---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 303b"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "303b"
heading: "Consideration of children’s television service in broadcast license renewal"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/303b"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Wire or Radio Communication"
  - "Subchapter III — Special Provisions Relating to Radio"
  - "Part I — General Provisions"
---

# §303b. Consideration of children’s television service in broadcast license renewal

- (a) After the standards required by [section 303a of this title](/usc/47/303a.md) are in effect, the Commission shall, in its review of any application for renewal of a commercial or noncommercial television broadcast [license](/usc/47/153.md?p=49), consider the extent to which the [licensee](/usc/47/153.md?p=30)—
  - (1) has complied with such standards; and
  - (2) has served the educational and informational needs of children through the [licensee](/usc/47/153.md?p=30)’s overall programming, including programming specifically designed to serve such needs.
- (b) In addition to consideration of the [licensee](/usc/47/153.md?p=30)’s programming as required under [subsection (a)](#a), the Commission may consider—
  - (1) any special nonbroadcast efforts by the [licensee](/usc/47/153.md?p=30) which enhance the educational and informational value of such programming to children; and
  - (2) any special efforts by the [licensee](/usc/47/153.md?p=30) to produce or support programming broadcast by another [station](/usc/47/153.md?p=42) in the [licensee](/usc/47/153.md?p=30)’s marketplace which is specifically designed to serve the educational and informational needs of children.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–437, title I, § 103, Oct. 17, 1990, 104 Stat. 997; Pub. L. 102–356, § 15, Aug. 26, 1992, 106 Stat. 954; Pub. L. 103–414, title III, § 303(c), Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4296.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Children’s Television Act of 1990, and not as part of the Communications Act of 1934 which comprises this chapter.

### Amendments

1994—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–414 substituted “noncommercial” for “noncommerical”.

1992—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102–356 inserted reference to commercial or noncommercial television broadcast licenses.