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Political Campaigning And The Airways, Harrop Freeman, Stewart Edelstein May 2013

Political Campaigning And The Airways, Harrop Freeman, Stewart Edelstein

Pepperdine Law Review

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How Detailed Of An Explanation Is Required When An Administrative Agency Changes An Existing Policy? Implications And Analysis Of Fcc V. Fox Television Stations, Inc. On Administrative Law Making And Television Broadcasters, David Lee Mar 2013

How Detailed Of An Explanation Is Required When An Administrative Agency Changes An Existing Policy? Implications And Analysis Of Fcc V. Fox Television Stations, Inc. On Administrative Law Making And Television Broadcasters, David Lee

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

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“Smut And Nothing But”: The Fcc, Indecency, And Regulatory Transformations In The Shadows, Lili Levi Feb 2013

“Smut And Nothing But”: The Fcc, Indecency, And Regulatory Transformations In The Shadows, Lili Levi

Lili Levi

For almost a century, American broadcasting has received a lesser degree of constitutional protection than the print medium. Although many of the FCC’s regulations in “the public interest” have been upheld against First Amendment challenge on the ground that broadcasting is exceptional, the traditional reasons given for such exceptionalism – scarcity and pervasiveness – have become increasingly careworn. Fighting that consensus, the FCC has aggressively pursued the regulation of indecency on radio and television since 2003. When the FCC’s enhanced indecency prohibitions swept up U2 front-man Bono’s fleeting expletive on a music awards show, broadcasters finally thought they had found …


National Subscription Television V. S & H, Tv: The Problem Of Unauthorized Interception Of Subscription Television—Are The Legal Airwaves Unscrambled?, Thomas R. Catanese Feb 2013

National Subscription Television V. S & H, Tv: The Problem Of Unauthorized Interception Of Subscription Television—Are The Legal Airwaves Unscrambled?, Thomas R. Catanese

Pepperdine Law Review

The unending stream of technological innovations that best exemplifies the electronic media has left the law in its wake. Because of rapid advancements in the forms communications may take, the law has sometimes been slow in effectively and rationally affording protection against the piracy of these new types of electronic media. One such type of electronic media is the transmission of over-the-air scrambled broadcasts, more properly "subscription" television, wherein a party pays a subscription fee to receive nonstandard television programming. National Subscription Television v. S & H, TV, in view of prior divided case law, settled the question of whether …