Goto Section: 74.664 | 74.690 | Table of Contents
FCC 74.682
Revised as of October 1, 2008
Goto Year:2007 |
2009
Sec. 74.682 Station identification.
(a) Each television broadcast auxiliary station operating with a transmitter
output power of 1 watt or more must, when actually transmitting programs,
transmit station identification at the beginning and end of each period of
operation, and hourly, as close to the hour as feasible, at a natural break
in program offerings by one of the following means:
(1) Transmission of its own call sign by visual or aural means or by
automatic transmission in international Morse telegraphy.
(2) Visual or aural transmission of the call sign of the TV broadcast
station with which it is licensed as an auxiliary.
(3) Visual or aural transmission of the call sign of the TV broadcast
station whose signals are being relayed or, where programs are obtained
directly from network lines and relayed, the network identification.
(b) Identification transmissions during operation need not be made when to
make such transmission would interrupt a single consecutive speech, play,
religious service, symphony concert, or any type of production. In such
cases, the identification transmission shall be made at the first
interruption of the entertainment continuity and at the conclusion thereof.
(c) During occasions when a television pickup station is being used to
deliver program material for network distribution it may transmit the
network identification in lieu of its own or associated TV station call sign
during the actual program pickup. However, if it is providing the network
feed through its own associated TV broadcast station it shall perform the
station identification required by paragraph (a) of this section at the
beginning and end of each period of operation.
(d) A period of operation is defined as a single uninterrupted transmission
or a series of intermittent transmissions from a single location or
continuous or intermittent transmission from a television pickup station
covering a single event from various locations, within a single broadcast
day.
(e) Regardless of the method used for station identification it shall be
performed in a manner conducive to prompt association of the signal source
with the responsible licensee. In exercising the discretion provided by this
rule, licensees are expected to act in a responsible manner to assure that
result.
(f) TV microwave boosters stations will be assigned individual call signs.
However, station identification will be accomplished by the retransmission
of identification as provided in paragraph (a) of this section.
[ 31 FR 15488 , Dec. 8, 1966; 32 FR 452 , Jan. 17, 1967, as amended at 42 FR 36830 , July 18, 1977; 43 FR 1951 , Jan. 13, 1978; 44 FR 36041 , June 20, 1979;
49 FR 7131 , Feb. 27, 1984]
Goto Section: 74.664 | 74.690
Goto Year: 2007 |
2009
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