Which Statement About the Telecommunications Act of 1996 Is True

question 33

Multiple Choice

Which statement about the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is true?

• A) The act tightened federal restrictions on media ownership.
• B) The act did not attempt to regulate the content of material transmitted over the Internet.
• C) Following passage of the act, several mergers between telephone and cable companies produced a greater concentration of media ownership.
• D) The act required broadcasters who aired programs on controversial issues to provide time for opposing views.

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Definitions:

Net Fixed Assets

The value of a company's property, plant, and equipment minus depreciation, representing the company's investment in long-term assets.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean value, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of values, calculated as the square root of the variance, indicating how much the values deviate from the mean.

Standard Deviation

An assessment of how much the values in a group differ or spread out.