[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 106 (Thursday, June 4, 2009)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 26826-26827]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-13056]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

47 CFR Part 73

[DA 09-1125; MB Docket No. 09-71; RM-11533]


Television Broadcasting Services; St. Paul, MN

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: The Commission requests comments on a channel substitution 
proposed by Twin Cities Public Television, Inc. (``Twin Cities''), the 
licensee of noncommercial educational station KTCI-TV, analog channel 
*17 and KTCI-DT, pre-transition digital channel *16, and permittee of 
post-transition digital channel *26, St. Paul, Minnesota. Twin Cities 
requests the substitution of digital channel *23 for its assigned post-
transition digital channel *26 at St. Paul.

DATES: Comments must be filed on or before June 19, 2009, and reply 
comments on or before June 29, 2009.

ADDRESSES: Federal Communications Commission, Office of the Secretary, 
445 12th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20554. In addition to filing 
comments with the FCC, interested parties should serve counsel for 
petitioner as follows: Lawrence Miller, Esq., Schwartz, Woods & Miller, 
Suite 610, The Lion Building, 1233 20th Street, NW., Washington, DC 
20036-7322.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joyce L. Bernstein, 
[email protected], Media Bureau, (202) 418-1600.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a synopsis of the Commission's 
Notice of Proposed Rule Making, MB Docket No. 09-71, adopted May 18, 
2009, and released May 22, 2009. The full text of this document is 
available for public inspection and copying during normal business 
hours in the FCC's Reference Information Center at Portals II, CY-A257, 
445 12th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20554. This document will also be 
available via ECFS (http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs/). (Documents will be 
available electronically in ASCII, Word 97, and/or Adobe Acrobat.) This 
document may be purchased from the Commission's duplicating contractor, 
Best Copy and Printing, Inc., 445 12th Street, SW., Room CY-B402, 
Washington, DC 20554, telephone 1-800-478-3160 or via e-mail http://www.BCPIWEB.com. To request this document in accessible formats 
(computer diskettes, large print, audio

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recording, and Braille), send an e-mail to [email protected] or call the 
Commission's Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 418-0530 
(voice), (202) 418-0432 (TTY). This document does not contain proposed 
information collection requirements subject to the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. In addition, therefore, it does not 
contain any proposed information collection burden ``for small business 
concerns with fewer than 25 employees,'' pursuant to the Small Business 
Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, Public Law 107-198, see 44 U.S.C. 
3506(c)(4).
    Provisions of the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 do not apply 
to this proceeding. Members of the public should note that from the 
time a Notice of Proposed Rule Making is issued until the matter is no 
longer subject to Commission consideration or court review, all ex 
parte contacts are prohibited in Commission proceedings, such as this 
one, which involve channel allotments. See 47 CFR 1.1204(b) for rules 
governing permissible ex parte contacts.
    For information regarding proper filing procedures for comments, 
see 47 CFR 1.415 and 1.420.

List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 73

    Television, Television broadcasting.

    For the reasons discussed in the preamble, the Federal 
Communications Commission proposes to amend 47 CFR part 73 as follows:

PART 73--RADIO BROADCAST SERVICES

    1. The authority citation for part 73 continues to read as follows:

     Authority:  47 U.S.C. 154, 303, 334, 336.


Sec.  73.622(i)  [Amended]

    2. Section 73.622(i), the Post-Transition Table of DTV Allotments 
under Minnesota, is amended by adding DTV channel *23 and removing DTV 
channel *26 at St. Paul.

Federal Communications Commission.
Clay C. Pendarvis,
Associate Chief, Video Division, Media Bureau.
[FR Doc. E9-13056 Filed 6-3-09; 8:45 am]
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