When the US telephone industry was opened to more competition in the 1980s, the specifications became US law, ordered by the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) and codified in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 47 CFR Part 68, Subpart F superseded by T1. TR5-1999.

To increase competition, the FCC, in 1991, ordered the implementation of 800-number portability by May 1, 1993.

Circuit ordered the FCC to justify these corollary rules in light of the decision to repeal the Fairness Doctrine.

The FCC did not provide prompt justification and ultimately ordered their repeal in 2000.

In 1965, the FCC ordered the swap reversed without NBC realizing any profit on the deal.

* In May 2006, FCC chairman Kevin Martin ordered a review of airing of VNRs by television stations, following the April 2006 report by the Center for Media and Democracy.

On October 18, 2011, the FCC ordered W284BQ to cease operation immediately.

However, it held that the FCC had overreached in tying the other two license renewals to WNAC's renewal, and ordered new hearings.

RKO appealed this decision, but in April 1982 the FCC denied its appeal and ordered RKO to surrender the station's license.

On June 11, 1998, after securing proposals and recommendations from interested parties, the FCC ordered that cable companies would provide a separable security access device by July 1, 2000 which could be used by third-party devices to access digital cable networks.

KYW and the other Westinghouse radio stations remained with NBC after RCA was ordered by the FCC to break up its radio networks, aligning with the former Red Network ( the predecessor of modern-day NBC ) in 1942.

In August 1964, after a nearly eight-year-long investigation, the FCC ordered a reversal of the swap.

On October 18, 2011, the FCC sided with Clear Channel on the issue, and ordered W284BQ to cease operation immediately.

The FCC was ordered to reconfigure how it justifies raising ownership limits.

On September 22, 2011, the FCC ordered MSG to negotiate with both Verizon and AT & T for carriage on each system.

In November 2011, the 104. 7 FM signal went silent after having broadcast a smooth jazz format ( simulcasting WGPR-HD2 ) for several months, having been ordered off the air by the FCC due to interference with WIOT in Toledo, Ohio.

In the issuing of broadcast licenses, the FCC relies on " comparative hearings ", whereby the most qualified user will get use of the spectrum in order to best serve the public interest.

In 1981, after a seven year comparative hearing, the FCC award the license to Greater Media, owned by Daniel Lerner.

Controversy ensued at FCC hearings over Noble's intention to keep Mark Woods on as president, which led to the suggestion that Woods would continue to work with ( and for ) his former employers.

Since the transfer of station licenses was again involved, the FCC set hearings, which proved to be contentious.

The issue was to be given to the new FCC to study and to hold hearings on and to report back to Congress.

After a series of hearings beginning in September 1949, the FCC found the RCA and CTI systems fraught with technical problems, inaccurate color reproduction, and expensive equipment, and so formally approved the CBS system as the U. S. color broadcasting standard on October 11, 1950.

With the support and guidance of National Educational Television already in their pocket, ETMA later received an endorsement from newly appointed FCC Chairman Newton Minow, who established public hearings to discuss the fate of channel 13.

Through 2007, AFTRA elected leaders, members, and staff testified at numerous hearings held throughout the country and sent letters to the FCC opposing consolidation of media ownership.

The bill would have shortened a station's license term from eight years to four, with the requirement that a license-holder cover important issues fairly, hold local public hearings about its coverage twice a year, and document to the FCC how it was meeting its obligations.

However, in the FCC hearings, RKO General had withheld evidence of General Tire's misconduct, and had also failed to disclose evidence of accounting errors on its own part.

In 1990 Weiner attended FCC Administrative Court hearings concerning both his application for a license and his previous land based and offshore illegal activities.

While it issued only a warning to KALW about employment practices, more significantly, the FCC decided that allegations of lying were supported by sufficient evidence to warrant hearings.

In hearings that began back in June 1960, it was found that some of the principals of Biscayne Television, as well as some of James M. Cox's personal friends, had made improper contact with FCC commissioner Richard Mack in order to influence the award of the construction permit and licenses.

After a half-decade in the most recent round of hearings and investigations, the FCC stripped RKO of WNAC-TV's license on June 6, 1980, finding that RKO " lacked the requisite character " to be the station's licensee.

After lengthy Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) hearings, KSFO won the 740 frequency, but later decided to stay at 560 and concentrate its efforts on building a television station.

The FCC license hearings culminated in the loss of the company's license to operate WNAC-TV, Channel 7 in Boston.

The FCC held evidentiary hearings with the competing applicants in 1984, and in 1985, announced the winning applicant.

Its system was one of three considered in a series of FCC hearings from September 1949 to May 1950.

In reply to CTI's petition to reopen the hearings, the FCC said that " new ideas and new inventions are matters of weekly, even daily, occurrence ," and therefore the Commission had to make a decision at some point.

The amendment, proposed by senators Robert Wagner of New York and Henry Hatfield of West Virginia, would have given the issue to the new Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) to study and to hold hearings on the effectiveness of the amendment and to reported its finding to Congress.

Channel 9 was officially reserved for emergency use by the FCC in 1969.

The FCC issued a final ruling on Docket 16509, MCI's licensing request, on 14 August 1969.

Public-access television was created in the United States between 1969 and 1971 by the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ), under Chairman Dean Burch, based on pioneering work and advocacy of George Stoney, Red Burns ( Alternate Media Center and Sidney Dean ( City Club of NY ).

In 1969, in the First Report and Order, the FCC stated,

* Hot Wheels: The first known television series to be produced to promote a toyline, these toys were featured in a 1969 animated series conceived by Mattel exec Bernard Loomis that led to new FCC rules on Saturday morning cartoons.

When the FCC enacted in 1969 its " one-to-a-market " rule, which enforced the ban on common ownership of two or more television stations with overlapping coverage areas while grandfathering some already existing instances, the common ownership of WLW radio ( a 50, 000-watt, clear-channel station ) and WLWT, and the Columbus, Dayton, and Indianapolis television stations were among those which were protected under the new rule.

Public-access television was created in the United States between 1969 and 1971 by the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) and has since been mandated under the Cable Communications Act of 1984, which is codified under 47 USC § 531.

KUCI became legal after it was forced to officially register with the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) following a crack-down on illegal radio broadcasts in 1969.

On October 16, 1969, the FCC granted KUCI Program Test Authority to broadcast on 89. 9 MHz.