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112TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4469 

To provide certain counties with the ability to receive television broadcast 

signals of their choice. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 19, 2012 

Mr. TIPTON (for himself, Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado, and Mr. POLIS) 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 2012’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. SATELLITE CARRIAGE OF CERTAIN TELEVISION 

2 BROADCAST SIGNALS. 

3 Section 122(a)(4)(C) of title 17, United States Code, 

4 is amended— 

5 (1) by redesignating clauses (i) and (ii) as sub6 clauses (I) and (II), respectively, and moving such 

7 clauses 2 ems to the right; 

8 (2) by striking ‘‘(C) ADDITIONAL STATIONS.— 

9 In the case of that State’’ and inserting the fol10 lowing: 

11 ‘‘(C) ADDITIONAL STATIONS.— 

12 ‘‘(i) CERTAIN SMALL COUNTIES.—In 

13 the case of that State in which are located 

14 2 counties that— 

15 ‘‘(I) are located in the 46th larg16 est designated market area for the 

17 year 2005 according to Nielsen Media 

18 Research; and 

19 ‘‘(II) the total number of tele20 vision households in the 2 counties 

21 combined did not exceed 30,000 for 

22 the year 2005 according to Nielsen 

23 Media Research, 

24 the statutory license provided under this 

25 paragraph shall apply to secondary trans26 missions by a satellite carrier to subVerDate Mar 15 2010 05:51 Apr 24, 2012 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4469.IH H4469

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1 scribers in any such county of the primary 

2 transmissions of any network station lo3 cated in that State, if the satellite carrier 

4 was making such secondary transmissions 

5 to any subscribers in that county on Janu6 ary 1, 2008. 

7 ‘‘(ii) OTHER COUNTIES.—In the case 

8 of a State—’’. 

9 SEC. 3. CABLE CARRIAGE OF CERTAIN TELEVISION BROAD10 CAST SIGNAL. 

11 Section 341 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 

12 U.S.C. 341) is amended by adding at the end the fol13 lowing: 

14 ‘‘(c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.— 

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

16 broadcast station broadcasting in the designated 

17 market area of a State capital is deemed signifi18 cantly viewed in a covered county within the mean19 ing of section 76.54 of title 47, Code of Federal 

20 Regulations, for purposes of the carriage and re21 transmission of the signals of such broadcast station 

22 by a cable system, translator, or other multichannel 

23 video programming distributor. 

24 ‘‘(2) RETRANSMISSION PERMITTED.—Notwith25 standing the provisions of section 325(b), a cable 


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1 system, translator, or other multichannel video pro2 gramming distributor may retransmit the signal of 

3 any television broadcast station described in para4 graph (1) within a covered county. 

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

6 purposes of this subsection, a county is a covered 

7 county if— 

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

9 46th largest designated market area for the 

10 year 2005 according to Nielsen Media Re11 search; and 

12 ‘‘(B) the total number of television house13 holds in the 2 counties combined did not exceed 

14 30,000 for the year 2005 according to Nielsen 

15 Media Research.’’. 

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