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To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require the carriage of all local television signals by satellite carriers in all local markets.

2/14/2008--Introduced.

Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require each satellite carrier providing secondary transmissions in the local market of a television broadcast station to carry, on request, the signals of all television broadcast stations located within any local market (currently, located within that local market), subject to existing broadcast signal retransmission consent provisions.

Latest Actions
  • 02/14/2008 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
  • 02/14/2008 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
Bill Text
File name Last Updated
H.R.5470 Introduced in House02/16/2008