Part 76 — Multichannel Video and Cable Television Service
Subpart A — General
- § 76.1— Purpose.
- § 76.3— Other pertinent rules.
- § 76.5— Definitions.
- § 76.6— General pleading requirements.
- § 76.7— General special relief, waiver, enforcement, complaint, show cause, forfeiture, and declaratory ruling procedures.
- § 76.8— Status conference.
- § 76.9— Confidentiality of proprietary information.
- § 76.10— Review.
- § 76.11— Lockbox enforcement.
Subpart B — Registration Statements
Subpart C — Cable Franchising
Subpart D — Carriage of Television Broadcast Signals
- § 76.51— Major television markets.
- § 76.53— Reference points.
- § 76.54— Significantly viewed signals; method to be followed for special showings.
- § 76.55— Definitions applicable to the must-carry rules.
- § 76.56— Signal carriage obligations.
- § 76.57— Channel positioning.
- § 76.59— Modification of television markets.
- § 76.60— Compensation for carriage.
- § 76.61— Disputes concerning carriage.
- § 76.62— Manner of carriage.
- § 76.64— Retransmission consent.
- § 76.65— Good faith and exclusive retransmission consent complaints.
- § 76.66— Satellite broadcast signal carriage.
- § 76.70— Exemption from input selector switch rules.
Subpart E — Equal Employment Opportunity Requirements
Subpart F — Network Non-duplication Protection, Syndicated Exclusivity and Sports Blackout
- § 76.92— Cable network non-duplication; extent of protection.
- § 76.93— Parties entitled to network non-duplication protection.
- § 76.94— Notification.
- § 76.95— Exceptions.
- § 76.101— Cable syndicated program exclusivity: extent of protection.
- § 76.103— Parties entitled to syndicated exclusivity.
- § 76.105— Notification.
- § 76.106— Exceptions.
- § 76.107— Exclusivity contracts.
- § 76.108— Indemnification contracts.
- § 76.109— Requirements for invocation of protection.
- § 76.110— Substitutions.
- § 76.120— Network non-duplication protection and syndicated exclusivity rules for satellite carriers: Definitions.
- § 76.122— Satellite network non-duplication.
- § 76.123— Satellite syndicated program exclusivity.
- § 76.124— Requirements for invocation of protection.
- § 76.125— Indemnification contracts.
- § 76.130— Substitutions.
Subpart G — Cablecasting
Subpart H — General Operating Requirements
Subpart J — Ownership of Cable Systems
Subpart K — Technical Standards
- § 76.601— Performance tests.
- § 76.602— Incorporation by reference.
- § 76.605— Technical standards.
- § 76.606— Closed captioning.
- § 76.607— Transmission of commercial advertisements.
- § 76.609— Measurements.
- § 76.610— Operation in the frequency bands 108-137 MHz and 225-400 MHz—scope of application.
- § 76.611— Cable television basic signal leakage performance criteria.
- § 76.612— Cable television frequency separation standards.
- § 76.613— Interference from a multichannel video programming distributor (MVPD).
- § 76.614— Cable television system regular monitoring.
- § 76.616— Operation near certain aeronautical and marine emergency radio frequencies.
- § 76.617— Responsibility for interference.
- § 76.630— Compatibility with consumer electronics equipment.
- § 76.640— Support for unidirectional digital cable products on digital cable systems.
Subpart L — Cable Television Access
Subpart M — Cable Inside Wiring
Subpart N — Cable Rate Regulation
- § 76.901— Definitions.
- § 76.905— Standards for identification of cable systems subject to effective competition.
- § 76.906— Presumption of effective competition.
- § 76.907— Petition for a determination of effective competition.
- § 76.910— Franchising authority certification.
- § 76.911— Petition for reconsideration of certification.
- § 76.912— Joint certification.
- § 76.913— Assumption of jurisdiction by the Commission.
- § 76.914— Revocation of certification.
- § 76.916— Petition for recertification.
- § 76.917— Notification of certification withdrawal.
- § 76.920— Composition of the basic tier.
- § 76.921— Buy-through of other tiers prohibited.
- § 76.922— Rates for the basic service tier.
- § 76.923— Rates for equipment and installation used to receive the basic service tier.
- § 76.924— Allocation to service cost categories.
- § 76.925— Costs of franchise requirements.
- § 76.930— Initiation of review of basic cable service and equipment rates.
- § 76.933— Franchising authority review of basic cable rates and equipment costs.
- § 76.934— Small systems and small cable companies.
- § 76.935— Participation of interested parties.
- § 76.936— Written decision.
- § 76.937— Burden of proof.
- § 76.938— Proprietary information.
- § 76.939— Truthful written statements and responses to requests of franchising authority.
- § 76.940— Prospective rate reduction.
- § 76.941— Rate prescription.
- § 76.942— Refunds.
- § 76.943— Fines.
- § 76.944— Commission review of franchising authority decisions on rates for the basic service tier and associated equipment.
- § 76.945— Procedures for Commission review of basic service rates.
- § 76.946— Advertising of rates.
- § 76.952— Information to be provided by cable operator on monthly subscriber bills.
- § 76.962— Implementation and certification of compliance.
- § 76.970— Commercial leased access rates.
- § 76.971— Commercial leased access terms and conditions.
- § 76.975— Commercial leased access dispute resolution.
- § 76.977— Minority and educational programming used in lieu of designated commercial leased access capacity.
- § 76.980— Charges for customer changes.
- § 76.981— Negative option billing.
- § 76.983— Discrimination.
- § 76.984— Geographically uniform rate structure.
- § 76.985— Subscriber bill itemization.
- § 76.990— Small cable operators.
Subpart O — Competitive Access to Cable Programming
Subpart P — Competitive Availability of Navigation Devices
- § 76.1200— Definitions.
- § 76.1201— Rights of subscribers to use or attach navigation devices.
- § 76.1202— Availability of navigation devices.
- § 76.1203— Incidence of harm.
- § 76.1204— Availability of equipment performing conditional access or security functions.
- § 76.1205— Availability of interface information.
- § 76.1206— Equipment sale or lease charge subsidy prohibition.
- § 76.1207— Waivers.
- § 76.1208— Sunset of regulations.
- § 76.1209— Theft of service.
- § 76.1210— Effect on other rules.
Subpart Q — Regulation of Carriage Agreements
Subpart R — Telecommunications Act Implementation
Subpart S — Open Video Systems
- § 76.1500— Definitions.
- § 76.1501— Qualifications to be an open video system operator.
- § 76.1502— Certification.
- § 76.1503— Carriage of video programming providers on open video systems.
- § 76.1504— Rates, terms and conditions for carriage on open video systems.
- § 76.1505— Public, educational and governmental access.
- § 76.1506— Carriage of television broadcast signals.
- § 76.1507— Competitive access to satellite cable programming.
- § 76.1508— Network non-duplication.
- § 76.1509— Syndicated program exclusivity.
- § 76.1510— Application of certain Title VI provisions.
- § 76.1511— Fees.
- § 76.1512— Programming information.
- § 76.1513— Open video dispute resolution.
- § 76.1514— Bundling of video and local exchange services.
Subpart T — Notices
- § 76.1600— Electronic delivery of notices.
- § 76.1601— Deletion or repositioning of broadcast signals.
- § 76.1602— Customer service—general information.
- § 76.1603— Customer service—rate and service changes.
- § 76.1604— Charges for customer service changes.
- § 76.1607— Principal headend.
- § 76.1608— System technical integration requiring uniform election of must-carry or retransmission consent status.
- § 76.1609— Non-duplication and syndicated exclusivity.
- § 76.1610— Change of operational information.
- § 76.1611— Political cable rates and classes of time.
- § 76.1614— Identification of must-carry signals.
- § 76.1615— Sponsorship identification.
- § 76.1616— Contracts with local exchange carriers.
- § 76.1617— Initial must-carry notice.
- § 76.1618— Basic tier availability.
- § 76.1619— Information on subscriber bills.
- § 76.1620— Availability of signals.
Subpart U — Documents to be Maintained for Inspection
- § 76.1700— Records to be maintained by cable system operators.
- § 76.1701— Political file.
- § 76.1702— Equal employment opportunity.
- § 76.1703— Commercial records on children's programs.
- § 76.1704— Proof-of-performance test data.
- § 76.1706— Signal leakage logs and repair records.
- § 76.1707— Leased access.
- § 76.1709— Availability of signals.
- § 76.1711— Emergency alert system (EAS) tests and activation.
- § 76.1712— Open video system (OVS) requests for carriage.
- § 76.1713— Complaint resolution.
- § 76.1714— Familiarity with FCC rules.
- § 76.1715— Sponsorship identification.
- § 76.1716— Subscriber records and public inspection file.
- § 76.1717— Compliance with technical standards.