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FOR FCC RECORD ONLY
$//Public Notice, Extension of Filing Date for Price Survey, DA 95-2324//$
$/76.922 Rates for basic service tier and cable programming services tier/$
$/76.923 Rates for equipment and installation used to receive the basic service tier/$


                                Before the
                     Federal Communications Commission      
                          Washington, D.C.  20554

                                                                 DA 95-2323

In the Matter of                   )
                              )
Implementation of Section 3        )
of the Cable Television            )
Consumer Protection and            )
Competition Act of 1992            )     MM Docket No.  92-266
                              )
Statistical Report on                   )
Average Rates for Basic            )
Service, Cable Programming         )
and Equipment                 )

                                   ORDER

Adopted:  November 8, 1995                   Released:  November 9, 1995

By the Chief, Cable Services Bureau:

     
     1.   On October 10, the Commission adopted an Order requiring certain operators to
complete a price survey questionnaire designed to solicit information concerning rates for
basic and cable programming services and equipment used to receive such services.  The
survey will assist the Commission in preparing a statistical report on average service and
equipment rates charged by systems subject to effective competition and those that are not
subject to effective competition.  The current due date for responses to the survey is
November 13, 1995.

     2.   On November 3, 1995, Jones Intercable, Inc. ("Jones")  and Cox
Communications, Inc. ("Cox") filed separate requests for an extension of the response
deadline.  They assert that they have encountered "administrative difficulties" in obtaining
survey information from their various systems.  Moreover, both operators have asserted that
the budget review process has affected their ability to meet the current response deadline. 
Jones has requested an extension through December 13, 1995, and Cox has requested an
extension through November 30, 1995.

     3.     We recognize that the coordination of survey responses can prove time
consuming, particularly when response coordination involves systems of varying size and wide
geographic diversity.  We believe that the difficulties expressed in these extension requests
may characterize difficulties encountered by other operators attempting to meet the current
response due date.  Accordingly, we will extend the response date from November 13, 1995
to December 15, 1995.  

     4.   Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED, pursuant to Section 3 of the 1992 Cable Act
(Section 623(k) of the Communications Act of 1934, 47 U.S.C. Section 543(k)), and Section
4(i) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. Section 154(i), that cable
systems subject to the price survey requirements described herein shall complete and return
the questionnaire by December 15, 1995.

                         FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION




                         Meredith J. Jones
                         Chief, Cable Services Bureau