Broadcast law
statutory law
Broadcast law is the field of law that pertains to broadcasting. These laws and regulations pertain to radio stations and TV stations, and are also considered to include closely related services like cable TV and cable radio, as well as satellite TV and satellite radio. Likewise, it also extends to broadcast networks.
Broadcast law includes technical parameters for these facilities, as well as content issues like copyright, profanity, and localism or regionalism.
Philippines
In the Philippines, broadcasting falls under the jurisdiction of the National Telecommunications Commission
while non-political content regulation is under the jurisdiction of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board. Political ones are regulated by the Commission on Elections.
Under the Philippine law, broadcasting networks require a congressional franchise to operate television and radio stations.
United States
In the US, broadcasting falls under the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission.
Some of the more notable aspects of broadcast law involve:
frequency allocation: The division of the spectrum into unlicensed frequency bands -- ISM band and U-NII—and licensed frequency bands -- television channel frequencies, FM broadcast band, amateur radio frequency allocations, etc.
low-power broadcasting
fairness doctrine
public broadcasting
History
The Radio Act of 1927 was the first major broadcasting law in the country.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Broadcast law” is statutory law. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Broadcast and statutory, not as a finished interpretation.
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The phrase “statutory law” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4972108. The Library of Congress control number is sh85017006. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1927.
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This entry incorporates text from “Broadcast law” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.