[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: 47CFR76.71]



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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 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 BRS/EBS provider, a direct broadcast 

satellite service, a television receive-only satellite program 

distributor, or a video dialtone program service provider, who makes 

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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; 69 

FR 72045, Dec. 10, 2004]