Sentences with phrase «communications by radio»

The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable.

Throughout the Wiretap Act, Congress used the phrase «radio communication» — which is at issue here — and the similar phrase «communication by radio.»

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While FM radio is over a century old and has been superseded by other broadcasting technologies — including satellite — it remains one of the most reliable forms of communication around.

Financial News reports that Vigilant Global, a telecoms company owned by high - frequency trading firm DRW Trading, has submitted plans to build a 320 - metre tall tower to allow what it calls «a new communications point between the UK and Europe» which will have a «completely unobstructed» line of sight both optically, and for radio waves.

The biggest radio broadcaster in the US with nearly 850 radio stations, iHeartMedia, formerly called Clear Channel Communications — which was acquired by private equity firms Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners in a leveraged buyout at the apex of the LBO boom just before the Financial Crisis — has finally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, after threatening to do so since 2010.

BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry, and the company's previously disclosed review of strategic alternatives.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

Communication had been revolutionized by the radio.

All of this political setting is reinforced, amplified and above all verified every day by every cultural artifact of communication — radio, newspapers, television, movies, tiny schools and huge universities.

They should become major centers of mass communication, carrying on a continuous work of adult education of the public in the letters, sciences, and arts, by printed publications, by motion pictures, and by radio and television broadcasts.

And the centrality of the power significance of the communications technology is attested by the pivotal importance of which faction controls the radio - TV stations and the telephone systems whenever a coup or revolution takes place in an African, Asian or Latin American country.

To mention a few of them: the coming of the radio and more recently the television; the cinema, — first silent, then talking, then colored; quick and easy communication by telephone, an accepted part of life — first to one's neighbors, then across the continent, then to the other side of the earth, then to a space ship, and to the moon.

Deregulation of radio and television by the FCC does not change the provisions of the Communications Act.

The major U.S. broadcast television networks have affiliates in the Oklahoma City market (ranked 41st for television by Nielsen and 48th for radio by Arbitron, covering a 34 - county area serving the central, north - central and west - central sections of Oklahoma); including NBC affiliate KFOR - TV (channel 4), ABC affiliate KOCO - TV (channel 5), CBS affiliate KWTV - DT (channel 9, the flagship of locally based Griffin Communications), PBS station KETA - TV (channel 13, the flagship of the state - run OETA member network), Fox affiliate KOKH - TV (channel 25), CW affiliate KOCB (channel 34), independent station KAUT - TV (channel 43), MyNetworkTV affiliate KSBI - TV (channel 52), and Ion Television owned - and - operated station KOPX - TV (channel 62).

He serves as a commentator on his own local Big East package, on a number of NCAA - produced tournament games that will appear next week on ESPN and some over-the-air stations, and on still other tournament games carried by CBS Radio through Host Communications.

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Direction — Supervision over the actions of a licensed athletic trainer by means of referral by prescription to treat conditions for a physically active person from a licensed physician, dentist or podiatrist or written protocol approved by a supervising physician, except that the physical presence of the supervising physician, dentist or podiatrist is not required if the supervising physician, dentist or podiatrist is readily available for consultation by direct communication, radio, telephone, facsimile, telecommunications or by other electronic means.

Akande spoke during the maiden lecture organised by the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Ibadan titled: Radio as a potent means of communication.

The Central Regional Communications officer of the NDC, Mr Kwesi Dawood contributing to a radio discussion, has paid glowing tributes and poured congratulations on behalf of the NDC to Ambassador Thomas Kwesi Quartey for emerging victorious as the new Deputy Chairperson of the AU Commission describing him as an excellent diplomat by all standards, a fine gentleman and that his victory is going down in history as the first and only Ghanaian to occupy an office in the administration branch of the continental body.

Political advertising on television and radio in the UK was prohibited by the Communications Act 2003, with the exception of permitted party political broadcasts.

And I am not suggesting that tweets from the chamber should be protected by parliamentary privilege... But in this age of immediate crowd - sourced mass communication, the idea that the Commons chamber can cut itself off from modern technology and social media is as doomed as when written reports of Commons debates were banned in the 18th century, or when discussion of current Commons business on the radio was not allowed until the 1950s, or, indeed, as obsolete as the ban on television itself before 1989.

131 radio stations have found themselves at the wrong side of the law as they have been sanctioned by the National Communications Authority (NCA) for various offenses.

Among the highlights are the retirement package approved for former president John Mahama, sanctions imposed on some radio stations by the National Communications Authority (NCA), and a timeline of Ghana's journey to securing the landmark ITLOS maritime dispute judgment in its favour.

Among the highlights are the retirement package approved for former president John Mahama, sanctions imposed on some radio stations by the National Communications Authority (NCA), and a timeline of Ghana's journey to securing the landmark ITLOS maritime dispute judgment...

34 radio stations have already had their licenses revoked by the National Communication Authority (NCA), for not renewing their licenses even after several notices, while others have been fined.

Some 131 radio stations were sanctions by the National Communications Authority (NCA) for various infractions against their operating guidelines.

There was a heated debate in Parliament on Thursday between the Majority and Minority sides of the House following a statement made in the House by the Minister of Communications, Mrs. Ursula Owusu - Ekuful, on the Radio Spectrum Audit carried out and the actions taken by the NCA to enforce the law on communication services in the country.

IMANI Africa President, Franklin Cudjoe, believes Ghana would be better of if other state institutions went by the book in the manner the National Communications Authority's (NCA) has done in its sanctioning of 131 radio stations, for various offenses.

«While Dietl is not enrolled in the campaign finance program, we have decided to invite him based on his showing in a recent poll and his regular presence on the campaign trail,» said a spokesperson for Charter Communications, a debate sponsor and parent company of NY1, which will air the debate, also hosted by WNYC radio and other partners.

A report on the dangers of smart meters prepared for the Vermont Department of Public Service says the radio frequency fields associated with the devices emit only a small fraction of the limits set by the Federal Communications Commission.

Buhari, who doubles as Chairman, Senate Committee on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Cybercrime, while speaking on Saturday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital during a live radio program on Fresh FM tagged «Political Circuit» monitored by DAILY POST, insisted that the clamour for governorship ticket to be zoned to a particular senatorial district in the state will not be in the interest of the party.

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The Member of Parliament for the Ningo - Prampram Constituency, has welcomed a decision by the National Communications Authority (NCA), to slash by 50 percent fines it imposed on some radio stations cited for non-renewal of their licenses.

In his opening remarks to the assembled lawmakers, a powerful political leader suggested the suppression of popular communication, not by arresting publishers or shuttering radio stations but by blocking online social networks.

When radio arrived at the end of the 19th century, few thought that «wireless» communications, in which intangible signals could be sent through the air over long distances, would be competitive in a world dominated by the telegraph and telephone.

- The giant radio telescopes of NASA's Deep Space Network — which perform radio and radar astronomy research in addition to their communications functions — were tasked with observing radio emissions from Jupiter's radiation belt, looking for disturbances caused by comet dust.

Known as a passive communications satellite because it carried no electronics but rather acted as a giant signal reflector, it was used by Bell Labs engineers to successfully bounce telephone, radio and television signals off it.

Rami Tzabar and Angela Saini of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) won the Gold Award for radio reporting by exploring how animal models of vocal communication may be useful in understanding how human language might have evolved.

«The signals are not only weak, but they appear at radio frequencies that are used by communication devices and radars, which generate signals billions of times stronger than the cosmic ones that we are trying to detect.»

The transmission of high quantities of data by radio over large distances serves a high number of important application areas: the next generation of satellite communication requires an ever - increasing data offload from earth observation satellites down to earth.

Although no one knew it yet, Guglielmo Marconi had ushered in the era of wireless communications by demonstrating that signals could be carried on radio waves.

The system, built by L - 3 Communications in Woburn, Mass., emits beams of radio - frequency energy that are tuned to reflect well off human skin.

In terms of the foreseeable technological developments on the earth, the cost per photon and the amount of absorption of radiation by interstellar gas and dust, radio waves seem to be the most efficient and economical method of interstellar communication.

Such an event may impact power grids by tripping circuit breakers, disrupt communication and satellite data collection by causing short - wave radio interference and damage orbiting satellites and their electronics.

The bandwidth available to mobile phones, digital television and other communication technologies could be expanded enormously by exploiting the twistedness as well as wavelength of radio waves.

A 32 - meter parabola antenna which had been used for satellite communications was donated by a telecommunications company, and its system modification is underway to make it usable as a new radio telescope.

In general, we think that the value of radio communication on Earth today is too large to justify ceasing all radio transmissions in order to reduce the risk of being found by a hypothetical harmful extraterrestrial civilization.

Radio telescopes, including major facilities of the National Science Foundation's National Radio Astronomy Observatory, have provided data needed to measure the winds encountered by the Huygens spacecraft as it descended through the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan last month — measurements feared lost because of a communication error between Huygens and its mother ship Cassini.

Often accompanied by bursts of energetic particles called Coronal Mass Ejections, M - and X-class eruptions can interfere with radio, GPS, and even ground - based communications and power grids.

A team at Disney Research is looking at harnessing a technique called ultra-wideband (UWB) ambient backscatter, which would allow IoT devices to save power and ditch their radio transmitters by piggybacking their communications on the multitude of FM and cellular signals already in the air.