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Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Reference Materials
Administrative History/Information:
- Created by the Communications Act of 1934 as an independent agency to regulate interstate communications
- Persuaded by the National Association of Educational Broadcasters to reserve five radio channels for educational broadcasting in 1938, paving the way in 1952 to reserve 242 TV channels for noncommercial broadcasters
- Public Broadcasting Policy Base Documents:
- Channel Reservations
- FM Channel Allocations, 1945 - from FCC site
- Comparative Standards for selection among noncommercial applicants, rulemaking proposal (1988), order (2000)
- FCC Documents on interference between TV Channel 6 and noncommercial FM stations - from FCC site
- Low-power FM (noncommercial) documents - from FCC site
- Digital Television: FCC digital TV Documents - from FCC site
- Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS)
- Editorializing: FCC v. League of Women Voters of California, U.S. Supreme Court, 1984 in Findlaw web database
- Independence of Public Broadcasting
- Action for Children's Television v. FCC, two Court of Appeals rulings on broadcast indecent material: in June 1995 voiding a provision that favored public over commercial broadcasters, and in July 1995, upholding the indecency rule
- The "Seven Filthy Words" Case, FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, Supreme Court, 1978 (on ACLU website)(in Findlaw web database)
- Underwriting and Advertising
- FCC Public Notice: Noncommercial Nature of Educational Broadcasting, April 11, 1986, including links to FCC notices
- FCC notice to WTTW regarding underwriting credits, December 2, 1977, and reduction of fine, March 6, 2000
- Channel Reservations
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting Archives: John W. Macy Files
- Dean W. Coston Papers
- David M. Davis Papers
- Susan Fratkin Papers
- Lee C. Frischknecht Papers
- Burt Harrison Papers-Interviews:
- Frank W. Lloyd Papers
- Archives of National Public Radio
- Morris S. Novik Papers
- Pacifica Foundation Archives
- Oscar Reed, Jr Papers
- Jim Robertson Papers-Interviews:
Reading Room
Abbot, Waldo. Handbook of Broadcasting: The Fundamentals of AM, FM, FAX and TV. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950. BCAST REF PN 1991.5 .A2 1950
Abbot, Waldo and Rider, Richard L. Handbook of Broadcasting: The Fundamentals of Radio and Television. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1957. BCAST REF PN 1991.5 .A2 1957
Adler, Richard and Walter S. Baer. The Electronic Box Office: Humanities and Arts on the Cable. New York: Praeger, 1974. BCAST REF PN 1992.8 .S9 A3
Avery, Robert K., ed. Public Service Broadcasting in a Multi-Channel Environment. New York: Longman, 1993. NPBA REF HD 8689.4 .P83
Barrett, Marvin, ed. The Politics of Broadcasting. New York: Crowell, 1973. PN 4888 .T4 B28
Blakely, Robert J. The People's Instrument: A Philosophy of Programming for Public Television. Washington, Public Affairs Press, 1971. BCAST PN 1992.8 .P8 B47
Burch, Dean. "The Chairman Speaks About Children's TV," Television Quarterly, Vol. IX, No. 3 (Summer 1970): 59-64. Periodicals
Cater, Douglass and Michael J. Nyhan, eds. The Future of Public Broadcasting. New York: Praeger, 1976.
- BCAST HE 8700.8 .F87
- 384.574 C (NAB Books)
Chester, Giraud, et al. Television and Radio. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1963. BCAST TK 6550 .C43 1963
Emery, Walter B. "What is the FCC?" NAEB Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1 (October 1958): 15-18. Periodicals
Greene, Alexis. "'Kid-Vid' -- A New World is Opening," Television Quarterly, Vol. XVII, No. III (Fall 1980): 57-64. Periodicals
Kahn, Frank J., ed. Documents of American Broadcasting. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts 1968.
- NPBA Collection: KF 2804 .K3
- LAB Collection: 343.099 K (NAB Books)
Krasnow, Erwin G. and Lawrence D. Longley. The Politics of Broadcast Regulation. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1973.
- NPBA Collection: HE 8689.8 .K7
- LAB Collection:
- HE 8689.8 .K7
- 343.099 K (NAB Books)
Mack, Richard A. "The Demand for TV Space," NAEB Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3 (December 1957): 21. Periodicals
Melody, William. Children's Television: The Economics of Exploitation. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973.
- BCAST HQ 784 .T4 M4 1973
- 791.455/1M (NAB Books)
Miller, James. "The President's Advocate: OTP and Broadcast Issues," Journal of Broadcasting, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Summer, 1982): 625-639. Periodicals
Minow, Newton. Abandoned in the Wasteland: Children, Television and the First Amendment. New York: Hill and Wang, 1995.
- NPBA Collection: KF 2840 .M56 1995
- LAB Collection: 791.455/1M (NAB Books)
Silverman, Fred. “And What About the Children?” Television Quarterly, Vol. XVII, No. 1 (Spring 1980): 79-86. Periodicals
Tucker, David E. and Jeffrey Saffelle. "The Federal Communications Commission and the Regulation of Children's Television," Journal of Broadcasting, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Summer, 1982): 657-669. Periodicals
U.S. House. 95th Congress, 1st Session. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce....Options Papers. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, May 1977. KF 2801 .A55 O67
By Request
Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Federal Financing for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 1970.
Folder: 073
Denver Research Institute. Ancillary Signals for Television, Innovations and Implications: Final Report. 1975. [TK 6650]
Loevinger, Lee. "Commission's Job," Television Age, March 25, 1968. Folder: 730
U.S. House.
- 96th Congress, 1st Session
- H.R. 3333 "The Communications Act of 1979" March 29, 1979. Folder: 782
- H.R. 3333 "The Communications Act of 1979" Section-by-Section Analysis. April 1979. Folder: 783
Related Collections in Other Repositories:
- Action for Children's Television Records
- Ted Cott. Reminiscences: Oral History
- Newton N. Minow Papers
- Frieda Hennock Simons Papers
