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(1) Distributor. The term "distributor" means an entity which contracts
to distribute secondary transmissions from a satellite carrier and,
either as a single channel or in a package with other programming,
provides the secondary transmission either directly to individual
subscribers or indirectly through other program distribution entities.
(2) Local market.-
(A) In general. The term "local market", in the case of both commercial
and noncommercial television broadcast stations, means the designated
market area in which a station is located, and-
(i) in the case of a commercial television broadcast station, all
commercial television broadcast stations licensed to a community within
the same designated market area are within the same local market; and
(ii) in the case of a noncommercial educational television broadcast
station, the market includes any station that is licensed to a community
within the same designated market area as the noncommercial educational
television broadcast station.
(B) County of license. In addition to the area described in subparagraph
(A), a station's local market includes the county in which the station's
community of license is located.
(C) Designated market area. For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term
"designated market area" means a designated market area, as determined
by Nielsen Media Research and published in the 1999-2000 Nielsen Station
Index Directory and Nielsen Station Index United States Television
Household Estimates or any successor publication.
(3) Network station; satellite carrier; secondary transmission. The
terms "network station", "satellite carrier", and "secondary
transmission" have the meanings given such terms under section 119(d).
(4) Subscriber. The term "subscriber" means a person who receives a
secondary transmission service from a satellite carrier and pays a fee
for the service, directly or indirectly, to the satellite carrier or to
a distributor.
(5) Television broadcast station. The term "television broadcast
station"-
(A) means an over-the-air, commercial or noncommercial television
broadcast station licensed by the Federal Communications Commission
under subpart E of part 73 of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations,
except that such term does not include a low-power or translator
television station; and
(B) includes a television broadcast station licensed by an appropriate
governmental authority of Canada or Mexic
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