§  76.606   Closed captioning.

   (a) As of June 30, 1992, the operator of each cable television system
   shall not take any action to remove or alter closed captioning data
   contained on line 21 of the vertical blanking interval.

   (b) As of July 1, 1993, the operator of each cable television system
   shall deliver intact closed captioning data contained on line 21 of the
   vertical blanking interval, as it arrives at the headend or from
   another origination source, to subscriber terminals and (when so
   delivered to the cable system) in a format that can be recovered and
   displayed by decoders meeting § 15.119 of this chapter.

   [ 57 FR 11003 , Apr. 1, 1992]