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Commercial television and radio is supported by advertising.Subscription outlets, including cable and satellite television and satellite radio, have the additional revenue stream of subscriber fees (broadcast stations in some areas may also have retransmission consent privileges, but this is not universal; Canada, for instance, does not allow it).
A service can go dark for any number of reasons, including financial resources being too drained to continue effective operation of the service as being of benefit to its community of license; abandonment for a different channel or to go cable-only; complicated technical adjustments involving radio antenna repair, requiring the broadcast tower ...
A request is a frequently offered feature by some form of broadcasting entity, initially started in radio. It is an effort by the broadcaster to become interactive with their audience, allowing a means for members of the audience to ask for something specific to happen; usually the playing of a specific song.
TV’s nail-biting season has arrived. Although most of the cancellation headlines continue to be focused on the continuing purge at big streamers and premium cablers like Showtime (R.I.P., Ziwe ...
A total of nine scripted broadcast series were dispatched to TV’s dreaded MIA Network during the month of May, and one network was hit especially hard: ABC. More than half of the casualties ...
Under the provision, a broadcast station (or its affiliated/parent broadcast network) can ask for monetary payment or other compensation, such as carriage of an additional channel. If the cable operator rejects the broadcaster's proposal, the station can prohibit the cable operator from retransmitting its signal.
President Donald Trump called on CBS to cancel its long-running newsmagazine, “60 Minutes,” the latest maneuver in a legal battle he started against the program last year. A $10 billion ...
If any broadcast station is continuously silent for a full year, their license is subject to automatic forfeiture and cancellation by the FCC.) In October 2009, Grace Broadcasting Services applied to the FCC for special temporary authority to remain silent. They requested the additional time to improve the station's technical facilities and to ...