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HAMDT 742 (102nd)

Amendments en bloc: (1) provide that cable operators must provide at least 30 days advance notice of any increase in cable rates over 5 percent; (2) clarifies language that protects grandfathered rate regulation agreements between franchising authorities and cable operators; (3) make certain technical corrections drafting errors in the bill; (4) allow commercial broadcasters to choose to be carried on the same channel on the cable system as they were carried on the system as of Jan. 1, 1992; (5) require the FCC to update its current listing of the nation's television markets; (6) indemnify local franchising authorities against damage claims, except for damage claims based on discrimination of any type; (7) require the FCC study on sport migration to include an analysis of preclusive contracts between college athletic conferences and video programming vendors; and (8) give cable consumers the right to prevent certain cable channels from being broadcast into their homes.

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