North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement, Mexican Broadcasting Agreement: Hearing Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, Senate, Eighty-Sixth Congress, First Session, on Ex. A, 82d Congress, 1st Session, and Ex. G, 85th Congress, 1st Session. July 9, 1959Reviews the U.S. and Mexican broadcasting agreement of 1957 and need for updating certain provisions, pt. 1; Examines broadcasting agreements between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to determine whether these agreements should be ratified without reservations or understandings, particularly with respect to hours of operation, pt. 2 |
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Page 46 - To the Senate of the United States: With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification...
Page 40 - PRESIDENT, The White House: The undersigned, the Secretary of State, has the honor to lay before the President, with a view to its transmission to the Senate to receive the advice and consent of that body to ratification, if his judgment approve thereof, a...
Page 131 - A clear channel is one on which the dominant station or stations render service over wide areas, and which are cleared of objectionable interference within their primary service areas and over all or a substantial portion of their secondary service areas.
Page 281 - A class I station is a dominant station operating on a clear channel and designed to render primary and secondary service over an extended area and at relatively long distances. Its primary service area is free from objectionable interference from other stations on the same and adjacent channels, and its secondary service area...
Page 247 - ... devote a reasonable amount of broadcast time to meeting the needs of the areas and communities which now receive broadcast service from these licensees will be carefully considered by the Commission in connection with renewal proceedings relating to such stations. Under the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, standard broadcast stations are licensed for a term of three years and renewal of such licenses may be granted from time to time for a term not to exceed three years. In each instance...
Page 281 - Class IV station. A Class IV station is a station operating on a local channel and designed to render service primarily to a city or town and the suburban and rural areas contiguous thereto.
Page 303 - Daytime operation in general means operation between the times of local sunrise and local sunset at the transmitter location of the station ; however, in particular cases other hours for daytime operation may be established, either in the present agreement or in bilateral agreements, between the respective contracting governments, taking into account the location of the station it is intended to protect.
Page 80 - US/Mexican Agreement. The term "NARBA" where used in this part means the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement, signed at Washington, DC, November 15, 1950, which entered into force April 19, 1960, and to which the signatory countries are The Bahama Islands and Jamaica, Canada, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and the United States of America. The term "US/Mexican Agreement" where used in this part means the Agreement between the United States of America...
Page 237 - ... and entertainment it must bring to the people of the nation a diversified program service. There must be, on the one hand, programs of local self-expression, whereby matters of local interest and benefit are brought to the communities served by broadcast stations. There must be, on the other hand, access to events of national and regional interest and to programs of a type which cannot be originated by local communities. Neither type of program service should be subordinated to the other.
Page 130 - was to establish fair and equitable principles governing, and to regulate, the common use of the broadcasting band in the North American Region so that each country within the Region may make the most effective technical use thereof with the minimum of interference between broadcasting stations.