The Radio Act of 1927 established a system in which the government owned the airwaves; rather than broadcast itself, however, it would grant licenses for locations on the spectrum to private companies, though only — fateful phrase — "if public convenience, interest or necessity will be served thereby".
The usage of HFS from and up to the application level is justified in several cases by the interest and necessity of representing true bit reality.
But what's not being talked about is where most of this money goes: about half of all campaign dollars go directly into into our local radio and TV stations' wallets -- local broadcast stations which get licensed in the public/private partnership of broadcasting only if they "serve the public convenience, interest, and necessity".
The current study raises an interest and necessity of further investigation into CIA and CTIA, parameters that are very easy to analyze with almost no additional cost.
He does it out of interest rather than necessity.
Once current stock is sold, buyer interest will, by necessity, then have to focus on the suburban areas.
The argument turned on the role of the Federal Communications Commission, the regulators charged with insuring that the radio system served the "public interest, convenience and necessity".
The Federal Communications Commission is supposed to insure that the carriers, who are leaseholders on public spectrum, use that resource to serve "the public interest, convenience, and necessity".
Although the FCC can exercise no prior restraint of television content, it is charged with ensuring that stations operate within the "public interest, convenience, and necessity".
Perhaps the rules have relaxed since my Broadcasting 101 days in film school, but my memory is clear: our public airwaves are to be used in the interest, convenience and necessity of the public.
