---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 101.1403"
title: "47"
number: "101.1403"
heading: "Broadcast carriage requirements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/101.1403"
---

# §101.1403. Broadcast carriage requirements.


MVDDS licensees are not required to provide all local television channels to subscribers within its area and thus are not required to comply with the must-carry rules, nor the local signal carriage requirements of the Rural Local Broadcast Signal Act. See Multichannel Video and Cable Television Service Rules, [Subpart D](/cfr/47/subpartD.md) (Carriage of Television Broadcast Signals), [47 CFR 76.51-76.70](/cfr/47/76.51-76.70.md). If an MVDDS licensee meets the statutory definition of Multiple Video Programming Distributor (MVPD), the retransmission consent requirement of section 325(b)(1) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended ([47 U.S.C. 325(b)(1)](/usc/47/325.md?p=b-1)) shall apply to that MVDDS licensee. Any MVDDS licensee that is an MVPD must obtain the prior express authority of a broadcast station before retransmitting that station's signal, subject to the exceptions contained in section 325(b)(2) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended ([47 U.S.C. 325(b)(2)](/usc/47/325.md?p=b-2)). Network nonduplication, syndicated exclusivity, sports blackout, and leased access rules shall not be imposed on MVDDS licensees.


## Notes

### Source

Source: 69 FR 31746, June 7, 2004, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 303.

### Source

Source: 61 FR 26677, May 28, 1996, unless otherwise noted.