At the inception of cellular in 1983, the FCC had granted each carrier within a market 333 channels ( 666 channels total ).

Herald-Traveler Corp. operated for years under temporary authority from the Federal Communications Commission stemming from controversy over luncheon meetings the newspaper's chief executive had with an FCC commissioner during the original licensing process ( Some Boston broadcast historians accuse the Boston Globe of being covertly behind the proceeding.

The executive editor of the paper in the late 1960s, Reed Hundt, who later served as chairman of the FCC, noted that the Daily News had a flexible policy about publishing cartoons: " We publish pretty much anything.

By June 1945, the RCA had pushed the FCC hard on the allocation of electromagnetic frequencies for the fledgling television industry.

The repeal of the Fairness Doctrine — which had required that stations provide free air time for responses to any controversial opinions that were broadcast — by the FCC in 1987 meant stations could broadcast editorial commentary without having to present opposing views.

The first was on the right side with the channel number, call signs and city, then the second was the blue bar and the call letters only By the late 1990s, the call signs were minimized to be just barely readable to meet FCC requirements, and the stations were simply known as " UPN ", then channel number or city ( e. g., WPWR-TV in Chicago had been referred to as " UPN Chicago " and WWOR-TV in New York was referred to as " UPN 9 " until The CW merger was announced in late January 2006 ).

The flood of publicity after the broadcast had two effects: an FCC ban on faux news bulletins within dramatic programming, and sponsorship for The Mercury Theatre on the Air — the former sustaining program became The Campbell Playhouse to sell soup.

Commercial systems started appearing in the United States in 1970, after the FCC had legalized the use of SSTV for advanced level amateur radio operators in 1968.

v. United States et al., 319 U. S. 190 on May 10, 1943, that the FCC had the right to issue regulations pertaining to associations between broadcasting networks and their affiliated stations.

Justice Frank Murphy offered a dissenting opinion, stating that the Court was effectively giving the FCC a power to regulate networks which had not been given to the FCC by Congress.

The FRC had a short, 6-year term in American history and transferred its responsibility, as the agency for managing the radio spectrum, to the FCC after the Communications Act of 1934.

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 the FCC from the Act.

However, the FCC was influenced by RCA chairman David Sarnoff, who had the covert goal of disrupting the successful FM network that Edwin Armstrong had established on the old band.

This was the only type of activation which broadcast stations were not allowed to ignore ; the FCC made local civil emergencies and weather advisories optional ( except for stations that had agreed to be the " primary " source of such messages ).

The FCC had continued to add more requirements and mandate a more sophisticated 911 function.

In the United States, the FCC requires networks to route every mobile-phone and payphone 911 call to an emergency service call center, including phones that have never had service, or whose service has lapsed.

Through the early-1980s, electronics that output a television channel signal were required to meet the same shielding requirements as broadcast television equipment, thus forcing manufacturers such as Apple to omit an RF modulator, and Texas Instruments to have their RF modulator as an external unit, which they had certified by the FCC without mentioning they were planning to sell it with a computer.

The Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) in 1970 had limited the number of radio station one person or company could own to 1 am and 1 FM locally and 7 am and 7 FM stations nationally.

A solution was immediately forthcoming ; rapid development of radio receiver electronics during the war had opened a wide band of higher frequencies to practical use, and the FCC set aside a large section of these new UHF bands for television broadcast.

When CBS testified before Congress in March 1953 that it had no further plans for its own color system, the National Production Authority dropped its ban on the manufacture of color television receivers, and the path was open for the NTSC to submit its petition for FCC approval in July 1953, which was granted on December 17.

To gain FCC approval of Fox's purchase of Metromedia's television holdings, once the stations of the old DuMont network, Murdoch had to become a U. S. citizen.

Wartime advances in electronics had opened up large swaths of high frequency to practical use, and in 1948 the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) started a series of meetings on the use of what would become the UHF channels.

Operated briefly as CROK ( Community Radio of Knoxville ) before being shut down by an FCC raid September 2004.

Does the FCC thus have power to shut down all broadcasts from the Caroline, a broadcast vessel moored in the North Sea, based upon a claim that signals from that vessel's radio broadcasts were picked up, however briefly and even if creating no interference, somewhere in this country?

The Supreme Court held that all race-based classifications must be subjected to strict scrutiny in Adarand Constructors v. Peña, 515 U. S. 200 ( 1995 ), overruling Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. FCC ( 89-453 ), 497 U. S. 547 ( 1990 ), which had briefly allowed the use of intermediate scrutiny to analyze the Equal Protection implications of race-based classifications in the narrow category of affirmative-action programs established by the federal government in the broadcasting field.

However, original owner Harvard Broadcasting claimed to the FCC that WHTX had briefly resumed operations on an annual basis, and the license was reinstated a month later ; it was sold to Entravision soon thereafter.

The FCC approved the use of ASCII by Amateur Radio stations on March 17, 1980 with speeds up to 300 baud from 3. 5 to 21. 25 MHz and 1200 baud between 28 and 225 MHz.

In the case of modern television receivers, no other technique was able to produce the precise bandpass characteristic needed for vestigial sideband reception, similar to that used in the NTSC system approved by the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) in 1953, and the PAL system approved by the BBC in 1957.

The WPS was approved by the FCC for NS / EP requirements on a call-by-call priority basis.

After a year of deliberation the FCC finally approved the purchase by UPT in a 5 – 2 split decision on February 9, 1953.

Much like the FRC, the FCC is made up of five commissioners, who are appointed by the President and approved by the Senate.

of Justice and FCC approved the merger on Oct. 30th and Nov. 4th, 2008 respectively.

In the United States, iBiquity's proprietary HD Radio has been adopted and approved by the FCC for medium wave transmissions, while Digital Radio Mondiale is a more open effort often used on the shortwave bands, and can be used alongside many AM broadcasts.

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.

Despite a 1967 recommendation that MCI's application be approved, final authorization for MCI to begin operations was delayed until after H. Rex Lee became an FCC Commissioner in October 1968.

* Ancillary Terrestrial Component, a terrestrial mobile telecom system added to a mobile satellite system, approved by the U. S. FCC for portions of the S band

CBS had their electro-mechanical color television system approved by the FCC on October 10, 1950, however Sarnoff filed an unsuccessful suit in the United States district court to suspend that ruling.

On December 17, 1953 the FCC approved RCA's system as the new standard.

On January 29, 2010, the FCC approved the request.

HD Radio technology is the only digital technology approved by the FCC for digital AM and FM broadcasting in the US.

The sale was approved by the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) on October 11, 2007.

On July 20, 2000, the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) approved 2-1-1 for nation-wide use as a short number in the United States along with 5-1-1.

On July 25, 2008, after 17 months, the merger was approved in a 3 – 2 vote by the FCC.

After lobbying by RCA President David Sarnoff and Paley in Washington, D. C., the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) approved the RCA color system as the standard, and CBS sold the patents to its system to foreign broadcasters as PAL SECAM.

* 1982: FCC approved AT & T proposal for AMPS ) and allocated frequencies in the 824-894 MHz band.

The FCC approved the application, mostly because the new application changed the class of the station from C ( up to 100 kW at 600 meters or 1968 feet ) down to C3 ( up to 25 kW at 100 meters or 328 feet ) to protect the licensed broadcast range of WSSL.

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.

In the U. S., the FCC approved Digital Audio Radio Satellite ( DARS ) broadcasts in the S band from 2. 31 to 2. 36 GHz, currently used by Sirius XM Radio.

The Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) approved the sale of WBTV on March 25, 2008, and Raycom formally took control on April 1.