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The Radio Act of 1927
The result was that many people perceived the airwaves to suffer from "chaos," with too many stations trying to be heard on too few frequencies. Others believed the government simply wanted to control content. -
FCC Was Formed
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The Freeze of 1948
the FCC stopped giving out construction permits for new licenses in October 1948, under the direction of chairman Rosel H. Hyde. -
FCC Sets Rules for TV
The FCC first promulgated rules for cable television in 1965, with cable and satellite television now regulated by the FCC. -
FCC Sets More Rules
The FCC established rules limiting the national share of media ownership of broadcast television or radio stations. -
Ownership Rules and Regulations
Established cross-ownership rules limiting ownership of a newspaper and broadcast station in the same market, in order to ensure a diversity of viewpoints in each market and serve the needs of each local market. -
Telecommunications Act of 1996
The development of the Internet, cable services and wireless services has raised questions whether new legislative initiates are needed as to competition in what has come to be called 'broadband' services. -
Digital television transition
All stations were required to buy and install all new equipment (transmitters, TV antennas, and even entirely new broadcast towers), and operate for years on both channels. Each licensee was required to return one of their two channels following the end of the digital television transition. -
Net Neutrality
To encourage broadband deployment and preserve and promote the open and interconnected nature of the public Internet, Consumers are entitled to access the lawful Internet content of their choice, this goes on but is very long so I will stop there. -
Modernizing FCC's Legacy Information
David A. Bray joined the Commission in 2013 and quickly announced goals of modernizing the FCC's legacy information technology systems, citing 200 different systems for only 1750 people a situation he found "perplexing".