[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 47, Volume 4]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 47CFR76.111]



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                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION

 

                    CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

                         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



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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.

    (f) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any community 

unit having fewer than 1,000 subscribers.