Word: fcc
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...only check that the FCC enacted to regulate broadcasters was a space on the FCC license renewal form for broadcasters to describe their efforts to comply with the voluntary guidelines. In 1979 an FCC task force issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that suggested that broadcasters were complying with the advertising guidelines but not with the voluntary guidelines...
...these legislative efforts to protest children suffered a setback in the era of Reagan deregulation. In 1984, the FCC suddenly dropped its advertising time limits and, two years later, it removed its commercial guidelines...
When forced to reconcile its new position with past policies before a U.S. Court of Appeals, the FCC claimed that it had never set any firm guidelines and that broadcasters should regulate themselves...
This is where the Children's Television Act comes in. Fortunately, when the Supreme Court considered policies similar to the FCC guidelines, it ruled that broadcasters are park of a public trust, since they must represent those who cannot broadcast as well as those...
...part of such a trust, they are obligated to protest the rights of children. Based on this precedent, the Court of Appeals rejected the FCC's turn-around, and this eventually led to the Children's Television...