FCC Commissioner Comments on Use of 'Next Generation' Broadcast Television Standard
February 24, 2017
February 24, 2017
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 -- The Federal Communications Commission issued the following statement by Commissioner Mignon Clyburn on authorizing permissive use of the "next generation" broadcast television standard (GN Docket No. 16-142):
"After World War I, broadcast began to play a prominent role in our lives," Erik Barnouw wrote in the opening pages of the 1966 industry classic, A Tower in Babel: A History of Broadcasting in the United States.
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"After World War I, broadcast began to play a prominent role in our lives," Erik Barnouw wrote in the opening pages of the 1966 industry classic, A Tower in Babel: A History of Broadcasting in the United States.
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