§  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 CMAS alerts. Such
   equipment and technologies must have the capability of allowing
   licensees and permittees of NCE and public broadcast television
   stations to receive CMAS alerts from the Alert Gateway over an
   alternate, secure interface and then to transmit such CMAS 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.

   [ 73 FR 47558 , Aug. 14, 2008]

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