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It's said that when "Gilligan's Island" was written, they'd intentionally named the shipwrecked boat after that FCC commissioner decrying TV's great wasteland.
by MilnerRoute 4y ago
It's said that when "Gilligan's Island" was written, they'd intentionally named the shipwrecked boat after that FCC commissioner decrying TV's great wasteland.
The S.S. Minnow.
- dredmorbius 4y agoI only just heard that myself. Trying to sort out where ... I'm pretty sure it was Thomas Hazlett, himself former chief economist at the FCC, speaking on the Yale University Press podcast, "The Politics of the Airwaves" episode (June 9, 2017). <https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2017/06/09/ep-30-the-politics-of-the-airwaves/ https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2017/06/09/ep-30-the-politics-of-...> (I'm not positive it was this, but I'm pretty confident to a high number of nines.)