Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554
DA 08-2566
Released: December 15, 2008
Lauren Lynch Flick
Counsel for Fisher Broadcasting-Oregon TV, L.L.C.
2300 N Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.  20037
Re: MB Docket No. 05-317
Dear Ms. Flick:
By letter dated October 15, 2008, Fisher Broadcasting-Oregon TV, L.L.C., permitee of KVAL-
DT, Eugene, Oregon requested an extension of its waiver of Section 339(a)(2)(D) of the Communications 
Act of 1934, as amended, to prohibit satellite subscribers from receiving or conducting a digital signal 
strength test of KVAL-DT’s digital signal.1 The Commission granted the original digital signal testing 
waiver based on the fact that the station’s digital signal coverage was limited due to the necessity to use a 
side mounted antenna.2 The Commission has granted the licensee two six-month extensions.3 In its most 
recent extension request, the licensee states that it continues to experience loss of approximately 20 % of 
its predicted population coverage due to its use of a side mounted antenna and that it is prevented from 
installing a top mounted digital antenna because its analog antenna is currently installed in that position. 
This situation will continue until February 17, 2009 when the digital transition takes place. 
Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that the request of Fisher Broadcasting-Oregon IS GRANTED 
and the first permissible date for digital testing for KVAL-DT IS EXTENDED until February 18, 2009. 
No further extensions of this waiver should be necessary.
Sincerely,
Barbara A. Kreisman
Chief, Video Division
Media Bureau
  
1 See 47 U.S.C. § 339 (a)(2)(D)(viii), as amended by Section 207 of the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and 
Reauthorization Act of 2004 (“SHVERA”), 47 U.S.C. § 339.
2 See Waiver of Digital Testing Pursuant to the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act of 2004, 
22 FCC Rcd 12918, 12925 (MB 2007).
3 See Waiver of Digital Testing Pursuant to the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act of 2004, 
23 FCC Rcd 396, 400 (MB 2008); Letter to Lauren Lynch Flick, DA 08-1278 (June 6, 2008).