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  2. Significantly viewed out-of-market television stations in the ...

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    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. Broadcast law - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Local Community Radio Act - Wikipedia

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    Introduced by U.S. Senators John McCain, Maria Cantwell, Patrick Leahy; After the FCC complied with the provisions of the Radio Broadcasting Act of 2000 by commissioning the MITRE Report to test if there was significant interference from LPFM stations on the full-power stations, the study showed that the interference of LPFM is minimal and won't have a significant effect on other stations.

  5. FCC regulation says network TV stations must run ... - AOL

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    Further, only network television must abide by the regulations, not cable stations or web-based properties like podcasts. Randall Terry, a longtime anti-abortion activist, is behind the shocking ads.

  6. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. FCC - Wikipedia

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    After the Supreme Court's final ruling in 1997 on the constitutionality of must-carry cable regulations, the enforcement of such regulations by the FCC was deemed essential in prolonging the viability of local television channels in an unfavorable media landscape, while cable networks rapidly expanded in capacity and being required to carry ...

  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. All-Channel Receiver Act - Wikipedia

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    The All-Channel Receiver Act of 1962 (ACRA), commonly known as the All-Channels Act, was passed by the United States Congress in 1961, to allow the Federal Communications Commission to require that all television set manufacturers must include UHF tuners, so that new UHF-band TV stations (then channels 14 to 83) could be received by the public.

  9. Trump’s pick for FCC chair wants to eliminate the law ... - AOL

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    President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, is a longtime opponent of Big Tech. Carr wants to do away with many of the protections afforded ...