§ 101.1403   Broadcast carriage requirements.

   MVDDS licensees are not required to provide all local television channels to
   subscribers within its area and thus are not required to comply with the
   must-carry rules, nor the local signal carriage requirements of the Rural
   Local Broadcast Signal Act. See Multichannel Video and Cable Television
   Service Rules, Subpart D (Carriage of Television Broadcast Signals), 47 CFR
   76.51-76.70. If an MVDDS licensee meets the statutory definition of Multiple
   Video Programming Distributor (MVPD), the retransmission consent requirement
   of section 325(b)(1) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (47
   U.S.C. 325(b)(1)) shall apply to that MVDDS licensee. Any MVDDS licensee
   that is an MVPD must obtain the prior express authority of a broadcast
   station  before  retransmitting  that station's signal, subject to the
   exceptions contained in section 325(b)(2) of the Communications Act of 1934,
   as  amended  (47 U.S.C. 325(b)(2)). Network nonduplication, syndicated
   exclusivity, sports blackout, and leased access rules shall not be imposed
   on MVDDS licensees.

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