Federal Communications Commission DA 14-540 Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of Capital Communications Company, Inc. Licensee of Station WOI-DT Ames, IA ) ) ) ) ) Facility I.D. No. 8661 NAL/Acct. No.: 201441420004 FRN: 0003476983 ORDER Adopted: April 25, 2014 Released: April 25, 2014 By the Chief, Video Division, Media Bureau: I. INTRODUCTION: 1. The Video Division issued a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (“NAL”) to Capital Communications Company, Inc. (the “Licensee”),1 based on its apparent violations of (i) Section 73.3526(e)(11)(iii) of the Commission’s rules for its failure to file timely with the Commission the Children’s Television Programming Reports for Station WOI-DT, Ames, Iowa, and (ii) Section 73.3514(a) of the Commission’s rules for its failure to report those late filings in its renewal application. Based upon our review of the Licensee’s response and the facts and circumstances surrounding it, we hereby rescind the NAL and cancel the proposed forfeiture. II. BACKGROUND: 2. The NAL proposed a forfeiture of $6,000 based on the Licensee’s failure to file its Children’s Television Programming Reports for WOI-DT in a timely manner during four quarters of the license period and its failure to report these late filings on its renewal application.2 3. The Licensee filed a response on February 27, 2014.3 In that response, the Licensee provided evidence in the form of submission confirmation pages and copies of its originally filed Children’s Television Programming Reports to demonstrate that the reports at issue were in fact filed in a timely manner. III. DISCUSSION 4. The Licensee’s showing demonstrates that the reports at issue were filed in a timely manner. Based on this showing, the forfeiture proposed for the late filings should be cancelled. Moreover, because those reports were timely filed, the Licensee did not fail to report any violations on the renewal applications, and the forfeiture proposed for that apparent violation should also be cancelled. 1 Capital Communications Company, Inc., Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture, 29 FCC Rcd 1216 (Vid. Div. 2014). 2 Id. 3 Licensee Response to Notice of Apparent Liability (“Licensee Response”) (Feb. 27, 2014). Federal Communications Commission DA 14-540 2 IV. ORDERING CLAUSES 5. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that the Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture issued to Capital Communications Company, Inc. is hereby RESCINDED and the proposed $6,000 forfeiture is CANCELLED. 6. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that copies of this NAL shall be sent, by First Class and Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested, to Capital Communications Company, Inc., c/o Citadel Communications Company, L.P., 3117 Pondfield Road, Bronxville, NY 10708 and to its counsel, David D. Burns, Latham & Watkins LLP, 555 Eleventh Street, NW, Suite 1000, Washington, D.C. 20004-1204. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Barbara A. Kreisman Chief, Video Division Media Bureau