§ 73.1206 Broadcast of telephone conversations.

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Title 47 CFR: Telecommunication › Chapter I: FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION › Part 73: RADIO BROADCAST SERVICES › Subpart H: Rules Applicable to All Broadcast Stations › § 73.1206: § 73.1206 Broadcast of telephone conversations.

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Before recording a telephone conversation for broadcast, or broadcasting such a conversation simultaneously with its occurrence, a licensee shall inform any party to the call of the licensee's intention to broadcast the conversation, except where such party is aware, or may be presumed to be aware from the circumstances of the conversation, that it is being or likely will be broadcast. Such awareness is presumed to exist only when the other party to the call is associated with the station (such as as employee or part-time reporter), or where the other party originates the call and it is obvious that it is in connection with a program in which the station customarily broadcasts telephone conversations.

[35 FR 7733, May 20, 1970]

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