[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 4]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR73.132]

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                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
                    CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
                         COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 73_RADIO BROADCAST SERVICES--Table of Contents
 
                     Subpart A_AM Broadcast Stations
 
Sec. 73.132  Territorial exclusivity.

    No licensee of an AM broadcast station shall have any arrangement 
with a network organization which prevents or hinders another station 
serving substantially the same area from broadcasting the network's 
programs not taken by the former station, or which prevents or hinders 
another station serving a substantially different area from broadcasting 
any program of the network organization: Provided, however, That this 
section does not prohibit arrangements under which the station is 
granted first call within its primary service area upon the network's 
programs. The term ``network organization'' means any organization 
originating program material, with or without commercial messages, and 
furnishing the same to stations interconnected so as to permit 
simultaneous broadcast by all or some of them. However, arrangements 
involving only stations under common ownership, or only the rebroadcast 
by one station or programming from another with no compensation other 
than a lump-sum payment by the station rebroadcasting, are not 
considered arrangements with

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a network organization. The term ``arrangement'' means any contract, 
arrangement or understanding, expressed or implied.

[42 FR 16422, Mar. 28, 1977]