---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 73.1210"
title: "47"
number: "73.1210"
heading: "TV/FM dual-language broadcasting in Puerto Rico."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/73.1210"
---

# §73.1210. TV/FM dual-language broadcasting in Puerto Rico.

- (a) For the purpose of this section, dual-language broadcasting shall be understood to mean the telecasting of a program in one language with the simultaneous transmission, on the main channel of a participating FM broadcast station, of companion sound track information in a different language.
- (b) Television and Class A television licensees in Puerto Rico may enter into dual-language time purchase agreements with FM broadcast licensees, subject to the following conditions:
  - (1) All such agreements shall be reduced to writing and retained by the licensee for possible Commission inspection, in accordance with [§ 73.3613](/cfr/47/73.3613.md) of this chapter.
  - (2) All such agreements shall specify that the FM licensee will monitor sound track material with a view to rejecting any material deemed to be inappropriate or objectionable for broadcast exposure.
  - (3) No television, Class A television, or FM broadcast station may devote more than 15 hours per week to dual-language broadcasting, nor may more than three (3) hours of such programming be presented on any given day.
  - (4) Noncommercial educational television broadcast stations shall take all necessary precautions to assure that the entire operation is conducted on a noncommercial basis and otherwise in accordance with [§ 73.621](/cfr/47/73.621.md) of this part.

## Notes

### Amendments

[40 FR 17259, Apr. 18, 1975, as amended at 49 FR 33663, Aug. 24, 1984; 50 FR 40016, Oct. 1, 1985; 65 FR 30003, May 10, 2000]

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 155, 301, 303, 307, 309, 310, 334, 336, 339.

### Amendments

[40 FR 17259, Apr. 18, 1975, as amended at 49 FR 33663, Aug. 24, 1984; 50 FR 40016, Oct. 1, 1985; 65 FR 30003, May 10, 2000]