Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Children's Television Act has a long history. As early as 1960, the FCC identified children as one of its special interest groups, Ten years later, a group called Action for Children's Television (ACT) was formed to petition the FCC for higher programming standards...
...answer is that broadcasters' Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licenses are due for renewal, and according to a federal law passed in October 1990, known as the Children's Television Act, broadcasters must document on their renewal forms their efforts to meet some minimum standards for children's programming...
...result of this petitioning, the FCC released a report concluding that broadcasters had a "special obligation" to serve children as a "substantive and important" group...
...turns out, our friendly electronics store is little more than a supply front for a consortium of paramilitary organizations. Just thought you should know. 12:30 on the ultraprecise Tag Heuer diving watch with scratch-resistant sapphire crystal and unidirectional bezel. Time to call Mark. After informing him per FCC regulation that I was recording our conversation, I began the interview...
...within which they have to operate. Television in the U.S. is a business. In the past, the business side has been balanced by a commitment to public service. But in recent years the fragmentation of the mass audience, huge interest payments and skyrocketing production costs have combined with the FCC's abdication of its responsibility to protect the common good to produce an almost total preoccupation with the bottom line. The networks are struggling to survive. And like most businesses in that situation, they make only what they feel the public will buy. And that, the statistics seem to indicate...