March 17, 2000 Ms. Deborah Lathen Chief Cable Services Bureau Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20554 Re: In the Matter of Applications for Transfer of Control to AT&T Corp. of Licenses and Authorizations Held by MediaOne Group, Inc., CS Docket No. 99-251 Dear Ms. Lathen: This letter responds to the Cable Services Bureau's request for information regarding AT&T's compliance with the channel occupancy rules, 47 C.F.R.  76.504, after the closing of its proposed merger with MediaOne. To comply with this request, AT&T and MediaOne reviewed the channel lineups of all of their respective cable systems as of year-end 1999. For purposes of these analyses, AT&T and MediaOne treated as affiliated services all national video programming services that are affiliated with AT&T, MediaOne, Liberty Media Corp., Rainbow Media Sports Holdings, Inc., or Time Warner Entertainment, L.P. pursuant to the affiliation rules in the Notes to 47 C.F.R.  76.501. Based on these analyses, AT&T and MediaOne found that all of AT&T's cable systems and all of the MediaOne cable systems that AT&T will acquire will be in compliance with the 40% channel occupancy limit post-merger with the exception of four systems. The four systems are located in Decatur, IL, Battle Creek, MI, Minot, ND, and Westport, WA. As explained below, AT&T has taken, or will take, all necessary steps to ensure that these four systems will be in compliance with the channel occupancy rules at the time of the closing of the merger. In two of these systems -- Decatur, IL, and Battle Creek, MI -- AT&T already has adjusted the services it offers its customers so that the systems will be in compliance with the channel occupancy rules at the closing of the proposed merger. In the Westport, WA, system, AT&T will adjust the services it offers its customers early next month so that this system also will be in compliance with the channel occupancy rules at the time of the closing of the merger. In the remaining system -- Minot, ND -- AT&T will adjust the service offerings as expeditiously as possible so that it also will be in compliance with the channel occupancy limits at the time of the closing of the merger. Thus, all of the AT&T systems will be in compliance with the channel occupancy rules at the time of the closing of the merger. Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have on this matter. Sincerely, Douglas G. Garrett Senior Regulatory Counsel cc: See attached service list CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I, Robin Smith, do hereby certify that I caused one copy of the foregoing Ex Parte letter of AT&T Corp. to be served by hand delivery on all parties on the attached service list, this 17th day of March, 2000. 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Room 8-B115 Washington, DC 20554 Kathryn Brown Federal Communications Commission The Portals 445 Twelfth Street, S.W. Room 8-A204 Washington, DC 20554 Andrew Jay Schwartzman President and CEO Media Access Project 950 18th Street, N.W. Suite 220 Washington, D.C. 20006 Don Wang International Transcription Service 1231 20th Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20036-2307 ______________________________ Robin Smith Ms. Deborah Lathen March 17, 2000 Page 2 chanocc chanocc