# Channel Sharing Rules
> **Federal Communications Commission** · Final rule. · Published 2017-04-18 · Effective 2017-05-18 · 82 FR 18240
## Document
- **Document number:** 2017-07171
- **Category:** broadcasting
- **Federal Register citation:** 82 FR 18240
- **CFR reference:** 47 CFR 73
- **Publication date:** 2017-04-18
- **Effective date:** 2017-05-18
- **FCC docket:** MB Docket Nos. 03-185, 15-137
## Abstract

In this Report and Order, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) adopted rules to allow full power and Class A stations with auction-related channel sharing agreements (CSAs) to become sharees outside of the incentive auction context so that they can continue to operate if their auction-related CSAs expire or otherwise terminate. The Commission also adopted rules to allow all low power television and TV translator stations (secondary stations) to share a channel with another secondary station or with a full power or Class A station. This action will assist secondary stations that are displaced by the incentive auction and the repacking process to continue to operate in the post-auction television bands. The rules adopted in this R&O will enhance the benefits of channel sharing for broadcasters without imposing significant burdens on multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs).

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/04/18/2017-07171/channel-sharing-rules)
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