The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 21

You may have to pay for movies on unless you make your vol already. In our opinion, in the will be payingfor the type of programsyou now receive without charge if the FCC changes its rules. WHAT CAN YOU DO? If you wantto receive sports, movies and entertainmentshows without If you oppose allowing pay-TV operators to lock up those programs for the exclusive use of those who can afford to pay then Write tothe FCC ortoyourSenatorsand Congressmen and tell them thatyou are against loosening the FCC rules on pay-TV. A bill to prevent pay-TVfrom siphoning movies, sports and entertainment programs from free TV has been introduced in the Senate S. 2283.

Askyour Senators to support it. HOW COULD THAT HAPPEN? THIS WAY Every week there are several movies on TV and you've seen some great ones-Bonnie Clyde, Patton, Love Story, Funny Girl, A Man for All seasons and many others. Coming soon My Fair Lady and Hello Dolly. Under current FCC rules, pay-TV systems can show first-run movies and charge for them. Then, practically all go on free TV at no cost to you.

Now pay-TV operators are trying to persuade the Federal Communications Commission to change its rules to allow pay-TV to lock up movies like these in orderto present them on television at box office prices. If pay-TV operators are permitted to do that, those movies will no longer be available to you on free TV until many years later. If you wantto see them before thatyou will have to pay to see them on your own television set. The pay-TV operators want to do the same thing with sports events-college and professional football, baseball, basketball, and popular entertainment shows. That could cost the average family a lot of money every month $40 or $50 seems to be a reasonable estimate.

How about people living on restricted retirement incomes people on welfare who are unemployed people living in low-income sections of big cities? Where will they get the money to pay for television? Apparently, they will have to go without. IS PAY-TV A SERIOUS POSSIBILITY? Pay-TV is operating in a few scattered places in the United States KOCO-TV KWTV WKY-TV Channel 5 Channel 9 Channel 4.