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Connect Savannah.com
March 14, 2018
The 1996 Telecommunications Act, which allowed companies to own more radio stations than ever before, certainly had a hand. Media moguls like Clear Channel spent billions on billions to snap up radio stations across the country (Clear Channel, now iHeartMedia, owned 1,200 stations in 1996—today,Ãâà...
WBUR
March 13, 2018
“The Telecommunications Act of 1996 destroyed radio,” Oedipus says. “Corporations were now allowed to own multiple stations in the same market and across the country. Stations were no longer programmed locally, but from company headquarters. WBCN suffered the same fate with the homogenizationÃâà...
Popular Mechanics
March 13, 2018
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 required V-chips in every television set by the year 2000. President Clinton claimed that "if every parent uses this chip wisely it can become a powerful voice against teen violence, teen pregnancy, teen drug use, and for both learning and entertainment." If that wasn'tÃâà...
The New Yorker
March 7, 2018
“Those bastards” deregulated radio in the Telecommunications Act of 1996; Buck Owens's vocal delivery is “stabbed-in-the-back-sincere”; a racist song about the horrors of school desegregation “ends with a chorus of, I assume, ghost children, singing 'My Country 'Tis of Thee.' ” In one of my favorite episodes, about BobbieÃâà...
Sonoma West
March 7, 2018
Consequently the Telecommunications Act of 1996 applies, which means that local governments are required to approve cell phone towers when there exists lack of coverage, but not when there is a lack of bandwidth (capacity). Verizon's application to the City of Sebastopol to provide 4G and subsequentÃâà...
Lancaster Bee
March 7, 2018
According to Leja, health risks have been studied by the federal government in the past and outlined in the Telecommunications Act of 1996. “There was no specific study done for this location, nor for any other locations around here that are cited. The reason for that is the studies that have been done wereÃâà...
AlterNet
March 6, 2018
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 eliminated the cap on the number of radio stations one company could own, and increased the nationwide share of households one corporation could reach via its local television stations from 25 to 35 percent. Key in its passage was the Heritage Foundation, with helpÃâà...
Charleston Gazette-Mail
March 4, 2018
Second, the neutrality issue has a bipartisan pedigree going back to the landmark Telecommunications Act of 1996, which was championed by the Clinton administration, ... But every law needs to evolve with the times, particularly given how far we've come from the pre-“You've Got Mail” days of 1996.
The WasteWatcher (blog)
February 27, 2018
Consumers, internet service providers, and tech companies need certainty in how the government regulates any industry. Instead of trying to garner support for a CRA, internet advocates should demand that Congress to take a hard look at the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the Communications ActÃâà...
CIO Dive
February 23, 2018
The narrative of outdated laws in need of congressional action may strike a familiar chord with the net neutrality versus internet freedom debate, in which both sides at least agreed the U.S. should have broadband legislation more modern than the Telecommunications Act of 1996. In a case of camaraderieÃâà...
MyAJC
February 13, 2018
A section of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 requires the FCC to determine annually whether advanced telecommunications capability is being deployed to all Americans “in a reasonable and timely fashion,” and if not, to take immediate action to accelerate deployment. Regarding Georgia's ruralÃâà...
PolitiFact
February 12, 2018
Broadband technologies include Digital Subscriber Line, or DSL, cable modem and fiber. The FCC benchmark for fixed (not mobile) broadband internet is speeds of 25 Megabits per second for downloads and 3 Megabits per second for uploads. A section of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 requires theÃâà...
Sentinel & Enterprise
February 9, 2018
Telesite is arguing that the city violated the Telecommunications Act of 1996 when the Planning Board voted against its request to build a cell tower on Litchfield Street last year and are suing to get the board's decision annulled. According to minutes from the board's February and March meetings, Telesite'sÃâà...
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