Sec.  76.111   Cable sports blackout.

   (a) No community unit located in whole or in part within the specified zone
   of a television broadcast station licensed to a community in which a sports
   event is taking place, shall, on request of the holder of the broadcast
   rights to that event, or its agent, carry the live television broadcast of
   that event if the event is not available live on a television broadcast
   station meeting the criteria specified in  Sec. 76.128. For purposes of this
   section, if there is no television station licensed to the community in
   which the sports event is taking place, the applicable specified zone shall
   be that of the television station licensed to the community with which the
   sports event or team is identified, or, if the event or local team is not
   identified with any particular community, the nearest community to which a
   television station is licensed.

   (b) Notification of the programming to be deleted pursuant to this section
   shall include the following information:

   (1)  As to programming to be deleted from television broadcast signals
   regularly carried by the community unit:

   (i) The name and address of the party requesting the program deletion;

   (ii) The date, time and expected duration of the sports event the television
   broadcast of which is to be deleted;

   (iii) The call letters of the television broadcast station(s) from which the
   deletion is to be made.

   (2) As to programming to be deleted from television broadcast signals not
   regularly carried by the community unit:

   (i) The name and address of the party requesting the program deletion;

   (ii) The date, time and expected duration of the sports event the television
   broadcast of which is to be deleted.

   (c) Notifications given pursuant to this section must be received, as to
   regularly scheduled events, no later than the Monday preceding the calendar
   week (Sunday through Saturday) during which the program deletion is to be
   made. Notifications as to events not regularly scheduled and revisions of
   notices previously submitted, must be received within twenty-four (24) hours
   after the time of the telecast to be deleted is known, but in any event no
   later than twenty-four (24) hours from the time the subject telecast is to
   take place.

   (d) Whenever, pursuant to this section, a community unit is required to
   delete a television program on a signal regularly carried by the community
   unit,  such community unit may, consistent with the rules contained in
   subpart F of this part, substitute a program from any other television
   broadcast station. A program substituted may be carried to its completion,
   and the community unit need not return to its regularly carried signal until
   it can do so without interrupting a program already in progress.

   (e)  The provisions of this section shall not be deemed to require the
   deletion of any portion of a television signal which a community unit was
   lawfully carrying prior to March 31, 1972.

   (f) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any community unit
   having fewer than 1,000 subscribers.