§ 76.111   Cable sports blackout.

   (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 station meeting the criteria specified in
   § 76.128. 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, as
   to regularly scheduled events, no later than the Monday preceding the
   calendar week (Sunday through 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.

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