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The Radio Act of 1910 signed into law. [1] 1911: A radio division was established by the Department of Commerce to govern the Radio Act of 1910. [1] 1912: Congress passed the "Marine Act" to regulate communications. This was the first general US law to oversee the use of radio transmissions. [1] 1927: The Federal Radio Act formed the Federal ...
This includes all communication by radio, telephone, wire, cable and satellite. [2] Telecommunications policy outlines antitrust laws as is common for industries with large barriers to entry. Other features of the policies addressed include common carrier laws which controls access to networks.
Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission, 395 U.S. 367 (1969), was a seminal First Amendment ruling at the United States Supreme Court.The Supreme Court held that radio broadcasters enjoyed free speech rights under the First Amendment, but those rights could be partially restricted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to maintain the public interest in equitable ...
Although similar laws are unconstitutional when applied to the press, the court cited a Senate report (S. Rep. No. 562, 86th Cong., 1st Sess., 8-9 [1959]) stating that radio stations could be regulated in this way because of the limited public airwaves at the time.
In the media and broadcasting sector, most media ownership regulations were eased, and the cap on radio station ownership was eliminated. [21] The act also attempted to prohibit indecency and obscenity on the Internet, via a section that was separately titled as the Communications Decency Act , though most of this section was ruled ...
In F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, the Supreme Court upheld the possibility of the FCC delivering administrative sanctions to a radio station for broadcasting George Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words" comedy routine. [6] In Reno v. ACLU, though, the Supreme Court held that this case law did not justify the CDA. The Court reasoned that the FCC's ...
The first section of the act originally read as follows: "For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible to all the people of the United States a rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and world-wide wire and radio communication service with adequate ...
George Carlin has been credited for his role in this turning point for the law. In 1997, Pacifica Radio host Larry Bensky prefaced an interview with Carlin by saying: "George Carlin, you're a very unusual guest for Pacifica Radio. You're probably the only person in the United States that we don't have to give The Carlin Warning to about which ...