Communications satellites will send ideas into space, and ideas live longer than people.” On July 10, 1962, Minow was one of the officials making statements on the first live trans-Atlantic television program, a demonstration of AT&T’s Telstar satellite.
In a September 2006 interview on National Public Radio, Minow recalled telling Kennedy that such satellites were “more important than sending a man into space. Congress also passed a bill that provided funds for educational television, and measures to foster communications satellites. 1 goal was to give people choice,” she said.Īmong the new laws during his tenure were the All-Channel Receiver Act of 1962, that required that TV sets pick up UHF as well as VHF broadcasts, which opened up TV channels numbered above 13 for widespread viewing. His daughter, Nell Minow, told The Associated Press in 2011 that her father loved television and wished he would have been remembered for championing the public interest in television programming, rather than just a few words in his much broader speech.
But he also said a broadcasting license was “an enormous gift” from the government that brought with it a responsibility to the public. For the criticism over his speech, Minow said he didn’t support censorship, preferring exhortation and measures to broaden public choices.
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