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The Politics of Broadcast Regulation

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This book provides a broad overview of the regulations of the FCC and court decisions pertaining to broadcasting up to the time of its publication. Although it is dated now, it is still useful in that it shows the trends experienced in the industry over the years. The five determiners of regulatory policy discussed in the second chapter remain in play. The FCC is the first of these. The Commission's regulatory philosophy is determined in large part from the other four: the industry, citizens groups, the courts, and the White House. While some of the specific issues being addressed in some sections of the book are history now, the examination of the process of the interworkings between members of the industry and the Commission demonstrates that politics is an integral part of what one sees and hears via broadcast media. This snapshot of the early 1980s era in broadcast regulation is still useful in providing a look at the role the regulatory process plays in determining popular culture content.