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question about must-carry

Only under very specific circumstances: it has to be a class A LPTV, it has to be in a county with no full-power station of its own, and I think there are distance and population-coverage rules that come into play as well. w9wi will surely be along shortly with all the specifics. :D
 
Scott Fybush said:
Only under very specific circumstances: it has to be a class A LPTV, it has to be in a county with no full-power station of its own, and I think there are distance and population-coverage rules that come into play as well. w9wi will surely be along shortly with all the specifics. :D
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From http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Cable/Orders/1999/da991041.txt:
2. Both the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and the Commission's rules require the
carriage of "qualified" LPTV stations in certain limited circumstances. An LPTV station that conforms to the
rules established for LPTV stations in Part 74 of the Commission's Rules will be considered "qualified" if: (1)
it broadcasts at least the minimum number of hours required under 47 C.F.R. Part 73; (2) it adheres to
Commission requirements regarding non-entertainment programming and employment practices, and the
Commission determines that the programming by the LPTV station would address local news and informational
needs which are not being adequately served by full power television broadcast stations because of geographic
distance of such full power stations from the low power station's community of license; (3) it complies with
interference regulations consistent with its secondary status; (4) it is located no more than 35 miles from the
cable system's headend and delivers to the principal headend an over-the-air signal of good quality; (5) the
community of license of the station and the franchise area of the cable system are both located outside the
largest 160 Metropolitan Statistical Areas on June 30, 1990, and the population of such community of license
on that date did not exceed 35,000; and (6) there is no full power television broadcast station licensed to any
community within the county or other political subdivision (of a State) served by the cable system.
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