Administrative Procedures Act

(APA), 5, 38, 47n31, 165

All-Channel Television Receiver

Act, 95

American Broadcasting Co.

(ABC), 94–95, 113, 138

American Telephone and

Telegraph Co. (AT&T), 82

analogical reasoning, 30, 41, 50, 67

Arkin, Herbert, 93

Association of Maximum

Service Telecasters (AMST), 113, 118, 121, 140

Bartley, Robert T., 76

broadcasting regulation, 55–63

Burch, Dean, 112, 115–117, 120–121, 123–124, 126, 132–134, 164, 174

bureaucratic autonomy, 39, 166, 173

Cable Act of 1992, 169, 176–177n9

Cable Communications Policy

Act of 1984, 167

cable television regulation

1965 rules, 92–94

1966 rules, 94–97

1968–1969 rules, 103–105

1972 rules, 111–112, 124–127

capture theory, 2

Carter Mountain, 90–92

chain broadcasting

regulations, 59

common carrier regulation, 51–53

Communications Act of 1934, 7, 18, 50, 55–57, 60, 62, 64–66, 75, 79, 81, 84, 89, 95–96, 98, 115, 163, 165, 172, 174

consensus agreement, 124–127

copyright

Fortnightly decision, 98

legislation, 144

Corporation for Public

Broadcasting, 118

Cox, Kenneth, 89–92, 97, 100, 133

Craven, T. A. M., 76

distant signals, 67, 91, 97, 102, 104–105, 111, 114, 118, 121–122, 131, 143, 145, 147–149, 158–160, 164, 168, 173

Doerfer, John, 74–76, 78, 81–82, 84, 157, 163

economic impacts

1959 inquiry, 78–82

1979 inquiry, 144–147