local commercial television station
Defined in 2 places of the United States Code.
For purposes of this section, the term “local commercial television station” means any full power television broadcast station, other than a qualified noncommercial educational television station within the meaning of section 535(l)(1) of this title, licensed and operating on a channel regularly assigned to its community by the Commission that, with respect to a particular cable system, is within the same television market as the cable system.
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- 1994–present47 U.S.C. § 534Telecommunications · Carriage of local commercial television signals · for purposes of this section
the term “local commercial television station” has the meaning given the term in section 534(h) of this title;
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- 2017–present47 U.S.C. § 537aTelecommunications · Carriage of certain programming · in this section