[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: 47CFR76.71]

[Page 608]
 
                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
                    CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
                         COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 76_MULTICHANNEL VIDEO AND CABLE TELEVISION SERVICE--Table of Contents
 
           Subpart E_Equal Employment Opportunity Requirements
 
Sec. 76.71  Scope of application.

    Source: 50 FR 40855, Oct. 7, 1985, unless otherwise noted.


    (a) The provisions of this subpart shall apply to any corporation, 
partnership, association, joint-stock company, or trust engaged 
primarily in the management or operation of any cable system. Cable 
entities subject to these provisions include those systems defined in 
Sec. 76.5(a), all satellite master antenna television systems serving 
50 or more subscribers, and any multichannel video programming 
distributor. For purposes of the provisions of this subpart, a 
multichannel video programming distributor is an entity such as, but not 
limited to, a cable operator, a multipoint distribution service, a 
multichannel multipoint distribution service, a direct broadcast 
satellite service, a television receive-only satellite program 
distributor, or a video dialtone program service provider, who makes 
available for purchase, by subscribers or customers, multiple channels 
of video programming, whether or not a licensee. Multichannel video 
programming distributors do not include any entity which lacks control 
over the video programming distributed. For purposes of this subpart, an 
entity has control over the video programming it distributes, if it 
selects video programming channels or programs and determines how they 
are presented for sale to consumers. Nothwithstanding the foregoing, the 
regulations in this subpart are not applicable to the owners or 
originators (of programs or channels of programming) that distribute six 
or fewer channels of commonly-owned video programming over a leased 
transport facility. For purposes of this subpart, programming services 
are ``commonly-owned'' if the same entity holds a majority of the stock 
(or is a general partner) of each program service.
    (b) Employment units. The provisions of this subpart shall apply to 
cable entities as employment units. Each cable entity may be considered 
a separate employment unit; however, where two or more cable entities 
are under common ownership or control and are interrelated in their 
local management, operation, and utilization of employees, they shall 
constitute a single employment unit.
    (c) Headquarters office. A multiple cable operator shall treat as a 
separate employment unit each headquarters office to the extent the work 
of that office is primarily related to the operation of more than one 
employment unit as described in paragraph (b) of this section.

[50 FR 40855, Oct. 7, 1985, as amended at 58 FR 42250, Aug. 9, 1993]