Federal Communications Commission | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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Federal Communications Commission


00:01:20 1 Mission and strategy
00:02:25 2 Organization and procedures
00:02:35 2.1 Commissioners
00:03:43 2.2 Bureaus
00:06:19 2.3 Offices
00:11:44 2.4 Headquarters
00:12:47 3 History
00:12:56 3.1 Communications Act of 1934
00:13:37 3.2 Report on Chain Broadcasting
00:14:37 3.3 Freeze of 1948
00:18:16 3.4 Telecommunications Act of 1996
00:19:50 3.5 Modernization of the FCC's information technology systems
00:20:31 3.6 Past chairs and notable commissioners
00:20:52 4 Media policy
00:21:01 4.1 Broadcast television and radio
00:21:50 4.2 Cable and satellite
00:22:36 4.3 Content regulation and indecency
00:24:57 4.4 Media ownership
00:25:26 4.4.1 Diversity
00:26:58 4.4.2 Localism
00:27:49 4.5 Digital television transition
00:29:01 5 Wireline policy
00:29:50 5.1 Telephone
00:30:17 5.1.1 From monopoly to competition
00:31:37 5.2 Internet
00:32:59 5.2.1 Net neutrality
00:38:32 5.3 NSA wiretapping
00:39:39 6 Wireless policy
00:40:25 6.1 Commercial mobile service
00:40:54 6.1.1 Spectrum auctions
00:41:37 6.2 Unlicensed spectrum
00:42:32 6.2.1 White spaces
00:43:46 6.3 Amateur radio
00:44:27 6.4 Broadcasting tower database
00:45:06 6.5 Criticism for use of proprietary standards
00:47:24 7 Public consultation
00:47:56 7.1 History of the issue
00:48:05 7.1.1 1927 Radio Act
00:49:49 7.1.2 Public hearings



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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute (47 U.S.C. § 151 and 47 U.S.C. § 154) to regulate interstate  communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the media, public safety and homeland security, and modernizing itself.The FCC was formed by the Communications Act of 1934 to replace the radio regulation functions of the Federal Radio Commission. The FCC took over wire communication regulation from the Interstate Commerce Commission. The FCC's mandated jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Territories of the United States. The FCC also provides varied degrees of cooperation, oversight, and leadership for similar communications bodies in other countries of North America. The FCC is funded entirely by regulatory fees. It has an estimated fiscal-2016 budget of US $388 million.  It has 1,688 federal employees, made up of 50% males and 50% females as of December, 2017.