislation, Van Deerlin
feels some triumph
already.
At the least, he says, "the
old, propserous, industries
have been given a good
elbow in the ribs ... As a
could be used for Instant longtime observer and par-
delivery of printed news tlcipant, I tell you titfsi
Though, the biggest material, but current law Thingstwill qever be the
members of the industry, makes it unclear whether same again.” ‘
When asked by his Mormen leader Brig-
housekeeper If he had a hem Young: "Amen'
last message to the world, Showmen P.T. Barnum:
political theorist Karl Marx "How were the circus
retorted: "Go on. git out! receipts tonight at Madi-
last words are for fools son Square Garden?"
who haven't said ’ President Franklin D.
enough.” Roosevelt: "! have a lerrif-
—^And no more was hoard ic headache. "
iromth^ father otcommu- Black Muslim leader,
nism Malcolm X (after twin#
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Economist Adam „ Beethoven: "I shall hear
8mith: "I believe we must in heaven."
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Artist Pablo Picasso: »
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 31, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 14, 1979, newspaper, November 14, 1979; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1066166/m1/28/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.