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                            Before the
                Federal Communications Commission
                      Washington, D.C. 20554

In the Matter of                )
                                )
Amendment of Section 73.202(b), )       MM Docket No. 96-144
Table of Allotments,            )       RM-8827
FM Broadcast Stations.          )
(Alamogordo, New Mexico)        )

                        REPORT AND ORDER
                     (Proceeding Terminated)

   Adopted: May 28, 1997                Released: June 6, 1997 

By the Chief, Allocations Branch:

     1.  At the request of Burt Broadcasting, Inc. ("petitioner"), the Commission has before it the
Notice of Proposed Rule Making, 11 FCC Rcd 7667 (1996), proposing the allotment of Channel
300A to Alamogordo, New Mexico, as the community's fourth local commercial FM service. 
Petitioner filed comments reiterating its intention to apply for the channel, if allotted.  No other
comments were received.

     2.  We believe the public interest would be served by allotting Channel 300A to Alamogordo
since an interest has been expressed in providing the community with an additional local commercial
radio service.  Channel 300A can be allotted to Alamogordo in compliance with the Commission's
minimum distance separation requirements with a site restriction of 13.8 kilometers (8.6 miles) north
to avoid a short-spacing to vacant and unapplied-for Channel 300C at Balderas, Chihuahua, Mexico. 
Alamogordo is located within 320 kilometers (199 miles) of the U.S.-Mexican border.  Mexican
concurrence in the allotment was requested in October, 1996, but has not yet been received.  In light
of the prolonged pendency of this proceeding, yet in an effort to introduce a new FM service to
Alamogordo, we shall grant the proposal with the following interim condition: "Operation with the
facilities specified herein is subject to modification, suspension, or termination without right to
hearing, if found by the Commission to be necessary in order to conform to the 1992 USA-Mexico
FM Broadcast Agreement."

     3.  Accordingly, pursuant to the authority contained in Sections 4(i), 5(c)(1), 303(g) and (r)
and 307(b) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and Sections 0.61, 0.204(b) and 0.283
of the Commission's Rules, IT IS ORDERED, That effective July 21, 1997, the FM Table of
Allotments, Section 73.202(b) of the Commission's Rules, IS AMENDED, with respect to the
community listed below, to read as follows:

               City                                    Channel No.

               Alamogordo, New Mexico        232C3, 279C1, 287C2, 300A

     4.  The window period for filing applications will open on July 21, 1997, and close on 
August 21, 1997.

     5.  IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That this proceeding IS TERMINATED.

     6.  For further information concerning this proceeding, contact Leslie K. Shapiro, Mass
Media Bureau, (202) 418-2180.

                              FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION




                              John A Karousos 
                              Chief, Allocations Branch
                              Policy and Rules Division
                              Mass Media Bureau