[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: 47CFR76.62]



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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 D_Carriage of Television Broadcast Signals

 

Sec. 76.62  Manner of carriage.



    (a) Cable operators shall carry the entirety of the program schedule 

of any television station (including low power television stations) 

carried by the system unless carriage of specific programming is 

prohibited, and other programming authorized to be substituted, under 

Sec. 76.67 or subpart F of part 76, or unless carriage is pursuant to a 

valid retransmission consent agreement for the entire signal or any 

portion thereof as provided in Sec. 76.64.

    (b) Each such television broadcast signal carried shall be carried 

without material degradation, and, for analog signals, in compliance 

with technical standards set forth in subpart K of this part.

    (c) Each local commercial television station whose signal is carried 

shall, to the extent technically feasible and consistent with good 

engineering practice, be provided no less than the same quality of 

signal processing and carriage provided for carriage of any other type 

of standard television signal.

    (d) Each qualified local noncommercial educational television 

station whose signal is carried shall be provided with bandwidth and 

technical capacity equivalent to that provided to commercial television 

broadcast stations carried.

    (e) Each commercial broadcast television station carried pursuant to 

Sec. 76.56 shall include in its entirety the primary video, 

accompanying audio, and closed captioning data contained in line 21 of 

the vertical blanking interval and, to the extent technically feasible, 

program-related material carried in the vertical blanking interval or on 

subcarriers. Where appropriate and feasible, operators may delete signal 

enhancements, such as ghost-canceling, from the broadcast signal and 

employ such enhancements at the system headend or headends.

    (f) Each qualified local NCE television station carried pursuant to 

Sec. 76.56 shall include in its entirety the primary video, 

accompanying audio, and closed captioning data contained in line 21 of 

the vertical blanking interval and, to the extent technically feasible, 

program-related material carried in the vertical blanking interval or on 

subcarriers, that may be necessary for receipt of programming by 

handicapped persons or for educational or language purposes.

    (g) With respect to carriage of digital signals, operators are not 

required to carry ancillary or supplementary transmissions or non-

program related video material.



[58 FR 17362, Apr. 2, 1993, as amended at 59 FR 62345, Dec. 5, 1994; 66 

FR 16553, Mar. 26, 2001]