1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Agricultural News and Rural Content Act of 2019 . 2. Carriage of rural video programming (a) In general Title VII of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: 723. Carriage of rural video programming (a) Carriage requirements (1) In general A multichannel video programming distributor with 5,000 or more subscribers shall use at least 1 percent of the channel capacity of such distributor to transmit or distribute to all of the subscribers of such distributor channels of video programming that predominantly serve the needs and interests of rural America. (2) Manner of transmission or distribution In transmitting or distributing channels under paragraph (1), a multichannel video programming distributor shall— (A) use the same transmission or distribution technology that the multichannel video programming distributor uses to transmit or distribute the majority of the high-definition channels or programs of such distributor; (B) include such channels in the most basic tier or package of such distributor such that every subscriber of such distributor may access such channels; and (C) place such channels in an appropriate news channel neighborhood. (b) Disclosure requirements A multichannel video programming distributor that is subject to subsection (a) shall— (1) prominently display, on a publicly available website, a list of the channels of video programming that predominantly serve the needs and interests of rural America included in the most basic tier or package of such distributor