Report No. MM-816        MASS MEDIA ACTION         March 23, 1994

    GADSDEN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT GRANTED ITFS LICENSE TO SERVE
                             LAS CRUCES, NM
                                    
     The Commission has granted the application of Gadsden
Independent School District for an Instructional Television Fixed
Service (ITFS) facility on Channels C1-C4 to serve Las Cruces, NM.
It denied the competing application of Texico Municipal School for
an ITFS facility to serve the same community. 

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

     It found Gadsden 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.  Texico was entitled to 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 three points.  Therefore, Gadsden was the successful
applicant.

     Action by the Commission March 18, 1994, by Memorandum Opinion
and Order (FCC 94-71).  Chairman Hundt, Commissioners Quello and
Barrett.

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