SEC. 2. COMMISSION ACTION REQUIRED. 
(a) PROGRAM REQUIRED.—Notwithstanding sections 
309(j)(14) and 337(e) of the Communications Act of 1934 
(47 U.S.C. 309(j)(14), 337(e)) and section 3002 of the 
Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 
2005 (47 U.S.C. 309, note), the Commission shall, not 
later than January 15, 2009, develop and implement in 
accordance with this section a program to provide for the 
continued broadcasting in the analog television service of 
the public safety information and digital television transi-
tion information specified in subsection (b) during the pe-
riod from February 18, 2009, through March 3, 2009. 
(b) PUBLIC
SAFETY
AND
DIGITAL
TELEVISION 
TRANSITION INFORMATION.—For purposes of this sec-
tion, the public safety information and digital television 
transition information that is required to be broadcast in 
the analog television service by a broadcast station under 
this section shall include— 
(1) emergency information, including critical 
details regarding the emergency, as carried or re-
quired to be carried by full-power stations in the 
digital television service; and 
(2) information, in both English and Spanish, 
concerning— 
(A) the digital television transition, includ-
ing the fact that a transition has taken place 
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and that additional actions are required to con-
tinue receiving television service, including 
emergency notifications; and 
(B) the steps, if any, required to continue 
to receive such emergency information via the 
digital television service and to convert to re-
ceiving digital television service, including a 
phone number and Internet address by which 
help with such transition may be obtained in 
both English and Spanish. 
(c) LIMITATIONS.—In designing the program re-
quired by this section, the Commission shall— 
(1) take into account market-by-market needs, 
based upon factors such as channel and transmitter 
availability; 
(2) ensure that broadcasting of the public safe-
ty information specified in subsection (b) will not— 
(A) cause harmful interference with signals 
in the digital television service; or 
(B) be authorized or enforced in a manner 
that will impair the legal rights of any licensee 
of recovered analog spectrum, as such term is 
defined in section 309(j)(15)(C)(vi) of such Act 
(47 U.S.C. 309(j)(15)(C)(vi)); 
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(3) not require the analog television service sig-
nals broadcast under this section to be retransmitted 
or otherwise carried pursuant to section 325(b), 
338, 339, 340, 614, or 615 of the Communications 
Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 325(b), 338, 339, 340, 614, 
615); 
(4) take into consideration broadcasters’ digital 
power levels and transition and coordination plans 
that already have been adopted with respect to cable 
systems and satellite carriers’ systems; and 
(5) prohibit any broadcast of analog television 
service signals under subsection (b) on any spectrum 
that is approved or pending approval by the Com-
mission to be used for public safety radio services, 
including television channels 14–20. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the terms 
‘‘emergency information’’ and ‘‘critical information’’ have 
the meanings such terms have under part 79 of the regula-
tions of the Federal Communications Commission (47 
C.F.R. part 79). 
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