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$//MO&O Granting KDOC-TV carriage on Chronicle, DA 95-2026//$
$/300.534 Carriage of local commercial television signals/$
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                                Before the
                           FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
                                         Washington, D.C. 20554

In re                                        )                   DA 95-2026
                                             )
Complaint of Golden Orange Broad-    )       CSR-4526-M
casting Co., Inc. against The Chronicle      )
Publishing Company d/b/a Ventura             )
County Cablevision                           )
                                             )
Request for Carriage                         )

                       MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

       Adopted: September 21, 1995                              Released: September 29, 1995

By the Cable Services Bureau:

       1.  On May 12, 1995, Golden Orange Broadcasting Company, Inc., licensee of Station
KDOC-TV (Ind., Ch. 56), Westminster, California, filed a complaint against The Chronicle
Publishing Company d/b/a Ventura County Cablevision ("Chronicle"), operator of  cable
systems serving various communities in Ventura and Los Angeles Counties, California. 
KDOC-TV states that it is entitled to mandatory carriage on Chronicle's systems as it is
located within the Los Angeles-San Bernardino-Corona-Fontana-Riverside, California ADI
market, which is also where the communities at issue are located and it requests that the
Commission require Chronicle to commence carriage of its signal.   An opposition to this
complaint was filed June 15, 1995, on behalf of Chronicle.  No response from KDOC-TV has
been received.

       2.  In support of its complaint, KDOC-TV states that it first requested carriage on
Chronicle's systems by letter dated February 23, 1995.  Chronicle did not respond directly to
the complaint, continues KDOC-TV, but instead filed a petition for special relief (CSR-4490-
A) on March 13, 1995, requesting that its ADI market be modified to exclude stations
KDOC-TV, KRCA (Ind., Ch. 62), Riverside, California, and KZKI (Ind., Ch. 30), San
Bernardino, California, from must carry status in the Los Angeles ADI insofar as it related to
carriage on Chronicle's systems.  KDOC-TV argues that it deemed this filing to be
Chronicle's refusal of carriage and filed the instant complaint sixty days from the date of its
filing.  KDOC-TV points out that, at footnote 2 of its special relief pleading, Chronicle admits
that KDOC-TV places an acceptable signal over Chronicle's cable systems' headends serving
the referenced communities.  In any event, KDOC-TV avers that it will deliver a signal in
compliance with Commission requirements and at no cost to Chronicle.  

       3.  Chronicle's opposition to this complaint incorporates by reference the arguments
raised in its ADI waiver request.

                                                      DISCUSSION

       4.  On August 15, 1995, the Commission granted in part Chronicle's modification
request to exclude KDOC-TV, KRCA and KZKI from must carry status on its systems
serving certain communities in Ventura and Los Angeles Counties.  Specifically, it excluded
these three stations' must carry rights in the communities of Ojai, Camarillo, Santa Paula and
Somis, but retained those rights in the communities of Thousand Oaks, Fillmore, Newbury
Park, Moorpark, Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Westlake and Oak Park.  At the same time, KDOC-
TV, KRCA and KZKI were authorized to notify Chronicle of their carriage and channel
positions elections for those communities in which they retained carriage rights and Chronicle
was ordered to commence their carriage within sixty days of this notification.

       5.  Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED, that the complaint filed May 12, 1995, by Golden
Orange Broadcasting Company, Inc., IS GRANTED to the extent consistent with our action in
CSR-4490-A.

       6.  This action is taken  pursuant to authority delegated by 0.321 of the
Commission's Rules.  

                                                     FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION




                                                     William H. Johnson
                                                     Deputy Chief, Cable Services Bureau