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



In the Matter of

Establishment of a Class A
Television Service
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MM Docket No. 99-292
RM-9260



                             ORDER

   Adopted:  December 14, 1999          Released:  December 14, 1999


By the Commission:

     1.  By this Order, the Commission on its own motion suspends the filing of comments in this
rulemaking, which are scheduled to be filed by December 21, 1999.

     2.  On September 29, 1999, the Commission issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making, FCC 99-
257, setting forth for public comment a wide-range of issues and concerns dealing with the establishment of
a form of primary status for qualifying low power television stations and on the appropriate regulatory
framework for a Class A television service.  On November 29, 1999, however, the Community
Broadcasters Protection Act of 1999 (CBPA) was signed into law.  Among other things, the legislation
directed that, within 120 days after enactment of the CBPA, the Commission shall, by rulemaking, set forth
regulations establishing a Class A television service for licensees of low power television that satisfy
certain statutorily-prescribed criteria.  The Commission is currently assessing the impact of the CBPA,
whose provisions are more narrowly focused than the matters in the instant rulemaking, and believes that
suspension of the scheduled filing of comments would be more conducive to orderly rulemaking in the
abbreviated proceeding mandated by the CBPA. 

       3. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED, That the comment filing date set forth in the Notice of 
Proposed Rule Making in this proceeding IS SUSPENDED until further notice from the Commission.  This
Order is effective upon release.



                         FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION



                         Magalie Roman Salas
                         Secretary