eas. The radio and television broadcasting industry, including cable television, was subjected to extensive FCC regulation, which included review every five years as to whether renewal of their channel or frequency licenses were in the public interest, restrictions on radio and TV station ownership and control over the rates charged by cable TV providers, frozen in 1992.
2. Technological Changes Which Led to TCA
Various technological changes had rendered this regulatory system obsolete by the 1980s, but it took Congress more than a decade to enact TCA. According to Keyworth and Eisenach (1996, October 17), "after years of difficult negotiations in Congress, where competing sectors of the telecommunications industry were heard and their interests and the public interest were carefully balanced, the 1996 Act emerged as a bill that no one saw as perfect, but most saw as a step forward" (p. 2
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