Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554                          
November 9, 2007
DA 07-4546
Released: November 9, 2007   
CERTIFIED MAIL – RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
WKRN, G.P.
WKRN-TV
c/o Brooks, Pierce, et al.
P.O. Box 1800
Raleigh, NC 27602
Re:  WKRN, G.P.
WKRN-TV, Nashville, TN
Facility ID No. 73188
File No. BRCT-20050330AYI
Dear Licensee:
This letter refers to your license renewal application for station WKRN-TV, Nashville, 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 30, 2005, you filed the above-referenced license renewal application for station 
WKRN-TV.  In response to Section IV, Question 5 of that application, you certify that, during 
the previous license term, station WKRN-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 state that station WKRN-TV exceeded the children’s television 
commercial limits by 15 seconds on January 5, 2002, and by one minute on September 12, 2004.  
You attribute the overages to human error and/or inadvertence. You assert that the licensee has 
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taken corrective measures to ensure future compliance with the children’s television commercial 
limits.    
It appears from the information before us that the overages in question were de minimis
violations of the children’s television commercial limits.  Such violations of Section 73.670 of 
the Commission’s Rules do not warrant further consideration in connection with WKRN-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, Mark J. Prak, Esquire, Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey & Leonard, LLP, P.O. Box 
1800, Raleigh, NC 27602.
 
Sincerely,
Barbara A. Kreisman
Chief, Video Division
Media Bureau