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  2. Regulation of radio broadcast in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Title 47 is extremely diverse in what it controls. Radio broadcasts consist of amplitude modulation (AM) and frequency modulation (FM) stations, noncommercial radio stations, and low-powered broadcast stations, to name a few, all are administrated by the policies in Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations. [5]

  3. Prime Time Access Rule - Wikipedia

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    Initially, the rule required the commercial networks to cede one half-hour of their nightly programming to their affiliates (or owned-and-operated stations) in the 50 largest markets, Mondays through Saturdays, from 7:30 to 8 p.m. Eastern (6:30 to 7 Central), and a full hour on Sundays, between 7 and 7:30 p.m. (6 to 6:30 Central) and 10:30 to 11 p.m. (9:30 to 10 Central).

  4. FCC repeals restrictions on consolidation of media companies

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    The decades-old regulations were implemented in order to keep a diversity of perspectives within print, radio, and televised media outlets, but FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says they're out of date and ...

  5. Communications Act of 1934 - Wikipedia

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    The Communications Act of 1934 is a United States federal law signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 19, 1934, and codified as Chapter 5 of Title 47 of the United States Code, 47 U.S.C. § 151 et seq. The act replaced the Federal Radio Commission with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

  6. FCC to Launch Review of Media Ownership Rules, Including Ban ...

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    WASHINGTON — The FCC will review whether to modify or even eliminate a series of media ownership proposals, including a current ban on mergers among the four major broadcast networks. The review ...

  7. Federal Communications Commission - Wikipedia

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    The FCC's mission, specified in Section One of the Communications Act of 1934 and amended by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (amendment to 47 U.S.C. §151), is to "make available so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, rapid, efficient, nationwide, and world-wide wire and radio ...

  8. Federal Radio Commission - Wikipedia

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    United States Department of Commerce Radio Division. Federal Radio Commission Rules and Regulations (United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1931) "The Radio Act of 1927 as a Product of Progressivism" by Mark Goodman, Media History Monographs, volume 2 (1998-1999) (elon.edu)

  9. Mass media regulation - Wikipedia

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    Most EU member states have replaced media ownership regulations with competition laws. These laws are created by governing bodies to protect consumers from predatory business practices by ensuring that fair competition exists in an open-market economy. However, these laws cannot solve the problem of convergence and concentration of media. [22]