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> **DA 07-2595**

**June 14, 2007**

**Media Bureau Action**

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### Filing Window for New Noncommercial Educational Reserved Channel Television Stations for Channel 26\* at Brawley, California; Channel 45\* at Columbia, Mississippi; Channel 47\* at Hattiesburg, Mississippi; and Channel 27\* at Canton, North Carolina

The Media Bureau announces a filing window for new analog noncommercial
educational reserved channel television stations on Channel 26\* at
Brawley, California; Channel 45\* at Columbia, Mississippi; Channel 47\*
at Hattiesburg, Mississippi; and Channel 27\* at Canton, North Carolina.
The filing window will open upon the release of this Public Notice and
will close July 20, 2007.

There are currently pending the following applications:

#### 1.) Brawley, CA....Ch 26\* 

**Board of Trustees, California State University for San Diego State
University**

BPET-19960920WU FIN #83968

ERP (VIS): 5000 kW; HAAT: 468 meters; TL: Black Mountain, Yuma, AZ;

Coordinates: (33-03-10 N 114-49-40 W); Antenna: Dielectric TFU-33JSC-R

**2.) Columbia, MS....Ch 45\***

**Mississippi Authority for Educational Television**

BPET-19960724KR FIN #82796

ERP (VIS): 589 kW; HAAT: 113 meters; TL: 1.8 km NNE of Marion County
Courthouse, Columbia, Marion County, MS; Coordinates: (31-16-00 N
89-49-56 W);

Antenna: Dielectric, TFU-24J

**3.) Hattiesburg, MS....Ch 47\***

**Mississippi Authority for Educational Television**

BPET-19960724KS FIN #82798

ERP (VIS): 100 kW; HAAT: 99 meters; TL: 5.2 km NW of Hattiesburg,

Forrest County, MS; Coordinates: (31-21-02 N 89-22-12 W); Antenna:
Dielectric, TFU-24J

**4.) Canton, NC....Ch 27\***

**University of North Carolina**

BPET-19960919KW FIN #83822

ERP (VIS): 10.7 kW; HAAT: 474 meters; TL: Chambers Knob, approx. 3.2 km
N of

Clyde, NC; Coordinates: (35-34-06 N 82-54-25 W); Antenna: Jampro, JTZ,
1-1

**NOTE:** We will consider the above-referenced applications as having
been filed during this window, and the applicants will have an
opportunity to make amendments to their applications, including the
required Point System Factors set forth in Section IV of FCC Form 340,
prior to the close of the window.

An application, in order to be considered with the applications listed
above or with any other application filed during the window, must be
filed on FCC Form 340, must be substantially complete and tendered for
filing with the Commission in accordance with Section 0.401 of the
Commission's Rules no later than the close of the window on July 20,
2007.

Television applicants other than governments and schools are eligible to
hold noncommercial educational reserved channel authorizations only if
the applicant's leaders are representative of a broad cross section of
community elements. Examples of elements of the community are
businesses, civic groups, professions, religious groups, schools, and
government. *See* Section I, Question #3 and Worksheet #2 of FCC Form
340 (Feb. 2007). For a governing board to be considered representative,
the reserved channel television applicant must have at least four
different elements of the community among its leadership.

Mutually exclusive applications will be resolved by the Commission's
procedures for selecting among mutually exclusive noncommercial
educational applicants. *See Reexamination of the Comparative Standards
for Noncommercial Educational Applicants, Report and Order,* 15 FCC Rcd
7386 (2000), *clarified on recon.*, 16 FCC Rcd 5074 (2001), *recon.
denied,* 17 FCC Rcd 13132 (2002), *aff'd sub nom. American Family
Association v. FCC*, 365 F. 3d 1156 (D.C. Cir. 2004), *cert. denied*,
125 S. Ct. 634 (2004).

-FCC-