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Set-aside of DBS capacity for noncommercial use upheld by appeals court
A federal appeals court has upheld the little-noticed 1992 law setting aside 4–7 percent of direct broadcast satellite capacity for “noncommercial programming ...Nothing’s easy in the Bronx, where botanists are tough
Fordham University’s WFUV has withstood for the third time a neighbor’s challenge to its plan to complete a 480-foot transmitting tower on ...Federal agency will help station build new tower despite broadcasts of Mass on Sundays
With its new transmission tower half built, WFUV-FM in New York City now has some more money to pay for it, after ...Feds reconsider PTFP grant policy questioned by Sen. Helms
After questioning by Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), the National Telecommunications and Information Administration has begun an internal review of its refusal of ...Court backs NTIA in Fordham case
When the new administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration drew a “bright line” against equipment grants to a station that ...Coming of public radio to rural areas can be rough on both listeners and broadcasters
With about 90 percent of the population covered by its signals, public radio has reached all the ”easy” regions and is now ...Fordham station sues for PTFP grant eligibility
Reportedly denied eligibility for a federal equipment grant because it carries one church service a week, Fordham University’s WFUV-FM has sued the ...PTFP policy review prompted by station with Sunday mass
The public radio station at a Catholic university has applied for a Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP) grant after being told the ...What does it cost to air a Sunday Mass?
At WFUV-FM, a public radio station licensed to Fordham University in the Bronx, the 25-year-old studio soundboard needs to be replaced, and ...Educational Television Facilities Act of 1962
With this law, signed by President Kennedy on May 1, 1962, Congress gave the first major federal aid to public broadcasting. The ...
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