Regulated Industries - Federal Communications Commission - Supreme Court Invalidates Regulations Requiring Cable Broadcasters to Provide Public Access
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Authors
Spellman, Elizabeth M.
Issue Date
1980
Volume
13
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Journal Article
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INTRODUCTION|Sixteen years after the comprehensive congressional legislation which gave birth to the Federal Communications Commission, a communication phenomenon not imagined by the 1934 Congress was developing in the regions devoid of traditional television service. In less than thirty years, it was to become a threat to the survival of giant networks and local television, and a dream for the American public for local self-expression, wide diversity of programming, and two-way, nonvoice communication by wire. It has been a regulatory nightmare to which the Congress has yet to respond. As a result, the FCC and the courts have struggled to determine the scope of the Commission's current powers to regulate cable. television as well as the permissibility of various regulatory schemes designed to bring orderly growth consistent with an integrated national broadcast policy to the cable industry...
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13 Creighton L. Rev. 1023 (1979-1980)
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Creighton University School of Law