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111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1860 

To provide certain counties with the ability to receive television broadcast 

signals of their choice. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 1, 2009 

Mr. SALAZAR (for himself and Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and 

in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to 

be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 

concerned 

A BILL 

To provide certain counties with the ability to receive 

television broadcast signals of their choice. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Four Corners Tele5 vision Access Act of 2009’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. SATELLITE CARRIAGE OF CERTAIN TELEVISION 

2 BROADCAST SIGNALS. 

3 Section 119(a)(2)(C)(iv) of title 17, United States 

4 Code, is amended— 

5 (1) by redesignating subclauses (I) and (II) as 

6 items (aa) and (bb) and inserting ‘‘(I)’’ before 

7 ‘‘(aa)’’; and 

8 (2) in item (bb), as so redesignated by para9 graph (1), after ‘‘Nielsen Media Research’’ insert 

10 the following: ‘‘; or 

11 ‘‘(II)(aa) the 2 counties are lo12 cated in the 46th largest designated 

13 market area for the year 2005 accord14 ing to Nielsen Media Research; and 

15 ‘‘(bb) the total number of tele16 vision households in the 2 counties 

17 combined did not exceed 30,000 for 

18 the year 2005 according to Nielsen 

19 Media Research’’. 

20 SEC. 3. CABLE CARRIAGE OF CERTAIN TELEVISION BROAD21 CAST SIGNAL. 

22 Section 341 of Communications Act of 1934 (47 

23 U.S.C. 341) is amended by adding at the end the fol24 lowing: 

25 ‘‘(c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.— 


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1 ‘‘(1) SIGNIFICANTLY VIEWED.—Each television 

2 broadcast station broadcasting in the designated 

3 market area of a State capital is deemed signifi4 cantly viewed within the meaning of section 76.54 of 

5 title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, for purposes 

6 of the carriage and retransmission of the signals of 

7 such broadcast station by a cable system, translator, 

8 or other multichannel video programming dis9 tributor. 

10 ‘‘(2) RETRANSMISSION PERMITTED.—Notwith11 standing the provisions of section 325(b), a cable 

12 system, translator, or other multichannel video pro13 gramming distributor may retransmit the signal of 

14 any television broadcast station described in para15 graph (1) within a covered county. 

16 ‘‘(3) DEFINITION OF COVERED COUNTY.—For 

17 purposes of this subsection, a county is a covered 

18 county if— 

19 ‘‘(A) it is 1 of 2 counties located in the 

20 46th largest designated market area for the 

21 year 2005 according to Nielsen Media Re22 search; and 

23 ‘‘(B) the total number of television house24 holds in the 2 counties combined did not exceed 


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1 30,000 for the year 2005 according to Nielsen 

2 Media Research.’’. 

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