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33 restrictions. The Home Nation must however accept the same responsibility for any holders of Home Nation rights whose advertising or identification at the Competition may be seen on television. (d) The Home Nation must allow the contractors access to the court at least 48 hours prior to the commencement of play to erect and install advertisements, displays, equipment and so on. Any advertisements which are not in accordance with these regulations must be removed or covered by the Home Nation. In the event that the Home Nation does not fulfil its obligations herein the ITF may instruct its own contractors to undertake the removal or covering up as may be appropriate. 61. TELEVISION All Media Rights are the property of the ITF. (a) For the Davis Cup World Group ITF controls and negotiates all television rights. This is to be done in consultation with the World Group nations. Income and eventual costs from the sale of these television rights with regards to matches of a nation's Davis Cup team and with regards to that nation's television market are to be split on a 50/50 basis between the relevant nation and the ITF unless separate agreement has been made between the ITF and the Home Nation concerned. (b) In the Zonal Competition the domestic rights are assigned to the Home Nation. The Home Nation may arrange for the Ties to be televised in their own country, and retain the receipts from this source. The Home Nation shall be responsible however for ensuring that any television contract permits access free of charge to the signal produced by the host broadcaster of all matches of the Tie for the ITF's overseas telecasts and other exploitation of the Media Rights. The Home Nation shall also be responsible for ensuring that any contract stipulates that host broadcasts are to be in compliance with the ITF's host broadcast manual. The ITF must be kept advised by the Home Nation in its negotiations in this respect and the ITF reserves the right to intervene in its negotiations if it believes, on reasonable grounds, that it will not receive access to the host broadcaster signal on reasonable terms. In cases where the Home Nation in Zonal Group Competition is unable to provide a host broadcaster or to make such provision 50 days before the commencement of the first Tie of the year, the ITF will have the option to procure and negotiate the terms with a host broadcaster for that territory for the remainder of that Davis Cup year. In such case, any income and expense relating to the securing of a host broadcaster will be divided equally between the Home Nation and the ITF. However, if by the stipulated date 50 days before the commencement of the first Tie, the Home Nation expresses a desire to retain the host broadcaster rights, it must guarantee, at no cost to the ITF, to deliver a full live signal of internationally acceptable standard. The ITF will issue separate guidelines to each National Association specifically relating to television negotiations with particular regard to: (i) The international distribution of the signal. (ii) The supply of suitable recordings for highlights or compilation programmes.

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