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47 U.S.C. § 303a — Standards for children’s television programming

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47 U.S.C. § 303a — Standards for children’s television programming

**(a) Establishment** The Commission shall, within 30 days after October 18, 1990, initiate a rulemaking proceeding to prescribe standards applicable to commercial television broadcast licensees with respect to the time devoted to commercial matter in conjunction with children’s television programming. The Commission shall, within 180 days after October 18, 1990, complete the rulemaking proceeding and prescribe final standards that meet the requirements of subsection (b). **(b) Advertising duration limitations** Except as provided in subsection (c), the standards prescribed under subsection (a) shall include the requirement that each commercial television broadcast licensee shall limit the duration of advertising in children’s television programming to not more than 10.5 minutes per hour on weekends and not more than 12 minutes per hour on weekdays. **(c) Review of advertising duration limitations; modification** After January 1, 1993, the Commission— (1) may review and evaluate the advertising duration limitations required by subsection (b); and (2) may, after notice and public comment and a demonstration of the need for modification of such limitations, modify such limitations in accordance with the public interest. **(d) “Commercial television broadcast licensee” defined** As used in this section, the term “commercial television broadcast licensee” includes a cable operator, as defined in [section 522 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title47-section522&num=0&edition=prelim).

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47 U.S.C. § 522 — Definitions

For purposes of this subchapter— (1) the term “activated channels” means those channels engineered at the headend of a cable system for the provision of services generally available to residential subscribers of the cable system, regardless of whether such services actually are provided, including any channel designated for public, educational, or governmental use; (2) the term “affiliate”, when used in relation to any person, means another person who owns or controls, is owned or controlled by, or is under common ownership or control with, such person; (3) the term “basic cable service” means any service tier which includes the retransmission of local television broadcast signals; (4) the term “cable channel” or “channel” means a portion of the electromagnetic frequency spectrum which is used in a cable system and which is capable of delivering a television channel (as television channel is defined by the Commission by regulation); (5) the term “cable operator” means any person or group of persons (A) who provides cable service over a cable system and directly or through one or more affiliates owns a significant interest in such cable system, or (B) who otherwise controls or is responsible for, through any arrangement, the management and operation of such a cable system; (6) the term “cable service” means— (A) the one-way transmission to subscribers of (i) video programming, or (ii) other programming service, and (B) subscriber interaction, if any, which is required for the selection or use of such video programming or other programming service; (7) the term “cable system” means a facility, consisting of a set of closed transmission paths and associated signal generation, reception, and control equipment that is designed to provide cable service which incl

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47 U.S.C. § 303b — Consideration of children’s television service in broadcast license renewal

**(a)** After the standards required by [section 303a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title47-section303a&num=0&edition=prelim) are in effect, the Commission shall, in its review of any application for renewal of a commercial or noncommercial television broadcast license, consider the extent to which the licensee— (1) has complied with such standards; and (2) has served the educational and informational needs of children through the licensee’s overall programming, including programming specifically designed to serve such needs. **(b)** In addition to consideration of the licensee’s programming as required under subsection (a), the Commission may consider— (1) any special nonbroadcast efforts by the licensee which enhance the educational and informational value of such programming to children; and (2) any special efforts by the licensee to produce or support programming broadcast by another station in the licensee’s marketplace which is specifically designed to serve the educational and informational needs of children.

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47 U.S.C. § 303a — Standards for children’s television pro-

Page 136 TITLE 47—TELECOMMUNICATIONS § 303a BROADCASTING OF INDECENT PROGRAMMING; FCC REGULATIONS Pub. L. 102–356, § 16(a), Aug. 26, 1992, 106 Stat. 954, pro- vided that: ‘‘The Federal Communications Commission shall promulgate regulations to prohibit the broad- casting of indecent programming— ‘‘(1) between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. on any day by any public radio station or public television station that goes off the air at or before 12 midnight; and ‘‘(2) between 6 a.m. and 12 midnight on any day for any radio or television broadcasting station not de- scribed in paragraph (1). The regulations required under this subsection shall be promulgated in accordance with section 553 of title 5, United States Code, and shall become final not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act [Aug. 26, 1992].’’ CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS REGARDING ACCESS BY HEARING-IMPAIRED PEOPLE TO TELEVISION MEDIUM Pub. L. 101–431, § 2, Oct. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 960, provided that: ‘‘The Congress finds that— ‘‘(1) to the fullest extent made possible by tech- nology, deaf and hearing-impaired people should have equal access to the television medium; ‘‘(2) closed-captioned television transmissions have made it possible for thousands of deaf and hearing- impaired people to gain access to the television me- dium, thus significantly improving the quality of their lives; ‘‘(3) closed-captioned television will provide access to information, entertainment, and a greater under- standing of our Nation and the world to over 24,000,000 people in the United States who are deaf or hearing-impaired; ‘‘(4) closed-captioned television will provide bene- fits for the nearly 38 percent of older Americans who have some loss of hearing; ‘‘(5) closed-captioned television can assist both h

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