Newton Minow—an influential former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman who is best known for his efforts to secure funding for the iconic children’s show “Sesame Street”—died at 97 of a heart attack in his Chicago, Illinois home.
Newton Minow—an influential former Federal Communications Commission chairman who had an outsized impact on public television—died at 97 of a heart attack in his Chicago, Illinois home. He is best known for his infamous designation of television as a “vast wasteland.
” Throughout his career, Minow notably fought to secure funding for the iconic children’s showand worked to create the modern televised presidential debate format. Minow was “a crucial figure in expanding TV’s possibilities,” Ron Simon, a curator at the Paley Center for Media,
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Ex-FCC chief, public TV advocate Newton Minow dead at 97Former Federal Communications Commission head Newton Minow, who famously described network TV as a “vast wasteland,” has died. Minow's daughter, Nell Minow, confirmed that her father died Saturday at home in Chicago, surrounded by loved ones. Although the Chicago attorney held his FCC post for just two years in the early 1960s, Minow left a lasting stamp on the industry — promoting public television and working to televise presidential campaign debates. He was 97.
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Ex-FCC chief, public TV advocate Newton Minow dead at 97Former Federal Communications Commission head Newton Minow, who famously described network TV as a “vast wasteland,” has died
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Ex-FCC chief, public TV advocate Newton Minow dead at 97Newton N. Minow, the former Federal Communications Commission chief who in the early 1960s famously proclaimed that network television was a “vast wasteland,” died Saturday at his Chicago home. He was 97.
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Newton Minow, FCC chairman who assailed ‘vast wasteland’ of TV, dies at 97Breaking news: Newton N. Minow, the Federal Communications Commission chairman who in 1961 memorably assailed TV as a “vast wasteland” and had a towering impact on broadcasting by helping shape public television, died at his home in Chicago. He was 97.
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