"In the 1940s and 1950s, watching television meant tuning into one of a few broadcast television
stations, with the help of an antenna, to watch a program at a prescheduled time. Over subsequent
decades, cable and satellite operators emerged to enable households unable to receive over-the-air
signals to watch the retransmitted signals of broadcast television stations. More recently, some
viewers have taken to watching TV programming on their computers, tablets, mobile phones, and
other Internet-connected devices at times of their own choosing, dispensing with television
stations and cable and satellite operators altogether.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Congress, and the courts have overseen this
evolution by applying a combination of communications and copyright laws to regulate the
distribution of television programming. These laws are intended to achieve three policy goals:
1. protecting the property rights of content owners to encourage the production of
television programs;
2. promoting competition among distributors of video programming; and
3. enabling broadcast television stations to serve the local communities to which
they are licensed by the FCC..."
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