Goto Section: 73.1150 | 73.1202 | Table of Contents
FCC 73.1201
Revised as of October 1, 2008
Goto Year:2007 |
2009
Sec. 73.1201 Station identification.
(a) When regularly required. Broadcast station identification announcements
shall be made:
(1) At the beginning and ending of each time of operation, and
(2) Hourly, as close to the hour as feasible, at a natural break in program
offerings. Television and Class A television broadcast stations may make
these announcements visually or aurally.
(b) Content. (1) Official station identification shall consist of the
station's call letters immediately followed by the community or communities
specified in its license as the station's location; Provided, That the name
of the licensee, the station's frequency, the station's channel number, as
stated on the station's license, and/or the station's network affiliation
may be inserted between the call letters and station location. DTV stations,
or DAB Stations, choosing to include the station's channel number in the
station identification must use the station's major channel number and may
distinguish multicast program streams. For example, a DTV station with major
channel number 26 may use 26.1 to identify an HDTV program service and 26.2
to identify an SDTV program service. A DTV station that is devoting one of
its multicast streams to transmit the programming of another television
licensee must identify itself and may also identify the licensee that it is
transmitting. If a DTV station in this situation chooses to identify the
station that is the source of the programming it is transmitting, it must
use the following format: Station WYYY–DT, community of license (call sign
and community of license of the station whose multicast stream is
transmitting the programming), bringing you WXXX, community of license (call
sign and community of license of the licensee providing the programming).
The transmitting station may insert between its call letters and its
community of license the following information: the frequency of the
transmitting station, the channel number of the transmitting station, the
name of the licensee of the transmitting station and the licensee providing
the programming, and/or the name of the network of either station. Where a
multicast station is carrying the programming of another station and is
identifying that station as the source of the programming, using the format
described above, the identification may not include the frequency or channel
number of the program source. A radio station operating in DAB hybrid mode
or extended hybrid mode shall identify its digital signal, including any
free multicast audio programming streams, in a manner that appropriately
alerts its audience to the fact that it is listening to a digital audio
broadcast. No other insertion between the station's call letters and the
community or communities specified in its license is permissible.
(2) A station may include in its official station identification the name of
any additional community or communities, but the community to which the
station is licensed must be named first.
(3) Twice daily, the station identification for television stations must
include a notice of the existence, location and accessibility of the
station's public file. The notice must state that the station's public file
is available for inspection and that consumers can view it at the station's
main studio and on its Web site. At least one of the announcements must
occur between the hours of 6 p.m. and midnight.
(c) Channel —(1) General. Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, in
making the identification announcement the call letters shall be given only
on the channel, or channels in the case of a broadcaster that is
multicasting more than a single channel, identified thereby.
(2) Simultaneous AM (535–1605 kHz) and AM (1605–1705 kHz broadcasts. If the
same licensee operates an AM broadcast station in the 535–1605 kHz band and
an AM broadcast station in the 1605–1705 kHz band with both stations
licensed to the same community and simultaneously broadcasts the same
programs over the facilities of both such stations, station identification
announcements may be made jointly for both stations for periods of such
simultaneous operations.
(3) Satellite operation. When programming of a broadcast station is
rebroadcast simultaneously over the facilities of a satellite station, the
originating station may make identification announcements for the satellite
station for periods of such simultaneous operation.
(i) In the case of a television broadcast station, such announcements, in
addition to the information required by paragraph (b)(1) of this section,
shall include the number of the channel on which each station is operating.
(ii) In the case of aural broadcast stations, such announcements, in
addition to the information required by paragraph (b)(1) of this section,
shall include the frequency on which each station is operating.
(d) Subscription television stations (STV). The requirements for official
station identification applicable to TV stations will apply to Subscription
TV stations except, during STV-encoded programming such station
identification is not required. However, a station identification
announcement will be made immediately prior to and following the encoded
Subscription TV program period.
[ 34 FR 19762 , Dec. 17, 1969, as amended at 37 FR 23726 , Nov. 8, 1972; 39 FR 6707 , Feb. 22, 1974; 39 FR 9442 , Mar. 11, 1974; 41 FR 29394 , July 16, 1976;
47 FR 3791 , Jan. 27, 1982; 48 FR 51308 , Nov. 8, 1983; 56 FR 64872 , Dec. 12,
1991; 65 FR 30003 , May 10, 2000; 69 FR 59535 , Oct. 4, 2004; 72 FR 45693 ,
Aug. 15, 2007; 73 FR 5684 , Jan. 30, 2008; 73 FR 13462 , Mar. 13, 2008]
Effective Date Notes: 1. At 73 FR 5684 , Jan. 30, 2008, Sec. 73.1201 was
amended by revising paragraph (b)(1). This paragraph contains information
collection and recordkeeping requirements and will not become effective
until approval has been given by the Office of Management and Budget.
2. At 73 FR 13462 , Mar. 13, 2008, Sec. 73.1201 was amended by adding paragraph
(b)(3). This paragraph contains information collection and recordkeeping
requirements and will not become effective until approval has been given by
the Office of Management and Budget.
Goto Section: 73.1150 | 73.1202
Goto Year: 2007 |
2009
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