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PUBLIC NOTICE

News Media Information: 202-418-0500

Federal Communications Commission

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Washington, D.C. 20554

Report No.  2972

January 24, 2013

CONSUMER & GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS BUREAU

REFERENCE INFORMATION CENTER

PETITIONS FOR RULEMAKING FILED 

Interested persons may file statements opposing or supporting the Petitions for Rulemaking listed herein within 30 
days, or as noted.  See Sections 1.4 and 1.405 of the Commission's rules for further information.
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RM NO. 

RULES SEC. 

PETITIONER

DATE RECEIVED

NATURE OF PETITION

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73.202(b)
Southeast Alabama
11/19/2012
The Joint Parties filed three 
Broadcasters, LLC 
contingent minor change applications
and Gulf South
that will be treated as a counter-
Communications, Inc.
proposal in MB Docket No. 12-271  
(Pike Road, Alabama).  The first 
application, BPH-20121119AOG, requests that Station WDBT(FM) modify its license from Channel 229C1 at 
Hartford, Alabama, to Channel 228A at Hope Hull, Alabama, as the community’s first local service.  The second 
application, File No. BPH-20121119AOD, requests the city of license modification of Station WDJR(FM), 
Channel 245C0 from Enterprise, Alabama, to Hartford, Alabama, as a backfill station to prevent removal of 
Hartford’s sole local service.  The third application, File No. BPH-20121119ANF, seeks the upgrade in facilities 
for Station WJRL-FM from Channel 280C3 to Channel 280C2 at Fort Rucker, Alabama, which requires the 

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involuntary channel substitution for Station WAAO-FM from Channel 279A to Channel 229A at Andalusia, 
Alabama.  The Joint Parties requests that a show cause order be issued to the licensee of Station WAAO-FM.    
(Filed By: David D. Burns, Esq.
Latham & Watkins
555 11th Street, NW
Suite 1000
Washington, DC  20004
and Mark N. Lipp, Esq.
Wiley Rein, LLP
1776 K. St. NW
Washington, DC 20006)
**THE ABOVE THREE CONTINGENT MINOR CHANGE APPLICATIONS WILL BE TREATED AS A COUNTERPROPOSAL 
IN MB DOCKET NO 12-271. REPLY COMMENTS TO THIS COUNTERPROPOSAL SHOULD BE SUBMITTED IN THIS 
DOCKET NO LATER THAN 15 DAYS (RATHER THAN 30 DAYS) AFTER THE DATE OF THIS PUBLIC NOTICE.

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