enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Significantly viewed out-of-market television stations in the ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significantly_viewed_out...

    Significantly viewed signals permitted to be carried 47 U.S.C. § 340 or the Significantly Viewed list (SV) is a federal law which allows television stations as determined by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to be carried by cable and other multichannel video programming distributor (MVPD) providers outside their assigned Nielsen designated market area (DMA). [1]

  3. All-Channel Receiver Act - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-Channel_Receiver_Act

    Under the All-Channel Receiver Act, FCC regulations would ensure that all new TV sets sold in the U.S. after 1964 had built-in UHF tuners. By 1971, there would be more than 170 full-service UHF broadcast stations nationwide; [ 5 ] the number of UHF stations would grow further to accommodate new television networks such as the Public ...

  4. List of North American broadcast station classes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American...

    Land mobile use of a TV channel (TV RF channels 14-20 only) LM As "LM" is used in the FCC database to indicate reallocation of an entire channel, but not to identify individual users transmitting in that spectrum, a 6 MHz LM allocation does not itself carry a TV-style call sign. The spectrum of TV channels 14-20 is called "T-band" in LMR use. [17]

  5. List of United States over-the-air television networks

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_over...

    American Broadcasting Company (ABC) – The nation's third-largest commercial network, ABC was originally formed from the NBC Blue Network (1927–1945), a radio network which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) forced NBC (National Broadcasting Company) to sell in 1943 for anti-monopoly reasons, the ABC-TV network began broadcasting in 1948.

  6. Call signs in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_signs_in_the_United...

    Under current FCC regulations in force since 1998, the limits on reassigning three-letter call signs have been relaxed. The restriction requiring a common community of license was removed, and an owner of a station with a three-letter base call sign can now request the same three-letter call (with an "-FM", "-TV", or "-LP" suffix as necessary ...

  7. Communications in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_in_the...

    The FCC logo. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent government agency responsible for regulating the radio, television and phone industries. The FCC regulates all interstate communications, such as wire, satellite and cable, and international communications originating or terminating in the United States.

  8. Channel 6 radio stations in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_6_radio_stations...

    KJIB broadcast audio on 87.89 MHz because of interference from other channel 6 low-power stations. The station was licensed only to channel 5, and its license surrendered in 2014, but a local church has tried to modify the terms of license to allow its operation. The FCC in 2018 submitted a Notice of Unlicensed Operation to the station.

  9. Federal Communications Commission - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications...

    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 ...