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Disfavor ran rampant against the state of radio in the 1930s and 1940s. Chief among the complaints: the vulgarity of radio commercials and overcommercialization, the erosion of so-called "sustaining (non-commercial) programs", the influence of advertisers to shape news coverage, and the lax performance of broadcasters to abide by their original obligations towards public service. [5]
The code paved the way for the development of the Broadcast Standards and Practices (BS&P) departments of the terrestrial broadcast networks (NBC, CBS, ABC) and most cable networks. After the Television Code's demise and with the burden of self-regulation now falling to networks, the BS&P offices were forced to produce their own written codes ...
Published in 1946, the FCC Blue Book detailed the lack of diversity in contemporary radio broadcasting and seeks to define the "public interest" by outlining various public service responsibilities of broadcasters such as experimental noncommercial programming, more local news and the public service responsibilities of broadcasters.
The Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 amended Title VI and required cable systems to carry most local broadcast channels and prohibited cable operators from charging local broadcasters to carry their signal. One major amendment to the Communications Act of 1934 was made on September 7, 1999.
Starting Tuesday, broadcasters are required to disclose foreign government-sponsored programming. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unanimously adopted the foreign sponsorship ...
The Government’s White Paper includes various reform plans, with Channel Four’s privatisation among them.
Long-standing impartiality rules for broadcasters have not been amended recently. Fact check: Ofcom’s rules on party broadcast time unchanged since at least 2017 Skip to main content
In the US, broadcasting falls under the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission.. Some of the more notable aspects of broadcast law involve: frequency allocation: The division of the spectrum into unlicensed frequency bands -- ISM band and U-NII—and licensed frequency bands -- television channel frequencies, FM broadcast band, amateur radio frequency allocations, etc.