Report No. MM-812          MASS MEDIA ACTION       March 10, 1994

       BELLS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, PARIS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL
     DISTRICT GRANTED ITFS LICENSES TO SERVE DENNISON AND SUMNER, TX

     The Commission has granted the applications of Bells
Independent School District and Paris Independent School District
for Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS) facilities on
Channels C1-C4 to serve Dennison, TX, and Sumner, TX, respectively. 
It denied the competing application of Silo Public Schools to serve
Kenefic, OK.

     All applicants were qualified to be licensees and the
Commission made its decision based on a comparison of the three. 

     It found Bells and Silo entitled to four points for being
local, three for being accredited, two for observing the four-
channel limitation for a total of nine points each.  Paris was
entitled to four points for being local, three points for being
accredited, two points for observing the four-channel limitation
and one point for proposing at least 21 hours of formal educational
ITFS programming per channel per week, for a total of ten points. 
Therefore, Paris was the preferred applicant.  The Commission
noted, however, that because the application filed by Bells was not
mutually exclusive with that of Paris, it could be granted as well.

     Action by the Commission March 4, 1994, by Memorandum Opinion
and Order (FCC 94-49).  Chairman Hundt, Commissioners Quello and
Barrett.

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