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Vol. IV, No. 8 DuPont Circle Building, Wishington 36 , D.C. May 20, 19&3 MINOW RESIGNS: HENRY APPOINTED CHAIRMAN Newton Minow has announced his resignation as chairman of the FCC, effective June 1. President Kennedy has announced the appointment of E. William Henry as chairman to replace Minow. Henry, 34-year-old Memphis attorney was appointed to the FCC last September by the President. At the time of his appointment to the Commission Henry indicated that he felt there is room for improvement in television programming and that it is up to the industry to provide it. However, he added that the government should act if the industry doesn*t. Asst. Attorney General Lee Loevinger has been appointed by President Kennedy to fill the vacancy on the FCC created by the resignation of Minow. Loevinger has been in charge of the antitrust division of the Justice Dept. Loevinger, an expert on corporate law, was formerly a lecturer in business law at the University of Minnesota. STATUS OF ETV FACILITIES ACT '- The Senate-House conference committee on the omnibus 19&3 supplemental appropriations bill (which includes funds for the ETV facilities act) has agreed on a deficiency appropriation of $1,500,000 to implement the ETV bill, and the supplemental appropriations measure is at the White House awaiting signature as this is written (May l6). The $1,500,000 agreed to by the conference committee includes $40,000 for administration of the act. This will require a reduction in the size of the proposed staff which, while not necessarily harmful for the balance of fiscal 19^3, will make it more difficult to enlarge the staff again to the desired size in the appropriation of fiscal 1964. The 1964 appropriation has had hearings before both the House and Senate committees, and the House committee has reported it out favorably at $5,000,000 (HEW had requested $7,000,000). The Senate committee has not yet reported, but the general reaction at the time of the hearings was favorable and no difficulty is foreseen. EDUCATIONAL STATIONS EXEMPT FROM NEW LICENSE FEES On May 8, the FCC announced that a schedule of fees for the filing of applications in most of its licensing activities will become effective January 1, 1964. However, such fees will not apply to noncommercial educational applications by tax exempt organizations. Thus, as the NAEB had requested, this exemption applies to educational stations whether they operate on reserved or non-reserved frequencies. The fees are expected to bring in about $ 3.8 million a year which, under law, must be turned over to the U.S. Treasury.