PROGRAM ORIGINATION Clause Samples

PROGRAM ORIGINATION. Section 7.1 Except as hereinafter provided in Subsections (d), (e), (f), (i), (j), (k), (l) and (m) below, an Engineering employee or Engineering employees, as required, shall be present at the origin of Company television programs originating within the Continental United States (excluding Alaska). As used in this Section 7.1, “Company television program(s)” (hereinafter “program” or “programs”) shall include only program material or portions of programs (i.e., inserts or segments of any length) or entire programs, which in any case are broadcast by the Company and are either produced by the Company, or produced by others for the Company when the Company owns the basic underlying property rights in such program material, or portions of programs, or entire programs and subcontracts the production of the program to others. (See A2.2(e)(9) and Sideletters BP, DB and GH.) (a) [Deleted.] (b) [Deleted.] (c) [Deleted.] (d) Commercial and sustaining programs originated in the studios of affiliated stations. (e) Programs originated within a three hundred fifty (350) mile radius of an Owned Station covered by this Agreement (such radius being hereinafter called the “radius”) may be made by any single station within the radius, provided, however, that such station can supply the necessary Engineering personnel from its staff on regular payroll, and provided further that the pickup is not nearer to the Owned Station. Should either of the foregoing conditions not be met, any Owned Station covered by this Agreement shall make the pickup. (f) Programs originated outside the radius may be made by any single station within two hundred (200) miles of the pickup. If the assigned station is within the radius it must be able to supply the necessary Engineering personnel from its staff on regular payroll. If the station is outside the radius it must be able to supply twenty-five percent (25%) of the total number of Engineering personnel necessary to do the event (measured by the total number of Engineers required on the day-of-air or taping, or final day-of-air or taping in the case of a multiple-day event); if it cannot, any Owned Station covered by this Agreement shall make the pickup. If such station is able to supply twenty-five percent (25%) of the necessary number of Engineers, but less than one hundred percent (100%), the necessary additional Engineers will be persons covered by the provisions of the Master Agreement and/or up to the allowable maximum number of vendors ...