Federal Communications Commission v. League of Women Voters of California

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1984-07-02

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Justice Brennan delivered the opinion of the Court. Moved to action by a widely felt need to sponsor independ-' ent sources of broadcast programming as an alternative to commercial broadcasting, Congress set out in 1967 to support and promote the development of noncommercial, educational broadcasting stations. A keystone of Congress’ program was the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, <span class="citation no-link…

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