47 CFR 76.606
§ 76.606 Closed captioning.
United States · 47 CFR — Telecommunication · Status: effective
Cite this
- Citation
- 47 CFR 76.606, § 76.606 Closed captioning, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/237102
- Permanent ID
ys:prov:237102@1- SHA-256
592cba42687703a144cc56035ad0db5692a174026280ab5c9e53aad85db611bd
The hash is SHA-256 of this version's text, with every run of whitespace collapsed to a single space and the ends trimmed. The ID always leads back here, and checking it says whether the text you cited is still the current version.
Full text
(a) 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.
(b) 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 § 79.101 of this chapter.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.