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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · S. 912 (Introduced in Senate) — To allow multichannel video programming distributors to provide video programming to subscribers on an a la carte bas... · Sec. 4

Sec. 4. Spectrum use in the public interest

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Section 325(b) of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 325(b) ) is amended— by redesignating paragraphs
(6)and
(7)as paragraphs
(7)and (8), respectively; and after paragraph (5), by inserting the following: A television broadcast station that does not retransmit the signal over-the-air that is identical to the signal retransmitted to a multichannel video programming distributor shall forfeit any spectrum license of such television broadcast station. Any spectrum license forfeited pursuant to subparagraph
(A)shall be reallocated and reassigned by the Commission pursuant to section 309(j). Subparagraph
(A)shall not apply to content that is a commercial advertisement that is not more than 60 seconds in duration. In this paragraph— the terms multicast stream and primary stream have the meaning given those terms in section 119(d) of title 17, United States Code; and the term multichannel video programming distributor has the meaning given that term in section 602 (47 U.S.C. 522). .
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