Sec. 73.1207  Rebroadcasts.

    (a) The term rebroadcast means reception by radio of the programs or 
other transmissions of a broadcast or any other type of radio station, 
and the simultaneous or subsequent retransmission of such programs or 
transmissions by a broadcast station.
    (1) As used in this section, ``program'' includes any complete 
programs or part thereof.
    (2) The transmission of a program from its point of origin to a 
broadcast station entirely by common carrier facilities, whether by wire 
line or radio, is not considered a rebroadcast.
    (3) The broadcasting of a program relayed by a remote pickup 
broadcast station is not considered a rebroadcast.
    (b) No broadcast station may retransmit the program, or any part 
thereof, of another U.S. broadcast station without the express authority 
of the originating station. A copy of the written consent of the 
licensee originating the program must be kept by the licensee of the 
station retransmitting such program and made available to the FCC upon 
request.
    (1) Stations originating emergency communications under a State EAS 
plan are considered to have conferred rebroadcast authority to other 
participating stations.
    (2) Permission must be obtained from the originating station to 
rebroadcast any subsidiary communications transmitted by means of a 
multiplex subcarrier or telecommunications service on the vertical 
blanking interval or in the visual signal of a television signal.
    (3) Programs originated by the Voice of America (VOA) and the Armed 
Forces Radio and Television Services (AFRTS) cannot, in general, be 
cleared for domestic rebroadcast, and may therefore be retransmitted 
only by special arrangements among the parties concerned.
    (4) Except as otherwise provided by international agreement, 
programs originated by foreign broadcast stations may be retransmitted 
without the consent of the originating station.
    (c) The transmissions of non-broadcast stations may be rebroadcast 
under the following conditions:
    (1) Messages originated by privately-owned non-broadcast stations 
other than those in the Amateur and Citizens Band (CB) Radio Services 
may be broadcast only upon receipt of prior permission from the non-
broadcast licensee. Additionally, messages transmitted by common carrier 
stations may be rebroadcast only upon prior permission of the originator 
of the message as well as the station licensee.
    (2) Except as provided in paragraph (d) of this section, messages 
originated entirely by non-broadcast stations owned and operated by the 
Federal Government may be rebroadcast only upon receipt of prior 
permission from the government agency originating the messages.
    (3) Messages originated by stations in the amateur and Citizens Band 
(CB) radio services may be rebroadcast at the discretion of broadcast 
station licensees.

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    (4) Emergency communications originated under a State EAS plan.
    (d) The rebroadcasting of time signals originated by the Naval 
Observatory and the National Bureau of Standards and messages from the 
National Weather Service stations is permitted without specific 
authorization under the following procedures:
    (1) Naval Observatory Time Signals. (i) The time signals rebroadcast 
must be obtained by direct radio reception from a naval radio station, 
or by land line circuits.
    (ii) Announcement of the time signal must be made without reference 
to any commercial activity.
    (iii) Identification of the Naval Observatory as the source of the 
time signal must be made by an announcement, substantially as follows: 
``With the signal, the time will be . . . courtesy of the U.S. Naval 
Observatory.''
    (iv) Schedules of time signal broadcasts may be obtained upon 
request from the Superintendent, U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, DC 
20390.
    (2) National Bureau of Standards Time Signals. (i) Time signals for 
rebroadcast must be obtained by direct radio reception from a National 
Bureau of Standards (NBS) station.
    (ii) Use of receiving and rebroadcasting equipment must not delay 
the signals by more than 0.05 second.
    (iii) Signals must be rebroadcast live, not from tape or other 
recording.
    (iv) Voice or code announcements of the call signs of NBS stations 
are not to be rebroadcast.
    (v) Identification of the origin of the service and the source of 
the signals must be made by an announcement substantially as follows: 
``At the tone, 11 hours 25 minutes Coordinated Universal Time. This is a 
rebroadcast of a continous service furnished by the National Bureau of 
Standards, Ft. Collins, Colo.'' No commercial sponsorship of this 
announcement is permitted and none may be implied.
    (vi) Schedules of time signal broadcasts may be obtained from, and 
notice of use of NBS time signals for rebroadcast must be forwarded 
semiannually to:

National Bureau of Standards, Radio Stations WWV/WWVB, 2000 East County 
Road 58, Ft. Collins, Colorado 80524.

    (vii) In the rebroadcasting of NBS time signals, announcements will 
not state that they are standard frequency transmissions. Voice 
announcements of Coordinated Universal Time are given in voice every 
minute. Each minute, except the first of the hour, begins with an 0.8 
second long tone of 1000 hertz at WWV and 1200 hertz tone at WWVH. The 
first minute of every hour begins with an 0.8 second long tone of 1500 
hertz at both stations. This tone is followed by a 3-second pause, than 
the announcement, ``National Bureau of Standards Time.'' This is 
followed by another 3-second pause before station identification. This 
arrangement allows broadcast stations sufficient time to retransmit the 
hour time tone and the words ``National Bureau of Standards Time'' 
either by manual or automatic switching.
    (viii) Time signals or scales made up from integration of standard 
frequency signals broadcast from NBS stations may not be designated as 
national standard scales of time or attributed to the NBS as originator. 
For example, if a broadcasting station transmits time signals obtained 
from a studio clock which is periodically calibrated against the NBS 
time signals from WWV or WWVH, such signals may not be announced as NBS 
standard time or as having been originated by the NBS.
    (3) National Weather Service Messages. (i) Messages of the National 
Weather Service must be rebroadcast within 1 hour of receipt.
    (ii) If advertisements are given in connection with weather 
rebroadcast, these advertisements must not directly or indirectly convey 
an endorsement by the U.S. Government of the products or services so 
advertised.
    (iii) Credit must be given to indicate that the rebroadcast message 
originates with the National Weather Service.

[ 44 FR 36040 , June 20, 1979, as amended at  45 FR 26065 , Apr. 17, 1980; 
 48 FR 28456 , June 22, 1983;  50 FR 25246 , June 18, 1985;  59 FR 67102 , 
Dec. 28, 1994;  61 FR 36305 , July 10, 1996]

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