Earlier today, the Green Party issued a statement objecting to WGRZ's proposed exclusion of Murphy, calling it «an act of censorship on the part of a private station which profits from use
of the public airwaves.»
Such overstatements have done little to allay fears about the dependability of the broadcasters in using any power they may acquire and in acting as responsible representatives in the use
of the public airwaves.
Not exact matches
A better America begins with Limbaugh financial sponsors dropping him to diminish his brand
of hate - mongering from making it over the
public airwaves.
Here's a look back at 10
of the greatest Christian music videos ever to grace religious TV networks,
public access station
airwaves or church sanctuaries.
The nature
of religious television in America can be seen to be a function
of the interaction
of four main players; changes over the past decades have come about because
of changes in the relative power and relationships
of the four following players: (1) the regulatory agencies
of the federal government, which, through the legislative process, provide the structure within which interaction inside the television industry takes place; (2) the television industry, primarily network and local station managements, which control the
airwaves within the legislated structure; (3) the viewing
public, which selects what it is that will be watched; and (4) the religious broadcasters who provide the material for broadcasts.
The adjudication
of these factors and how they were to be represented to the
public, though, has lain primarily with the television industry, which controls the
airwaves and the content communicated through them.
This «Fairness Doctrine» has become the foundation
of free speech on radio and television, and it has prevented many
of the more blatant attempts by some broadcasters to use the
public airwaves as nothing more than a sounding board for their own special views and interests.
Recommendations The
public airwaves carry all sorts
of signals from a variety
of devices.
Mayor de Blasio said the city hit a milestone Wednesday toward eradicating homelessness among military veterans — even as NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton took to the
airwaves to identify street dwellers as a source
of unease about
public safety.
Gov. David Paterson wasted no time in returning to a
public discussion
of the controversial Park5 project, taking to the
airwaves with radio host Don Imus to chat about Imam Feisal Adbul Rauf's latest comments exactly seven days after he had called for a one - week moratorium on the mosque / Islamic center debates.
As Ken Lovett at The Daily News noted today and I've reported on in the past, ads in favor
of the governor's $ 142.6 billion agenda are once again flooding the
airwaves, but this year it is a traditional return to Cuomo being the
public face
of the TV spots.
replace big money control
of election campaigns with full
public financing and free and equal access to the
airwaves;
Perhaps not since Dr. Ruth commandeered American
airwaves in the 1980s has there been a
public figure with so much
of an audience for her work on human sexuality... Instead
of offering more explicitness, she writes and talks about the aspects
of sexuality that can't be captured on a screen, the hidden, psychological states that do or do not set the mechanics in motion.»
PTC president Tim Winter said, «Tonight, CBS and 200
of its affiliated stations around the nation will use the
public airwaves ostensibly for «torture porn.»
That didn't stop it from filling the
airwaves, broadcast from ships anchored just outside British territorial waters and listened to by an audience made up
of half the listening
public.
How will the voters
of California respond to the unions» barrage
of distortions and red herrings that will undoubtedly pollute the
public airwaves?
To fight the initiative, CARE spent more than $ 34 million paying
public relations firms and blanketing the
airwaves with anti-Proposal 3 ads, according to disclosures filed with the state
of Michigan.
Because, in his words, her opinions «exemplified some
of the most irresponsible, ill - informed, and ignorant anti-vaccination campaigning that I have ever heard on the
public airwaves,» he posted the 44 - minute segment
of her show on his blog.
In short this case established the FCC's right to ban certain words from broadcast on
public airwaves during hours when children might be listening and established a definition
of indecent, but not obscene, material.
And
of course, the broadcasts are free (because they use
public airwaves), which is a big deal as major networks demand ever - higher broadcast re-transmission fees from cable and satellite providers.
Venting remains an on - going debate as does the use
of swear words on
public airwaves.