Newton Minow, FCC chairman who assailed ‘vast wasteland’ of TV, dies at 97
During World War II, he served in an Army battalion that built one of the first telephone lines between China and India. As a director of National Educational Television, a Public Broadcasting Service forerunner, he helped obtain the funding to put “Sesame Street” on the air in 1969. He later sat…
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