Goto Section: 76.57 | 76.60 | Table of Contents
FCC 76.59
Revised as of October 1, 2006
Goto Year:2005 |
2007
Sec. 76.59 Modification of television markets.
(a) The Commission, following a written request from a broadcast station or
a cable system, may deem that the television market of a particular
commercial television broadcast station should include additional
communities within its television market or exclude communities from such
station's television market. In this respect, communities may be considered
part of more than one television market.
(b) Such requests for modification of a television market shall be submitted
in accordance with Sec. 76.7, petitions for special relief, and shall include
the following evidence:
(1) A map or maps illustrating the relevant community locations and
geographic features, station transmitter sites, cable system headend
locations, terrain features that would affect station reception, mileage
between the community and the television station transmitter site,
transportation routes and any other evidence contributing to the scope of
the market.
(2) Grade B contour maps delineating the station's technical service area
and showing the location of the cable system headends and communities in
relation to the service areas.
Note to paragraph (b)(2): Service area maps using Longley-Rice (version
1.2.2) propagation curves may also be included to support a technical
service exhibit.
(3) Available data on shopping and labor patterns in the local market.
(4) Television station programming information derived from station logs or
the local edition of the television guide.
(5) Cable system channel line-up cards or other exhibits establishing
historic carriage, such as television guide listings.
(6) Published audience data for the relevant station showing its average all
day audience (i.e., the reported audience averaged over Sunday-Saturday, 7
a.m.–1 a.m., or an equivalent time period) for both cable and noncable
households or other specific audience indicia, such as station advertising
and sales data or viewer contribution records.
(c) Petitions for Special Relief to modify television markets that do not
include such evidence shall be dismissed without prejudice and may be
refiled at a later date with the appropriate filing fee.
(d) A cable operator shall not delete from carriage the signal of a
commercial television station during the pendency of any proceeding pursuant
to this section.
[ 58 FR 17361 , Apr. 2, 1993, as amended at 64 FR 33796 , June 24, 1999; 67 FR 53892 , Aug. 22, 2002]
Goto Section: 76.57 | 76.60
Goto Year: 2005 |
2007
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