PRESQUE ISLE TV CO. v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 6896, 6897.

387 F.2d 502 (1967)

PRESQUE ISLE TV CO., Inc., Johnston TV Company, Inc., Caribou TV, Inc., Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES of America and Federal Communications Commission, Respondents. VAN BUREN TV CABLE CO., Inc., Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES of America and Federal Communications Commission, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

December 18, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee G. Lovett, Washington, D. C., with whom Joseph F. Hennessey, John N. Papajohn and Booth & Lovett, Washington, D. C., were on brief, for petitioners.

Lenore G. Ehrig, Washington, D. C., Counsel, with whom Henry Geller, Gen. Counsel, John H. Conlin, Associate Gen. Counsel, Edward J. Kuhlmann, Counsel, Donald F. Turner, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Howard E. Shapiro, Atty., Dept. of Justice, were on brief, for respondents.

Herbert M. Schulkind, Washington, D. C., with whom Peter Shuebruk, Howard Jay Braun and Fly, Shuebruk, Blume & Gaguine, Washington, D. C., were on brief, for intervenor.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.


ALDRICH, Chief Judge.

Petitioners, who operate community antenna television systems (CATV) in northern Maine, seek review of a Memorandum Opinion and Order of the Federal Communications Commission. Northern Microwave Service, Inc., 1967, 7 FCC2d 115. A CATV system1 picks up television signals by means of high antennae and distributes them to the homes of individual subscribers within the community served by the system. Section 74.1103...

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