FOR FCC RECORD ONLY
$//Genesis Cable, McClellanville, SC, Letter, DA 95-726/$
$/76.901, Exemption of Small Systems from Rate Regulation/$
$/benchmark cable rates/$            
              FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
                           WASHINGTON, DC 20554


                                                       IN REPLY REFER TO:
                               April 3, 1995                      DA 95-726
                                                   Released:  April 7, 1995


Smedley D. Butler
President
Genesis Cable Corp.
One Boar's Head Place, Suite C
Charlottesville, VA 22903-4612

Dear Mr. Butler:

     This letter is in reference to your letter dated April 3, 1995, with respect to a
complaint filed December 23, 1993, against the price Genesis Cable was charging for cable
programming service in the Town of McClellanville, South Carolina, CUID No. SC0384.  In
that letter, you state that Genesis Cable is not required to justify its rates prior to May 15,
1994, because Genesis Cable's McClellanville, South Carolina system has 228 subscribers. 
Based on the information you have provided, it appears that the McClellanville system
qualifies as a "small system" pursuant to 47 C.F.R.  76.901(c), and was therefore exempt
from rate regulation until May 15, 1994.

     We will rule at a later date on Genesis Cable's justification under the Commission's
revised rate regulations of its cable programming service rates in McClellanville beginning
May 15, 1994.  

     Should you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact Peter G. Wolfe 
at (202) 739-0783.
                         
                         Sincerely,





                         Gregory J. Vogt
                         Deputy Chief
                         Cable Services Bureau


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