Breaking: Newton N. Minow, former FCC chief who was vital in the creation of public television, has died at 97. Minow was a crucial to the growth of WTTW and a supporter of WTTW News as a former chairman and longtime member of the Board of Trustees.
Newton Minow appears on “Chicago Tonight” in an episode that aired July 23, 2015.
Minow laid down his famous challenge to TV executives on May 9, 1961, in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters, urging them to sit down and watch their station for a full day, “without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you.” Minow joined the WTTW Board of Trustees as chairman in 1967. During his tenure, WTTW held its first membership drive and won its first Emmy Award.
For the criticism over his speech, Minow said he didn’t support censorship, preferring exhortation and measures to broaden public choices. But he also said a broadcasting license was “an enormous gift” from the government that brought with it a responsibility to the public. Minow resigned in May 1963 to become executive vice president and general counsel for Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. in Chicago.
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