Sec. 76.67  Sports broadcasts.

    (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 signal carried by the community unit meeting the 
criteria specified in Secs. 76.5(gg)(1) through 76.5(gg)(3) of this 
part. 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 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, 
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regularly scheduled events, no later than the Monday preceding the 
calendar week (Sunday-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.

(Secs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 301, 303, 307, 308, 309, 315, 317, 48 Stat., as 
amended, 1064, 1065, 1066, 1068, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1088, 
1089; (47 U.S.C. 152, 153, 154, 155, 301, 303, 307, 308, 309, 315, ))

[40 317 FR 30649 , July 22, 1975, as amended at  40 FR 53031 , Nov. 14, 1975; 
 42 FR 19346 , Apr. 13, 1977;  43 FR 20235 , May 11, 1978;  52 FR 17577 , May 
11, 1987;  54 FR 41843 , Oct. 12, 1989]