The Los Angeles Times printed a story about Senator Dorgan's efforts to elicit a response from the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) with the title " Fox Tops Tally of Violence on Major TV Networks Media: Study of a week of prime-time shows also lists ' Brisco County ' as bloodiest series.

* FCC Hearing on Media Consolidation, Seattle, Nov 2007 Video of public testimony

John Douglas, an active member of Morality in Media, claimed that he heard the broadcast while driving with his then 15-year-old son and complained to the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) that the material was inappropriate for the time of day.

A Microsoft spokeperson said that Windows Media Center adheres to the " rules set forth by the FCC ", even though no legislation actually requires following such rules.

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 ).

“ FCC Scandal Explodes with Second Revelation of Suppressed Media Ownership Research ,” Common Dreams website, 19 September.

Paul Schmelzer, “ The Fast Lane and the Dirt Path: Corporate Media, Democracy and the FCC ,” Minnesota Monitor, 5 November.

Paul Schmelzer, “ An Opening Salvo: Robert McChesney on Democracy, the FCC, and Launching a Media Revolution ,” eyeteeth. com., 7 July.

In November 2007, the FCC approved the sale of the station by Clark Atlanta University ( WCLK FM 90. 1 ) to Extreme Media Group LLC of Woodstock, Virginia.

The Telecommunications Research and Action Center ( TRAC ) and Media Access Project ( MAP ) argued that teletext transmissions should be regulated like any other airwave technology, hence the Fairness Doctrine was applicable ( and must be enforced by the FCC ).

* Speech to the Media Institute by FCC Commissioner Robert M. McDowell on January 28, 2009, outlining the likely practical and constitutional challenges of reviving a fairness or neutrality doctrine

( Manhan Media's owner, Stephen P. Mumblow, subsequently started Deerfield Media to acquire the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) assets, including the licenses, of several stations that are being divested by Sinclair in the wake of its purchase of stations from Newport Television.

The FCC had already allowed Media General ( owner of WSPA ) to buy LMA partner WASV-TV ( now WYCW ) outright and a Sinclair purchase of WBSC would have left the market with only seven unique station owners.

NBCUniversal Media, LLC ( formerly known as NBC Universal, Inc .)< ref name =" Comcast FCC "> Detailed Description of the Transaction, Appendix 2, Comcast-GE-NBCU Voluntary Commitments – January 28, 2010

* 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.

The Media Council of Hawaii attempted to complain to the FCC about the agreement, stating that it would " directly reduce the diversity of local voices in a community by replacing independent newscasts on the brokered station with those of the brokering station.

The plan, however, has met with criticism from organizations such as Media Council Hawaii which views the plan as a way to circumvent Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) rules preventing one company owning two of the top four stations in any market ( The FCC only recognizes ownership of facility identifications and not a station's call sign or other properties, and as such Raycom's ownership of both KHNL and KGMB, once it moved to Channel 5, would be allowed ).

Organizations such as media watchdog group Media Council Hawaii viewed the plan as a way to circumvent FCC rules preventing one company owning two of the top four stations in any market.

" The FCC, in response to Media Council Hawaii's filing of an objection over the SSA, has asked Raycom for detailed, unredacted agreements in relation to the SSA.

The incident came after Chris Carroll, who was USC's Director of Student Media at the time, levied several allegations against the station, such as the station's license being " flagged " by the FCC for revocation because of the airing of a song by the band Pansy Division, as well as several secondary violations.

Styles Media applied to the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) and received approval to upgrade the signal.

When Wilcox sold WPEP to Anastos Media, there was an informal agreement that Anastos Media would turn in the station's license to allow WNSH ( on the same frequency ) to up their power, contingent on the power increase being granted by the FCC.

* FCC Wireline Competition Bureau, formerly the Common Carrier Bureau

The EAS regulations and standards are governed by the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau of the FCC.

#" Toward Competitive Provision of Public Record Message Services ", ETIP ( Experimental Technology Incentives Program ), National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C., October, 1981 ; " domestic Public Message Services ", FCC publication 71FCC 2d 471 ; " Telecommunications Competition and Deregulation Act of 1981 " ( FCC Computer Inquiry II ), Docket 20828, December 30, 1980 ; " Denial of AT & T Petition for Waiver of Section 64. 702 of the Commission Rules and Regulations ", October 7, 1981, Federal Communications Reports 88FCC 2d.

Pursuant to a ruling by the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) on February 12, 2004, the Wireline Competition Bureau considers FWD to be an information service rather than a telecommunications service.

Originally CALEA only granted the ability to wiretap digital telephone networks, but in 2004, the United States Department of Justice ( DOJ ), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives ( ATF ), Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ), and Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) filed a joint petition with the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) to expand their powers to include the ability to monitor VoIP and broadband internet communications -- so that they could monitor Web traffic as well as phone calls.

Before the public meeting, Thigpenn had already contacted the Broadcast Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) to discover that two analog television frequencies ( channels 30 and 47 ) were available for broadcast in Jacksonville.

Part of the Florence Federal Correctional Complex ( FCC Florence ), it is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.

* Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau part of FCC

The Bureau alleged that the station had used different antennas and antenna height than what was authorized by the FCC.

The membership of the FCC ( which totals over 1800 ) includes reporters, photographers and radio and television teams, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong and leading figures in the worlds of business and diplomacy.

Chief Engineer and then-student Geoff Mendenhall designed and built a 425W power amplifier which, once type certified by the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) in August 1968, brought WREK to 3, 400W ERP.

Despite his brief tenure as FCC Chairman, The New York Times described his term with the headline " Temporary Chief Proves More Than a Fill-In ".

FCC Chief Administrative Law Judge Richard Sippel ruled in April 2006 to grant a two-year license renewal for KALW while reducing a fine for public file violations from $ 300, 000 to just $ 10, 000.

Ford was quick to admit that Alvin Jeweler was the real engineering brains for WHFS-FM, but Jeweler had allowed his FCC license to expire, so Ford was listed as Chief Engineer.

Graduates include several leading judicial, academic, and political figures, including U. S. Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, U. S. Senator Robert Patrick Casey, Jr. of Pennsylvania, U. S. Rep. Kathy Hochul of New York, Justice Peggy A. Quince of the Florida Supreme Court, U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission member Naomi C. Earp, Former FCC Commissioner Kathleen Q. Abernathy, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Rhode Island House Minority Leader, Robert A. Watson, Chief Judge Edward J. Damich of the United States Court of Federal Claims, former National Labor Relations Board Chair John H. Fanning, Chief Administrative Law Judge James G. Gilbert of the United States Postal Service, B. Jeffrey Cravath, Senior Vice President of Fannie Mae, Christine Luchok Fallon, Reporter of Decisions for the U. S. Supreme Court, and Arizona Cardinals President Michael Bidwill.

For several months in 1993 Quello was the Acting Chairman of the FCC, succeeded by Bill Clinton nominee Reed E. Hundt.

Well-known KZSU alumni include former FCC chairman Bill Kennard, inventor Ray Dolby, murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, TV " Batman " Adam West, broadcasting mogul and KGO talk show host Jim Gabbert, syndicated radio personality Paul " The Lobster " Wells, Hollywood producer Mike Tollin, Court TV News co-anchor Vinnie Politan, NBC News correspondent Pete Williams, post-punk laptop rapper MC Lars, and a bevy of sportscasters including Don Tollefson, Scott Reiss, and San Francisco Giants play-by-play man Dave Flemming.

On September 22, 2004, the FCC fined Viacom the maximum $ 27, 500 ( US ) penalty for each of the twenty CBS-owned television stations ( including satellites of WFRV in Green Bay, WCCO in Minneapolis, and KUTV in Salt Lake City ; current CBS owned-and-operated station KOVR in Sacramento at the time was owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group ) for a total $ 550, 000 fine, the largest ever against a television broadcaster at that time.

For instance, KMRI in Salt Lake City, Utah, when they operated under the KRPN call sign, identified itself as " WKRP N Salt Lake City "— a manner allowable by the FCC even though the " W " was extra and the " N " served as a homophone for the word " in " ( if " K-R-P-N, Salt Lake City " was spoken, the ID was legal ).

In 1993 owner Cherokee Broadcasting received FCC approval to upgrade to class C2, with a much stronger signal and relocation of their transmitter site from the WTLK-TV 14 ( now WPXA-TV ) tower on Bear Mountain ( near Lake Arrowhead southwest of Waleska ) south-southeastward toward Atlanta.

Due to a Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) media cross-ownership rule, Bonneville was unable to purchase additional media outlets in Salt Lake City beyond its flagship cluster.

According to FCC maps, WHLC covers the southwestern half of Macon County ( including Franklin ), the southern half of Jackson County ( including Cashiers ) to the east, the southwestern corner of Transylvania County ( as far as Lake Toxaway ) further east, the far northwestern tip of South Carolina ( as far south as Walhalla ) to the south and southeast, and the eastern half of Rabun County, Georgia ( out to Clayton ) to the southwest.

Two additional stations were added to the company's Salt Lake City cluster in 2000 with the winning bids on new licenses in an FCC auction.

In 1980, the FCC added a new VHF allocation on channel 13 to the Salt Lake City market.

On March 21, 1984, the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) granted an original construction permit to Weber State College ( now Weber State University ) for a full-service educational television to serve Ogden and the Salt Lake City area on VHF channel 9.

On May 24, 1983, the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) granted an original construction permit to build a full-power television station on UHF channel 30 to serve the city of Ogden and the Salt Lake City market.

KMGR has an application pending at the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) to move to Humphreys Peak and serve the rest of the Salt Lake market from there, thus also benefiting from the move of KXRK from 96. 1 to 96. 3.

On April 24, 1985, the FCC granted an original construction permit to build a full-power television station on UHF channel 16 to serve the city of Provo, Utah, and the Salt Lake City television market.

Because of FCC allocation considerations, 88. 3 FM cannot use as much power as most of the other Salt Lake City FM stations.