Report No.                  MASS MEDIA ACTION

      MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF FORT MYERS GRANTED ITFS LICENSE TO SERVE
                             FORT MYERS, FL

     The Commission has granted the application of The Montessori
School of Fort Myers (School) for an Instructional Television
Fixed Service (ITFS) facility on Channels D1-D4 to serve, Naples,
FL.  It denied the competing application of Faith Lutheran Church
(Church) for an ITFS facility to serve Marco Island, FL.

     Both applicants were qualified to be licensees and the
Commission made its decision based on a comparison of the two.

     If found School entitled to four points for being local,
three for being accredited, two for observing the four-channel
limitation, and one point for proposing at least 21 hours of
formal educational ITFS programming per channel per week, for a
total of ten points.  Church was entitled to four points for
being local, two points for observing the four-channel limitation
and one point for proposing at least 21 hours of formal
educational ITFS programming per channel per week, for a total of
seven points.  Therefore, School was the successful applicant.

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     Mass Media Bureau contact: Marsha Evans at (202) 632-9356.