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Implementation of the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999, Retransmission Consent Issues: Good Faith Negotiation and Exclusivity

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identifier: "/us/fr/03-22201"
source: "fr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "Implementation of the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999, Retransmission Consent Issues: Good Faith Negotiation and Exclusivity"
title_number: 0
title_name: "Federal Register"
section_number: "03-22201"
section_name: "Implementation of the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999, Retransmission Consent Issues: Good Faith Negotiation and Exclusivity"
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currency: "2003-09-02"
last_updated: "2003-09-02"
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generator: "[email protected]"
agency: "Federal Communications Commission"
document_number: "03-22201"
document_type: "rule"
publication_date: "2003-09-02"
agencies:
  - "Federal Communications Commission"
cfr_references:
  - "47 CFR Part 76"
fr_citation: "68 FR 52127"
fr_volume: 68
docket_ids:
  - "CS Docket No. 99-363"
  - "FCC 00-99"
effective_date: "2003-09-02"
fr_action: "Correcting amendments."
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#  Good faith and exclusive retransmission consent complaints.

**AGENCY:**

Federal Communications Commission.

**ACTION:**

Correcting amendments.

**SUMMARY:**

This document makes a minor correction to Part 76 of the Commission's rules pertaining to retransmission consent issues which were published in the *Federal Register* at 65 FR 15559, March 23, 2000 regarding carriage of television broadcast signals by multichannel video programming distributors (“MVPDs”).

**DATES:**

Effective September 2, 2003.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**

Kenneth Lewis, Media Bureau, (202) 418-2622.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**

The First Report and Order, FCC 00-99, adopted March 14, 2000; released March 16, 2000, approved a final rule governing the negotiation of agreements for the retransmission of television broadcast stations by MVPDs, established standards for implementing a good faith negotiation requirement of broadcasters to MVPDs, and provided clarification regarding the prohibition against exclusive retransmission consent contracts. In this document we make a non-substantive rule change to correct an error in the publication of § 76.65 of the Commission's rules.

**Need for Correction**

As published, the final regulations contain an error which may prove to be misleading and needs to be clarified.

**List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 76**

Cable television.

Federal Communications Commission.

Marlene H. Dortch,

Secretary.

**47 CFR Part 76**

Accordingly, 47 CFR Part 76 is corrected by making the following correcting amendments:

**PART 76—MULTICHANNEL VIDEO AND CABLE TELEVISION SERVICE.**

1. The authority citation for Part 76 continues to read as follows:

**Authority:**

47 U.S.C. 151, 152, 153, 154, 301, 302, 303, 303a, 307, 308, 309, 312, 315, 317, 325, 338, 339, 503, 521, 522, 531, 532, 533, 534, 535, 536, 537, 543, 544, 544a, 545, 548, 549, 552, 554, 556, 558, 560, 561, 571, 572, 573.

**47 CFR Part 76**

2. In § 76.65, revise paragraph (c) to read as follows:

§ 76.65

(c) Any multichannel video programming distributor aggrieved by conduct that it believes constitutes a violation of the regulations set forth in this section or § 76.64(l) may commence an adjudicatory proceeding at the Commission to obtain enforcement of the rules through the filing of a complaint. The complaint shall be filed and responded to in accordance with the procedures specified in § 76.7.