[PDF] Review Of Federal Communications Commission Activities 1969 Hearing Before The Subcommittee On Communications And Power 91 1 March 6 1969 Serial No 91 1 eBook

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Page : 200 pages
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Release : 1969
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Committee Serial No. 91-1. Examines FCC jurisdiction, implementation of pertinent legislation, and administration of authorized projects. Includes review of proposal to ban radio and TV cigarette commercials.

Author : Dan Schiller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 31,28 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Telecommunications
ISBN : 0197639232

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"During the first century of the republic, two modes of communication at a distance - telecommunications - were etched into lands inhabited by Native Americans; contested by rival European powers; and occupied by the United States. Both telecommunications systems supported this expanding US territorial empire but, despite this overarching commonality, they branched apart in other ways. One network was owned by the state and the other by capital, and the two branches of the telecommunications system developed disparate rate structures, patterns of access, and social and institutional relationships. During the decades after the Civil War their divergence became politically charged. Would one model prevail over the other? Going forward, would it be the government Post Office or the corporate telegraph that set the terms of telecommunications development? The Post Office was the nation's originating system for communication at a distance. Both before and long after it was elevated to a cabinet department in 1829, furthermore, the Post Office was by far the largest unit of the central state. In 1831, the nation's 8700 postmasters comprised three-quarters of federal civilian employment; half a century later (excluding temporary postal employees and ordinary and railway mail clerks and letter carriers), some 50,000 postmasters accounted for perhaps one-third of all civilian employees in the executive branch. Though its relative weight as a government employer diminished after this, its workforce continued to swell. During the last two antebellum decades, meanwhile, an emergent technology - the electrical telegraph - was passed quickly from the federal government to private capital. The two systems' institutional identities immediately began to contrast in other ways"--

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Communications
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Page : 333 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 1969
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Committee Serial No. 91-6. Considers general review of FCC activity on various subjects, including: domestic satellites, the fairness doctrine, public broadcasting, cable television, and violence on television.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Communications
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Page : 540 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Radio broadcasting
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Committee Serial No. 91-6. pt. 1: Considers general review of FCC activity on various subjects, including: domestic satellites, the fairness doctrine, public broadcasting, cable television, and violence on television. pt. 2: Considers the need for FCC regulation of the content of television programs. Focuses on the problem of violence on television programs and its detrimental effect on the public

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Communications
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Page : 214 pages
File Size : 28,69 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Advertising, Political
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Committee Serial No. 91-29. Considers S. 2876, the Campaign Broadcast Reform Act of 1969, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize special rates for the purchase of television advertising time by candidates for congressional offices.