OVERSEAS TV REINS URGED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200190062-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: August 24, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

Overseas TV Reins Urged
By MATT MESSINA
grams beamed overseas, an FCC official has told the i
House. The recommendation was made by Tedson Meyer
administrative assistant to FCC
Chairman Newton :Miaow.
Meyers suggested the establish-
tnent of an "um, a of interna-
tional television" to ensure that
such telecasting develop "along
lines most beneficial to the foreigyi
Policy of the U. S." The new of-
rice would have to decide "whether
it is dAsirable to establish cri-
t"ria for the content of American
prn}raunn+++~; displayed overseas
-and if ssu, how such criteria
should be determined and applied."
He also said that any control
group should write "licensing and
opo! sting regulations to govern
international TV transmissions
m iginating fn the Ti. S," There
should l-e "foreign policy guid-
ance for those who administer the
t egul'sti'ons." Presumably, all this
would include Telstar transmis-
sions.
Sarnoff Disagrees
On Wednesday, NBC Koss Rob-
ert Sarnotf said international TV
was no ground for "governmental
tampering" 'pith progratns,
The Meyeri'memo was sent to
Ralph l)ung)a.. special assistant
to Presidenj; Kennedy.
While hi} study didn't repre-
sent an off1iial recommendation
of the F(;(' Meyers said he had
worked "vf~the. knowfedge and
el 'ouragrt nt of Chairman Min-
NJ,said he also talked
with U l Director Edward R.
Nurros ( 4 Executive DirecttoQr
Lyman, 7Ci :itrick and the Presl-
dcnt'e se ~4?e adviser, Jerome
Wiese tr. 1
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