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aug 8, 1996 - FCC Adopts the Three-Hour Rule

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The FCC officially mandated that commercial stations broadcast a minimum of 3 hours per week of core educational programming labeled with the E/I bug, establishing a hard, quantitative baseline for public interest broadcasting.

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aug 8, 1996
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~ 29 years ago