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TELEPROMPTER CABLE COMMUNICATIONS CORP. v. F. C. C.

No. 75-1563.

565 F.2d 736 (1977)

TELEPROMPTER CABLE COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents, Washoe Empire, etc., Nevada Radio-Television, Inc., Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided September 19, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay E. Ricks, Washington, D. C., with whom Gardner F. Gillespie, Washington, D. C., was on the brief for petitioner.

James F. Ponsoldt, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., with whom Barry Grossman, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., was on the brief for respondent United States. Howard E. Shapiro, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for respondent United States.

Jack David Smith, Counsel, F. C. C., Washington, D. C., was on the brief for respondent F. C. C.; Ashton R. Hardy, Gen. Counsel, F. C. C., Daniel M. Armstrong, Associate Gen. Counsel and David L. Kuhns, Counsel, F. C. C., Washington, D. C., were on the brief for respondent F. C. C.

Howard M. Liberman, Washington, D. C., with whom Robert B. Jacobi, Edgar F. Czarra, Jr., and Michael S. Horne, Washington, D. C., were on the brief for intervenors.

Before McGOWAN, LEVENTHAL and ROBB, Circuit Judges.

Opinion for the Court filed by ROBB, Circuit Judge.

ROBB, Circuit Judge.

This is a petition for review of orders of the Federal Communications Commission refusing to authorize the carriage of the signals of certain Los Angeles, California television stations on the petitioner's cable television systems at Reno-Sparks, Nevada. We reverse.

On October 25, 1966 Community Antenna Company, the predecessor of our petitioner Teleprompter Cable Communications...

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