Some also feared Apple would undercut their ability to release films through a sequence of "windows"--first at theaters, then DVDs, then pay-per-view, then HBO and other pay channels, and finally on broadcast and basic cable.

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The bespectacled, boyish Republican, who is 40, and the FCC soon will issue a report to Congress recommending that the FCC be allowed to regulate violence on broadcast and basic cable (doing so, the FCC says, won't violate the First Amendment).

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The UGCCS two main radio courses are Broadcast Reporting and Writing at the basic level for Diploma students, and Advanced Broadcast Production for students in their final year of the degree programme.

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The basic idea is that broadcast rights, like movie distribution rights, book copyrights, belong to the originator.

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Most broadcast stations are part of the basic cable packages people buy, and just 10% of the population receives its TV signals only through the airwaves.

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Meanwhile, the inquiry into the Newsnight broadcast has identified "unacceptable" failings and said basic journalistic checks were not completed.

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For the first time, basic cable will double the prime-time viewership of the six major broadcast television networks for the coveted 18- to 49-year-old demographic, Wakshlag said.

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Basic cable is now in 70 million homes, and 30 million homes get direct-broadcast satellite.

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