Newton Minow, former FCC chief and public TV advocate, has died at 97

Newton Minow, as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, appears before the House Antitrust Subcommittee which was probing newspaper competition, in 1963, in Washington, D.C. Minow died on Saturday.

Minow, who as Federal Communications Commission chief in the early 1960s famously proclaimed that network television was a "vast wasteland," died on Saturday.

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