Federal Communications Commission DA 09-1126
Before the
Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554
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In the Matter of )
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Amendment of Section 73.622(i), ) MB Docket No. 08-117
Final DTV Table of Allotments, ) RM-11450
Television Broadcast Stations. )
(St. Paul, Minnesota) )
ORDER
(Proceeding Terminated)
Adopted: May 18, 2009 Released:  May 22, 2009
By the Chief, Video Division, Media Bureau:
1. The Commission has before it a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking1 issued in response to a 
petition for rulemaking filed by Twin Cities Public Television, Inc. (“Twin Cities”), the licensee of 
noncommercial educational station KTCI-TV, analog channel *17 and KTCI-DT, pre-transition digital 
channel *16, and permittee of post-transition digital channel *26, St. Paul, Minnesota, requesting the 
substitution of channel *38 for its post-transition digital channel *26.  Duluth-Superior Area Educational 
Television Corporation (“Duluth-Superior”), the licensee of noncommercial educational station WDSE-
TV/DT, Duluth, Minnesota, filed comments in the proceeding, in which it counter-proposed that the 
Commission allocate digital channel *23, *24 or *25 to St. Paul for post-transition use by Twin Cities, and 
allocate digital channel *38 to Superior, Wisconsin for a new noncommercial educational television station.
2. On April 24, 2009, Twin Cities and Duluth-Superior filed a Joint Request for Approval of 
Settlement Agreement and Request for Withdrawal of Counterproposal.  The Joint Request states that 
Duluth-Superior has agreed to withdraw its counterproposal and that Twin Cities has agreed to request the 
substitution of channel *23, rather than channel *38, as its post-transition digital channel.2 The Joint 
Request also states that  Duluth-Superior has agreed to reimburse Twin Cities for expenses incurred in 
connection with the channel *23 channel substitution request, and in making modifications to equipment 
which Twin Cities acquired for a facility on channel *38.  
3. We believe, for the reasons set forth in the Joint Request for Approval, that the public 
interest would be served by approving the Joint Request and dismissing  Twin Cities’ rulemaking petition 
requesting the substitution of channel *38 as its post-transition channel. 
4. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that the Petition for Rulemaking to substitute channel *38 
for channel *26 at St. Paul, Minnesota filed by Twin Cities Public Television, Inc. and the counterproposal 
comments filed by Duluth-Superior Area Educational Television Foundation ARE HEREBY DISMISSED.
5. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That this proceeding IS TERMINATED. .  
 
1 St. Paul, Minnesota, 23 FCC Rcd 10043 (Vid. Div. 2008).
2 We are separately issuing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking comment on Twin Cities’ request that we 
substitute channel *23 for its post-transition operations.
Federal Communications Commission DA 09-1126
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Barbara A. Kreisman 
Chief, Video Division
Media Bureau