A bill to require a report by the Federal Communications Commission on designated market areas.
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Under committee review
What it doesSummary introduced in senate (Jul 22, 2014)
Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to submit to Congress a report containing an analysis of: (1) the extent to which consumers in each local market have access to broadcast programming from television broadcast stations located outside their local market; (2) whether there are alternatives to the use of designated market areas to define markets that would provide consumers with more local programming options; and (3) the potential impact that such alternatives could have on localism and on broadcast television locally, regionally, and nationally.
Requires such report to include recommendations on how to foster increased localism in states served by out-of-state designated market areas.
What just happenedJul 22, 2014
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in SenateJul 22, 2014
- Jul 22, 2014IntroReferral
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
- Jul 22, 2014IntroReferralB00100
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4713-4714)
- Jul 22, 2014IntroReferral10000
Introduced in Senate