Goto Section: 76.56 | 76.59 | Table of Contents
FCC 76.57
Revised as of October 1, 2011
Goto Year:2010 |
2012
§ 76.57 Channel positioning.
(a) At the election of the licensee of a local commercial broadcast
television station, and for the purpose of this section, a qualified
low power television station, carried in fulfillment of the must-carry
obligations, a cable operator shall carry such signal on the cable
system channel number on which the local commercial television station
is broadcast over the air, or on the channel on which it was carried on
July 19, 1985, or on the channel on which it was carried on January 1,
1992.
(b) At the election of the licensee of a qualified local NCE broadcast
television station carried in fulfillment of the must-carry
obligations, a cable operator shall carry such signal on the cable
system channel number on which the qualified NCE television station is
broadcast over the air, or on the channel on which it was carried on
July 19, 1985.
(c) With respect to digital signals of a television station carried in
fulfillment of the must-carry obligations, a cable operator shall carry
the information necessary to identify and tune to the broadcast
television signal.
(d) Any signal carried in fulfillment of the must-carry obligations may
be carried on such other channel number as is mutually agreed upon by
the station and the cable operator.
(e) At the time a local commercial station elects must-carry status
pursuant to § 76.64, such station shall notify the cable system of its
choice of channel position as specified in paragraphs (a), (b), and (d)
of this section. A qualified NCE stations shall notify the cable system
of its choice of channel position when it requests carriage. Channel
positioning requests from local commercial stations shall be fulfilled
by the cable operator no later than October 6, 1993.
(f) Pursuant to § 76.64(f)(3), a local commercial broadcast television
station that fails to make an election is deemed a must-carry station.
A cable operator shall carry such a television station on the cable
system channel number on which the local commercial television station
is broadcast over the air, or on the channel on which it was carried on
July 19, 1985, or on the channel on which it was carried on January 1,
1992. In the event that none of these specified channel positions is
available due to a channel positioning request from a commercial
television station affirmatively asserting its must-carry rights or
such a request from a qualified local noncommercial educational
station, the cable operator shall place the signal of such a television
station on a channel of the cable system's choice, so long as that
channel is included on the basic service tier.
Note to § 76.57: Any existing agreement for channel position between a
local commercial station entitled to must-carry status and a cable
operator entered into prior to June 26, 1990, may continue through the
expiration of such agreement.
[ 58 FR 17361 , Apr. 2, 1993, as amended at 58 FR 40368 , July 28, 1993;
59 FR 62345 , Dec. 5, 1994; 66 FR 16553 , Mar. 26, 2001]
Goto Section: 76.56 | 76.59
Goto Year: 2010 |
2012
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