Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554
November 28, 2007
DA 07-4736
Released: November 28, 2007
CERTIFIED MAIL – RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
Channel 49 Acquisition Corporation
KTEN(TV)
c/o Brooks, Pierce, et al.
P.O. Box 1800
Raleigh, NC 27602
Re:  Channel 49 Acquisition Corporation
KTEN(TV), Ada, OK
Facility ID No. 35666
File No. BRCT-20060131AFY
Dear Licensee:
This refers to your license renewal application for station KTEN(TV), Ada, Oklahoma.
Section 73.3526 of the Commission’s Rules (Rules) requires broadcast licensees to maintain a 
public inspection file containing specific types of information related to station operations.1 As 
set forth in Section 73.3526(e)(11)(i) of the Rules, a TV issues/programs list is to be placed in a 
commercial TV broadcast station’s public inspection file each calendar quarter by the tenth day 
of the succeeding calendar quarter.  In addition, pursuant to Section 73.3526(e)(11)(ii), each 
commercial television broadcast station is required to place in its public inspection file, on a 
quarterly basis, records sufficient to allow substantiation of the licensee’s certification, in its 
renewal application, of its compliance with the children’s television commercial limits imposed 
by Section 73.670 of the Rules.2  Where lapses occur in maintaining the public file, neither the 
negligent acts nor omissions of station employees or agents, nor the subsequent remedial actions 
undertaken by the licensee, excuse or nullify a licensee’s rule violation.3
On January 31, 2006, you filed the above-referenced license renewal application for station 
KTEN(TV).  In Exhibit 17 to the renewal application, you stated that a recent review of the 
station’s public inspection file revealed that records regarding compliance with the commercial 
  
1 See 47 C.F.R. § 73.3526.
2 See 47 C.F.R. § 73.670.
3 See Padre Serra Communications, Inc., 14 FCC Rcd 9709 (1999) (citing Gaffney Broadcasting, Inc., 23 FCC 2d 
912, 913 (1970) and Eleven Ten Broadcasting Corp., 33 FCC 706 (1962)); Surrey Range Limited Partnership, 71 
RR 2d 882 (FOB 1992). 
2
limits on children’s programming for the third and fourth quarters of 1998 and the TV 
issues/programs list for the fourth quarter of 1998 were missing.  You indicated that you were 
unable to find copies of the missing documents, which you believe were misplaced during the 
station’s move approximately one year ago.  You maintained that new versions of the missing 
records have been prepared based on available information and placed in the public inspection 
file.
Although we do not rule out more severe sanctions for violations of this nature in the future, 
based upon the record before us we have determined that an admonition is appropriate at this 
time. Therefore, based upon the facts and circumstances before us, we ADMONISH you for the 
admitted violations of Section 73.3526 Rules described in station KTEN(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, North Carolina 27602.
Sincerely,
Barbara A. Kreisman
Chief, Video Division
Media Bureau