I 
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) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Ju-
diciary, 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 com-
mittee 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 2012’’. 
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SEC. 2. SATELLITE CARRIAGE OF CERTAIN TELEVISION 
BROADCAST SIGNALS. 
Section 122(a)(4)(C) of title 17, United States Code, 
is amended— 
(1) by redesignating clauses (i) and (ii) as sub-
clauses (I) and (II), respectively, and moving such 
clauses 2 ems to the right; 
(2) by striking ‘‘(C) ADDITIONAL STATIONS.— 
In the case of that State’’ and inserting the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(C) ADDITIONAL STATIONS.— 
‘‘(i) CERTAIN SMALL COUNTIES.—In 
the case of that State in which are located 
2 counties that— 
‘‘(I) are located in the 46th larg-
est designated market area for the 
year 2005 according to Nielsen Media 
Research; and 
‘‘(II) 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, 
the statutory license provided under this 
paragraph shall apply to secondary trans-
missions by a satellite carrier to sub-
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scribers in any such county of the primary 
transmissions of any network station lo-
cated in that State, if the satellite carrier 
was making such secondary transmissions 
to any subscribers in that county on Janu-
ary 1, 2008. 
‘‘(ii) OTHER COUNTIES.—In the case 
of a State—’’. 
SEC. 3. CABLE CARRIAGE OF CERTAIN TELEVISION BROAD-
CAST SIGNAL. 
Section 341 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 341) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.— 
‘‘(1) SIGNIFICANTLY VIEWED.—Each television 
broadcast station broadcasting in the designated 
market area of a State capital is deemed signifi-
cantly viewed in a covered county within the mean-
ing of section 76.54 of title 47, Code of Federal 
Regulations, for purposes of the carriage and re-
transmission of the signals of such broadcast station 
by a cable system, translator, or other multichannel 
video programming distributor. 
‘‘(2) RETRANSMISSION
PERMITTED.—Notwith-
standing the provisions of section 325(b), a cable 
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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 
30,000 for the year 2005 according to Nielsen 
Media Research.’’. 
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