§1293 — Title 15 Commerce and Trade | U.S. Code

Summary

Allows TV stations to show a professional football game on a Friday after 6:00 PM or on a Saturday between the second Friday in September and the second Saturday in December, even if a college or high school game is scheduled that day nearby, as long as three things are true. The nearby game must be either between two colleges that give four-year degrees, or between two accredited secondary schools that go through twelfth grade, and the game and its location must have been listed in a widely read newspaper before August 1 of that year as regularly scheduled for that day and place.

Title 15, §1293

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The first sentence of section 1291 of this title shall not apply to any joint agreement described in such section which permits the telecasting of all or a substantial part of any professional football game on any Friday after six o’clock postmeridian or on any Saturday during the period beginning on the second Friday in September and ending on the second Saturday in December in any year from any telecasting station located within seventy-five miles of the game site of any intercollegiate or interscholastic football contest scheduled to be played on such a date if—

(1)such intercollegiate football contest is between institutions of higher learning both of which confer degrees upon students following completion of sufficient credit hours to equal a four-year course, or

(2)in the case of an interscholastic football contest, such contest is between secondary schools, both of which are accredited or certified under the laws of the State or States in which they are situated and offer courses continuing through the twelfth grade of the standard school curriculum, or the equivalent, and

(3)such intercollegiate or interscholastic football contest and such game site were announced through publication in a newspaper of general circulation prior to August 1 of such year as being regularly scheduled for such day and place.

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1966—Pub. L. 89–800 substituted “The first sentence of section 1291 of this title” for “section 1291 of this title” at beginning of section, extended limitation granted for football contests on game sites located within 75 miles of telecasting stations to include interscholastic contests, redesignated cl. (2) as (3), added a new cl. (2), and, in cl. (3) as so redesignated, substituted “newspaper of general circulation prior to August 1” for “daily newspaper of general circulation prior to March 1” as description of the type newspaper required for the announcement of the game site of intercollegiate or interscholastic football games.

§1293 Intercollegiate and Interscholastic Football Contest Limitations

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Title 15, §1293

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