I 
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 fol-
lowing 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 consider-
ation 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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Four Corners Tele-
vision Access Act of 2009’’. 
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SEC. 2. SATELLITE CARRIAGE OF CERTAIN TELEVISION 
BROADCAST SIGNALS. 
Section 119(a)(2)(C)(iv) of title 17, United States 
Code, is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subclauses (I) and (II) as 
items (aa) and (bb) and inserting ‘‘(I)’’ before 
‘‘(aa)’’; and 
(2) in item (bb), as so redesignated by para-
graph (1), after ‘‘Nielsen Media Research’’ insert 
the following: ‘‘; or 
‘‘(II)(aa) the 2 counties are lo-
cated in the 46th largest designated 
market area for the year 2005 accord-
ing to Nielsen Media Research; and 
‘‘(bb) the total number of tele-
vision households in the 2 counties 
combined did not exceed 30,000 for 
the year 2005 according to Nielsen 
Media Research’’. 
SEC. 3. CABLE CARRIAGE OF CERTAIN TELEVISION BROAD-
CAST SIGNAL. 
Section 341 of Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 341) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.— 
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‘‘(1) SIGNIFICANTLY VIEWED.—Each television 
broadcast station broadcasting in the designated 
market area of a State capital is deemed signifi-
cantly viewed within the meaning of section 76.54 of 
title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, for purposes 
of the carriage and retransmission of the signals of 
such broadcast station by a cable system, translator, 
or other multichannel video programming dis-
tributor. 
‘‘(2) RETRANSMISSION
PERMITTED.—Notwith-
standing the provisions of section 325(b), a cable 
system, translator, or other multichannel video pro-
gramming distributor may retransmit the signal of 
any television broadcast station described in para-
graph (1) within a covered county. 
‘‘(3) DEFINITION OF COVERED COUNTY.—For 
purposes of this subsection, a county is a covered 
county if— 
‘‘(A) it is 1 of 2 counties located in the 
46th largest designated market area for the 
year 2005 according to Nielsen Media Re-
search; and 
‘‘(B) the total number of television house-
holds in the 2 counties combined did not exceed 
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30,000 for the year 2005 according to Nielsen 
Media Research.’’. 
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