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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 ...
“Today, I have directed the FCC to take a stand on behalf of the First Amendment. We draw a bright line at a moment when clarity about government interference with the free press is needed more ...
The FCC chair under Joe Biden, Jessica Rosenworcel, dismissed the complaints last week, in the final days of Biden’s term. She said at the time the filings had sought to “weaponize the ...
Patrick Webre, the FCC's acting bureau chief for enforcement, wrote in a Wednesday order that Rosenworcel's dismissals of the ABC, CBS and NBC cases were "issued prematurely based on an ...
The FCC ruled "that a broadcast station should not be allowed to refuse a request for political advertising time solely on the ground that the station does not sell or program such lengths of time". Politics have had many effects and changes to the act that are not in the "best interest of the public" thus taking away some of the power given to ...
There is a naturally limited quantity of usable spectrum that exists, therefore the market demand is immense, especially as use of mobile technology, which uses the electromagnetic spectrum, expands. One of the goals of the FCC is to best utilize this limited resource in such a way will bring about the "highest and best use". [4]
The FCC's net neutrality rules prevented internet service providers from throttling or blocking some content or charging more to deliver it. What is net neutrality? Why a federal appeals court ...
The FCC, an independent federal agency, does not license broadcast networks, but issues them to individual broadcast stations that are renewed for eight-year periods. Trump claimed the debate was ...