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Union Calendar No. 201 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2994 
[Report No. 111–349] 
To reauthorize the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization 
Act of 2004, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 23, 2009 
Mr. BOUCHER (for himself and Mr. STEARNS) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
DECEMBER 2, 2009 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on June 23, 2009] 
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A BILL 
To reauthorize the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and 
Reauthorization Act of 2004, and for other purposes. 
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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 ‘‘Satellite Home Viewer 
Reauthorization Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY. 
Section 325(b) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 325(b)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2)(C), by striking ‘‘December 
31, 2009’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2014’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (3)(C), by striking ‘‘January 
1, 2010’’ each place it appears in clauses (ii) and 
(iii) and inserting ‘‘January 1, 2015’’. 
SEC. 3. SIGNIFICANTLY VIEWED STATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 
340(b) of such Act (47 U.S.C. 340(b)) are amended to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(1) SERVICE LIMITED TO SUBSCRIBERS TAKING 
LOCAL-INTO-LOCAL
SERVICE.—This 
section 
shall 
apply only to retransmissions to subscribers of a sat-
ellite carrier who receive retransmissions of a signal 
from that satellite carrier pursuant to section 338. 
‘‘(2) SERVICE LIMITATIONS.—A satellite carrier 
may retransmit to a subscriber in high definition for-
mat the signal of a station determined by the Com-
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mission to be significantly viewed under subsection 
(a) only if such carrier also retransmits in high defi-
nition format the signal of a station located in the 
local market of such subscriber and affiliated with the 
same network whenever such format is available from 
such station.’’. 
(b) RULEMAKING REQUIRED.—Within 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Federal Commu-
nications Commission shall take all actions necessary to 
promulgate a rule to implement the amendments made by 
subsection (a). 
SEC. 4. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS. 
(a) SECTION 338.—Section 338 of the Communica-
tions Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 338) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘(3) EFFECTIVE 
DATE.—No satellite’’ and all that follows through 
‘‘until January 1, 2002.’’; and 
(2) by amending subsection (g) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(g) CARRIAGE OF LOCAL STATIONS ON A SINGLE RE-
CEPTION ANTENNA.— 
‘‘(1) SINGLE RECEPTION ANTENNA.—Each sat-
ellite carrier that retransmits the signals of local tele-
vision broadcast stations in a local market shall re-
transmit such stations in such market so that a sub-
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scriber may receive such stations by means of a single 
reception antenna and associated equipment. 
‘‘(2) ADDITIONAL RECEPTION ANTENNA.—If the 
carrier retransmits the signals of local television 
broadcast stations in a local market in high defini-
tion format, the carrier shall retransmit such signals 
in such market so that a subscriber may receive such 
signals by means of a single reception antenna and 
associated equipment, but such antenna and associ-
ated equipment may be separate from the single re-
ception antenna and associated equipment used to 
comply with paragraph (1).’’. 
(b) SECTION 339.—Section 339 of such Act (47 U.S.C. 
339) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ‘‘Such 
two network stations’’ and all that follows 
through ‘‘more than two network stations.’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) in the heading for subparagraph 
(A), by striking ‘‘TO ANALOG SIGNALS’’; 
(ii) in subparagraph (A)— 
(I) in the heading for clause (i), 
by striking ‘‘ANALOG’’; 
(II) in clause (i)— 
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(aa) by striking ‘‘analog’’ 
each place it appears; and 
(bb) by striking ‘‘October 1, 
2004’’ and inserting ‘‘October 1, 
2009’’; 
(III) in the heading for clause 
(ii), by striking ‘‘ANALOG’’; and 
(IV) in clause (ii)— 
(aa) by striking ‘‘analog’’ 
each place it appears; and 
(bb) by striking ‘‘2004’’ and 
inserting ‘‘2009’’; 
(iii) by amending subparagraph (B) to 
read as follows: 
‘‘(B) RULES FOR OTHER SUBSCRIBERS.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—In the case of a 
subscriber of a satellite carrier who is eligi-
ble to receive the signal of a network station 
under this section (in this clause referred to 
as a ‘distant signal’), other than subscribers 
to whom subparagraph (A) applies, the fol-
lowing shall apply: 
‘‘(I) In a case in which the sat-
ellite carrier makes available to that 
subscriber, on January 1, 2005, the 
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(III) by amending clause (ii) to 
read as follows: 
‘‘(ii) either— 
‘‘(I) at the time such person seeks 
to subscribe to receive such secondary 
transmission, resides in a local market 
where the satellite carrier makes avail-
able to that person the signal of a local 
network station affiliated with the 
same television network pursuant to 
section 338, and the retransmission of 
such signal by such carrier can reach 
such subscriber; or 
‘‘(II) receives from the satellite 
carrier the signal of a network station 
affiliated with the same network that is 
broadcast by a local station in the 
market where the subscriber resides, 
but is not the local station’s primary 
video.’’; 
(v) in subparagraph (D)— 
(I) by striking clauses (i), (iii) 
through (v), (vii) through (ix), and 
(xi); 
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(II) by redesignating clause (vi) 
as clause (i) and transfering such 
clause to appear before clause (ii); 
(III) by amending such clause (i) 
(as so redesignated) to read as follows: 
‘‘(i) SIGNAL
TESTING.—A subscriber 
shall be eligible to receive a distant signal 
of a distant network station affiliated with 
the same network under this section if such 
subscriber is determined, based on a test 
conducted 
in 
accordance 
with 
section 
73.686(d) of title 47, Code of Federal Regu-
lations, or any successor regulation, not to 
be able to receive a signal that exceeds the 
signal 
intensity 
standard 
in 
section 
73.622(e)(1) of title 47, Code of Federal 
Regulations.’’; 
(IV) in clause (ii)— 
(aa) by striking ‘‘DIGITAL’’ 
in the heading; 
(bb) by striking ‘‘digital’’ the 
first two places such term ap-
pears; 
(cc) by striking ‘‘Satellite 
Home Viewer Extension and Re-
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authorization Act of 2004’’ and 
inserting ‘‘Satellite Home Viewer 
Reauthorization Act of 2009’’; 
and 
(dd) by striking ‘‘, whether 
or not such subscriber elects to 
subscribe to local digital signals’’; 
(V) by inserting after clause (ii) 
the following new clause: 
‘‘(iii) TIME-SHIFTING
PROHIBITED.— 
In a case in which the satellite carrier 
makes available to an eligible subscriber 
under this subparagraph the signal of a 
local network station pursuant to section 
338, the carrier may only provide the dis-
tant signal of a station affiliated with the 
same network to that subscriber if, in the 
case of any local market in the 48 contig-
uous States of the United States, the distant 
signal is the secondary transmission of a 
station whose prime time network program-
ming is generally broadcast simultaneously 
with, or later than, the prime time network 
programming of the affiliate of the same 
network in the local market.’’; and 
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(VI) by redesignating clause (x) 
as clause (iv); and 
(vi) in subparagraph (E), by striking 
‘‘distant analog signal or’’ and all that fol-
lows through ‘‘(B), or (D))’’ and inserting 
‘‘distant signal’’; 
(2) in subsection (c)— 
(A) by amending paragraph (3) to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(3) ESTABLISHMENT OF IMPROVED PREDICTIVE 
MODEL AND ON-LOCATION TESTING REQUIRED.— 
‘‘(A) PREDICTIVE
MODEL.—Within 180 
days after the date of the enactment of the Sat-
ellite Home Viewer Reauthorization Act of 2009, 
the Commission shall take all actions necessary 
to develop and prescribe by rule a point-to-point 
predictive model for reliably and presumptively 
determining the ability of individual locations, 
through the use of a conventional, stationary, 
outdoor rooftop receiving antenna, to receive sig-
nals in accordance with the signal intensity 
standard in section 73.622(e)(1) of title 47, Code 
of Federal Regulations, including to account for 
the continuing operation of translator stations 
and low power television stations. In prescribing 
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such model, the Commission shall rely on the In-
dividual Location Longley-Rice model set forth 
by the Commission in CS Docket No. 98-201, as 
previously revised with respect to analog signals, 
and as recommended by the Commission with re-
spect to digital signals in its Report to Congress 
in ET Docket No. 05-182, FCC 05-199 (released 
December 9, 2005). The Commission shall estab-
lish procedures for the continued refinement in 
the application of the model by the use of addi-
tional data as it becomes available. 
‘‘(B) ON-LOCATION TESTING.—The Commis-
sion shall issue an order completing its rule-
making proceeding in ET Docket No. 06-94 
within 180 days after the date of enactment of 
the Satellite Home Viewer Reauthorization Act 
of 2009. 
‘‘(C) STUDY OF TYPES OF ANTENNAS AVAIL-
ABLE TO RECEIVE DIGITAL SIGNALS.— 
‘‘(i) 
STUDY
REQUIRED.—Not 
later 
than 1 year after the date of enactment of 
the Satellite Home Viewer Reauthorization 
Act of 2009, the Commission shall complete 
a study regarding whether, for purposes of 
identifying if a household is unserved by an 
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adequate 
digital 
signal 
under 
section 
119(d)(10) of title 17, United States Code, 
the digital signal strength standard in sec-
tion 73.622(e)(1) of title 47, Code of Federal 
Regulations, or the testing procedures in 
section 73.686 of title 47, Code of Federal 
Regulations, such statutes or regulations 
should be revised to take into account the 
types of antennas that are available to and 
used by consumers. 
‘‘(ii) STUDY CONSIDERATION.—In con-
ducting the study under clause (i), the Com-
mission shall consider whether to account 
for the fact that an antenna can be mounted 
on a roof or placed in a home and can be 
fixed or capable of rotating. 
‘‘(iii) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year 
after the date of enactment of the Satellite 
Home Viewer Reauthorization Act of 2009, 
the Commission shall submit to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee 
on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 
of the Senate a report containing— 
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