**DA 07-1591**

**Released: April 4, 2007**

**[CERTIFIED MAIL -- RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED]{.underline}**

Mission Broadcasting, Inc.

KHMT(TV)

544 Red Rock Drive

Wadsworth, OH 44281

Re: Mission Broadcasting, Inc.

KHMT(TV), Hardin, MT

Facility ID No. 47670

File No. BRCT-20051201AKG

Dear Licensee:

This refers to your license renewal application for station KHMT(TV),
Hardin, MT.

Under the Commission's rules implementing the Children's Television Act
of 1990 (CTA),[^1] each television broadcast station licensee has an
obligation, during its license term, to air programming that serves the
educational and informational needs of children through both the
licensee's overall programming and programming "specifically designed"
to educate and inform children (core programming).[^2] The Commission's
rules require commercial licensees to provide information to the public
about the shows they air to fulfill their obligation. Section
73.3526(e)(11)(iii) of the Rules requires each commercial television
broadcast station to prepare and place in its public inspection file a
Children's Television Programming Report for each calendar quarter
reflecting, *inter alia*, the efforts it has made during the quarter to
serve the educational needs of children. As set forth in Section
73.3526(e)(11)(iii), licensees are also required to file the reports
with the Commission and to publicize for the public the existence and
location of the reports.

On December 1, 2005, you filed a license renewal application (FCC Form
303-S) for station KHMT(TV), Hardin, Montana (File No.
BRCT-20051201AKG). In Exhibit 24, you report that you did not publicize
the existence and location of the station's Children's Television
Programming Reports from May 2, 2005 through the week of November 7,
2005.[^3] By way of explanation, you state that announcements pertaining
to the existence and location of the Children's Television Programming
Reports were inadvertently excluded from the log. You maintain that
these announcements are now included on the log and will continued to be
aired.

Although we do not rule out more severe sanctions for violations of this
nature in the future, based upon the record before us we have determined
that an admonition is appropriate at this time. Therefore, based upon
the facts and circumstances before us, we ADMONISH you for the admitted
violations of Section 73.3526(e)(11)(iii) of the Rules described in
station KHMT(TV)'s renewal application.

Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that, a copy of this Letter shall be sent by
First Class and Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested to Mission
Broadcasting, Inc. at the address listed above, and to its counsel,
Elizabeth Hammond, Esquire, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, 1500 K Street,
N.W., Suite 1100, Washington, D.C. 20005.

> Sincerely,
>
> Barbara A. Kreisman
>
> Chief, Video Division
>
> Media Bureau

[^1]: Pub. L. No. 101-437, 104 Stat. 996-1000, *codified at* 47 U.S.C.
    Sections 303a, 303b and 394.

[^2]: 47 C.F.R. § 73.671.

[^3]: On December 17, 2003, the Commission granted an application to
    assign the license of station KHMT(TV), from VHR Broadcasting of
    Billings, LLC, to Kenos Broadcasting II, Inc. (BALCT-20030519AET).
    That transaction was consummated on December 30, 2003. On December
    22, 2003, the Commission granted an application for the *pro forma*
    assignment of the license for station KHMT(TV) from Kenos
    Broadcasting II, Inc. to Mission Broadcasting, Inc.
    (BALCT-20031114ABY). That transaction was consummated on December
    30, 2003.