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


In the Matter of                )
                                )
Amendment of Section 73.202(b), )  MM Docket No. 97-104
Table of Allotments,            )  RM-9048
FM Broadcast Stations.          )
(Wellington, Texas)             )


                   MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
                     (Proceeding Terminated)

   Adopted:  December 2, 1998           Released:  January 8, 1999

By the Chief, Policy and Rules Division:

     1.  The Commission has before it a Petition for Reconsideration filed by Hunt Broadcasting, Inc.
("Hunt Broadcasting") directed to the Report and Order in this proceeding. 13 FCC Rcd 4454 (1998).  For the
reasons discussed below, we dismiss the Petition for Reconsideration.

                            Background

     2.  At the request of Stacey Allen Austin, the Notice of Proposed Rule Making in this proceeding
proposed the allotment of Channel 267C3 to Wellington, Texas, as a first local service. 12 FCC Rcd 3696
(1997).  In response to the Notice, Hunt Broadcasting, licensee of Station KIKM, Channel 269C1, Denison-
Sherman, Texas, filed a counterproposal proposing the substitution of Channel 269C for Channel 269C1, the
reallotment of Channel 269C to Azle, Texas, and the modification of the Station KIKM license to specify
operation on Channel 269C at Azle.  In the Report and Order, we determined that this counterproposal was
unacceptable because of a short-spacing to Station KJKB, Channel 269A, Jacksboro, Texas.  In taking this
action, we recognized that in two separate dockets (MM Docket No. 96-10 and MM Docket No. 95-126) we
had allotted different channels to Jacksboro.  However, neither action was final and the Azle proposal was
therefore contingent, at the time it was filed, on at least one of these dockets becoming final.  The Report and
Order allotted alternate Channel 278C3 to Wellington in order to afford  Hunt Broadcasting an opportunity
to refile this proposal as a petition for rule making once one of the outstanding dockets involving Jacksboro
is final.  Hunt Broadcasting filed its Petition for Reconsideration directed to that Report and Order.

     3.  In a separate proceeding in MM Docket No. 97-225, we modified the Station KIKM license to
specify operation on Channel 269C at Azle. 13 FCC Rcd 18920 (19980.  In that proceeding, we were able to
favorably entertain the Hunt Broadcasting counterproposal because MM Docket No. 96-10 had become final
by the time Hunt Broadcasting filed its counterproposal and an allotment at Jacksboro was no longer an
impediment to a Channel 269C allotment at Azle.  As a result of that action, the Petition for Reconsideration
is now moot and will be dismissed.

     4.  Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED, That the aforementioned Petition for Reconsideration filed by Hunt
Broadcasting, Inc. IS DISMISSED.


     5.  IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That this proceeding IS TERMINATED.

     6.  For further information concerning this proceeding, contact Robert Hayne, Mass Media Bureau
(202) 418-2177.

                              FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


                              Charles W. Logan
                              Chief, Policy and Rules Division  
                              Mass Media Bureau