[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 4, Parts 70 to 79]
[Revised as of October 1, 1997]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR76.606]

[Page 551-552]
 
                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
      CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (Continued)
 
PART 76--CABLE TELEVISION SERVICE--Table of Contents
 
                     Subpart K--Technical Standards
 
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]