Editing All-Channel Receiver Act (section)

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| shorttitle        = All-Channel Receiver Act
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| longtitle         = An Act to amend the Communications Act of 1934 in order to give the Federal Communications Commission certain regulatory authority over television receiving apparatus.
| colloquialacronym = ACRA
| nickname          = All-Channels Act
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| acts amended    = [[Communications Act of 1934]]
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| title amended   = [[Title 47 of the United States Code|47]]
| sections created = 47 U.S.C. § 330
| sections amended = 47 U.S.C. § 303
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| signeddate      = July 10, 1962
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The '''All-Channel Receiver Act''' of 1962 ('''ACRA''') ({{USCSub|47|303|s}}), commonly known as the '''All-Channels Act''', was passed by the [[United States Congress]] in 1961, to allow the [[Federal Communications Commission]] to require that all [[television set]] [[manufacturer]]s must include [[Ultra high frequency|UHF]] [[tuner (television)|tuner]]s, so that new UHF-[[band (radio)|band]] [[TV station]]s (then [[television channel frequencies|channels]] 14 to 83) could be received by the [[general public|public]]. This was a problem at the time since most affiliated stations of the [[Big Three television networks]] ([[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], [[CBS]], [[NBC]]) were well-established on [[Very high frequency|VHF]], while many local-only stations on UHF were struggling for survival.

The All-Channel Receiver Act provides that the Federal Communications Commission shall "have authority to require that apparatus designed to receive television pictures broadcast simultaneously with sound be capable of adequately receiving all frequencies allocated by the Commission to television broadcasting."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Notices/1995/fcc95389.txt |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-12-10 |archive-date=2009-05-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090510040016/http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Notices/1995/fcc95389.txt |url-status=live }}</ref> Under authority provided by the All Channel Receiver Act, the FCC adopted a number of technical standards to increase parity between the UHF and VHF television services, including a 14&nbsp;dB maximum UHF [[noise figure]] for television receivers.