Unlicensed broadcasting
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Unlicensed broadcasting is a term used for any type of broadcasting
without a broadcast license
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Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...
without a broadcast license
Broadcast license
A broadcast license or broadcast license is a specific type of spectrum license that grants the licensee the privilege to use a portion of the radio frequency spectrum in a given geographical area for broadcasting purposes. The licenses are generally straddled with additional restrictions that...
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- Low-power broadcastingLow-power broadcastingLow-power broadcasting is electronic broadcasting at very low power and low cost, to a small community area.The terms "low-power broadcasting" and "micropower broadcasting" should not be used interchangeably, because the markets are not the same...
, legal but sometimes unlicensed broadcasting - FM Transmitters, used to transmit satellite radio or digital media players to stereo systems which have no wired input (i.e. car radios)
- Title 47 CFR Part 15 (or "part 15"), a U.S. regulation that allows unlicensed broadcasting within a range of just a few meters
- Pirate broadcastingPirate broadcastingPirate broadcasting is illegal unlicensed broadcasting, referring to:*pirate radio*pirate televisionSee also: broadcast signal intrusion, when a licensed broadcast signal is overridden by an unauthorized signal, more akin to real piracy....
, unlicensed broadcasting that is globally considered illegal- Pirate radioPirate radioPirate radio is illegal or unregulated radio transmission. The term is most commonly used to describe illegal broadcasting for entertainment or political purposes, but is also sometimes used for illegal two-way radio operation...
- Pirate televisionPirate televisionA pirate television station is a broadcast television station that operates without a broadcast license. Like its counterpart pirate radio, the term pirate TV lacks a specific universal interpretation...
- Pirate radio
- ISM bandISM bandThe industrial, scientific and medical radio bands are radio bands reserved internationally for the use of radio frequency energy for industrial, scientific and medical purposes other than communications....
s, used legally at low power to broadcast for personal use- video senderVideo senderA video sender is a device for transmitting domestic video signals wirelessly from one room to another, as for example sending the output of a satellite TV decoder located in the lounge, to a television set in the bedroom....
, used to distribute video (sometimes wireless security cameras) within a home or small business
- video sender