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 113 STAT. 1501A-532 PUBLIC LAW 106-113—APPENDIX I "(1) IN GENERAL.— Subject to the limitations of paragraph (2), each sateUite carrier providing, under section 122 of title 17, United States Code, secondary transmissions to subscribers located within the local market of a television broadcast station of a primary transmission made by that station shall carry upon request the signals of all television broadcast stations located within that local market, subject to section 325(b). "(2) REMEDIES FOR FAILURE TO CARRY. —The remedies for any failure to meet the obligations under this subsection shall be available exclusively under section 501(f) of title 17, United States Code. "(3) EFFECTIVE DATE. —No satellite carrier shall be required to carry local television broadcast stations under paragraph (1) until January 1, 2002. "(b) GOOD SIGNAL REQUIRED.— "(1) COSTS.—^A television broadcast station asserting its right to carriage under subsection (a) shall be required to bear the costs associated with delivering a good quality signal to the designated local receive facility of the satellite carrier or to another facility that is acceptable to at least one-half the stations asserting the right to carriage in the local market. "(2) REGULATIONS.— The regulations issued under subsection (g) shall set forth the obligations necessary to carry out this subsection. " (c) DUPLICATION NOT REQUIRED.— "(1) COMMERCIAL STATIONS. —Notwithstanding subsection (a), a satellite carrier shall not be required to carry upon request the signal of any local commercial television broadcast station that substantially duplicates the signal of another local commercial television broadcast station which is secondarily transmitted by the satellite carrier within the same local market, or to carry upon request the signals of more than one local commercial television broadcast station in a single local market that is affiliated with a particular television network unless such stations are licensed to communities in dif- ferent States. "(2) NONCOMMERCIAL STATIONS. —The Commission shall prescribe regulations limiting the carriage requirements under subsection (a) of satellite carriers with respect to the carriage of multiple local noncommercial television broadcast stations. To the extent possible, such regulations shall provide the same degree of carriage by satellite carriers of such multiple stations as is provided by cable systems under section 615. "(d) CHANNEL POSITIONING.— No satellite carrier shall be required to provide the signal of a local television broadcast station to subscribers in that station's local market on any particular channel number or to provide the signals in any particular order, except that the satellite carrier shall retransmit the signal of the local television broadcast stations to subscribers in the stations' local market on contiguous channels and provide access to such station's signals at a nondiscriminatory price and in a nondiscriminatory manner on any navigational device, on-screen program guide, or menu. "(e) COMPENSATION FOR CARRIAGE.— ^A satellite carrier shall not accept or request monetary payment or other valuable consideration in exchange either for carriage of local television broadcast stations in fulfillment of the requirements of this section or for

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