Report No. DC 95-126       ACTION IN DOCKET CASE           October 10, 1995


          COMMISSION ORDERS THREE INDIANA AND FOUR MISSOURI RADIO
               STATIONS TO SHOW CAUSE WHY THEIR LICENSES/   
       PERMITS SHOULD NOT BE REVOKED; SCHEDULES REVOCATION HEARING 
                          (MM DOCKET NO. 95-154)

     The Commission has directed Contemporary Media, Inc. (CMI),
Contemporary Broadcasting, Inc. (CBI), and Lake Broadcasting,
Inc. (LBI) to show cause why the licenses and/or construction
permits  for the following radio stations should not be revoked,
and LBI's pending application for a new FM station at Bourbon,
MO, should not be denied at a scheduled revocation hearing.

     The stations are: WBOW(AM), WBFX(AM), and WZZQ(FM), Terre
Haute, IN, licensed to CMI; KFMZ(FM), Columbia, MO, and KAAM-FM,
Huntsville, MO, licensed or authorized to CBI; KBMX(FM), Eldon,
MO, and KFXE(FM), Cuba, MO, licensed or authorized to LBI.

     Michael Rice is the 100 percent owner of CMI and CBI and the
67.5 percent shareholder of LBI.  Rice is also the President,
Treasurer and Director of all three licensee corporations.  On
August 31, 1994, Rice was convicted of 12 felony counts of
sodomy, sexual abuse, and sexual assault of five children ranging
in age from 12 to 16, over the period from 1985 to his initial
arrest in 1990.

     Based on its Policy Regarding Character Qualifications in
Broadcast Licensing, the Commission has initiated revocation
proceedings on the following issues:
 
     1)   To determine the effect of Michael Rice's convictions
on the basic qualifications of CMI, CBI, and LBI;

     2)   To determine whether the licensees misrepresented to
the Commission that, subsequent to his arrest, Michael Rice has
been excluded from the management and operation of the radio
stations; 

     3)   To determine whether Michael Rice has engaged in the
unauthorized transfer of control of CMI, CBI, and LBI; and,


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     4)   To determine, in light of the evidence adduced, whether
CMI, CBI, and/or LBI, possess the requisite qualifications to be
or remain licensees of their respective radio stations.

     If it is determined that the hearing record does not warrant
an Order revoking the licenses of CMI, CBI, and LBI for their
respective stations, the Commission will determine whether a
forfeiture in an amount up to $250,000 should not be issued.

     Action by the Commission September 29, 1995, by Order To
Show Cause and Notice of Apparent Liability (FCC 95-410). 
Chairman Hundt, Commissioners Quello, Barrett, Ness, and Chong.

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     News Media contact: Patricia A. Chew at (202) 418-0500.
     Mass Media Bureau contact: Richard Waysdorf at (202) 418-
2679.