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 Federal  Communications  Commission  DA  02-  37 
 Before  the 
 Federal  Communications  Commission 
 Washington,  D.  C.  20554 


 In  the  Matter  of: 
 Rancho  Palos  Verdes  Broadcasters,  Inc. 
 v. 
 AT&  T  Broadband 


 Request  for  Carriage 


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 CSR-  5690-  M 


 ORDER  ON  RECONSIDERATION 
 Adopted:  January  8,  2002  Released:  January  10,  2002 
 By  the  Deputy  Chief,  Cable  Services  Bureau: 


 1.  AT&  T  Broadband  (“  AT&  T”)  has  requested  partial  reconsideration  of  the  Bureau’s 
 decision  granting  the  must  carry  complaint  of  Rancho  Palos  Verdes  Broadcasters,  Inc,  licensee  of  television 
 broadcast  station  KXLA  (Ch.  44),  Rancho  Palos  Verdes,  California  (“  KXLA,”  formerly  KRPA).  1  An 
 opposition  to  this  petition  was  filed  on  behalf  of  KXLA  to  which  AT&  T  replied.  2 


 2.  AT&  T’s  request  centers  around  the  results  of  a  signal  strength  test  taken  of  KXLA’s 
 signal  at  AT&  T’s  Santa  Clarita  headend  location.  KXLA’s  signal  was  measured  from  the  station’s  Santa 
 Catalina  Island  transmitter  site.  Since  the  filing  of  KXLA’s  complaint  and  AT&  T’s  petition  for 
 reconsideration,  KXLA  relocated  its  transmitter  to  Mt.  Wilson,  California,  and  is  now  operating  from  that 
 site.  As  a  result,  the  issue  before  us  is  now  moot.  Although  no  signal  strength  tests  appear  to  have  been 
 conducted  as  yet  of  KXLA’s  signal  from  the  Mt.  Wilson  location,  we  note  that  KXLA  has  reiterated  its 
 commitment  to  deliver  a  good  quality  signal  at  its  own  expense.  In  view  of  the  fact  that  no  evidence  is 
 available  to  determine  whether  KXLA  meets  the  signal  strength  criteria  with  regard  to  the  Santa  Clarita 
 cable  system,  we  will  grant  AT&  T’s  request  for  partial  reconsideration  to  the  extent  that  carriage  of  KXLA 
 on  that  system  be  conditioned  on  KXLA’s  ability  to  deliver  an  adequate  signal. 


 1  Rancho  Palos  Verdes  Broadcasters,  Inc.  v.  AT&  T  Broadband,  DA  01-  2006  (released  August  27, 
 2001)(“  Bureau  Order”). 
 2  We  note  that  AT&  T  filed  a  motion  for  stay  of  the  Bureau  Order  insofar  as  it  referred  to  AT&  T’s  Newhall 


 and  Tujunga  cable  system.  KXLA  filed  an  opposition  to  this  motion.  However,  in  view  of  our  action  herein,  the 
 merits  of  the  request  for  stay  and  the  subsequent  opposition  need  not  be  discussed. 
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 3.  Accordingly,  IT  IS  ORDERED,  pursuant  to  Section  614  of  the  Communications  Act  of 
 1934,  as  amended  (47  U.  S.  C.  §534),  that  the  petition  for  partial  reconsideration  filed  by  AT&  T  Broadband 
 IS  GRANTED  to  the  extent  indicated  above. 


 4.  IT  IS  FURTHER  ORDERED  that  AT&  T  Broadband  shall  commence  carriage  of 
 KXLA  on  its  cable  system  serving  Newhall  and  Tujunga,  California,  sixty  (60)  days  from  the  date  on 
 which  KXLA  provides  a  good  quality  signal  to  AT&  T’s  principal  headend. 


 5.  This  action  is  taken  pursuant  authority  delegated  by  Sections  0.321  and  1.106  of  the 
 Commission’s  rules.  3 


 FEDERAL  COMMUNICATIONS  COMMISSION 


 William  H.  Johnson,  Deputy  Chief 
 Cable  Services  Bureau 


 3  47  C.  F.  R.  §§  0.321  and  1.106. 
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