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          NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE FOR FILING OF COMMERCIAL
           TELEVISION BROADCAST STATION APPLICATION AND
       NOTICE OF PETITION TO DENY AND HEARING FEE DEADLINES

REPORT NO. 24457A                      RELEASED:   March 26, 1999


NOTICE is hereby given that the below-described application is accepted for filing.  This
application was timely filed against the application of Reading Broadcasting, Inc., for renewal of
the license of commercial broadcast station WTVE(TV), Channel 51, Reading, Pennsylvania
(BRCT-940407KF).  Because the application listed herein is mutually exclusive with a renewal
application that is no longer subject to competing applications in accordance with former 47
C.F.R. Section 73.3515(e), no subsequently filed application which would be in conflict with the
application on this list will be accepted for filing.  However, petitions to deny the below-described
application may be filed no later than the close of business on April 30, 1999.  The renewal
applicant named above and the competing applicant listed below may amend their applications, by
minor amendment only, as a matter of right, not later than the close of business on April 30, 1999. 
Amendments filed pursuant to this notice are subject to provisions of 47 C.F.R. Section
73.3572(b).

In accordance with 47 C.F.R. Section 73.3572(d)(1), the applicant described below (unless
exempt pursuant to 47 C.F.R. Section 1.1114) must submit a hearing fee of $8,640.00 which shall
be paid no later than June 1, 1999, or the application will thereafter be dismissed.  The above-
described renewal applicant must also pay the hearing fee by that date.  47  C.F.R. Section
73.3572(d)(2).

NOTE:  An original and two copies of a transmittal letter, accompanied by a completed FCC
Form 159 (July 1997 Edition) and a payment in the amount of $8,640.00, should be submitted so
that it is received by 11:59 p.m. on the payment date specified above at the Commission's lockbox
bank, whose mailing address is:

     Federal Communications Commission
     Mass Media Services
     P.O. Box 358170
     Pittsburgh, PA  15251-5170

Hearing fee payments can also be made in person or by couriered-delivery up to 11:59 p.m. on the
above payment date at the location and in the manner specified in the "Mass Media Services Fee
Filing Guide."

The FCC Form 159 must be appropriately filled out, including the name and address of the
applicant and the file number of the application.  When entering the file number for new
applications, omit the first letters (i.e., "BPCT") of the file number.  Renewal applicants should
enter their call sign.  The fee type code for comparative hearing for commercial TV applications is
MWT.

To ensure proper credit of the payment, the hearing fee transmittal letter should identify the
applicant, the application file number (or call sign), and the City and State of the proposed or
existing facility.

Failure to make the hearing fee payment in a timely manner will result in dismissal of the
underlying, pending application.  47 C.F.R. Section 1.1112.

BPCT-940630KG       Reading, Pennsylvania
                    ADAMS COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
                    Channel 51
                    ERP (vis):     5000 KW; HAAT:153 meters
                                                       Tower site:    on Gilbraltar Hill, approximately 1 km west of
                                   Seyfert, approximately 1.4 km SSE of Ridgewood,
                                   1.34 km SSE of the Route 176-Route 724
                                   intersection, Berks County, PA
                              (40-17-15/75-53-45)