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Broadcast law, the Glossary

Broadcast law and Electricity law is the field of law that pertains to broadcasting.^[1]

39 relations: Amateur radio frequency allocations, BBC, Broadcast license, Broadcast network, Broadcasting, Broadcasting Act 1990, Broadcasting Act 1996, Broadcasting Code, Cable radio, Cable television, Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, Communications Act 2003, Communications Act of 1934, Copyright, Fairness doctrine, Federal Communications Commission, FM broadcast band, Frequency allocation, ISM radio band, Law, Localism (politics), Low-power broadcasting, Movie and Television Review and Classification Board, National Telecommunications Commission, Ofcom, Parameter, Presidency of Ronald Reagan, Profanity, Public broadcasting, Radio Act of 1927, Radio broadcasting, Regionalism (politics), Regulation, Satellite radio, Satellite television, Television channel frequencies, Television station, The Washington Post, Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure.
History of television
Pirate television

Amateur radio frequency allocations

Amateur radio frequency allocation is done by national telecommunication authorities.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Broadcast license

A broadcast license is a type of spectrum license granting the licensee permission to use a portion of the radio frequency spectrum in a given geographical area for broadcasting purposes.

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A terrestrial network (or broadcast network in the United States) is a group of radio stations, television stations, or other electronic media outlets, that form an agreement to air, or broadcast, content from a centralized source. Broadcast law and broadcast network are television terminology.

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Broadcasting

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model.

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Broadcasting Act 1990

The Broadcasting Act 1990 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which aimed to liberalise and deregulate the British broadcasting industry by promoting competition; an example being ITV, in particular, which had earlier been described by Margaret Thatcher as "the last bastion of restrictive practices".

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Broadcasting Act 1996

The Broadcasting Act 1996 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Broadcasting Code

The Broadcasting Code is a code of practice issued by the Office of Communications (Ofcom) in the UK that requires standards of good conduct for broadcasters.

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Cable radio

Cable radio is radio broadcasting into homes and businesses via a cable.

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Cable television

Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables.

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The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) is a private, non-stock, non-profit foundation in the Philippines that has focused its endeavor on press freedom protection along with the establishment of a framework of responsibility for its practice.

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Communications Act 2003

The Communications Act 2003 (c. 21) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Communications Act of 1934

The Communications Act of 1934 is a United States federal law signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 19, 1934, and codified as Chapter 5 of Title 47 of the United States Code, et seq.

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Copyright

A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.

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Fairness doctrine

The fairness doctrine of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, was a policy that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints.

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Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.

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FM broadcast band

The FM broadcast band is a range of radio frequencies used for FM broadcasting by radio stations.

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Frequency allocation

Frequency allocation (or spectrum allocation) is the part of spectrum management dealing with the designation and regulation of the electromagnetic spectrum into frequency bands, normally done by governments in most countries.

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ISM radio band

The ISM radio bands are portions of the radio spectrum reserved internationally for industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) purposes, excluding applications in telecommunications.

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Law

Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate.

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Localism (politics)

Localism is a range of political philosophies which prioritize the local.

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Low-power broadcasting

Low-power broadcasting is broadcasting by a broadcast station at a low transmitter power output to a smaller service area than "full power" stations within the same region.

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Movie and Television Review and Classification Board

The Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (Lupon sa Rebyu at Klasipikasyon ng Pelikula at Telebisyon; abbreviated as MTRCB) is a Philippine government agency under the Office of the President of the Philippines that is responsible for the classification and review of television programs, motion pictures and home videos.

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National Telecommunications Commission

The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC; Pambansang Komisyon sa Telekomunikasyon) is an attached agency of the Department of Information and Communications Technology responsible for the supervision, adjudication and control over all telecommunications services and radio and television networks throughout the Philippines.

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Ofcom

The Office of Communications, commonly known as Ofcom, is the government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom.

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Parameter

A parameter, generally, is any characteristic that can help in defining or classifying a particular system (meaning an event, project, object, situation, etc.). That is, a parameter is an element of a system that is useful, or critical, when identifying the system, or when evaluating its performance, status, condition, etc.

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Presidency of Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan's tenure as the 40th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1981, and ended on January 20, 1989.

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Profanity

Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or conversational intimacy.

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Public broadcasting

Public broadcasting (or public service broadcasting) involves radio, television, and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service.

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Radio Act of 1927

The Radio Act of 1927 (United States Public Law 632, 69th Congress) was signed into law on February 23, 1927.

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Radio broadcasting

Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience.

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Regionalism (politics)

Regionalism is a political ideology that seeks to increase the political power, influence and self-determination of the people of one or more subnational regions.

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Regulation

Regulation is the management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends.

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Satellite radio

Satellite radio is defined by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)'s ITU Radio Regulations (RR) as a broadcasting-satellite service.

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Satellite television

Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location. Broadcast law and satellite television are television terminology.

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Television channel frequencies

The following tables show the frequencies assigned to analogue broadcast television channels in various regions of the world, along with the ITU letter designator for the system used.

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Television station

A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's surface to any number of tuned receivers simultaneously.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure

The Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (U-NII) radio band, as defined by the United States Federal Communications Commission, is part of the radio frequency spectrum used by WLAN devices and by many wireless ISPs.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_law

Also known as Broadcast regulation, Broadcasting legislation, Congressional franchise.

Broadcast law, the Glossary

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History of television

Pirate television

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