appropriate governmental authority of Canada or Mexico, the area
in which it would be entitled to insist upon its signal being
retransmitted if it were a television broadcast station subject to such
rules, regulations, and authorizations.

The "local service area of a primary transmitter," in the case of a
radio broadcast station, comprises the primary service area of such
station pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Federal
Communications Commission.

"In the case of a low power television station, as defined by the
rules and regulations of the Federal Communications Commission,
the 'local service area of a primary transmitter' comprises the area
within 35 miles of the transmitter site, except that in the case of
such a station located in a standard metropolitan statistical area
which has one of the 50 largest populations of all standard
metropolitan statistical areas (based on the 1980 decennial census of
population taken by the Secretary of Commerce), the number of
miles shall be 20 miles."

A "distant signal equivalent" is the value assigned to the
secondary transmission of any nonnetwork television programing
carried by a cable system in whole or in part beyond the local
service area of the primary transmitter of such programing. It is
computed by assigning a value of one to each independent station
and a value of one-quarter to each network station and
noncommercial educational station for the nonnetwork programing so
carried pursuant to the rules, regulations, and authorizations of the
Federal Communications Commission. The foregoing values for
independent, network, and noncommercial educational stations are