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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. 97-70
  Table of Allotments,            )RM-9020
FM Broadcast Stations.          )
(El Reno, Oklahoma)             )

                        REPORT AND ORDER
                     (Proceeding Terminated)

    Adopted: July 30, 1997 Released: August 8, 1997 

By the Chief, Allocations Branch:

     1.  At the request of Fred R. Morton ("petitioner"), the Commission has before it the Notice
of Proposed Rule Making, 12 FCC Rcd 2104 (1997), proposing the allotment of Channel 293A to
El Reno, Oklahoma, as the community's first local FM service.   No comments were received from
the petitioner or any other party stating an intention to file an application for Channel 293A at El
Reno.  

     2.  As stated in the Notice, a showing of continuing interest is required before a channel will
be allotted, and absent such an expression of interest, it is Commission policy to refrain from
allotting the channel.  Therefore, petitioner's request to allot Channel 293A to El Reno, Oklahoma,
will be dismissed.

     3.  Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED, That the request of Fred R. Morton to allot Channel 293A
to El Reno, Oklahoma, IS DISMISSED.

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

     5.  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