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FCC 73.1201
Revised as of October 1, 2011
Goto Year:2010 |
2012
§ 73.1201 Station identification.
(a) When regularly required. Broadcast station identification
announcements shall be made:
(1) At the beginning and ending of each time of operation, and
(2) Hourly, as close to the hour as feasible, at a natural break in
program offerings. Television and Class A television broadcast stations
may make these announcements visually or aurally.
(b) Content. (1) Official station identification shall consist of the
station's call letters immediately followed by the community or
communities specified in its license as the station's location;
Provided, That the name of the licensee, the station's frequency, the
station's channel number, as stated on the station's license, and/or
the station's network affiliation may be inserted between the call
letters and station location. DTV stations, or DAB Stations, choosing
to include the station's channel number in the station identification
must use the station's major channel number and may distinguish
multicast program streams. For example, a DTV station with major
channel number 26 may use 26.1 to identify an HDTV program service and
26.2 to identify an SDTV program service. A DTV station that is
devoting one of its multicast streams to transmit the programming of
another television licensee must identify itself and may also identify
the licensee that it is transmitting. If a DTV station in this
situation chooses to identify the station that is the source of the
programming it is transmitting, it must use the following format:
Station WYYY-DT, community of license (call sign and community of
license of the station whose multicast stream is transmitting the
programming), bringing you WXXX, community of license (call sign and
community of license of the licensee providing the programming). The
transmitting station may insert between its call letters and its
community of license the following information: the frequency of the
transmitting station, the channel number of the transmitting station,
the name of the licensee of the transmitting station and the licensee
providing the programming, and/or the name of the network of either
station. Where a multicast station is carrying the programming of
another station and is identifying that station as the source of the
programming, using the format described above, the identification may
not include the frequency or channel number of the program source. A
radio station operating in DAB hybrid mode or extended hybrid mode
shall identify its digital signal, including any free multicast audio
programming streams, in a manner that appropriately alerts its audience
to the fact that it is listening to a digital audio broadcast. No other
insertion between the station's call letters and the community or
communities specified in its license is permissible.
(2) A station may include in its official station identification the
name of any additional community or communities, but the community to
which the station is licensed must be named first.
(3) Twice daily, the station identification for television stations
must include a notice of the existence, location and accessibility of
the station's public file. The notice must state that the station's
public file is available for inspection and that consumers can view it
at the station's main studio and on its Web site. At least one of the
announcements must occur between the hours of 6 p.m. and midnight.
(c) Channel --(1) General. Except as otherwise provided in this
paragraph, in making the identification announcement the call letters
shall be given only on the channel, or channels in the case of a
broadcaster that is multicasting more than a single channel, identified
thereby.
(2) Simultaneous AM (535-1605 kHz) and AM (1605-1705 kHz broadcasts. If
the same licensee operates an AM broadcast station in the 535-1605 kHz
band and an AM broadcast station in the 1605-1705 kHz band with both
stations licensed to the same community and simultaneously broadcasts
the same programs over the facilities of both such stations, station
identification announcements may be made jointly for both stations for
periods of such simultaneous operations.
(3) Satellite operation. When programming of a broadcast station is
rebroadcast simultaneously over the facilities of a satellite station,
the originating station may make identification announcements for the
satellite station for periods of such simultaneous operation.
(i) In the case of a television broadcast station, such announcements,
in addition to the information required by paragraph (b)(1) of this
section, shall include the number of the channel on which each station
is operating.
(ii) In the case of aural broadcast stations, such announcements, in
addition to the information required by paragraph (b)(1) of this
section, shall include the frequency on which each station is
operating.
(d) Subscription television stations (STV). The requirements for
official station identification applicable to TV stations will apply to
Subscription TV stations except, during STV-encoded programming such
station identification is not required. However, a station
identification announcement will be made immediately prior to and
following the encoded Subscription TV program period.
[ 34 FR 19762 , Dec. 17, 1969, as amended at 37 FR 23726 , Nov. 8, 1972;
39 FR 6707 , Feb. 22, 1974; 39 FR 9442 , Mar. 11, 1974; 41 FR 29394 , July
16, 1976; 47 FR 3791 , Jan. 27, 1982; 48 FR 51308 , Nov. 8, 1983; 56 FR 64872 , Dec. 12, 1991; 65 FR 30003 , May 10, 2000; 69 FR 59535 , Oct. 4,
2004; 72 FR 45693 , Aug. 15, 2007; 73 FR 5684 , Jan. 30, 2008; 73 FR 13462 , Mar. 13, 2008]
Effective Date Notes: 1. At 73 FR 5684 , Jan. 30, 2008, § 73.1201 was
amended by revising paragraph (b)(1). This paragraph contains
information collection and recordkeeping requirements and will not
become effective until approval has been given by the Office of
Management and Budget.
2. At 73 FR 13462 , Mar. 13, 2008, § 73.1201 was amended by adding
paragraph (b)(3). This paragraph contains information collection and
recordkeeping requirements and will not become effective until approval
has been given by the Office of Management and Budget.
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Goto Year: 2010 |
2012
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