Examples of broadcasting in the following topics:
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- Broadcasting media has been regulated since the 1920s to ensure balanced and fair coverage, along with coverage of relevant, local issues.
- The Radio Act of 1927 was the first major broadcasting law in the country.
- This act was another crucial moment in broadcasting law history, because it created the Federal Communications Commission (FCC, ).
- (In this context, the word "radio" covers both broadcast radio and television).
- The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has promised to ensure fairness in broadcasting.
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- Broadcast journalism is journalism published through the radio, the television, or the Internet.
- Radio was the first medium for broadcast journalism.
- Programming can be locally produced, broadcast by a radio network, or aired by syndication.
- In broadcast news, the Internet is a key part of this convergence.
- A newscaster (short for "news broadcaster") is a presenter of news bulletins.
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- The Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau (CGB) develops and implements the FCC's consumer policies, including disability access; The Enforcement Bureau (EB) is responsible for enforcement of provisions of the Communications Act of 1934, along with FCC rules, orders and conditions of station authorizations; The International Bureau (IB) develops international policies in telecommunications like coordination of frequency allocation; The Media Bureau (MB) develops, recommends and administers the policy and licensing programs relating to electronic media, including cable television, broadcast television, and radio in the United States and its territories; The Wireless Telecommunications Service (WCS) deals with Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) and fixed, mobile, and broadcast services on the 700 MHz Band; The Wireline Competition Bureau (WCB) develops policy concerning wireline telecommunications.
- The FCC regulates broadcast stations, amateur radio operators, and repeater stations as well as commercial broadcasting operators.
- Broadcast licenses are to be renewed if the station meets the "public interest, convenience, or necessity. "
- The FCC's enforcement powers include fines and broadcast license revocation.
- The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has promised to ensure fairness in broadcasting.
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- Rolling news channels broadcast news 24 hours a day.
- Live coverage will be broadcast from a relevant location and sent back to the newsroom via fixed cable links, microwave radio, production truck, satellite truck, or online streaming.
- Most news shows are broadcast live.
- From their beginnings until around 1995, evening television news broadcasts continued featuring serious news stories right up to the end of the program, as opposed to later broadcasts with such anchors as Katie Couric, Brian Williams, and Diane Sawyer.
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- In television, the vast majority of broadcast and basic cable networks, over a hundred in all, are controlled by nine corporations: News Corporation (the Fox family of channels), The Walt Disney Company (which includes the ABC, ESPN and Disney brands), CBS Corporation, Viacom, Comcast (which includes the NBC brands), Time Warner, Discovery Communications, EW Scripps television, or some combination thereof (including the aforementioned The CW as well as A&E networks, which is a consortium of Comcast and Disney, ).
- However, the radio broadcasting industry in the United States and elsewhere can be regarded as oligopolistic regardless of the existence of such a player.
- The similar market structure exists for television broadcasting, cable systems, and newspaper industries, all of which are characterized by the existence of large-scale owners.
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- Like newspapers, the broadcast media (radio and television, ) have been used as a mechanism for propaganda from their earliest days, a tendency made more pronounced by the initial ownership of the broadcast spectrum by national governments.
- Although a process of media deregulation has placed the majority of the Western broadcast media in private hands, there still exists a strong government presence, or even monopoly, in the broadcast media of many countries across the globe.
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- The internet age, digital cable and satellite broadcast have prservices, comes on-demand news programming.
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- All-news radio stations exist in some countries, primarily located in major metropolitan areas such as New York City, Toronto, and Chicago, which often broadcast local, national, and international news and feature stories on a set time schedule.
- All-news radio is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcast of news.
- Broadcasting pioneer Arthur W.
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- The government may restrain broadcasters, but only on a content-neutral basis.
- Pacifica Foundation (1978), the Supreme Court upheld the Federal Communications Commission's authority to restrict the use of "indecent" material in broadcasting.
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- The FCC also took steps to increase competition to broadcasters, fostering broadcast alternatives such as cable television.