Goto Section: 73.501 | 73.504 | Table of Contents
FCC 73.503
Revised as of October 1, 2008
Goto Year:2007 |
2009
Sec. 73.503 Licensing requirements and service.
The operation of, and the service furnished by noncommercial educational FM
broadcast stations shall be governed by the following:
(a) A noncommercial educational FM broadcast station will be licensed only
to a nonprofit educational organization and upon showing that the station
will be used for the advancement of an educational program.
(1) In determining the eligibility of publicly supported educational
organizations, the accreditation of their respective state departments of
education shall be taken into consideration.
(2) In determining the eligibility of privately controlled educational
organizations, the accreditation of state departments of education and/or
recognized regional and national educational accrediting organizations shall
be taken into consideration.
(b) Each station may transmit programs directed to specific schools in a
system or systems for use in connection with the regular courses as well as
routine and administrative material pertaining thereto and may transmit
educational, cultural, and entertainment programs to the public.
(c) A noncommercial educational FM broadcast station may broadcast programs
produced by, or at the expense of, or furnished by persons other than the
licensee, if no other consideration than the furnishing of the program and
the costs incidental to its production and broadcast are received by the
licensee. The payment of line charges by another station network, or someone
other than the licensee of a noncommercial educational FM broadcast station,
or general contributions to the operating costs of a station, shall not be
considered as being prohibited by this paragraph.
(d) Each station shall furnish a nonprofit and noncommercial broadcast
service. Noncommercial educational FM broadcast stations are subject to the
provisions of Sec. 73.1212 to the extent they are applicable to the broadcast of
programs produced by, or at the expense of, or furnished by others. No
promotional announcement on behalf of for profit entities shall be broadcast
at any time in exchange for the receipt, in whole or in part, of
consideration to the licensee, its principals, or employees. However,
acknowledgements of contributions can be made. The scheduling of any
announcements and acknowledgements may not interrupt regular programming.
(e) Mutually exclusive applications for noncommercial educational radio
stations operating on reserved channels will be resolved pursuant to the
point system in subpart K.
Note to Sec. 73.503: Commission interpretation on this rule, including the
acceptable form of acknowledgements, may be found in the Second Report and
Order in Docket No. 21136 (Commission Policy Concerning the Noncommercial
Nature of Educational Broadcast Stations), 86 FCC 2d 141 (1981); the
Memorandum Opinion and Order in Docket No. 21136, 90 FCC 2d 895 (1982), and
the Memorandum Opinion and Order in Docket 21136, 97 FCC 2d 255 (1984). See
also, “Commission Policy Concerning the Noncommercial Nature of Educational
Broadcast Stations,” Public Notice, 7 FCC Rcd 827 (1992), which can be
retrieved through the Internet at http://www.fcc.gov/mmb/asd/nature.html.
(Secs. 4, 5, 303, 48 Stat., as amended, 1066, 1068, 1082 (47 U.S.C. 154,
155, 303))
[ 28 FR 13651 , Dec. 14, 1963, as amended at 35 FR 7558 , May 15, 1970; 47 FR 36178 , Aug. 19, 1982; 49 FR 29069 , July 18, 1984; 63 FR 33877 , June 22,
1998; 65 FR 36378 , June 8, 2000]
Goto Section: 73.501 | 73.504
Goto Year: 2007 |
2009
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