[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 4]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR76.111]

[Page 608-609]
 
                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
                         COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 76_MULTICHANNEL VIDEO AND CABLE TELEVISION SERVICE--Table of Contents
 
Subpart F_Network Non-duplication Protection, Syndicated Exclusivity and 
                             Sports Blackout
 
Sec.  76.111  Cable sports blackout.

    (a) No community unit located in whole or in part within the 
specified zone of a television broadcast station licensed to a community 
in which a sports event is taking place, shall, on request of the holder 
of the broadcast rights to that event, or its agent, carry the live 
television broadcast of that event if the event is not available live on 
a television broadcast station meeting the criteria specified in Sec.  
76.128. For purposes of this section, if there is no television station 
licensed to the community in which the sports event is taking place, the 
applicable specified zone shall be that of the television station 
licensed to the community with which the sports event or team is 
identified, or, if the event or local team is not identified with any 
particular community, the nearest community to which a television 
station is licensed.
    (b) Notification of the programming to be deleted pursuant to this 
section shall include the following information:
    (1) As to programming to be deleted from television broadcast 
signals regularly carried by the community unit:
    (i) The name and address of the party requesting the program 
deletion;
    (ii) The date, time and expected duration of the sports event the 
television broadcast of which is to be deleted;
    (iii) The call letters of the television broadcast station(s) from 
which the deletion is to be made.
    (2) As to programming to be deleted from television broadcast 
signals not regularly carried by the community unit:
    (i) The name and address of the party requesting the program 
deletion;
    (ii) The date, time and expected duration of the sports event the 
television broadcast of which is to be deleted.
    (c) Notifications given pursuant to this section must be received, 
as to regularly scheduled events, no later than the Monday preceding the 
calendar week (Sunday through Saturday) during which the program 
deletion is to be made. Notifications as to events not regularly 
scheduled and revisions of notices previously submitted, must be 
received within twenty-four (24) hours after the time of the telecast to 
be deleted is known, but in any event no later than twenty-four (24) 
hours from the time the subject telecast is to take place.
    (d) Whenever, pursuant to this section, a community unit is required 
to delete a television program on a signal regularly carried by the 
community unit, such community unit may, consistent with the rules 
contained in subpart F of this part, substitute a program from any other 
television broadcast station. A program substituted may be carried to 
its completion, and the community unit need not return to its regularly 
carried signal until it can do so without interrupting a program already 
in progress.
    (e) The provisions of this section shall not be deemed to require 
the deletion of any portion of a television signal which a community 
unit was lawfully carrying prior to March 31, 1972.

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    (f) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any community 
unit having fewer than 1,000 subscribers.