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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 124 

To provide certain counties with the ability to receive television broadcast 

signals of their choice. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JANUARY 4, 2007 

Mr. ALLARD introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 

to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 

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 ‘‘Satellite and Cable 

5 Access Act of 2007’’. 

6 SEC. 2. SATELLITE CARRIAGE OF TELEVISION BROADCAST 

7 SIGNALS. 

8 Section 119(a)(2)(C) of title 17, United States Code, 

9 is amended— 

10 (1) by redesignating clause (v) as clause (vi); 


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1 (2) by inserting after clause (v) the following: 

2 ‘‘(v) FURTHER ADDITIONAL STA3 TIONS.—If 2 adjacent counties in a single 

4 State are in a local market comprised prin5 cipally of counties located in another State, 

6 the statutory license provided for in sub7 paragraph (A) shall apply to the secondary 

8 transmission by a satellite carrier to sub9 scribers in those 2 counties of the primary 

10 transmissions of any network station lo11 cated in the capital of the State in which 

12 such 2 counties are located, if— 

13 ‘‘(I) the 2 counties are located in 

14 the 46th largest designated market 

15 area for the year 2005 according to 

16 Nielsen Media Research; and 

17 ‘‘(II) the total number of tele18 vision households in the 2 counties 

19 combined did not exceed 30,000 for 

20 the year 2005 according to Nielsen 

21 Media Research.’’; and 

22 (3) in clause (vi) as redesignated, by striking 

23 ‘‘and (iv)’’ and inserting ‘‘(iv), and (v)’’. 


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1 SEC. 3. CABLE CARRIAGE OF TELEVISON BROADCAST SIG2 NALS. 

3 Part I of title III of the Communications Act of 1934 

4 (47 U.S.C. 301 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end 

5 the following: 

6 ‘‘SEC. 342. CARRIAGE OF SIGNALS TO CERTAIN TELEVISION 

7 MARKET AREAS. 

8 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other pro9 vision of law, each cable operator providing service in an 

10 eligible area may elect to carry the primary signal of any 

11 network station located in the capital of the State in which 

12 such area is located. 

13 ‘‘(b) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section: 

14 ‘‘(1) ELIGIBLE AREA.—The term ‘eligible area’ 

15 means 1 of 2 counties that— 

16 ‘‘(A) are all in a single State; 

17 ‘‘(B) on the date of enactment of the Sat18 ellite and Cable Access Act of 2007, were each 

19 located in— 

20 ‘‘(i) the 46th largest designated mar21 ket area for the year 2005 according to 

22 Nielsen Media Research; and 

23 ‘‘(ii) a designated market area com24 prised principally of counties located in an25 other State; and 


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1 ‘‘(C) as a group had a total number of tel2 evision households that when combined did not 

3 exceed 30,000 for the year 2005 according to 

4 Nielsen Media Research. 

5 ‘‘(2) NETWORK STATION.—The term ‘network 

6 station’ has the same meaning as in section 119(d) 

7 of title 17, United States Code.’’. 

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