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 Federal  Communications  Commission  DA  06-  1242 
 Before  the  Federal  Communications  Commission 
 Washington,  D.  C.  20554 


 In  the  Matter  of 
 Foreign  Ownership  Guidelines  for  FCC  Common  Carrier  and  Aeronautical  Radio  Licenses 
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 ERRATUM 
 Released:  June  8,  2006 
 By  the  Deputy  Chief,  International  Bureau: 
 1.  On  November  17,  2004,  the  International  Bureau  released  the  Foreign  Ownership  Guidelines  for  FCC  Common  Carrier  and  Aeronautical  Radio  Licenses,  DA  04-  3610.  1  This  Erratum 
 corrects  the  last  sentence  of  the  first  full  paragraph  on  page  18  and  the  last  footnote  of  that  paragraph  to  read  as  follows: 


 A  different  standard  applies  in  the  context  of  broadcast  licenses  and  applicants.  The  Commission  has  stated  that,  while  a  broadcast  licensee  has  flexibility  in  the  manner  in 
 which  it  chooses  to  demonstrate  insulation,  a  foreign  limited  partner  will  be  deemed  to  be  effectively  insulated  for  purposes  of  calculating  the  Section  310(  b)  foreign  ownership 
 benchmarks  if  the  licensee  can  demonstrate  that  the  foreign  limited  partner  conforms  to  the  specific  insulation  criteria  for  exemption  from  attribution  under  the  media  ownership 
 rules.  43  Specifically,  the  Commission  applies  the  multiplier  in  calculating  foreign  voting  interests  held  in  a  broadcast  licensee  through  an  intervening  domestically  organized 
 limited  partnership  if  the  licensee  can  demonstrate  that  the  foreign  limited  partner  satisfies  the  specific  insulation  criteria  for  exemption  from  attribution  under  the  media 
 ownership  rules  and  is  therefore  effectively  insulated  from  active  involvement  in  partnership  affairs.  44 


 ----------------------  43  See  Wilner  &  Scheiner  I,  103  F.  C.  C.  2d  at  521-  22,  ¶¶  20-  21.  The  Commission’s  insulation 
 criteria  for  purposes  of  attributing  ownership  and  other  interests  in  broadcast  licensees  are  codified  in  Note  2(  f)  to  Section  73.  3555  of  the  Commission’s  rules,  47  C.  F.  R.  §  73.  3555,  Note  2(  f). 


 44  Id.  A  broadcast  licensee  or  applicant  also  must  include  uninsulated  limited  partnership  interests 
 and  general  partnership  interests  in  its  calculation  of  foreign  voting  interests,  but  it  may  not  use  the  multiplier  to  dilute  these  interests. 


 1  19  FCC  Rcd  22612  (Int’l  Bur.  2004). 
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 2.  A  revised  version  of  the  Foreign  Ownership  Guidelines  for  FCC  Common  Carrier  and  Aeronautical  Radio  Licenses  incorporating  the  changes  made  by  this  erratum  is  available  at  the 
 International  Bureau’s  website  at  http://  www.  fcc.  gov/  ib. 


 FEDERAL  COMMUNICATIONS  COMMISSION 


 John  V.  Giusti  Deputy  Chief,  International  Bureau 
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