Solution

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Only overlapping innovations contribute to the autocovariance function of the moving-average process. Set . The overlap formula is , with coefficients outside set to zero. Thus
The time-series spectral density is the Fourier sum of this finite covariance sequence:
It also equals , which directly verifies nonnegativity. Integrating from gives the requested time-series spectral distribution:
Extend it by zero below and by above . In particular its total mass is the process variance, not necessarily one.

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