**DA 07-4656**

**Released: November 16, 2007**

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

NBC Telemundo License Co.

WSNS-TV

1299 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

11^th^ Floor

Washington, D.C. 20004

NBC Telemundo License Co.

WSNS-TV, Chicago, Illinois

Facility ID No. 70119

File No. BRCT-20050801CFO

Dear Licensee:

This refers to your license renewal application for station WSNS-TV,
Chicago, Illinois.

Section 73.3526 of the Commission's Rules (Rules) requires broadcast
licensees to maintain a public inspection file containing specific types
of information related to station operations.[^1] As set forth in
Section 73.3526(e)(11)(i) of the Rules, a TV issues/programs list is to
be placed in a commercial TV broadcast station's public inspection file
each calendar quarter by the tenth day of the succeeding calendar
quarter. Moreover, Section 73.3526(e)(7) provides that an EEO public
file report is to be placed in a station's public inspection file
annually, on the anniversary of the date its renewal application is due
to be filed. Where lapses occur in maintaining the public file, neither
the negligent acts nor omissions of station employees or agents, nor the
subsequent remedial actions undertaken by the licensee, excuse or
nullify a licensee's rule violation.[^2]

On August 1, 2005, you filed the above-referenced license renewal
application for station WSNS-TV. In response to Section IV, Question 3
of that application, you certify that, during the previous license term,
station WSNS-TV failed to place in the public inspection file at the
appropriate times, all of the documentation required by Section 73.3526
of the Commission's Rules. In Exhibit 17, you state that in preparing
the instant license renewal application, it was discovered that TV
issues/programs lists for two quarters and the 2004 EEO public file
report were missing from the public inspection file. You claimed that
station WSNS-TV has taken steps to reconstruct the missing TV
issues/programs lists and has placed them in station WSNS-TV's public
inspection file. You also reported that the 2004 EEO public file report
has been placed in the public inspection file.

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 of the Rules described in station
WSNS-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 the licensee
at the address listed above, and to its counsel, F. William LeBeau,
Esquire, NBC Telemundo License Co., 1299 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.,
11^th^ Floor, Washington, D.C. 20004.

Sincerely,

> Barbara A. Kreisman

Chief, Video Division

Media Bureau

[^1]: *See* 47 C.F.R. § 73.3526.

[^2]: *See Padre Serra Communications, Inc.*, 14 FCC Rcd 9709 (1999)
    (*citing Gaffney Broadcasting, Inc.*, 23 FCC 2d 912, 913 (1970) and
    *Eleven Ten Broadcasting Corp*., 33 FCC 706 (1962)); *Surrey Range
    Limited Partnership*, 71 RR 2d 882 (FOB 1992).