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That seems like a particularly inflammatory way of looking at it.. Why couldn’t they use one of the other channels? Was there no demand for such programming? W
by somehnguy 6y ago
That seems like a particularly inflammatory way of looking at it..
Why couldn’t they use one of the other channels? Was there no demand for such programming? Who was denying those options, if anybody?
- causality0 6y agoBecause of FCC rules and limitations elsewhere, the city of Paterson had no other options to bring a TV station on air other than channel 37. The fun part about this is that McVittie, who helped to set the wheels in motion for the blanket ban of channel 37 in the U.S., never learned exactly why the FCC made the decision to flip its mindset on this issue. Racism? Against Latinos in 1963? Nah, couldn't be.
- Jtsummers 6y agoThe ban was precipitated by a case that happened to be a Spanish language channel, but not all channel 37s would have been in Spanish. The result was that a channel was barred across the entire country. It's a big leap to say that the official rationale is bogus and go to "FCC is racist against Latinos and decided to bar the channel for everyone".