Sec. 76.606  Closed captioning.

    (a) As of June 30, 1992, the operator of each cable television 
system shall not take any action to remove or alter closed captioning 
data contained on line 21 of the vertical blanking interval.

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    (b) As of July 1, 1993, the operator of each cable television system 
shall deliver intact closed captioning data contained on line 21 of the 
vertical blanking interval, as it arrives at the headend or from another 
origination source, to subscriber terminals and (when so delivered to 
the cable system) in a format that can be recovered and displayed by 
decoders meeting Sec. 15.119 of this chapter.

[ 57 FR 11003 , Apr. 1, 1992]