Daily Digest
Vol. 15 No. 115 June 25, 1996
**Before an entry denotes that the item is part of the FCC's implementation
of the 1996 Telecom Act. While we will attempt to flag all Telecom
Act-related items, this marking is unofficial and informational only.
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NEWS RELEASES
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FCC RELEASES NEW TELEPHONE SUBSCRIBERSHIP REPORT. CCB Contact: Alexander
Belinfante at (202) 418-0944. Internet URL:
/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/News_Releases/index.html
AMATEUR RADIO CALL SIGNS. WTB. Internet URL:
/Bureaus/Wireless/News_Releases/index.html
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PUBLIC NOTICES
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Report No: 2138. Released: June 25, 1996.OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
REFERENCE OPERATIONS DIVISION PETITION FOR RULEMAKING FILED. Internet
URL: index.html
Report No: 2139. Released: June 25, 1996.PETITIONS FOR RECONSIDERATION AND
CLARIFICATION OF ACTION IN RULEMAKING PROCEEDINGS. Internet URL:
index.html
Released: June 25, 1996.EX PARTE PRESENTATIONS AND POST-REPLY COMMENT
PERIOD FILINGS IN NON-RESTRICTED PROCEEDINGS. Internet URL: index.html
Released: June 25, 1996.TARIFF TRANSMITTAL PUBLIC REFERENCE LOG. Internet
URL: /Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Public_Notices/index.html
Released: June 25, 1996.COMMON CARRIER BUREAU'S PUBLIC REFERENCE ROOM TO
RELOCATE JUNE 27, 1996.Common Carrier Bureau's Public Reference Room will
relocate from Room 509, 1919 M Street to Room 575, 2000 M Street.
Reference Room will be closed from June 27 through July 5. Internet URL:
/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Public_Notices/index.html
Report No: TEL-22-A. Released: June 25, 1996.STREAMLINED INTERNATIONAL
SECTION 214 APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED FOR FILING (FORMAL SECTION 63.18).
Internet URL: /Bureaus/International/Public_Notices/index.html
Report No: 43767. Released: June 25, 1996.BROADCAST ACTIONS. Internet
URL: /Bureaus/Mass_Media/Public_Notices/index.html
Report No: 23767. Released: June 25, 1996.BROADCAST APPLICATIONS.
Internet URL: /Bureaus/Mass_Media/Public_Notices/index.html
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DATABASE SERVICE MANAGEMENT, INC. Ordered Database Service Management,
Inc. to follow the directive in letter re: toll-free numbers. Dkt No.:
95-155. Action by Bureau Chief.CCB Internet URL: index.html
SHINER, TX. Acted on petitions for reconsideration by Guadalupe Valley
Electric Cooperative and KA5E54 Television Partnership of the return of
their applications to construct and operate Multichannel Mutipoint
Distribution Service stations on the E and F channels at one transmitter
site in Shiner, Texas. Action by Assistant Chief, Video Services
Division. Adopted: June 19, 1996. Order. DA No. 96--975.MMB Internet
URL: /Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/index.html
DU BOIS, PA. Acted on consolidated petition for reconsideration of the
return of 132 applications for authority to construct and operate
Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service stations on the E or F
channels at Du Bois, Pennsylvania. Action by Assistant Chief, Video
Services Division. Adopted: June 19, 1996. Order. DA No. 96--982.MMB
Internet URL: /Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/index.html
WINDSOR, VT. Acted on a petition for reconsideration filed by New England
Wireless, Inc. of the return of its application for authority to construct
and operate a Multipoint Distribution Service station on the F channels at
Windsor, Vermont. Action by Assistant Chief, Video Services Division.
Adopted: June 19, 1996. Order. DA No. 96--979.MMB Internet URL:
/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/index.html
EL CENTRO, CA. Acted on petition for reconsideration, filed by Ronald L.
Wilson, Liberty Broadcast Partners, and BFC Microcable Partnership, of the
return of three applications for authority to construct and operate
Multipoint Distribution Service stations on the E Channels at El Centro,
California. Action by Assistant Chief, Video Services Division. Adopted:
June 19, 1996. Order. DA No. 96--973.MMB Internet URL:
/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/index.html
ODESSA, TX. Acted on two petition for reconsideration of the dismissal of
two applications filed by Michael J. Carter and Maurice P. O'Connell,
respectively, for authority to construct and operate Multipoint
Distribution Service stations on the E and F group channels at Odessa,
Texas. Action by Assistant Chief, Video Services Division. Adopted: June
19, 1996. Order. DA No. 96--980.MMB Internet URL:
/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/index.html
YAKIMA, WA AND KENNEWICK, WA. Granted license renewal applications filed
by Apple Valley Broadcasting, Inc. for stations KAPP-TV, Yakima, WA and
KVEW-TV, Kennewick, WA; denied NAACP's Petition to Deny. Action by the
Commission. Adopted: June 18, 1996. MO&O. FCC No. 96-270.MMB Internet
URL: /Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/index.html
BURLINGTON, VT. Denied two petitions for reconsideration filed by Vermont
Wireless Cooperative concerning the grant of a conditional license to
Lawrence N. Brandt to operate Multipoint Distribution Service stations at
Burlington, Vermont. Action by Assistant Chief, Video Services Division.
Adopted: June 19, 1996. Order. DA No. 96--977.MMB Internet URL:
/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/index.html
LOCKPORT, NY. Recalculated and reduced proposed forfeiture from $12,500 to
$4,000. Ordered Culver Communications Corp., Inc., licensee of station
WLVL(AM) to pay $4,000 for willful and repeated violations of Section
73.2080 of the Commission's Rules. Action by the Commission. Adopted:
May 24, 1996. MO&O. FCC No. 96-239.MMB Internet URL:
/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/index.html
BROWNSVILLE, TX. Acted on two petitions for reconsideration, filed by
Tri-County Communicatioons, for the return of two applications for
authority to construct and operate Multipoint Distribution Service
stations on channels 1 and 2A at Brownsville, Texas. Action by Assistant
Chief, Video Services Division. Adopted: June 19, 1996. Order. DA No.
96--978.MMB Internet URL: /Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/index.html
LYNCHBURG, VA. Denied Charlottesville Quality Cable Corporation's petition
for reconsideration of the return of an application for authority to
construct and operate a Multipoint Distribution Service (MDS) station on
Channel 1 at Lynchburg, VA. Action by Assistant Chief, Video Services
Division. Adopted: June 19, 1996. Order. DA No. 96--974.MMB Internet
URL: /Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/index.html
CHATSWORTH, GA. Acted on Paul Jackson Enterprises' petition for
reconsideration of the return of an application for authority to construct
and operate a Multipoint Distribution Service (MDS) station on the E
channels at Chatsworth, GA. Action by Assistant Chief, Video Services
Division. Adopted: June 19, 1996. Order. DA No. 96--976.MMB Internet
URL: /Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/index.html
ADDENDA: The following items, released June 24, 1996, did not appear in
Digest No. 114:
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NEWS RELEASES
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FCC RESTRUCTURES AND RENEWS THE EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM ADVISORY
COMMITTEE, AND RENAMES IT THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE. Contact:
Contact EAS staff at (202) 418-1220. Internet URL: index.html
COMMON CARRIER BUREAU RELEASES REPORT ON TELEPHONE LINES AND OFFICES
CONVERTED TO EQUAL ACCESS. CCB Contact: Common Carrier Bureau's Industry
Analysis Division at (202) 418-0940. Internet URL:
/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/News_Releases/index.html
FCC DENIES RECONSIDERATION OF DECISION THAT FOX TELEVISION DID NOT MISLEAD
COMMISSION -- REPORT NO. MM 96-23. News Media Contact: David Fiske. MMB
Contact: Joel Marcus in OGC at (202) 418-1740. Internet URL:
/Bureaus/Mass_Media/News_Releases/index.html
FCC APPROVES DIGITAL DATA TRANSMISSION BY BROADCASTERS; METHODS APPROVED
FOR INSERTING ANCILLARY DIGITAL DATA INTO THE VIDEO PORTION OF THE TV
SIGNAL -- REPORT NO. DC 96-57 -- ACTION IN DOCKET CASE -- MM DOCKET 95-42.
Report No: DC 96-57. MMB Contact: Paul Gordon and Gordon Godfrey at
(202) 418-2120. Internet URL: /Bureaus/Mass_Media/News_Releases/index.html
FCC MODIFIES RULES FOR AUCTIONING THE D, E & F BLOCK BROADBAND PCS LICENSES
-- REPORT NO. DC 96-58 -- ACTION IN DOCKET CASE -- WT DOCKET 96-59. News
Media Contact: David Fiske. WTB Contact: Mark Bollinger at (202)
418-0660. Internet URL: /Bureaus/Wireless/News_Releases/index.html
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PUBLIC NOTICES
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Released: June 24, 1996.FCC RENEWS;AMENDS AND RENAMES EBSAC
CHARTER.Emergency Broadcast System Advisory Committee is being renamed the
National Advisory Committee; the term of the committee runs from July 25,
1996 to July 25, 1998. Contact: Contact EBS/EAS staff at (202) 418-1220.
Internet URL: index.html
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1996 ANNUAL ACCESS TARIFF FILINGS - NATIONAL EXCHANGE CARRIER ASSOCIATION
UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND AND LIFELINE ASSISTANCE RATES
. Ordered that
rates for any carrier identified in this Order are allowed in part. Those
carriers are ordered to issue supplements or revised tariff pages.
Suspended and investigate certain LEC tariffs; directed LECs to modify and
refile certain of their tariff revisions in accordance with this Order;
act on NYNEX request for waiver to permit it to advance the effective date
of the 5.3 X-Factor to January 1, 1996. Action by Bureau Chief. Adopted:
June 24, 1996. MO&O. DA No. 96--102.CCB Internet URL:
/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Orders/index.html
REDDING, CA. Revoked Prather-Breck Broadcasting Inc. of Redding's license
of Station KRDG(AM) Redding, California and deleted call sign for Station
KRDG(AM). Dkt No.: 96-68. Action by Bureau Chief. Adopted: June 11,
1996. Order. DA No. 96-1005.MMB Internet URL:
/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/index.html
NEW YORK, NY
. Denied NAACP's petition for reconsideration of Fox
Television Stations, Inc., 10 FCC Rcd 8452 (1995), which denied NAACP's
petition to deny the renewal of Fox television Stations Inc.'s license to
operate station WNYW-TV in New York City. Action by the Commission.
Adopted: May 13, 1996. MO&O. FCC No. 96--217.MMB Internet URL:
/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/index.html
DERMOTT, AR. Revoked KXSA Radio, Inc.'s license for Station KGPL(AM),
Dermott, Arkansas; deleted call sign for KGPL(AM). Dkt No.: 96-69.
Action by Bureau Chief. Adopted: June 11, 1996. Order. DA No.
96-1006.MMB Internet URL: /Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/index.html
AMENDMENT OF PARTS 20 AND 24 OF THE COMMISSION'S RULES/ AMENDMENT OF THE
COMMISSION'S CELLULAR/PCS CROSS-OWNERSHIP RULE. FCC modifies rules for
auctioning the D E and F Blocks Broadband PCS licenses. Single auction
for all three blocks to begin August 26, 1996. Dkt No.: 96-59. Action by
the Commission. Adopted: June 21, 1996. R&O. FCC No. 96--278.WTB
Internet URL: /Bureaus/Wireless/Orders/index.html
ADDENDA: The following items, released June 21, 1996, did not appear in
Digest No. 112:
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PUBLIC NOTICES
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Report No: 23765A. Released: June 21, 1996.INSTRUCTIONAL TELEVISION FIXED
SERVICE: PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION PERMITS AND LICENSES. Internet URL:
/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Public_Notices/index.html
ADDENDA: The following items, released June 20, 1996, did not appear in
Digest No. 112:
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PUBLIC NOTICES
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Released: June 20, 1996.**SUPPLEMENTAL COMMENT PERIOD DESIGNATED FOR LOCAL
COMPETITION PROCEEDING CC DOCKET 96-98.Comments due July 1; no reply
comment filing opportunity. DA No. 96-1007. Internet URL:
/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Public_Notices/index.html
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