Go Pack Go Act of 2025

This bill, HR 5165 (Go Pack Go Act of 2025), allows subscribers in 13 specific Wisconsin counties (Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Dunn, Florence, Iron, Pierce, Polk, Sawyer, St. Croix, and Washburn) to choose between receiving their local network station signal or an "in-State, adjacent-market" network station signal from a neighboring county within Wisconsin. It requires cable and satellite providers to offer this choice to subscribers in those counties, with the provider deemed compliant for local signal carriage obligations if the subscriber selects the adjacent-market signal. The bill clarifies that this choice does not affect providers' status as "qualified carriers" under copyright law or alter existing technical feasibility requirements for satellite providers. The policy change specifically applies only to subscribers in the designated Wisconsin counties and does not alter broader broadcast carriage rules.