§  76.62   Manner of carriage.

   (a) Cable operators shall carry the entirety of the program schedule of
   any television station (including low power television stations)
   carried by the system unless carriage of specific programming is
   prohibited, and other programming authorized to be substituted, under
   §  76.67 or subpart F of part 76, or unless carriage is pursuant to a
   valid retransmission consent agreement for the entire signal or any
   portion thereof as provided in §  76.64.

   (b) Each digital television broadcast signal carried shall be carried
   without material degradation. Each analog television broadcast signal
   carried shall be carried without material degradation and in compliance
   with technical standards set forth in subpart K of this part.

   (c) Each local commercial television station whose signal is carried
   shall, to the extent technically feasible and consistent with good
   engineering practice, be provided no less than the same quality of
   signal processing and carriage provided for carriage of any other type
   of standard television signal.

   (d) Each qualified local noncommercial educational television station
   whose signal is carried shall be provided with bandwidth and technical
   capacity equivalent to that provided to commercial television broadcast
   stations carried.

   (e) Each commercial broadcast television station carried pursuant to
   §  76.56 shall include in its entirety the primary video, accompanying
   audio, and closed captioning data contained in line 21 of the vertical
   blanking interval and, to the extent technically feasible,
   program-related material carried in the vertical blanking interval or
   on subcarriers. Where appropriate and feasible, operators may delete
   signal enhancements, such as ghost-canceling, from the broadcast signal
   and employ such enhancements at the system headend or headends.

   (f) Each qualified local NCE television station carried pursuant to
   §  76.56 shall include in its entirety the primary video, accompanying
   audio, and closed captioning data contained in line 21 of the vertical
   blanking interval and, to the extent technically feasible,
   program-related material carried in the vertical blanking interval or
   on subcarriers, that may be necessary for receipt of programming by
   handicapped persons or for educational or language purposes.

   (g) With respect to carriage of digital signals, operators are not
   required to carry ancillary or supplementary transmissions or
   non-program related video material.

   (h) If a digital television broadcast signal is carried in accordance
   with §  76.62(b) and either (c) or (d), the carriage of that signal in
   additional formats does not constitute material degradation.

   [ 58 FR 17362 , Apr. 2, 1993, as amended at  59 FR 62345 , Dec. 5, 1994;  66 FR 16553 , Mar. 26, 2001;  73 FR 6054 , Feb. 1, 2008]

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