Of particular concern would be evidence of the direction to employees from station management to falsify the news.    Reasonable Access https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/the-fcc-says-streaming-services-like-youtube-tv-are-effective-competition-to-cable-tv/, Today the FCC ruled that live TV streaming services like YouTube TV and AT&T TV NOW do give effective competition to cable TV. Even before the FCC has a way to weigh in, Standards and Practices is all over us.”, Paiz recounts her frustration from working on one unidentified show that had plenty of violence, but required the writers “to go back and forth and come up with 20 different racial slurs to see which one was more acceptable than the other.” She was also on ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” earlier in its run when writers were told that they “couldn’t say ‘vagina’ on a medical show but ‘penis’ was OK” — thus resulting in terms like “vajayjay” entering our lexicon.    Purpose of the File FCC ID application submitted by Oticon A/S for Audio Streaming Module XM for FCC ID U28OMSTREAMER. All full-power television stations have operated in digital mode since 2009. Finally, a prospective station licensee expecting to employ five or more full-time employees must file an FCC Form 396-A Broadcast Model Program Report with its new station or assignment or transfer application. In many cases where there is interference on your television set or radio, the source of the problem could be with your equipment, which may not be adequately designed with circuitry or filtering to reject the unwanted signals of nearby transmitters. Once its application has been granted, the applicant is issued a construction permit that authorizes it to build the station within a specified period of time, usually three years. Closed captioning is also required for video programming delivered via Internet Protocol (IP) that is published or exhibited on television with captions. A program is considered “specifically designed to serve the educational and information needs of children” if: 1) that is its significant purpose; 2) it is aired between the hours of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m.; 3) it is a regularly scheduled weekly program; and 4) it is at least 30 minutes in duration. The provision is meant to prevent cable companies from leveraging that monopoly power to set unfairly high rates. In this regard, the Commission has observed that “the public interest is best served by permitting free expression of views.” However, the right to broadcast material is not absolute. Apparatus Requirements for Emergency Information and Video Description. All of the Title 47 rules can be found on the Government Printing Office’s website, https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?tpl=/ecfrbrowse/Title47/47tab_02.tpl. Cable networks that are not as beholden to advertisers have slightly fewer censorship rules to which to adhere, but most are still selective with their language. Because of this ruling local governments in parts of Hawaii and Massachusetts can no longer enforce rate regulations.    The Public and Broadcasting Manual Accuracy: The closed captioning must match the program audio, including any slang, and contain non-verbal information such as speaker identification, descriptions of music, sound effects, the attitudes and emotions of the speakers, and audience reaction. Consumer Inquiries and Complaints Division    Local Public Notice Announcements Before broadcasting a telephone conversation live or recording a telephone conversation for later broadcast, a station must inform any party to the call of its intention to broadcast the conversation. When a new cable company comes to town, providers can file a petition to have those regulations removed. We at the FCC want you to become involved, if you have any concerns about a local station – including its general operation, programming or other matters – by making your opinion known to the licensee and, if necessary, by advising us of those concerns so that we can take appropriate action. The FCC requires certain apparatus that receive, play back, or record video programming to make available a secondary audio stream for providing video description services and accessible emergency information. “I’d like to get to the point where there’s virtually no censorship, and we’re pretty close,” FX chief John Landgraf told journalists during his executive session at the summer 2015 Television Critics Assn. For similar complaints received after the first year of operation, although the station is not financially responsible for resolving the complaint, it must provide effective technical assistance to the complaining party. The FCC is using streaming services as an excuse to raise cable rates, You can get Western Digital’s 5TB portable drive for $100 at Best Buy, That’s 50GB of storage for every dollar you spend, Amazon’s Prime Day kicks off on October 13th, Save on the OnePlus 8 and PlayStation Plus this weekend, Here’s what you might have missed this week, Sign up for the If you’re using a 3rd party streaming service you would need to fully understand what rights you’re giving because you may not have the right to give that streaming service those rights. And so there will be errors, and we recognize that. The proposed change would have subjected streaming services to the same laundry list of mismatched, outdated and obsolete rules that apply today to … If you are submitting an audio or video tape, DVD, CD or other type of media with your complaint, you should send it to the following address to avoid mail processing damage: Federal Communications Commission We recommend that you contact the equipment manufacturer or the store where you purchased the equipment to attempt to resolve the interference problem. Before a party can build a new TV or radio station, it first must apply to the FCC for a construction permit. Email address: fccinfo@fcc.gov.    Sponsorship Identification - Political Matter and Controversial Issues of Public Importance In light of the First Amendment and Section 326 of the Communications Act, we do not substitute our judgment for that of the licensee, nor do we advise stations on artistic standards, format, grammar, or the quality of their programming. However, if you are offended by a station’s programming, we urge you to make your concerns known in writing to the station licensee. The applicant must demonstrate that it is qualified to construct and operate the station as specified in its application and that its proposed facility will not cause objectionable interference to any other station. (For example, if the license expires on December 1, we must receive any petition at our Washington, D.C. headquarters by the end of the day on November 1.) Digital Radio. Finally, the rule only applies to video clips posted on the programmer's or multichannel video programming distributors site, not any third party sites like YouTube. Submission of an audio or video tape, CD, DVD or other recording or transcript of the complained-of material is not required but is helpful, as is the specific name of the program, the on-air personality, song, or film, and the city and state in which the complainant saw or heard the broadcast. Noncommercial stations are not entitled to compensation in return for carriage on a cable or satellite system, but they may request mandatory carriage on the system.    Broadcast Journalism The FCC censorship rules are not "one size fits all" across broadcast, cable, and streaming networks. The FCC approved strong net neutrality rules last year to make sure Internet service providers do not block, throttle or create paid fast lanes for certain Internet traffic. Instead, Charter argued that AT&T’s streaming service, combined with the company’s existing broadband offering, made up a close enough substitute for cable TV that Charter no longer counted as a local monopoly. The Commission has defined this program matter to include language that is both “so grossly offensive to members of the public who actually hear it as to amount to a nuisance” and is sexual or excretory in nature or derived from such terms. To do this, each non-exempt station licensee must identify the needs and problems and then specifically treat these local matters in the news, public affairs, political and other programming that it airs. Schools operating 10 watt (Class D) FM stations are required to keep a file, but are exempt from having to maintain an issues/programs list. An issue of concern to the public over the years has been violent television programming and the negative impact this broadcast material may have on children. EEO public file reports are not created on FCC forms and therefore are not filed in CDBS or LMS on forms of their own, but a station’s two most recent public file reports are filed as attachments when a station files Form 396. To receive the digital signals of stations that choose to operate in digital, consumers will have to purchase new receivers.    Time Brokerage Agreements The Food and Drug Administration has primary responsibility for the safety of food and drug products. 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Charter’s case centered on a small group of territories in Massachusetts and Hawaii, but Charter’s new competition wasn’t coming from a competing cable TV service. However, these acknowledgements may not interrupt the station's regular programming. But that doesn't mean it can't be done. The First Amendment and the Communications Act expressly prohibit the Commission from censoring broadcast matter. As directed by Congress in the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the FCC has adopted rules requiring closed captioning of most, but not all, television programming. If the original footage is not captioned, check out our 2016 article, "Closed Captioning for Streaming Media," which covers the legislative basis for these captioning requirements and caption creation options. This includes television licensees in Delaware and Pennsylvania, which are required to file Form 397 by April 1, 2019. email. In order to allow our staff to make a determination of whether complained-of material is actionable, the Commission requires that complainants provide certain information, including: (1) the date and time of the alleged broadcast; (2) the call sign, channel or frequency of the station involved; and (3) the details of what was actually said (or depicted) during the alleged indecent, profane, or obscene broadcast.