Sec. 7. Report
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Section 13 of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 163 ) is amended— in subsection (b)— in paragraph (4), by striking ; and and inserting a semicolon; in paragraph (5), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following: if the Commission determines under subsection (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 by adding at the end the following:
Not later than 4 years after the date of the enactment of the Modern Television Act of 2019 , and every two years thereafter, the Comptroller General of the United States, in consultation with the Commission, shall study the effect of the regime established under such Act, and the amendments made by such Act, by measuring— the price consumers pay for video programming, adjusted to reflect national monetary inflation or deflation; the satisfaction of consumers with the quality of video programming and the services of multichannel video programming distributors; the— number of interruptions to the distribution of programming to consumers because of impasses in negotiations between multichannel video programming distributors and television broadcast stations; duration of each interruption; and number of consumers impacted by each interruption; and consumer access to local programming, including news, weather, sports, and public, educational, and governmental programming.
The Commission shall determine under the study described in paragraph
(1)if the totality of the measurements described in such paragraph present a net positive, net negative, or indeterminate impact to consumers and to the marketplace. In this subsection, the terms video programming and multichannel video programming distributor have the meaning given those terms in section 602. .
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