PUBLIC NOTICE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION News Media Information: (202) 418-0500 445 12th STREET, S.W. Fax-On-Demand: (202) 418-2830 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20554 Internet: http://www.fcc.gov ftp.fcc.gov DA 07-3827 September 7, 2007 Media Bureau Action Filing Window for New Noncommercial Educational Reserved Channel Television Stations for Channel 16* at Yerington, Nevada; and Channel 45* at Fallon, Nevada The Media Bureau announces a filing window for new analog noncommercial educational reserved channel television stations on Channel 16* at Yerington, Nevada; and Channel 25* at Fallon, Nevada. The filing window will open upon the release of this Public Notice and will close October 12, 2007. There are currently pending the following applications: YERINGTON, NV….Ch 16* Nevada Public Television BPET-19960920WT FIN #83967 ERP (VIS): 10 kW; HAAT: 193 meters; TL: 4.8 km S of US 95, 13 km E of Yerington, NV Coordinates: (38-59-44 N 119-01-01 W); Antenna: JAMPRO, JUHD-1/4(4) FALLON, NV….CH 25* Nevada Public Television BPET-19960920WS FIN #83966 ERP(VIS): 500 kW; HAAT: 965 meters; TL: Fairview Peak, 7 km S of Hwy. 50, 58 km SE of Fallon, NV Coordinates: (39-13-32 N 118-09-07 W); Antenna: JAMPRO, JUHD-12/4 (48) 2 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 October 12, 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. F.C.C., 365 F.3d 1156 (D.C. Cir. 2004), cert. denied, 125 S.Ct. 634 (2004). -FCC-