The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) conducts a quadrennial review of broadcast ownership rules, meaning the FCC reviews those rules approximately every four years.
November 24, 2025
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procedural
Regulatory process used by the FCC to reassess media ownership regulations on a recurring four-year cycle.
U.S. federal broadcast ownership rules include a national ownership cap that prohibits any single station owner from collectively reaching more than 39% of U.S. television households.
January 01, 2004
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policy
Describes a standing regulatory limit on national broadcast audience reach.
Federal agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission can be tasked to issue nationwide rules for artificial intelligence transparency that would preempt enforcement of stricter state-level transparency rules.
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procedural
Nationwide agency rules can serve as a federal baseline and can limit states from enforcing differing or more stringent standards in regulated domains like AI transparency.
Broadcasters regulated by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have a legal obligation to operate in the public interest, and those public-interest requirements include prohibitions on news distortion and broadcast hoaxes.
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regulatory
U.S. broadcast licensing includes public-interest obligations intended to prevent deceptive or hoax broadcasting.
The Federal Communications Commission has characterized the act of rigging or slanting the news as 'a most heinous act against the public interest.'
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policy
Expression of the FCC's stance on intentional manipulation of news content.