Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) took it one step further. He called for bringing back the Fairness Doctrine, in what was widely considered an attempt to clamp down on talk radio. A week later, those calls ...

McDowell told the Business and Media Institute on Wednesday that if the upcoming Presidential election "goes one way, we could see a re-imposition of the Fairness Doctrine." The Doctrine ...

The Fairness Doctrine was scrapped in 1987 ... TiVo to record her favorite shows on Black Entertainment Television, Logo (a gay/lesbian-oriented cable channel), Oxygen (female-targeted programming ...

Enter the Fairness Doctrine, a regulation in place from the late 1940s until 1987 that dictated balanced coverage of controversial issues on broadcast radio and television. After its repeal ...

That was the day that Patrick, then FCC chairman, and his colleagues unanimously voted to repeal the Fairness Doctrine, a policy that had mandated broadcast networks to fairly present differing ...

The Fairness Doctrine applied to broadcast licensees only, not cable networks. It required broadcast stations to "afford reasonable opportunity for the discussion of conflicting views on issues of ...

It is our choice.In 1949, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) initiated the Fairness Doctrine, which was a policy that required holders of broadcasting licenses to report on controversial ...

In the 1940s, concern over the dominance of the then-three major TV networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, led Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to establish the Fairness Doctrine ...

It was called the Fairness Doctrine, and it was initiated in 1949 by the Federal Communications Commission during the earlier days of television newscasting. There was a concern in 1949 – when ...