appears and inserting ‘‘qualified television broadcast 
station’’; 
(8) in subsection (f), as so redesignated, by 
striking ‘‘and section 119’’; and 
(9) in subsection (g), as so redesignated— 
(A) in paragraph (2)(E), by striking 
‘‘338(l)’’ and inserting ‘‘338(k)’’; 
(B) by amending paragraph (4) to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(4) NETWORK STATION.—The term ‘network 
station’ means— 
‘‘(A) a television station licensed by the 
Federal Communications Commission, including 
any translator station or terrestrial satellite sta-
tion that rebroadcasts all or substantially all of 
the programming broadcast by a network sta-
tion, that is owned or operated by, or affiliated 
with, one or more of the television networks in 
the United States that offer an interconnected 
program service on a regular basis for 15 or 
more hours per week to at least 25 of its affili-
ated television licensees in 10 or more States; 
or 
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‘‘(B) a noncommercial educational broad-
cast station (as defined in section 397 of the 
Communications Act of 1934); 
except that the term does not include the signal of 
the Alaska Rural Communications Service, or any 
successor entity to that service.’’; 
(C) by redesignating paragraphs (5), (6), 
and (7) as paragraphs (6), (7), and (8), respec-
tively; 
(D) by inserting after paragraph (4), the 
following: 
‘‘(5) NON-NETWORK STATION.—The term ‘non- 
network station’ means a television station, other 
than a network station, licensed by the Federal 
Communications Commission, that is secondarily 
transmitted by a satellite carrier.’’; and 
(E) in paragraph (8), as so redesignated— 
(i) in the heading, by striking ‘‘TELE-
VISION BROADCAST STATION’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘QUALIFIED TELEVISION BROADCAST 
STATION’’; 
(ii) in subparagraph (A), by inserting 
‘‘, that elects mandatory carriage pursuant 
to section 338 of the Communications Act 
of 1934’’ after ‘‘Regulations’’; and 
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(iii) in subparagraph (B)— 
(I) by inserting ‘‘that elects man-
datory carriage pursuant to section 
338 of the Communications Act of 
1934,’’ after ‘‘Mexico’’; and 
(II) by striking ‘‘as defined in 
section 119(d)(2)(A)’’. 
(d) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Title 17, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) in section 501— 
(A) by striking ‘‘local service area’’ each 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘designated mar-
ket area’’; 
(B) by striking subsection (e); 
(C) by redesignating subsection (f) as sub-
section (e); and 
(D) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(f) In this section, the term ‘designated market 
area’ means a designated market area, as determined by 
Nielsen Media Research and published in the 1999–2000 
Nielsen Station Index Directory and Nielsen Station Index 
United States Television Household Estimates or any suc-
cessor publication.’’; 
(2) in section 708(a)(10), by striking ‘‘119 or’’; 
(3) in section 801— 
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(A) in subsection (b)(1), by striking 
‘‘119,’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘, 119,’’ each place it ap-
pears; 
(4) in section 803— 
(A) in subsection (b)(1)(A)(i), in the mat-
ter preceding subclause (I), by striking ‘‘, 119’’; 
(B) in subsection (d)(2)(C)(i), by striking 
‘‘, 119’’; and 
(C) in subsection (e)(2), by striking ‘‘118, 
or 119’’ and inserting ‘‘or 118’’; and 
(5) in section 804— 
(A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘, 119’’; 
and 
(B) in subsection (b)(8), by striking ‘‘, 
119,’’. 
SEC. 6. REPEAL OF COMMISSION’S RULES RELATED TO 
REGULATORY INTERVENTION. 
The Federal Communications Commission shall take 
all actions necessary to— 
(1) repeal section 73.658 of the Commission’s 
rules (47 CFR 73.658); 
(2) repeal subpart F of part 76 of the Commis-
sion’s rules; and 
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(3) modify subpart S of part 76 of the Commis-
sion’s rules by eliminating any requirements relating 
to network nonduplication and syndicated exclusivity 
for open video systems. 
SEC. 7. REPORT. 
Section 13 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 163) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘; and’’ 
and inserting a semicolon; 
(B) in paragraph (5), by striking the pe-
riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(6) if the Commission determines under sub-
section (e)(2) that the totality of the measurements 
have presented a net negative impact in the two 
years preceding the report, include specific policies 
to improve market functioning.’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(e) COMPTROLLER GENERAL STUDY.— 
‘‘(1) STUDY.—Not later than 4 years after the 
date of the enactment of the Modern Television Act 
of 2019, and every two years thereafter, the Comp-
troller General of the United States, in consultation 
with the Commission, shall study the effect of the 
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regime established under such Act, and the amend-
ments made by such Act, by measuring— 
‘‘(A) the price consumers pay for video 
programming, adjusted to reflect national mon-
etary inflation or deflation; 
‘‘(B) the satisfaction of consumers with 
the quality of video programming and the serv-
ices of multichannel video programming dis-
tributors; 
‘‘(C) the— 
‘‘(i) number of interruptions to the 
distribution of programming to consumers 
because of impasses in negotiations be-
tween multichannel video programming 
distributors and television broadcast sta-
tions; 
‘‘(ii) duration of each interruption; 
and 
‘‘(iii) number of consumers impacted 
by each interruption; and 
‘‘(D) consumer access to local program-
ming, including news, weather, sports, and pub-
lic, educational, and governmental program-
ming. 
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‘‘(2) DETERMINATION
BY
COMMISSION.—The 
Commission shall determine under the study de-
scribed in paragraph (1) if the totality of the meas-
urements described in such paragraph present a net 
positive, net negative, or indeterminate impact to 
consumers and to the marketplace. 
‘‘(3) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection, the 
terms ‘video programming’ and ‘multichannel video 
programming distributor’ have the meaning given 
those terms in section 602.’’. 
SEC. 8. SEVERABILITY. 
If any provision of this Act or any amendment made 
by this Act, or any application of such provision or amend-
ment to any person or circumstance, is held to be uncon-
stitutional, the remainder of the provisions of this Act and 
the amendments made by this Act, and the application of 
the provision or amendment to any other person or cir-
cumstance, shall not be affected. 
SEC. 9. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
Except as provided in section 2, this Act, and the 
amendments made by this Act, shall take effect on the 
date that is 42 months after the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
Æ 
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