Ex-FCC chief, public TV advocate Newton Minow dead at 97
in 2016, died Saturday at home, surrounded by loved ones, said his daughter, Nell Minow.Though Minow remained in the FCC post just two years, he left a permanent stamp on the broadcasting industry through government steps to foster satellite communications, the passage of a law mandating UHF reception on TV sets and his outspoken advocacy for quality in television.
"I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland," he told them."You will see a procession of game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, Western bad men, Western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence and cartoons. And, endlessly, commercials — many screaming, cajoling and offending."
CBS President Frank Stanton strongly disagreed, calling Minow's comments a"sensationalized and oversimplified approach" that could lead to ill-advised reforms"on the ground that any change is a change for the better." Children's programming was a particular interest of Minow, a father of three, who told broadcasters the few good children's shows were"drowned out in the massive doses of cartoons, violence and more violence. ... Search your consciences and see if you cannot offer more to your young beneficiaries whose future you guide so many hours each and every day."
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Ex-FCC chief, public TV advocate Newton Minow dead at 97Former Federal Communications Commission head Newton Minow, who famously described network TV as a “vast wasteland,” has died. Minow's daughter, Nell Minow, confirmed that her father died Saturday at home in Chicago, surrounded by loved ones. Although the Chicago attorney held his FCC post for just two years in the early 1960s, Minow left a lasting stamp on the industry — promoting public television and working to televise presidential campaign debates. He was 97.
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Ex-FCC chief, public TV advocate Newton Minow dead at 97Former Federal Communications Commission head Newton Minow, who famously described network TV as a “vast wasteland,” has died
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Ex-FCC chief, public TV advocate Newton Minow dead at 97Newton N. Minow, the former Federal Communications Commission chief who in the early 1960s famously proclaimed that network television was a “vast wasteland,” died Saturday at his Chicago home. He was 97.
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Ex-FCC chief, public TV advocate Newton Minow dead at 97Newton N. Minow, who as Federal Communications Commission chief in the early 1960s famously proclaimed that network television was a 'vast wasteland,' died Saturday. He was 97.
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Ex-FCC chief, public TV advocate Newton Minow dead at 97Former Federal Communications Commission head Newton Minow, who famously described network TV as a “vast wasteland,” has died.
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Ex-FCC chief, public TV advocate Newton Minow dies at 97 in Chicago homeNewton N. Minow, who as Federal Communications Commission chief in the early 1960s famously proclaimed that network television was a 'vast wasteland,' died Saturday.
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