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used for

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, the

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and the

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that relates to

broadcasting Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum ( radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting beg ...

. The Bill for an Act with this short title will usually have been known as a Broadcasting Bill during its passage through

Parliament In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the government via hearings and inquiries. Th ...

. Broadcasting Acts may be a generic name either for legislation bearing that short title or for all legislation which relates to broadcasting.

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Canada

* The ''Canadian Radio Broadcasting Act, 1932'' which established the

Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC), also referred to as the Canadian Radio Commission (CRC), was Canada's first public broadcaster and the immediate precursor to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Origins The CRBC was establis ...

. * The ''Broadcasting Act, 1958'', that took the private-sector regulatory function of the

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (french: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a federal Crown corporation that receives funding from the government. ...

, the public broadcaster and created the

Board of Broadcast Governors The Board of Broadcast Governors (BBG) was an arms-length Government of Canada agency. It was created in 1958 by amending the ''Broadcast Act'' to regulate television and radio broadcasting, originally taking over that function from the CBC. ...

, a separate regulatory agency for private broadcasters. * The ''Broadcasting Act, 1968'', that established the

Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC; french: Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes, links=) is a public organization in Canada with mandate as a regulatory agency for broadcasti ...

with oversight over both public and private broadcasting, and updated the mandate of the

* The ''Broadcasting Act'', 1991, that amended both the ''Broadcasting Act, 1968'', and the since-separated ''Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Act, 1976''

Hong Kong

* The Broadcasting Ordinance 2000

Malaysia

* The Broadcasting Act 1988

Republic of Ireland

* The Broadcasting (Amendment) Act 2007

Singapore

* Broadcasting Act (Singapore)

United Kingdom

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Sound Broadcasting Act 1972 In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid. In human physiology and psychology, sound is the ''reception'' of such waves and their ''perception'' by the ...

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Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service ...

, - , The Broadcasting Act 1981 , , - , The Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984 , , - , The Broadcasting Act 1987 , , - , The

Broadcasting Act 1990 The Broadcasting Act 1990 is a law of the British parliament, initiated in part due to a 1989 European Council Directive (89/552), also known as the Television Without Frontiers directive. The aim of the Act was to liberalise and deregulate the B ...

, That largely

deregulated Deregulation is the process of removing or reducing state regulations, typically in the economic sphere. It is the repeal of governmental regulation of the economy. It became common in advanced industrial economies in the 1970s and 1980s, as a ...

private television, allowed for the creation of a fifth terrestrial television channel as well as allowed for the launch of

satellite television Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location. The signals are received via an outdoor parabolic antenna comm ...

in the UK , - , The

Broadcasting Act 1996 Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting began wi ...

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References

Lists of legislation by short title