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

In re:                               )
                                     )
Complaint of United Broadcast Group II, Inc.)    CSR-4959-M
against TCA Management Company       )
                                     )
Request for Carriage                 )


                      MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

        Adopted:  November 7, 1997                 Released:  November 13, 1997 

By the Deputy Chief, Cable Services Bureau:

  1.    TCA Management Company ("TCA"), operator of cable television systems serving the
communities listed below, filed a petition for reconsideration of the Memorandum Opinion and Order,
DA 97-1515, released July 21, 1997 in this proceeding ("Bureau Order").  The Bureau Order granted
a must-carry complaint filed by United Broadcast Group II, Inc. ("United"), licensee of Television
Broadcast Station KINZ(TV), Arlington, Texas, and ordered TCA to commence carriage of KINZ(TV). 
United filed an opposition to the petition for reconsideration, and TCA filed a reply.

  2.     The Bureau Order found that signal strength studies submitted by TCA did not comply
with Commission requirements for use of sound engineering practices and that TCA therefore failed to
establish that United does not provide a sufficient off-air signal to TCA's cable system headends.  In any
event, under our rules, a station may provide a cable operator with specialized equipment, at the station's
expense, which will improve the station's signal to an acceptable quality at a cable system's principal
headend.  The Bureau Order noted that United had made a commitment on the record to deliver an
adequate signal to TCA's cable systems and to pay any associated costs, in accordance with
614(h)(1)(B)(iii) of the Communications Act of 1934, and ordered carriage.

  3.     TCA submitted new signal strength studies with its petition that both comply with our
requirements and show that KINZ-TV does not provide a good quality signal to TCA's cable systems'
headends serving Paris, Honey Grove and Sulpher Springs, Texas.  The measured KINZ-TV signal at
TCA these cable system headends falls substantially below the -45dBm statutory requirement for UHF
stations.  In view of these new study results and the fact that KINZ-TV is located 70 to 110 miles from
the cable systems, TCA request that the carriage requirement set out in the Bureau Order be conditioned
upon KINZ-TV providing a good quality signal to each cable headend.

  4.     United contends that TCA's petition should be denied as a continuing attempt by the cable
operator to evade its must carry obligations and asserts that any uncertainty concerning whether
equipment provided by United will result in KINZ-TV providing a good quality signal to the cable
systems' headends is due only to TCA's repeated failure to cooperate with the licensee.  TCA in reply
expresses surprise that United bothered to oppose the petition and suggests that United apparently now
takes the position that the cable systems must carry KINZ-TV regardless of whether a good quality signal
is provided.

  5.     We believe that TCA has shown that the Bureau Order should be modified to include the
requested condition with respect to these four communities.  TCA has made a substantial showing that
KINZ-TV's signal at the headends of these cable systems falls substantially below the -45dBm statutory
requirement for UHF stations.  In view of the substantial distances (70  to 110 miles) from KINZ-TV
to each of these communities and the tests results that have been submitted, we believe it appropriate to
grant the requested condition for these four communities.  We expect TCA to cooperate fully in making
any such installations that United may undertake at it's own expense.

                             ORDERING CLAUSES

  6.     Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED, that the petition filed TCA Management Company 
("TCA") for reconsideration of the Memorandum Opinion and Order, DA 97-1515, released July 21,
1997 in this proceeding IS GRANTED, said Memorandum Opinion and Order IS HEREBY
MODIFIED, and TCA IS ORDERED to commence carriage of television station KINZ(TV) sixty (60)
days after United Broadcast Group II, Inc. installs the equipment necessary to provide a good quality
signal to the headends of TCA's cable systems serving the communities of Athens, Paris, Honey Grove,
and Sulphur Springs, Texas.

  7.     This action is take pursuant to authority delegated by Section 0.321 of the Commission's
Rules.

  FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION



  William H. Johnson
  Deputy Chief, Cable Services Bureau