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OCR Page 1 of 104THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
March 6, 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR:
THE PRESIDENT
VIA:
JOHN EHRLICHMAN
FROM:
KEN COLE
SUBJECT:
Telecommunications
Attached are two memoranda from Tom Whitehead which have been
circulated within the White House for comment. The first is
on the Broadcast License Renewal Bill (Tab A) and the second
deals with network reruns and the prime-time access rule (Tab B).
In the first memorandum, Whitehead recommends that we introduce
a License Renewal Bill which would reduce FCC controls over
broadcast programming and is strongly pro-First Amendment, even
though the public does not perceive it as such at the present.
Broadcasters, including network management, badly want renewal
legislation and realize they need our support to get it
through Congress. According to Whitehead, there are signs
that network executives and key broadcasters are willing to
take corrective action as long as they are not pushed hard
publicly on the bias issue.
Whitehead recommends that the License Renewal Bill be intro-
duced without an accompanying Presidential statement. Ron
Ziegler and Dick Moore agree with this position and recommend
further that this bill be sent to Congress with an Office of
Telecommunications Policy (OTP) letter of transmittal rather
than one from the White House.
Send Bill without Presidential Statement
(Timmons, Colson, Ziegler, Moore, Baroody recommend)
Send Bill with Presidential Statement
Don't Send Bill
The second Whitehead memorandum deals with the related topics
of network reruns and the prime-time access rule.
In a September letter to John Gavin of the Screen Actors Guild,
you agreed that something had to be done about the increase in
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