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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)                  )
                                     )


                            REPORT AND ORDER
                          (Proceeding Terminated)

   Adopted:  February 18, 1998                                   Released:  February 27, 1998  

By the Chief, Allocations Branch:

     1.  At the request of Stacey Allen Austin ("petitioner"), the Commission has before it
the Notice of Proposed Rule Making, 12 FCC Rcd 3696(1997), proposing the allotment of
Channel 267C3 to Wellington, Texas, as the community's first local aural transmission service. 
Petitioner filed comments and reply comments restating her interest in applying for Channel
267C3, if allotted.  Hunt Broadcasting, Inc., licensee of Station KDVE(FM), licensee of 
Channel 269C3, Denison-Sherman, Texas, filed a counterproposal and reply comments.   

     2.  We believe the public interest would be served by allotting Channel 278C3 instead
of Channel 267C3 since petitioner's has agreed to the alternate channel and its allotment will
afford  Hunt Broadcasting an opportunity to submit its change of community counterproposal
as a new petition for rule making once the Application for Review in MM Docket No. 95-126
is finalized.  The allotment of Channel 278C3 will provide Wellington with its first local aural
transmission service.  Channel 278C3 can be allotted to Wellington in compliance with the
Commission's minimum distance separation requirements with a site restriction of 4.5 kilometers
(2.8 miles) southwest in order to avoid a short-spacing conflict with the licensed operation of
Station KWOX(FM), Channel 266C, Woodward, Oklahoma.

     3.  Accordingly, pursuant to the authority contained in Sections 4(i),5(c)(1), 303(g) and
(r) and 307(b) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and Sections 0.61, 0.204(b) and
0.283 of the Commission's Rules, IT IS ORDERED, That effective April 13, 1998, the FM
Table of Allotments, Section 73.202(b) of the Commission's Rules, IS AMENDED, with respect
to the community listed below, to read as follows:

                    City                                     Channel No.

                    Wellington, Texas                       278C3

     4.  A filing window for Channel 278C3 at Wellington, Texas, will not be opened at this
time.  Instead, the issue of opening a filing window for this channel will be addressed by the
Commission in a subsequent order.

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

     6.  For further information concerning this proceeding, contact Pam Blumenthal, Mass
Media Bureau, (202) 418-2180.

                                          FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION




                                          John A. Karousos 
                                          Chief, Allocations Branch
                                          Policy and Rules Division
                                          Mass Media Bureau