nationally distributed superstation
Defined in 1 place of the United States Code.
The term "nationally distributed superstation" means a television broadcast station, licensed by the Commission, that—
(A) is not owned or operated by or affiliated with a television network that, as of January 1, 1995, offered interconnected program service on a regular basis for 15 or more hours per week to at least 25 affiliated television licensees in 10 or more States;
(B) on May 1, 1991, was retransmitted by a satellite carrier and was not a network station at that time; and
(C) was, as of July 1, 1998, retransmitted by a satellite carrier under the statutory license of section 119 of title 17.
Source
- 1999–present47 U.S.C. § 339Telecommunications · Carriage of distant television stations by satellite carriers · for the purposes of this section