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CCITT

CCITT  

Comité Consultatif Internationale de Télégraphique et Téléphonique (International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee), originally, an agency of the International Telecommunications Union ...
Federal Regulatory Agencies.

Federal Regulatory Agencies.  

The first federal regulatory agency was the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC). Created in 1887 after decades of controversy over “the railroad problem,” the ICC in many ways served as a ...
Federal Communications Commission

Federal Communications Commission   Reference library

The Oxford Guide to the United States Government

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2002
Subject:
Social sciences, Politics
Length:
279 words

Believing that the airways belong to the people and should not be monopolized by private interests, Congress created the Federal

Federal Communications Commission.

Federal Communications Commission.   Reference library

James L. Baughman and Paul S. Boyer

The Oxford Companion to United States History

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
History, Regional and National History
Length:
424 words

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), created by the Federal Communications Act of 1934, assumed all federal oversight of broadcasting, telephone...

public Broadcasting.

public Broadcasting.  

Reference type:
Overview Page
Subject:
Media studies
Throughout their history, public radio and television have struggled to survive in a minimally regulated broadcasting system dominated by commercial interests. Although educational radio stations ...
Satellite Communications.

Satellite Communications.  

Satellite communication was the only truly commercial space technology to be developed in the first forty years or so after the beginning of the space age in 1957. Perhaps the ...
televangelism.

televangelism.  

Chiefly in the US, an evangelical preacher who appears regularly on television to promote beliefs and appeal for funds.

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