(a) Prohibition. No cable operator or other provider of MVPD service subject to 47 U.S.C. 548 shall enforce or execute any provision in a contract that grants to it the exclusive right to provide any video programming service (alone or in combination with other services) to a MDU. All such exclusivity clauses are null and void.
(b) Definition. For purposes of this rule, MDU shall include a multiple dwelling unit building (such as an apartment building, condominium building or cooperative) and any other centrally managed residential real estate development (such as a gated community, mobile home park, or garden apartment); provided however, that MDU shall not include time share units, academic campuses and dormitories, military bases, hotels, rooming houses, prisons, jails, halfway houses, hospitals, nursing homes or other assisted living facilities. [73 FR 1089, Jan. 7, 2008]
Sec. Alphabetical Index--Part 76
A
A and B grade contours..................... 76.5Access, Channel enforcement................ 76.10Address, operator or status change reports. 76.400Aeronautical and marine emergency 76.616
frequencies, Operation near.Aeronautical band usage, Notification 76.615
requirements.Authority, Special temporary............... 76.29
B
B and A grade contours..................... 76.5Boundaries, TV markets..................... 76.53Broadcast, Sports.......................... 76.67Broadcast station, TV...................... 76.5
C
Cable TV channel: Classes I, II, III, IV... 76.5Cablecasting............................... 76.5CATV basic signal leakage performance 76.611
criteria.CATV system................................ 76.5CATV system interference................... 76.613Candidates for public office, Cablecast by. 76.205Carriage disputes.......................... 76.58Carriage, mandatory, Expiration of......... 76.64Carriage, Manner of........................ 76.62Carriage of other TV signals............... 76.60Carriage of TV stations, Mandatory......... 76.56Carriage of TV stations, Mandatory, 76.70
Exemption from.Channel access enforcement................. 76.10Communities, Designated.................... 76.51Community, Principal contour............... 76.5Community unit............................. 76.5Consumer education-selector switches....... 76.66Cross-ownership............................ 76.501
D
Definitions, Part 76....................... 76.5Designated communities..................... 76.51Dismissal: Special relief petitions........ 76.8Disputes concerning carriage............... 76.58Doctrine, Fairness......................... 76.209
E
Editorials, Political...................... 76.209Enforcement, Channel access................ 76.10Enforcement, Lockbox....................... 76.11Equal employment opportunity--
Scope.................................. 76.71
General Policy......................... 76.73
Program requirements................... 76.75
Reporting requirements................. 76.77
Public inspection of records........... 76.79Exceptions, to rules provisions--
Network program nonduplication......... 76.95
Signal leakage performance criteria.... 76.618
Frequency separation standards......... 76.618
F
Fairness doctrine.......................... 76.209File, Public inspection.................... 76.305Forfeitures................................ 76.9Forms, Report.............................. 76.403Frequency bands 108-136; 225-400 MHz, 76.610
Operation in.Frequency separation standards............. 76.612Frequency separation standards, Exception 76.618
to.Full network station....................... 76.5
G
Grandfathering, exceptions to rules
provisions--
Non-network program exclusivity........ 76.99
Non-applicability of Sec. Sec. 76.618
76.611 and 76.612.
Operation in frequency bands 108-136; 76.619
225-400 mHz.
H-I
Identification Sponsorship; list retention. 76.221Independent station........................ 76.5Input selector switches.................... 76.66Input selector switches, consumer education 76.66Input selector switches, Exemption......... 76.70Inspection, CATV systems, by FCC........... 76.307Interference from CATV system.............. 76.613Interference, Receiver-generated, 76.617
Responsibility.Isolation, Terminal........................ 76.5
J-L
Leakage measurements, Signal............... 76.601Leakage, Signal, performance criteria...... 76.611Leakage, Signal, performance criteria, 76.618
Exception.List retention, Sponsorship identification. 76.221Lockbox enforcement........................ 76.11Lotteries.................................. 76.213
M
Mandatory carriage of TV stations.......... 76.56Mandatory carriage of TV stations, 76.70
Exemption from.Manner of carriage......................... 76.62Marine and aeronautical emergency 76.716
frequencies, Operation near.Major TV markets........................... 76.51Market size operation provisions--Measurements, Performance.................. 76.609Measurements, Signal leakage............... 76.601Monitoring, CATV system.................... 76.614Must carry requirements.................... 76.55, 76.59, 76.61, 76.64
N
Network nonduplication: protection extent.. 76.94Network nonduplication waivers............. 76.97Network program nonduplication: Exceptions. 76.95Network program nonduplication: 76.94
Notification.Network programming........................ 76.5Network programs: nonduplication protection 76.92Network station, Full...................... 76.5Network station, Partial................... 76.5Noise, System.............................. 76.5Nonduplication protection, Network programs 76.92Non-network program exclusivity, exceptions 76.99Notification requirements: aeronautical 76.615
bands.Notification requirements: network 76.94
nonduplication.
O
Operation in frequency bands 108-136 and 76.610
225-400 MHz.Operator, address or status change reports. 76.400Order, Show cause.......................... 76.9Ownership, Cross........................... 76.501
P
Partial network station.................... 76.5Performance measurements................... 76.609Personal attacks: political cablecasts..... 76.209Petitions, Dismissal of.................... 76.8Petitions for waiver....................... 76.7Political editorials....................... 76.209Possession of rules........................ 76.301Prime time................................. 76.5Program carriages, STV..................... 76.64Programming, Network....................... 76.5Protection extent: network nonduplication.. 76.94Public inspection file..................... 76.305Public office, Cablecasts by candidates for 76.205PURPOSE--Part 76........................... 76.1
Q
Qualified TV station, Showing.............. 76.55
R
Rate regulation standards.................. 76.33Receiver generated interference............ 76.617Reference points, Major/smaller markets.... 76.53Registration statement: signature.......... 76.14Registration statement..................... 76.12Relief, Special............................ 76.7Report forms............................... 76.403Reports: Change of operator, address, 76.400
status.Responsibility for receiver-generated 76.617
interference.Rule waiver................................ 76.7Rules, Possession.......................... 76.301
S
Selector switches, Input................... 76.66Selector switches, input, Exemption........ 76.70Show cause order........................... 76.9Signal leakage measurements................ 76.601Signal leakage performance criteria........ 76.611Signature: registration statement.......... 76.14Significantly viewed signals............... 76.54Special relief............................. 76.7Special relief petitions, Dismissal of..... 76.8Special temporary authority................ 76.29Specified zone, TV station................. 76.5Sponsorship identification, List retention. 76.221Sports broadcasts.......................... 76.67Standards for rate regulation.............. 76.33Standards, Technical....................... 76.605Station protection: network program 76.92
nonduplication.Status, operator or address change reports. 76.400Subscriber terminal........................ 76.5Subscribers................................ 76.5System community unit...................... 76.5System inspection (by FCC)................. 76.307System monitoring.......................... 76.614System noise............................... 76.5
T
Technical standards........................ 76.605Terminal isolation......................... 76.5Terminal, Subscriber....................... 76.5Tests, Performance......................... 76.601Translator station, TV..................... 76.5TV markets, Boundaries of.................. 76.53TV markets, Major.......................... 76.51TV signals, Carriage non-mandatory......... 76.60
U-V
Vertical blanking interval, Services on.... 76.64
W
Waiver, Network nonduplication............. 76.97Waiver, Rules.............................. 76.7
X-Y-Z
Zone, Specified, of TV station............. 76.5
[50 FR 38536, Sept. 23, 1985; 50 FR 39114, Sept. 27, 1985, as amended at 51 FR 34622, Sept. 30, 1986; 52 FR 37316, Oct. 6, 1987]