The Cable Act of 1922 is an American law that reversed former immigration laws regarding marriage. The law allowed a U.S. woman marrying an immigrant to maintain her U.S. Citizenship. The law of the United States is derived from the common law of the United Kingdom, which was in force at the time of the Revolutionary War. ...
This piece of legislation made it so that any female citizen who married an "alien ineligible for citizenship" would give up her citizenship. She would regain her citizenship if she were to divorce the non citizen.
The Cable Act of 1922 reveals the anti-nonwhite sentiment in the early 1900s. It is a blatant attack at male immigrants from the Pacific as well as African Americans, who were ineligible for citizenship, for attempting to be romantically involved with Caucasian women.
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Norton, Mary Beth and Associates. A People And A Nation. Volume 2. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, New York. ISBN 0-618-21470-4
If the broadcaster chose to exercise retransmission consent, the broadcaster and the cable operator would have negotiate the terms under which the cable operator would be permitted to carry the broadcaster's signal.
Cable operators tried to portray the broadcasters as money-grubbers who would be responsible for creating even higher cable rates for the hapless consumer.
For example, Fox Broadcasting had a new cable service, Fx, that it was preparing to roll out and the network told the cable MSOs that it would not ask for any monetary compensation for retransmission if the cable systems owned by the MSO would run its new service in exchange.
Cable operators are not required to provide prior notice of any rate change that is the result of a regulatory fee, franchise fee, or any other fee, tax, assessment, or charge of any kind imposed by a Federal agency, State, or franchising authority on the transaction between the operator and the subscriber.
The 1984 CableAct provides damages and penalties of up to two years in prison and/or $50,000 in fines to be assessed against anyone determined to be guilty either of the unauthorized interception or reception of cable television services or of the manufacture or distribution of equipment intended to be utilized for such a purpose.
Cable television systems may charge political candidates only the "lowest unit charge" of the system for the same class and amount of time for the same period, during the 45 days preceding a primary or runoff election and the 60 days preceding a general or special election.
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