§ 76.60   Compensation for carriage.

   A cable operator is prohibited from accepting or requesting monetary payment
   or other valuable consideration in exchange either for carriage or channel
   positioning of any broadcast television station carried in fulfillment of
   the must-carry requirements, except that

   (a) Any such station may be required to bear the costs associated with
   delivering a good quality signal or a baseband video signal to the principal
   headend of the cable system; or

   (b)  A cable operator may accept payments from stations which would be
   considered distant signals under the cable compulsory copyright license, 17
   U.S.C.  111,  as indemnification for any increased copyright liability
   resulting from carriage of such signal.

   Note: A cable operator may continue to accept monetary payment or other
   valuable consideration in exchange for carriage or channel positioning of
   the signal of any local commercial television station carried in fulfillment
   of  the  must-carry requirements, through, but not beyond, the date of
   expiration of an agreement between a cable operator and a local commercial
   television station entered into prior to June 26, 1990.

   (c)  A  cable operator may accept payments from stations pursuant to a
   retransmission consent agreement, even if such station will be counted
   towards the must-carry complement, as long as all other applicable rules are
   adhered to.

   [ 58 FR 17362 , Apr. 2, 1993, as amended at  59 FR 62345 , Dec. 5, 1994]

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