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Statistical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-24-10 02:32 PM
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11. No they don't.
Broadvast stations LICENSE a section of the electromangetic specturm from the FCC.
As frequency ranges which are useful for analog & digital signals is finite it makes sense to license, regulate, or control with "natural resource".

However the license is not subject just to broadcasters.

Radio, TV, cellphones, wireless internet, etc are all subjects to licensing & regulation.

A broadcaster isn't paying for free speech. They are paying to use public airways.

If a broadcaster instead someday wanted to broadcast only to the internet or put programs on DVD and mail them they wouldn't pay a govt fee for that speech.
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