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Originally posted by Tony Shepps
The other strange thing is: in theory, if you don't broadcast over a state line, how can the FCC be involved? It's not a federal case until it crosses a state line!
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The management of the scarce resource of broadcast bandwidth is handled by the federal government as a matter of international treaty. In this case it is a federal case even though it often does not cross state lines.
In order to carve out a section of the RF spectrum for our use, we had to agree with a bunch of other countries on how it would be divided, and how it would be managed. It is a treaty that the federal government entered into on behalf of the states.