Julian Sanchez | March 28, 2005
Glenn Garvin explores the forgotten history of the DuMont network and observes that competition-squelching FCC regulation is just a bad rerun.
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|3.28.05 @ 1:27PM|#
The "Black Planet" episodes were written by sf author Jack Vance. Apparently, his collaboration with Captain Video was terminated after he started introducing too much satire in the scripts...
|3.29.05 @ 11:01AM|#
Now the FCC is doing everything it can to kill broadcast TV. Their DTV blunders continue daily. Slicing UHF to channels 14-51 really kills any chance that small-time operators will be able to get into the braodcast TV biz.