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sense of it was that they were so powerful and had so much moxie in the Hollywood community that their friends would not perform in their regular shows, if we kept the Brothers off the air.

You can't say that to the United States Congress. Because they can say, “You can't broadcast,” and that's that. Now there'd be court fights and everything else, but there's nothing to say you couldn't--I think there's nothing to say that you couldn't change the Constitution, if you got the requisite number of states to ratify the change in the Constitution. This is way out that I'm talking about. But to keep that day from coming I think the broadcasters and the producers have got to exercise a certain amount of respect for the audience their serving.

John Pastore, who was chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications of the Senate Commerce Committee in the sixties--in those days we were the first station in New York to have an all-night program service. In television. And that service was made up of what we called “The Late Late Show” and we later called it “The Late Late Late Show.” We ran movies all night long, and there were some bars and grills and a few places--but we had a signal on and we had a service. Nobody said we had to do it; it was an effort to have a 24- hour service.

At about 1:30 in the morning on one night the film was one that offended a group of sisters in the state of Rhode Island. Maybe you know this story.

I think we've discussed it briefly at the end of one of the sessions.