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                                          DA 94-1594

                                Before the
                     FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
                          Washington, D.C. 20554



In the Matter of                )
                                )
Amendment of Section 73.202(b), )  MM Docket No. 87-455
Table of Allotments,            )  RM-5899
FM Broadcast Stations.          )  RM-6223 
(Perry, Cross City, Holiday,    )  RM-6224
Avon Park, Sarasota, and Live   )  RM-6225
Oak, Florida; and Thomasville,  )  RM-6226
Georgia)                        )  RM-7111

                       MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

Adopted: December 27, 1994     Released: January 5, 1995

By the Chief, Policy and Rules Division:

      1.  The Commission has before it a Motion for Severance and
Suggestion of Grant filed by Women in Florida Broadcasting, Inc.,
licensee of Station WDFL, Channel 292A, Cross City, Florida,
directed to the Report and Order in this proceeding, 4 FCC Rcd
5599 (1989).  For the reasons discussed below, we are granting
the requested relief.

      2.  The Report and Order upgraded Station WDFL to specify
operation on Channel 295C1.  Included among the related actions
was our denial of a separate proposal by Sarasota FM, Inc.,
("Sarasota FM"), licensee of Station WSRZ, Channel 292A,
Sarasota, to upgrade Station WSRZ to specify operation on Channel
293C2.  In a subsequent Memorandum Opinion and Order, 7 FCC Rcd
2557 (1992), we denied the Petition for Reconsideration filed by
Sarasota FM.  Thereafter, Sarasota FM filed an Application for
Review directed to our denial of its Petition for
Reconsideration.   

      3.  Under Section 1.420(f) of the Commission's Rules, the
upgrade for Station WSRZ at Cross City is stayed pending the
final resolution of the Sarasota FM Application for Review.  See
Arlington, Texas, 6 FCC Rcd 2050, 2051 n.2 (Comm. 1991). The
Application for Review is not directed to the Station WDFL
upgrade or any action that could impact on this upgrade.  As a
result, we believe that there is no longer any need to stay the
effectiveness of the Channel 295C1 upgrade at Cross City. See
Thomasville, Georgia, 5 FCC Rcd 7602 (1990).  In any event, the
grant of the application to implement this upgrade will be
without prejudice and expressly conditioned upon the ultimate
outcome of this proceeding.

      4.  Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED, That the aforementioned
Motion for Severance and Suggestion of Grant filed by Women in
Florida Broadcasting, Inc., IS GRANTED to the extent indicated
above.

 
                                FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
     


                                Douglas W. Webbink
                                Chief, Policy and Rules Division
                                Mass Media Bureau