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Former FCC Chair Newton Minow, who called 1960s TV 'vast wasteland', dies at 97

Former U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chair Newton Minow, who lambasted television as a "vast wasteland" more than 60 years ago and challenged the broadcast world to come up with imaginative alternatives, died on Saturday at the age of 97, his daughter Nell Minow said on Twitter.
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Factbox: What did former FCC Chair Newton Minow say about television?

Newton Minow's first speech as chair of the Federal Communications Commission was his most memorable. In addressing leading U.S. broadcast executives on May 9, 1961, in Washington, he said television programming was a "vast wasteland" and something need to be done about it.
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