The JFK era FCC chief will remain most noted for his 1961 speech where he called television a "vast wasteland," although the accomplishments he preferred to be noted for included the laws requiring all US television sets to include UHF channels and the laws that set up satellite communication, which, among other things, turned cable TV from a way to get distant TV signals to a transmission system that could compete with over-the-air television--after the FCC, he was a major figure in the establishment of public broadcasting in the US, and was still rightly critical of television's failings, especially in how it covers the news:
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