Sec. 76.62  Manner of carriage.

    (a) Cable operators shall carry the entirety of the program schedule 
of any television station (including low power television stations) 
carried by the system unless carriage of specific programming is 
prohibited, and other programming authorized to be substituted, under 
Sec. 76.67 or subpart F of part 76, or unless carriage is pursuant to a 
valid retransmission consent agreement for the entire signal or any 
portion thereof as provided in Sec. 76.64.
    (b) Each such television broadcast signal carried shall be carried 
without material degradation in compliance with technical standards set 
forth in subpart K of this part.
    (c) Each local commercial television station whose signal is carried 
shall, to the extent technically feasible and consistent with good 
engineering practice, be provided no less than the same quality of 
signal processing and carriage

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provided for carriage of any other type of standard television signal.
    (d) Each qualified local noncommercial educational television 
station whose signal is carried shall be provided with bandwidth and 
technical capacity equivalent to that provided to commercial television 
broadcast stations carried.
    (e) Each commercial broadcast television station carried pursuant to 
Sec. 76.56 shall include in its entirety the primary video, accompanying 
audio, and closed captioning data contained in line 21 of the vertical 
blanking interval and, to the extent technically feasible, program-
related material carried in the vertical blanking interval or on 
subcarriers. Where appropriate and feasible, operators may delete signal 
enhancements, such as ghost-canceling, from the broadcast signal and 
employ such enhancements at the system headend or headends.
    (f) Each qualified local NCE television station carried pursuant to 
Sec. 76.56 shall include in its entirety the primary video, accompanying 
audio, and closed captioning data contained in line 21 of the vertical 
blanking interval and, to the extent technically feasible, program-
related material carried in the vertical blanking interval or on 
subcarriers, that may be necessary for receipt of programming by 
handicapped persons or for educational or language purposes.

[ 58 FR 17362 , Apr. 2, 1993, as amended at  59 FR 62345 , Dec. 5, 1994]