*Pages 1--2 from Microsoft Word - 55579.doc* Federal Communications Commission Washington, D. C. 20554 March 10, 2006 DA 06- 551 Released: March 10, 2006 CERTIFIED MAIL – RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED New York Times Management Services WHNT- TV WHNT- TV, Corporate Center 1 International Plaza 2202 North West Shore Boulevard Suite 370 Tampa, Florida 33607 Re: New York Times Management Services WHNT- TV, Huntsville, Alabama Facility ID No. 48693 File No. BRCT- 20041129BBG Dear Licensee: This letter refers to your license renewal application for station WHNT- TV, Huntsville, Alabama. In the Children’s Television Act of 1990, Pub. L. No. 101- 437, 104 Stat. 996- 1000, codified at 47 U. S. C. Sections 303a, 303b and 394, Congress directed the Commission to adopt rules, inter alia, limiting the number of minutes of commercial matter that television stations may air during children’s programming, and to consider in its review of television license renewals the extent to which the licensee has complied with such commercial limits. Pursuant to this statutory mandate, the Commission adopted Section 73.670 of the Rules, 47 C. F. R. § 73.670, which limits the amount of commercial matter which may be aired during children’s programming to 10.5 minutes per hour on weekends and 12 minutes per hour on weekdays. Children’s Television Programming, 6 FCC Rcd 2111, 2118, recon. granted in part, 6 FCC Rcd 5093, 5098 (1991). The commercial limitations became effective on January 1, 1992. Children’s Television Programming, 6 FCC Rcd 5529, 5530 (1991). On November 29, 2004, you filed the above- referenced license renewal application for station WHNT- TV. In response to Section IV, Question 5 of that application, you certify that, during the previous license term, station WHNT- TV failed to comply with the limitations on commercial matter in children’s programming specified in Section 73.670 of the Commission’s Rules. In Exhibit 19 to the renewal application, you state that station WHNT- TV exceeded the children’s television commercial limits by one minute, 15 seconds on August 30, 2003. You attribute the overage to human error and/ or inadvertence. 1 2 It appears from the information before us that the overage in question was an isolated and inadvertent violation of the children’s television commercial limits. Such de minimis violation of Section 73.670 of the Commission’s Rules does not warrant further consideration in connection with WHNT- TV’s renewal application which remains pending at this time. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that, a copy of this Letter shall be sent by First Class and Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested to New York Times Management Services at the address listed above, and to its counsel, David A. O’Connor, Esquire, Holland & Knight LLP, 2099 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W., Suite 100, Washington, D. C. 20006- 6801. Sincerely, Barbara A. Kreisman Chief, Video Division Media Bureau 2