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A. 1. a.(1)(a) i) a) A. 1. a. i.(a)(1) i) a)8@Before the  X -W  FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 3Washington, DC 20554 * In the Matter of $+hh29A) ` `  $+hh29A)  X_ Advanced Television Systems andhh29A) ppH MM Docket No. 87268 Their Impact upon the Existinghh29A) Television Broadcast Servicehh29A)  Y To: The Commission Mail Stop 1170  Y  ) COMMENTS OF MONTGOMERY PUBLICATIONS, INC. ă 1. Montgomery Publications, Inc. (Montgomery) hereby submits these comments in  YM response to the Commission's Sixth Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making in this proceeding, FCC 96317, released August 14, 1996. Montgomery is the licensee of low power television (LPTV) stations KTMJLP, Channel 6, Junction City, Kansas, and K15DQ, Manhattan, Kansas. It is also the permittee of K17CK, Topeka, Kansas, with an application pending to move to Emporia, and K43EO, Topeka, with a major change pending in the same community. Montgomery's stations form a network that provides Fox and UPN Television Network services throughout the Topeka ADI. Its stations have a full schedule of television programming that includes a substantial amount of local news and information relating to Fort Riley, a major military installation near Junction City. The pending major change applications will round out network coverage of the ADI. 2. Montgomery appears to be one of the more fortunate LPTV operators in that only K15DQ appears to be destined for certain displacement, in this case by a cochannel digital allotment proposed to be paired with NTSC Channel 18 at Salina, Kansas, occupied by KAAS-TV. However, there are few enough television stations in the state of Kansas that TV(0*0*0* spectrum is not scarce, so it escapes Montgomery why the Commission finds it necessary to deprive a significant community of Fox and UPN service when there are ample alternatives. Indeed, the attached engineering statement indicates that at least Channels 35, 44, 47, and 50 are available as substitutes for Channel 15. Why should the residents of Manhattan not be able to watch the Super Bowl on Fox? There is no reason to displace an LPTV station unless there is no possible alternative digital allotment available. 3. Montgomery has made a very large investment in good faith in the LPTV industry. It recognizes that its licenses are secondary to full power stations, but it never contemplated that the Commission would replace the NTSC system of assigning one station at a time with a broadbrush sweep that doubles the number of full power channels and chops off a large piece of the TV spectrum at the same time, leaving LPTV to fall by the wayside using the excuse that the service is "secondary." Reducing the federal deficit is a good idea, but all of the people should share in the burden, rather than imposing it on a particular group of small businesspeople who personify the kind of capitalism on which this country has thrived.  Y| 4. The Commission has exhibited a positive attitude toward LPTV in the Sixth Further  YR Notice, and Montgomery appreciates that fact. However, the Commission must go further than wanting to help TV; it must want not to hurt LPTV. It cannot depend on the full power industry, with which LPTV competes, to solve the problem. In Montgomery's case in particular, its full power competitors are not pleased that Montgomery has obtained the Fox network affiliation in the Topeka ADI, and Montgomery does not believe that those competitors will make any effort to avoid damage to Montgomery's low power stations. Therefore, allowing digital allotment changes through private "negotiations" are not acceptable. The CommissionB&0*(( itself must be deeply involved and must make solving the LPTV problem a high priority. Certainly no spectrum should be reallocated or auctioned until the LPTV problem has been solved. 5. Montgomery is a member of the Community Broadcasters Association (CBA) and urges the Commission to give careful suggestion to several technical proposals being made by CBA in its comments in this proceeding. Montgomery Publications, Inc.hh29ARespectfully submitted, Station KTMJ 222 West Sixth St. Junction City, KS 66441+hh29A__________________________ ` `  $+hh29A Peter Tannenwald ` `  $+hh29AIrwin Campbell & ` `  $+hh29A Tannenwald, P.C. ` `  $+hh29A1730 Rhode Island Ave., N.W. ` `  $+hh29A Suite 200 ` `  $+hh29AWashington, DC 200363101 ` `  $+hh29ATel. 2027280400 ` `  $+hh29AFax 2027280354 ` `  $+hh29ACounsel for Montgomery November 22, 1996 $+hh29A Publications, Inc.