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| The FCC functions in: | A combination of legislative, executive, and judicial roles. |
| The president nominates ________ FCC commissioners, who serve for ______ years and may be re-appointed. | Five, five |
| In terms of originating policy and handling applications and letters of complaint and comment from the public, most of the work at the FCC is: | Carried out by staff members. |
| Which statement best describes critics’ attitudes toward FCC Commissioners? | Some are inexperienced individuals and may use their FCC position later to attain higher paying positions in private law practice and media industries. |
| FCC decisions involving station licenses: | Can be appealed to the Federal Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit . |
| Which penalty is least used by the FCC? | Revocation of license |
| Before a would-be licensee can build a new broadcast facility, he or she must first obtain a/an: | Construction permit. |
| Currently, broadcast licenses are awarded for _____ years for TV and _______ years for radio | Eight, eight |
| About 98 percent of all license-renewal applications are | Approved after completing a short renewal form |
| In press law, ___________ concerns the right of news personnel to withhold the identity of news sources and to refuse to surrender personal notes. | Reporter’s privilege |
| What was the First Amendment designed to provide protection from | Government censorship |
| In 1994, the FCC revised its video dial tone rules, limiting telecos to what percent ownership of video information providers | 5 |
| To control unregulated competition and media monopolies, the FCC confines regulations primarily to matters of: | Industry structure |
| Tax certificates and distress sales are two actions permitted by the FCC primarily to | Increase the number of minority licensees. |
| FCC rules ban newspaper-broadcasting cross-ownership. Another cross-ownership controversy ended in 1992 with a ban on the same entity owning: | Cable systems and MMDS or SMATV in the same franchise area. |
| The first set of substantive rules removed from the FCC’s books focused on what? | Commercial radio |
| The Federal Trade Commission settles most cases of alleged advertising deception through what? | Stipulations |
| what authority issues franchises for cable systems | local |
