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Bill: Public Radio and Television Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: People's Communist Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: February 2190
Description[?]:
| This law authorizes and compels the Keymon Government to create a national radio station and a national television station through the following provisions: - A government run radio station shall be created and it shall use the unassigned frequency of 102.7 MHz and shall comply with the FM specifications. - A government run television station shall be created and it shall use the unassigned frequencies of 660 MHZ and 1280 MHZ. The former shall comply with the NTSC specifications, and the latter with HDTV spefications. - These stations are to carry educational, cultural, and political material from a wide variety of viewpoints, in the hopes of creating an informed citizenry. - Funding shall be provided to allow for the creation of content for these stations and to finance their operations. - All content broadcast on these stations are to be the people's property, and any copyrights covering the material must be put into the public domain or issued under an approved copyleft license,* with the choice to be left to the broadcaster. OOC: * Check out http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ for examples of well known copyleft licenses. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: All radio stations are private.
Current: The government subsidises a national radio station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Proposed: The government subsidises a national radio station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Television stations.
Old value:: All television media are private.
Current: The government subsidises a national TV station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Proposed: The government subsidises a national TV station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:37:07, February 21, 2006 CET | From | People's Communist Party | To | Debating the Public Radio and Television Act |
| Message | The bill will greatly improve the quality of our television and radio and will provide a solid counter to crass corporate TV and radio. We, the PCP, strongly encourage all responsible parties to vote 'yes' on this bill. |
| Date | 07:36:55, February 21, 2006 CET | From | Christian Democrats | To | Debating the Public Radio and Television Act |
| Message | Our revenue is up. Since this bill doesn't end private radio and television, we support it. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 75 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 25 |
| Random fact: Cultural Protocols should generally be reflective of RP conducted within the nation and should not significantly alter or modify the ethnic, religious or linguistic composition without considerable and reasonable role-play or other justification. |
| Random quote: "When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick.'" - Mikhail Bakunin |