Sec. 76.58  Notification.

    (a) Effective April 2, 1993, a cable operator shall provide written 
notice to any broadcast television station at least 30 days prior to 
either deleting from carriage or repositioning that station. Such 
notification shall also be provided to subscribers of the cable system.

    Note: No deletion or repositioning of a local commercial television 
station shall occur during a period in which major television ratings 
services measure the size of audiences of local television stations. For 
this purpose, such periods are the four national four-week ratings 
periods--generally including February, May, July and November--commonly 
known as audience sweeps.


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    (b) By May 3, 1993, a cable operator must notify all qualified NCE 
stations of its designated principal headend by certified mail.
    (c) A cable operator shall provide written notice by certified mail 
to all stations carried on its system pursuant to the must-carry rules 
at least 60 days prior to any change in the designation of its principal 
headend, and shall include the new designation in its public file.
    (d) By May 3, 1993, a cable operator must notify all local 
commercial and NCE stations that may not be entitled to carriage because 
they either
    (1) Fail to meet the standards for delivery of a good quality signal 
to the cable system's principal headend or
    (2) May cause an increased copyright liability to the cable system.
    (e) By June 2, 1993, a cable operator must send by certified mail a 
copy of a list of all broadcast television stations carried by its 
system and their channel positions to all local commercial and 
noncommercial television stations, including those not designated as 
must-carry stations and those not carried on the system.

[ 58 FR 17361 , Apr. 2, 1993]