§ 76.1301   Prohibited practices.

   (a)  Financial interest. No cable operator or other multichannel video
   programming distributor shall require a financial interest in any program
   service   as  a  condition  for  carriage  on  one  or  more  of  such
   operator's/provider's systems.

   (b)  Exclusive  rights.  No cable operator or other multichannel video
   programming  distributor  shall coerce any video programming vendor to
   provide,  or  retaliate  against such a vendor for failing to provide,
   exclusive  rights  against  any  other  multichannel video programming
   distributor as a condition for carriage on a system.

   (c) Discrimination. No multichannel video programming distributor shall
   engage  in conduct the effect of which is to unreasonably restrain the
   ability of an unaffiliated video programming vendor to compete fairly by
   discriminating in video programming distribution on the basis of affiliation
   or non-affiliation of vendors in the selection, terms, or conditions for
   carriage of video programming provided by such vendors.

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