Regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. Accepts and investigates complaints related to obscene or indecent programs, unsolicited advertisements, and tower outages.

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Programs that accept and, where possible, attempt to resolve complaints regarding the quality or content of television programs, equal time for political broadcasting, adequate programming for children or other aspects of television programming.

Television Programming Complaints

Programs that accept and, where possible, attempt to resolve complaints regarding reception, programming, area or channel availability, excessive fees or other services or business practices of companies that offer access to cable television programming via a system that uplinks signals to a satellite which sends them directly to a dish at the subscriber's home.

Satellite Television Complaints

The principal executive divisions of the federal government of the United States, headed by a secretary who is a member of the President's cabinet, the agencies within them and the independent establishments and corporations that fall outside the cabinet structure.

Federal Government Agencies/Departments

Programs that are responsible for developing telecommunications policy at state or national levels and/or for regulating intrastate, interstate and foreign communication by means of radio, television, wire, cable and satellite as well as the new forms of communication including voice, data, image graphics and full motion video made possible by the emerging broadband telecommunications platform. Responsibilities include allocating bands of frequencies to individual stations; licensing and regulating stations and operators; regulating common carriers in intrastate, interstate and foreign communications by telegraph, telephone or satellite; and overseeing the development and utilization of a broadband telecommunications platform.

Communications Regulation

Programs that accept and, where possible, attempt to resolve complaints about the quality or content of radio programs, equal time for political broadcasting or other aspects of radio programming.

Radio Programming Complaints

Programs that accept and, where possible, attempt to resolve complaints regarding the rates, services, equipment, unethical or improper conduct of personnel or other inappropriate business practices of companies that provide telephone services to homes and businesses.

Telephone Service Complaints

Programs that accept and, where possible, attempt to resolve complaints regarding reception, programming, area or channel availability, excessive fees or other services or business practices of cable television companies.