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Success
- FCC performed a really important duty in New Deal Program
- After the Communication Act of 1934 was released, the FCC got more applications from amateur operators and stations than all other types combined. In 1936, the FCC received 32,647 amateur radio applications and the FCC approved 21,946 applications. (Relief)
- Administrated and enforce the laws, acts, and treaties
- As World War II drew near, the FCC monitored communications for threats to national defense
- The FCC has been contributed to the development of the computer industry for decades since the agency first began to regulate computer networks. Even though the FCC did not invent the Internet, but they certainly contributed to its success.
- Diminish the concentrated monopolistic power that controlled the broadcasting industry and simultaneously encourage competition.
Communication Act of 1934
- An act to provide for the regulation of interstate and foreign communication by wire or radio, and for other purposes.
- Create for “the people of the United States a rapid, efficient, nation-wide, and worldwide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges...”
- Bringing order to the burgeoning communications industry
- The primary duty of the FCC was the licensing of radio operators and frequencies.
- The FCC continues to function under the Communications Act of 1934, but today deals with new issues related to digital technology and the internet, such as net neutrality
The Telecommunication Act of 1996
What did FCC do?
Legacy
Four main operating divisions
- Promotes the economic growth and national leaderships.
- Protects the public interests.
- Supporting the nation’s economy by ensuring an appropriate competitive framework for the unfolding of the communications revolutions.
- Regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable.
- Revising media regulations so that new technologies flourish alongside diversity and localism.
- The common carrier bureau regulated communications services.
- The broadcast bureau licensed radio stations.
- The safety and special radio service bureau supervised aviation, emergency, taxi, and amateur communications.
- The engineering bureau conducted licensing examinations.
-Established with a budget of $1,146,885 and a staff of 442, the FCC initially oversaw about eight hundred commercial educational radio stations.
Federal Communication Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government. It is created by Congressional statute to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the media, public safety and homeland security, and modernizing itself. It was founded by the Communication Act of 1934.
FCC
Federal Communication Commission