(10) Digital audio radio satellite service licens-
ees have announced plans to offer local traffic and 
weather channels through the use of their satellites. 
(11) Developments in receiver technology will 
enable digital audio radio satellite service licensees 
to offer new services in the future, including local-
ized content that may be intermixed with other na-
tional content or that would be selected based on the 
listener’s location. 
SEC. 3. LIMITS ON LOCALIZED DIGITAL AUDIO RADIO SAT-
ELLITE SERVICE PROGRAMMING. 
Consistent with the representations made by digital 
audio radio satellite service licensees in the Commission’s 
record that digital audio radio satellite service would be 
a national service, on which the Commission relied in au-
thorizing digital audio radio satellite service, the Federal 
Communications Commission shall revise section 25.144 
of its regulations (47 CFR 25.144) to provide that— 
(1) digital audio radio satellite service licensees 
shall not, using any capability either on a satellite 
or in a radio receiver, provide services that are lo-
cally differentiated or that result in programming 
being delivered to consumers in one geographic mar-
ket that is different from the programming that is 
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delivered to consumers in any other geographic mar-
ket; and 
(2) digital audio radio satellite service repeaters 
shall be restricted to simultaneously retransmitting 
the programming transmitted by satellite directly to 
digital audio radio satellite service subscribers’ re-
ceivers, and may not be used to distribute any infor-
mation not also transmitted to all subscribers’ re-
ceivers. 
SEC. 4. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION RULE-
MAKING ON LOCAL SERVICES BY SATELLITE 
PROVIDERS. 
Within 270 days after the date of enactment of this 
Act, the Federal Communications Commission shall com-
plete a rulemaking proceeding to determine whether dig-
ital audio radio satellite service licensees should be per-
mitted to provide locally oriented services on nationally 
distributed channels, taking into account— 
(1) the impact of locally oriented satellite radio 
services on the viability of local radio broadcast sta-
tions and their ability to provide news and other 
services to the public; 
(2) the ability of digital audio radio satellite 
service licensees to afford listeners the same emer-
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gency and other information as is afforded listeners 
of local broadcast radio stations; 
(3) whether digital audio radio satellite service 
licensees committed to providing only national serv-
ices in order to obtain authorization for their service; 
and 
(4) whether the same level and quality of emer-
gency communications services could be provided to 
consumers by digital audio radio satellite service li-
censees as by local broadcast radio stations. 
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