Non-commercial educational station
Radio station or television station that does not accept on-air advertisements (TV ads or radio ads), as defined in the United States by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and was originally intended to offer educational programming as part, or whole, of its programming.
- Non-commercial educational station405 related topics
Television station
Set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity, such as an amateur television operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's surface to any number of tuned receivers simultaneously.
Another form a television station may take is non-commercial educational (NCE) and considered public broadcasting.
Broadcast license
Type of spectrum license granting the licensee permission to use a portion of the radio frequency spectrum in a given geographical area for broadcasting purposes.
Licenses are increasingly offered via spectrum auctions; however, this fails to consider non-commercial educational users (who are shut out of the process for economic reasons).
Commercial broadcasting
Broadcasting of television programs and radio programming by privately owned corporate media, as opposed to state sponsorship.
In the United States, non-commercial educational (NCE) television and radio exists in the form of community radio; however, premium cable services such as HBO and Showtime generally operate solely on subscriber fees and do not sell advertising.
FM broadcast band
Range of radio frequencies used for FM broadcasting by radio stations.
In the United States, the twenty-one channels with center frequencies of 87.9–91.9 MHz (channels 200 through 220) constitute the reserved band, exclusively for non-commercial educational (NCE) stations.
List of North American broadcast station classes
List of broadcast station classes applicable in much of North America under international agreements between the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Canada protects all radio stations out to a signal strength of 0.5mV/m (54dBu), whereas only commercial B stations in the US are. Commercial B1 in the US is 0.7mV/m (57dBu), and all other stations are 1.0mV/m (60dBu). Noncommercial-band stations (88.1 to 91.9) are not afforded this protection, and are treated as C3 and C2 even when they are B1 or B. C3 and C2 may also be reported internationally as B1 and B, respectively.
Low-power broadcasting
Broadcasting by a broadcast station at a low transmitter power output to a smaller service area than "full power" stations within the same region.
Low Power FM (LPFM) is a non-commercial educational broadcast radio service created by the Federal Communications Commission in the United States in 2000.
Radio broadcasting
Transmission of audio , sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience.
There are several subtypes, namely commercial broadcasting, non-commercial educational (NCE) public broadcasting and non-profit varieties as well as community radio, student-run campus radio stations, and hospital radio stations can be found throughout the world.
Religious broadcasting
Dissemination of television and/or radio content that intentionally has religious ideas, religious experience, or religious practice as its core focus.
Religious broadcasting in the United States is mainly the province of local or regional networks which produce programming relevant to their community, and is usually heard on stations holding non-commercial educational broadcast licenses.
Must-carry
In cable television, governments apply a must-carry regulation stating that locally licensed television stations must be carried on a cable provider's system.
Must-carry does not apply if the television station does not want to be carried under the retransmission consent provisions. This applies only to non-commercial educational (NCE) stations. Station operators are allowed to demand payment from cable operators, or negotiate private agreements for carriage, or threaten revocation against the cable operator (see Sinclair, Time Warner Cable). Must-carry is a privilege given to television stations, not a cable company. A cable company cannot use must-carry to demand the right to carry an over-the-air station against the station's wishes.
Georgia Public Broadcasting
State network of PBS member television stations and NPR member radio stations serving the U.S. state of Georgia.
The station filed with the FCC to convert WNEG's station license to non-commercial status.