Community Antenna Television Problems, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Communications...92-1, June 15, 19711971 - 141 lappuses |
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46. lappuse - For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States a rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and worldwide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges...
46. lappuse - Study new uses for radio, provide for experimental uses of frequencies, and generally encourage the larger and more effective use of radio in the public interest...
48. lappuse - The Commission may perform any and all acts, make such rules and regulations, and issue such orders, not inconsistent with this Act, as may be necessary in the execution of its functions.
48. lappuse - It is the right of the public to receive suitable access to social, political, esthetic, moral, and other ideas and experiences which is crucial here. That right may not constitutionally be abridged either by Congress or by the FCC.
47. lappuse - Act] is recognition of the rapidly fluctuating factors characteristic of the evolution of broadcasting and of the corresponding requirement that the administrative process possess sufficient flexibility to adjust itself to these factors.
42. lappuse - After studying the comments received and our own engineering estimates, we have decided to require that there be built into cable systems the capacity for two-way communication. This is apparently now feasible at a not inordinate additional cost, and its availability is essential for many of cable's public services. Such two-way communication, even if rudimentary in nature, can be useful in a host of ways for surveys, marketing services, burglar alarm devices, educational feed-back, to name a...
47. lappuse - The provisions of this Act shall apply to all interstate and foreign communication by wire or radio and all interstate and foreign transmission -of energy by radio, which originates and/or is received within the United States, and to all persons engaged within the United States in such communication...
46. lappuse - In the context of the developing problems to which it was directed, the Act gave the Commission not niggardly but expansive powers. It was given a comprehensive mandate to "encourage the larger and more effective use of radio in the public interest," if need be, by making "special regulations applicable to radio stations engaged in chain broadcasting.
46. lappuse - Nor can we doubt that CATV systems are engaged in interstate communication, even where, as here, the intercepted signals emanate from stations located within the same State in which the CATV system operates. We may take notice that television broadcasting consists in very large part of programming devised for, and distributed to, national audiences ; respondents thus are ordinarily employed in the simultaneous retransmission of communications that have very often originated in other States. The stream...
46. lappuse - In considering applications for licenses, and modifications and renewals thereof, when and insofar as there is demand for the same, the Commission shall make such distribution of licenses, frequencies, hours of operation, and of power among the several States and communities as to provide a fair, efficient, and equitable distribution of radio service to each of the same.