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Lets subscribers who live in certain designated counties choose whether their cable or satellite provider delivers the local network station or an in‑State, adjacent‑market network station (or both). It treats a subscriber’s choice of an adjacent‑market station as satisfying a provider’s local carriage obligation, limits satellite carriage to what is technically feasible, and changes how some retransmissions are counted under federal copyright rules for specified Wisconsin counties.
Also amends federal copyright law to exempt certain in‑State, adjacent‑market satellite retransmissions to subscribers in specified Wisconsin counties from an existing retransmission limit, and adds statutory definitions for “in‑State, adjacent‑market network station retransmission” and “covered county.”
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Introduced September 4, 2025 by Tammy Baldwin · Last progress 6 months ago