§ 10.340   Digital television transmission towers retransmission capability.

   Licensees and permittees of noncommercial educational broadcast
   television stations (NCE) or public broadcast television stations (to
   the extent such stations fall within the scope of those terms as
   defined in section 397(6) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C.
   397(6))) are required to install on, or as part of, any broadcast
   television digital signal transmitter, equipment to enable the
   distribution of geographically targeted alerts by commercial mobile
   service providers that have elected to transmit WEA alerts. Such
   equipment and technologies must have the capability of allowing
   licensees and permittees of NCE and public broadcast television
   stations to receive WEA alerts from the Alert Gateway over an
   alternate, secure interface and then to transmit such WEA alerts to CMS
   Provider Gateways of participating CMS providers. This equipment must
   be installed no later than eighteen months from the date of receipt of
   funding permitted under section 606(b) of the WARN Act or 18 months
   from the effective date of these rules, whichever is later.

   [ 78 FR 16808 , Mar. 19, 2013]

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