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

In re Application of                    )
                              )
George Bouris                      )
(Assignor)                         )
                              )    File No. BAL-980217EB
and                           )    
                              )    Facility ID No. 17574
Wagenvoord Advertising Group, Inc.      )
(Assignee)                         )
                              )
For Assignment of the license of             )
Station WTAN(AM), Clearwater, FL        )


                       MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

     Adopted:  November 19, 1999                       Released:  November 24, 1999


By the Commission:


     1. The Commission has before it an application for review filed August 31, 1999 by Eleftherios Drettakis
("Drettakis").  Drettakis requests review of a July 21, 1999 ruling by the Chief, Audio Services Division,
Mass Media Bureau ("staff decision") denying the petition to deny and dismissing the petition to reinstate
filed by Drettakis and granting the application to assign a fifty percent interest of the licensee of Station
WTAN(AM), Clearwater, Florida, from George Bouris to Wagenvoord Advertising Group, Inc.

     2. Drettakis essentially maintains that the record ownership of the licensee, approved by the staff
in 1990 and consistently affirmed in subsequent ownership reports, is inaccurate.  Specifically, Drettakis
claims to own a forty-five percent interest pursuant to a 1990 intra-corporate stock purchase.  He also
claims that Bouris owns only ten percent of the licensee and thus cannot assign a fifty percent interest.  

     3. The evidence Drettakis submits in support of his claim consists of contradictory affidavits and
conflicting explanations regarding various corporate documents.  The dispute at issue is clearly a private
one among shareholders which is within the province of a local court of competent jurisdiction, not the
Commission.  See Kirk Merkley, Receiver, 94 FCC 2d 829, 838 (1983); D.H. Overmyer, 94 FCC 2d 117,
123 (1983).  As noted by the staff, however the Commission can subsequently accommodate a favorable
local court ruling on the merits of Drettakis' contractual claim if he submits evidence of such a ruling.  See
Tsooris Corporation, 12 FCC Rcd 1675, 1678-79 (1997); Dale J. Parsons, Jr., 10 FCC Rcd 2718, 2719-
20 (1995).         

     4. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that the application for review filed August 31, 1999 by
Eleftherios Drettakis IS DENIED.  


                         FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION



                         Magalie Rom n Salas
                         Secretary