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47 U.S.C. § 390

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The purpose of this subpart is to assist, through matching grants, in the planning and construction of public telecommunications facilities in order to achieve the following objectives: (1) extend delivery of public telecommunications services to as many citizens of the United States as possible by the most efficient and economical means, including the use of broadcast and nonbroadcast technologies; (2) increase public telecommunications services and facilities available to, operated by, and owned by minorities and women; and (3) strengthen the capability of existing public television and radio stations to provide public telecommunications services to the public.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 13 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1977–2026 · leading case: Fed. Commc'ns Comm'n v. League of Women Voters of California, 468 U.S. 364 (1984).
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Fed. Commc'ns Comm'n v. League of Women Voters of California, 468 U.S. 364 (1984). · cites it 4× “365, 47 U. S. C. § 390 et seq., which established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a nonprofit corporation authorized to disburse federal funds to noncommercial television and radio stations in support of station operations and educational programming.”
Arkansas Educ. Television Comm'n v. Forbes, 523 U.S. 666 (1998). · cites it 2× “365, 47 U. S. C.§ 390 et seq. [10] The Court correctly rejects the extreme position that the First Amendment simply has no application to a candidate's claim that he or she should be permitted to participate in a televised debate.”
California Pub. Broad. Forum v. Fed. Commc'ns Comm'n, Kqed, Inc., Intervenor, 752 F.2d 670 (D.C. Cir. 1985). · cites it 2× “47 U.S.C. § 390 et seq. (1982). They contend that the Commission’s failure to hold a hearing on these claims was arbitrary and capricious.”
The Network Proj. v. Corp. for Pub. Broad., a Corp., 561 F.2d 963 (D.C. Cir. 1977). “65 , as amended, 47 U.S.C. §§ 390 et seq. (1970 & Supp. V 1975), hereinafter cited as codified.”
Greater Los Angeles Council on Deafness, Inc. v. Malcolm Baldrige, Sec'y of the Dep't of Com., 827 F.2d 1353 (9th Cir. 1987). “The Department awards grants to public television stations for the acquisition, installation, and modernization of public telecommunications facilities under the Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (“PTFP”).”
Fordham Univ. v. Brown, 856 F. Supp. 684 (D.D.C. 1994). · cites it 2× “See 47 U.S.C. §§ 390 et seq. Through publication in the Federal Register on November 22, 1991, NTIA solicited proposals for applications for PTFP assistance for funding in 1992.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica Educ. Corp. v. Crooks, 542 F. Supp. 1156 (W.D.N.Y. 1982). “, or the Communications Act of 1937 and its amendments, 47 U.S.C. § 390 et seq., does Congress authorize BOCES’ extensive off-the-air videotape reproduction as permissible under the copyright laws.”
League of Women Voters of California, & Pacifica Found. v. Fed. Commc'ns Comm'n, 751 F.2d 986 (9th Cir. 1985). “I This case began with a constitutional challenge to a portion of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, 47 U.S.C. §§ 390 et seq. In August 1982, the district court held that the statutory prohibition against editorializing by noncommercial broadcasters receiving funds from the…”
Barnstone v. Univ. of Houston, 514 F. Supp. 670 (S.D. Tex. 1980). “§§ 390-397 , since amended, “to assist (through matching grants) in the construction of educational television broadcasting facilities,” 47 U.S.C. § 390 , but it soon became clear that, if noncommercial television was to survive, the federal government would have to play a…”
League of Women Voters v. Fed. Commc'ns Comm'n, 547 F. Supp. 379 (C.D. Cal. 1982). “368 (1967) (codified at 47 U.S.C. §§ 390 et seq.) The Act provided federal financial assistance for public broadcasting and established a non-profit, private corporation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (“CPB”), to oversee distribution of this funding and to assist and…”
Hill v. Kemp, 645 F. Supp. 2d 992 (N.D. Okla. 2009). “In League of Women Voters, the owner of a noncommercial, educational broadcasting station that received funds under the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, 47 U.S.C. § 390 et seq., challenged a provision of that statute prohibiting stations receiving funding from “editorializing.”
Corp. for Pub. Broad. v. Trump (D.D.C. 2025). “365, 369 (1967), codified at 47 U.S.C. § 390 et seq. When President Johnson signed the PBA into law, he ascribed a lofty purpose to the Act—“to enrich man’s spirit” by giving “wider and .”
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