Federal Communications Commission DA 08-819
Before the
Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554
In the Matter of
Complaints Against Various Licensees Regarding 
Their Broadcast of the Fox Television Network 
Program “Married By America” on April 7, 2003
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File No. EB-03-IH-0162
ORDER  
Adopted:  April 4, 2008                                                                          Released:  April 4, 2008
By the Chief, Enforcement Bureau: 
1. A Petition for Reconsideration of the Commission’s Forfeiture Order in this proceeding1 was 
filed on March 24, 2008 by Fox Entertainment Group, Inc. and licensees of television broadcast stations 
affiliated with the Fox Television Network (“Petitioners”).  For the reasons discussed below, we return it 
without consideration. 
2. Petitioners acknowledge that their Petition for Reconsideration exceeds the applicable page 
limits for summaries and petitions for reconsideration set forth in the Commission’s rules, and ask for a 
waiver of those page limits.2 The Commission’s rules, however, explicitly require that requests for 
permission to file pleadings, such as petitions for reconsideration, in excess of the length prescribed by 
the Commission’s rules must be filed under these circumstances “at least ten days before the filing date.”3  
Petitioners neither complied with this rule nor sought a waiver of this rule.  Moreover, they offer no 
explanation whatsoever for their failure to comply with this rule.  
  
1 See Complaints Against Various Licensees Regarding Their Broadcast of the Fox Television Network Program 
“Married By America” on April 7, 2003, Forfeiture Order, FCC 08-63 (rel. February 22, 2008). 
2 Petition for Reconsideration at 1-2 n.2.  
3 47 C.F.R. § 1.48(b); see Amendment of Sections 64.702 of the Commission’s Rules and Regulations (Third 
Computer Inquiry); and Policy and Rules Concerning Rates for Competitive Common Carrier Service and 
Facilities Authorization Thereof; and Communications Protocols Under Section 64.702 of the Commission’s Rules 
and Regulations, Order, 2 FCC Rcd 4211, 4211 (CCB 1987) (“Amendment of Sections 64.702, etc. Order”).  
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3. ACCORDINGLY, we DENY petitioners’ request to exceed the applicable page limit4 and 
RETURN PETITIONERS’ PLEADING WITHOUT CONSIDERATION in accordance with the 
Commission’s rules.5
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Kris Anne Monteith
Chief, Enforcement Bureau
  
4 See Amendment of Sections 64.702 etc. Order, 2 FCC Rcd at 4211 (denying request to exceed page limit for 
petition for reconsideration when the petitioner did not comply with the ten-day limit contained in Section 1.48(b) 
and offered no explanation for why it was unable to comply with the rule).    
5 See 47 C.F.R. § 1.48(a).