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1. How many commissioners are there at the FCC?
2. In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. that
3. On a national basis, a single entity may own television stations reaching up to what maximum percentage of
the national TV viewing audience?
4. Which one of the following is not one of three traditional policy objectives of the FCC that is supposed to
serve the public interest?
5. Television stations are licensed by the FCC for how many years?
6. Which of the following areas of broadcast programming is regulated most heavily?
7. The candidate access rule requires broadcasters to give
8. In March 2004, the FCC concluded that U2 singer Bono’s acceptance speech during the Golden Globes
Award program made the NBC broadcast of that program:
9. The FCC’s safe-harbor zone for when indecent content may be broadcast on television without facing legal
action from the FCC is from
10. To file a proper complaint with the FCC over particular content broadcast on a television program, a person
must include:
11. Under Section 315 of the Communications Act, the term equal opportunity means
12. To fall within the FCC’s definition of indecency, the content must relate to which of the following?
13. Which one of the following is NOT one of the three principal factors that the FCC often considers to
determine the patent offensiveness of content in its indecency cases?
14. The V-chip is designed to allow parents to
15. Describe any four (4) of the conditions that the FCC imposed in 2011 on Comcast when the FCC approved
that same year a 51 percent ownership stake by Comcast in NBC Universal, owner of TV channels such as NBC
16. Briefly describe the legal controversy in 2012 and 2013 involving the service called “Aereo,” including
what Aereo is, how it works, who objects to it, and why it is objected to.
17. Set forth the three things that a viewer or listener must include in a properly filed complaint alleging that a
broadcast was indecent.
18. Identify the four types of TV or radio appearances by a candidate for political office that are not governed
by the Equal Opportunity Rule.
19. PICON stands for _____________________________________.
Public Interest, Convenience or Necessity
20. The notion that there are a finite number of frequencies on which to broadcast and, in turn, that there are
more people who want to broadcast than there are available frequencies is known as ________________.
21. The FCC in late 2008 adopted rules that allow sophisticated new wireless and mobile devices to operate
without a license on previously unused portions of the broadcast television spectrum known as
22. In 2010, President Obama signed into law the CALM Act, a clever acronym that stands for
_____________________________.
23. The FCC’s rules about broadcast indecency do not apply to satellite radio content.
24. In 2006, maximum fine for an indecency regulation violation was raised to $100,000.
25. The FCC used to define “profane language” as divine imprecation and religious blasphemy.
