Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554                          
September 28, 2007
DA 07-4033
Released: September 28, 2007  
CERTIFIED MAIL – RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
Raycom America License Subsidiary, LLC
WTNZ(TV)
RSA Tower, 20th Floor
201 Monroe Street
Montgomery, AL 36104
Re:  Raycom America License Subsidiary, LLC
 WTNZ(TV), Knoxville, TN
Facility ID No. 19200
File No. BRCT-20050329AEC
Dear Licensee:
This letter refers to your license renewal application for station WTNZ(TV), Knoxville, TN.
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 March 29, 2005, you filed the above-referenced license renewal application for station 
WTNZ(TV).  In response to Section IV, Question 5 of that application, you certify that, during 
the previous license term, station WTNZ(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, you report that station WTNZ(TV) exceeded the Commission television 
commercial limits by three minutes and thirty seconds on June 7, 2003.  You explain that this 
overage occurred when, due to an unexpected power outage, station WTNZ(TV) lost its live 
network feed and the master control operator erroneously inserted an infomercial in 
contravention of station WTNZ(TV)’s commercial compliance policy.   
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It appears from the information before us that the overage in question was an isolated 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 WTNZ(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, William H. Fitz, Esquire, Covington & Burling, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20004-2401.
 
Sincerely,
Barbara A. Kreisman
Chief, Video Division
Media Bureau