Direct Broadcast Satellite Public Interest Obligations
broadcasting · Federal Communications Commission · Published 1999-02-08 · Effective 1999-06-15 · 64 FR 5951
Document
Document number
99-1346
Federal Register citation
64 FR 5951
CFR reference
47 CFR 100
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule.
Category
broadcasting
Publication date
1999-02-08
Effective date
1999-06-15
FCC docket
MM Docket 93-25
Abstract
In this document, the Commission imposes requirements on Direct Broadcast Satellite Service (DBS) providers to comply with the political broadcast rules of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and mandates that DBS providers reserve between 4 percent and 7 percent of their channel capacity exclusively for ``noncommercial programming of an educational or informational nature.'' These rules will provide for the carriage on DBS systems of qualified political candidates for national office and will make DBS channel capacity available to ``national educational programming suppliers,'' upon reasonable prices, terms, and conditions.