(1) The owner, licensee or operator of a visual or sound
radio broadcasting station or network of stations, and the agents or
employees of any such owner, licensee or operator, shall not be
liable for any damages for any defamatory statement or matter
published or uttered in or as a part of a visual or sound radio
broadcast by one other than such owner, licensee or operator, or
agent or employee thereof, if it shall be alleged and proved by such
owner, licensee or operator, or agent or employee thereof, that such
owner, licensee or operator, or such agent or employee, has exercised
due care to prevent the publication or utterance of such statement
or matter in such broadcast.
   (2) If any defamatory statement or matter is published or uttered
in or as a part of a broadcast over the facilities of a network of
visual or sound radio broadcasting stations, the owner, licensee or
operator of any such station, or network of stations, and the agents
or employees thereof, other than the owner, licensee or operator of
the station, or network of stations, originating such broadcast, and
the agents or employees thereof, shall in no event be liable for any
damages for any such defamatory statement or matter.
   (3) In no event, however, shall any owner, licensee or operator of
such station or network of stations, or the agents or employees
thereof, be liable for any damages for any defamatory statement or
matter published or uttered, by one other than such owner, licensee
or operator, or agent or employee thereof, in or as a part of a
visual or sound radio broadcast by or on behalf of any candidate for
public office, which broadcast cannot be censored by reason of the
provisions of federal statute or regulation of the Federal
Communications Commission.
   (4) As used in this Part 2, the terms "radio," "radio broadcast,"
and "broadcast," are defined to include both visual and sound radio
broadcasting.
   (5) Nothing in this section contained shall deprive any such
owner, licensee or operator, or the agent or employee thereof, of any
rights under any other section of this Part 2.

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