FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 3, Pages 1878 to 2785, February 21 - March 16, 2012 Page: 1,912

Before the
Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554
In the Matter of )
Reclassification of License of )
Class A Television Station KGLR-LP ) Facility ID No. 39142
Lubbock, Texas )
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
Adopted: February 23, 2012 Released: February 28, 2012
By the Chief, Video Division, Media Bureau:
I. This is with respect to station KGLR-LP, Lubbock, Texas, licensed to Lubbock
Television Company ("LTC"). This station is currently licensed as a Class A television station, which are
accorded primary spectrum use status pursuant to the Community Broadcasters Protection Act of 1999
("CBPA").'
2. By letters dated March 28, 2011 and August 18 2011. the Video Division of the Media
Bureau requested information from LTC regarding its apparent failure to make the required filing of
quarterly FCC Form 398 (Children's Television Programming Report) for the station. As the March 28,
2011 letter set forth, beginning on the date of its application for Class A license and thereafter, the CBPA
requires that a station must be "in compliance with the Commission's operating rules for full-power
television stations."'2 In implementing the CBPA and establishing the Class A television service,3 the
Commission applied to Class A licensees all Part 73 regulations except for those that could not apply for
technical or other reasons. Among the Part 73 requirements that apply to Class A licensees are the
Commission's main studio requirements; rules governing informational and educational children's
programming and the limits on commercialization during children's programming; the requirement to
identify a children's programming liaison at the station and to provide information regarding "core"
educational and informational programming aired by the station to publishers of television program
guides; the public inspection file rule, including preparing and placing in the public inspection file on a
quarterly basis an issues/programs list and the station's quarterly-filed Children's Television
Programming Report; the political programming rules; station identification requirements; and the
Emergency Alert System (EAS) rules.4
3. KGLR-LP was granted Class A status in 2001,5 and Commission records show that
LTC failed to file Children's Television Programming Reports for the second, third and fourth
quarters of 2009, and all four quarters of 2010 and 201 1. Accordingly, the Video Division asked for
Community Broadcasters Protection Act of 1999. Pub. L. No. 106-113. 113 Stat. Appendix I at pp. 1501A-594 -
1501 A-598 ( 1999), codified at 47 1.S.C. 336.
Z 47 U.S.C. 336(f)(2)(A)(ii).
3 In the Matter of Establishment of a Class .4 Television Service. MM DI)ocket No. 00-10, Report and Order, 15 FCC
Red 6355. 6366 (2000)("R & O"). Memorandum Opinion and Order on Reconsideration, 16 FCC Red 8244, 8254-
56 (2001).
4 R & O, 15 FCC Red at 6366.
* FCC File No. BLTTA-20010709ACY. granted August 30. 2001.

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