Report No. MM 95-69          MASS MEDIA ACTION                July 26, 1995


         JACK WHITEHORN DENIED REVIEW OF ACTION WHICH TRANSFERRED
                CONTROL OF WFDR AND WVJF-FM, MANCHESTER, GA

     The Commission has dismissed, as untimely, Jack Whitehorn's
application for review of actions which transferred control of
WFDR, Inc., licensee of WFDR and WFDR-FM (now WVJF-FM),
Manchester, GA, from WFDR, Inc., Debtor-in-Possession, to
Provident Broadcasting Company.

     The Mass Media Bureau, acting pursuant to delegated
authority, denied Whitehorn's petition which sought  to have the
Commission set aside the grant of the applications to transfer
control of the stations.

     Whitehorn filed a Notice of Appeal to the United States
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seeking to
reverse the Bureau's action which dismissed his petition.  The
Court granted the Commission's petition to dismiss Whitehorn's
appeal.  The Court found that Whitehorn failed to seek
appropriate review by the full Commission before seeking judicial
review.

     In the instant proceeding, Whitehorn sought to cure the
procedural defect.  However, Commission rules require that an
application for review of a final action taken pursuant to
delegated authority be filed within 30 days of the action.  Thus,
the Commission stated that Whitehorn's application was untimely
filed, and is therefore dismissed.

     Action by the Commission July 19, 1995, by Order (FCC 95-
303).  Chairman Hundt, Commissioners Quello, Barrett, Ness, and
Chong.

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     News Media contact: Patricia A. Chew at (202) 418-0500.
     Mass Media Bureau contact: David Blank at (202) 418-2670.