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FCC 27.1203
Revised as of October 2, 2015
Goto Year:2014 | 2016
§ 27.1203   EBS programming requirements.

   (a) Except as provided in paragraphs (b), (c), and (d) of this section, BRS
   and EBS licensees are authorized to provide fixed or mobile service, except
   aeronautical  mobile service, subject to the technical requirements of
   subparts C and M of this part.

   (b) Educational Broadband Service stations are intended primarily through
   video, data, or voice transmissions to further the educational mission of
   accredited public and private schools, colleges and universities providing a
   formal educational and cultural development to enrolled students. Authorized
   educational broadband channels must be used to further the educational
   mission  of  accredited schools offering formal educational courses to
   enrolled students.

   (c)  In  furtherance of the educational mission of accredited schools,
   Educational Broadband Service stations may be used for:

   (1)  In-service  training and instruction in special skills and safety
   programs, extension of professional training, informing persons and groups
   engaged in professional and technical activities of current developments in
   their particular fields, and other similar endeavors;

   (2)  Transmission  of  material directly related to the administrative
   activities  of  the  licensee, such as the holding of conferences with
   personnel, distribution of reports and assignments, exchange of data and
   statistics, and other similar uses.

   (d) Stations, including high-power EBS signal booster stations, may be
   licensed  in  the EBS as originating or relay stations to interconnect
   educational  broadband  fixed  stations  in adjacent areas, to deliver
   instructional and cultural material to, and obtain such material from,
   commercial and noncommercial educational television broadcast stations for
   use on the educational broadband system, and to deliver instructional and
   cultural material to, and obtain such material from, nearby terminals or
   connection points of closed circuit educational television systems employing
   wired distribution systems or radio facilities authorized under other parts
   of this chapter, or to deliver instructional and cultural material to any
   cable television system serving a receiving site or sites which would be
   eligible  for  direct reception of EBS signals under the provisions of
   § 27.1201.

   [ 69 FR 72034 , Dec. 10, 2004, as amended at  71 FR 35190 , June 19, 2006]

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