Editor's note.

• Author: Salons, Deborah J.

Welcome to the third issue of Volume 55 of the Federal Communications Law Journal. Volume 55 marks the tenth anniversary of the co-publishing arrangement between the Federal Communications Bar Association and the Indiana University School of Law--Bloomington. This partnership has been a privilege for the Law School and the cornerstone of our communications law program. On behalf of the ten editorial boards which have managed the day-to-day operations of the Journal, we are grateful to the Association, its Editorial Advisory Board, and to each of its members and Journal readers for this remarkable opportunity.

We celebrated the tenth anniversary within the Law School with a speaker series on "The Intersection of Communications and the Law." The series featured an array of practitioners, academics, and Law School and Journal alumni; it provided not only an appropriate way to highlight the occasion within the Law School community, but also a thought-provoking overview of a variety of current communications issues.

In this issue we are proud to extend the celebration of our tenth anniversary to the members of the Association and our other readers. To mark the occasion, the Editorial Board, at the suggestion of the Editorial Advisory Board, decided to revisit former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton N. Minow's 1961 "Vast Wasteland" speech. We include the original speech to the National Association of Broadcasters, together with a wide-ranging interview with Faculty Advisor Fred H. Cate in which Minow re-examines his famous speech, assesses the video marketplace of today, and reflects on his extraordinary career.

Our tenth anniversary coincides with the fortieth anniversary of the end of Minow's term as FCC Chairman in 1963, and we are delighted to honor his continuing career of distinguished public and professional service with this issue.

We also invited a diverse array of leading communications attorneys, government officials, producers, entertainers, commentators, and public interest advocates to reflect on the speech and to take up the challenge that Minow posed to the NAB over forty years ago: "I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you--and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off." In 1961, Minow said, "I can assure you that you will observe a vast...