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--11 / 1 1 they disagreed with either your fath~r·. or your awn 1 Is that corroct? religiOUS belief5. 2 1 didn't say anything of the kind. 1 , No, sir. JUDGE LUTON: That's fine. Stop. 1 1 BV MR. ALPERT; Do yoU have a~y ties 1 Q whatsoever to Blackfoot, Id~ho currentlY? 1 1 A What do you mean by ties? 1 Q Family, friends, property, anything? • 1 • A 1 v lsited there.. .,et sa.,e peap1e, ca,•.,unit y 1 for~h. ieaGers and $0 1 o But nothing that ties you dawn there or 12 1 a~ything of that sort right now? 13 A 1 have no faMily 0'" friends there ather than 1 1 the people t'v. Met when t visited. 1ft ,. o Okay. ASSUMing you get thiS grant do you have 1 any plans right now to only own this property for a 1 finite period of time? 1 .8 A No, 1 have no plans to sell it if that's what tt 1 yoU lRe.n. 1 That'. what 1 meant. 21 Q 1 you say that yOU in..-r,d to establish a dOMicile in 1 Blackfoot. Is that correct? 23 1 A Yes. o. Do you intend to .,aintain any other residences 1 1 25 1 1 "," 1 78 • anywhere else in the country at the time that you have your domicile in 91ackfoot? J No, I intend to live in Blackfoot. • Q No oth&r residence~ anywhere else? s No. , Q And it's your intention to, 7 and purposes, for the foreseeable future to live there • forevel''? • MR. FRIEDMAN: Objection, Your Honor. Forever ·10 is irrelevant. 11 MR. ALPc:nT: 12 the Commission's policy is that integration proposals 13 should be on a permanent basis. Permanent is equated, I ,. believe, to forever. 3UDGE LUTON: I think an indefinite period of I' time would be enough. I don't think he should commit t7 himself to forever living in anyone place. 11 to ask the witness whether he intends to stay in I' Blackfoot for an indefinite tim., that'. okay_ 20 BY MR. ALPERT: 21 Q Do you intend to live in Blackfoot for an 22 indefinite period of time? 23 Yes. 2' Q Can you foresee any circu~stances uncer which 2S you would leave? For in$ta~ce, buying an~ther broadcast ,I ," ., / ATTACHMENT 6 / Richard P. Bott, II MM Docket No. 87-223 File No. BPH-850711MM Bott Exhibit No. 4 BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT OF RICHARD P. BOTT, II My name is Richard P. Bott, II. I am currently a Vice President and a director of Bott Broadcasting Company, Independence, Missouri. I hold similar positions with the related companies of Victory Communications, Inc. and Bott Communications, Inc•• I am a citizen of the United states and I have lived at 8603 Buckingham Lane, Kansas City, Missouri, for approximately the past four years. If my application is granted, I will move to and make Blackfoot, Idaho my domicile. I will serve, on a full-time basis of at least 40 hours per week, as General Manager of my proposed station. I graduated with honors from Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1977. I received a Bachelor of Science Degree. I majored in Business Management and minored in Radio and Television. In 1981, I received a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business Administration of Harvard University in Ca.bridge, Massachusetts. During my MBA studies, I undertook a research project concerning the radio broadcasting business. My broadcast experience dates back to my high school days. -From 1970-73, I worked afternoons at Station KCCV(AM), Independence, Missouri, as an announcer and program producer. I / Bott Exhibit No. 4 Page 2 was producer of the weekly radio program "Teen Tempo." At Bob Jones University, I worked at campus Station WBJU(~? from 1974-77. At the station, I was in cbarge of promotions, programming, and advertising. For two years, from 1977-79, I was General Manager of Media Management Associates, an advertising agency in South Carolina. After spending the next two years at Harvard University, I returned to radio as General Manager for Station WFCV(AM}, Fort Wayne, Indiana, for approximately a six-month period in 1981 an~ 1982. In 1982, I joined Bott Broadcasting Company ("BBC") as Vice President for Sales and Marketing. In 1984, I became Vice President of BBC. I work on a full-time basis of at least 40 hours per week at BBC handling administrative matters for BBC and its associated companies' radio stations. My principal responsibility has been to ensure that the day-to-day activities of the stations are carried out in an effective and profitable manner. My managerial duties include a broad range of areas that I am personally in charge of and aleo some .atters that I share with the President of BBC. The duties that tend to be my principal ones are in supervising the activities of the individual station general managers, handling the sale of national advertising time on the stations, monitoring the financial conditions of the corporation and its stations, and ensuring that our business plan is met. , * / / Bott Exhibit No. 4 Page 3 I am involved in the Independence, Missouri Chan,ber of Commerce as well as church groups and other community and civic organizations. The chance to build, nurture, and develop my own radio station business is one that I have sought since my business school days. While I wiil remain an officer and director of BBC and its associated companies, as well as ownin,g the Central Valley station, I will treat them as matters of secondary importance. I expect that BBC will hire someone to handle the duties I have been responsible for and that my only contact with EBC will be occasional board of directors meetings. As for the Central Valley station, I will employ a general manager for all day-to-day activities and will limit my involvement to reviewing his work from my Blackfoot home and office. The FM station at Blackfoot will, as a result, be my principal endeavor. 4· / / Richard P. Bott, II MM Docket No. 87-223 File No.BPH·8S071IMM 'Bott Exhibit No.4 Page 4 DECLARATION I, Richard P. Bott, II, declare under penalty of perjury, that the information contained in the foregoing exhibit is true and correct, to the best of my knowledge and belief. Further Executed at I on the ci1t/g day of November, 1987. ~ :. Rlcnard P. Bott, 11 31 / ATTACHMENT 7 ---./ 32 ,* / DPOUft. WAlBDlOTOM. D. Co .... In re Applications of ) MM Docket No. 87-223 ) RICHARD P. Barr, II ) Fi1. No. BPH-8S07llMM ) RADIO REPRESENTATIVES, INC. ) File No. BPH-8S07l~ ) CLARE MARIE FERGUSON ) File No. BPH-850712MS ) For Construction Per.it for ) a New FM Station in ) Blackfoot, Idaho ) ) To: Honorable Edward Luton Administrative Law Judge PROPOSED FtNDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW OF RICHARD P. BOTT, 11 Barry A. Pri~n MieMe1 Drayer .I~ ~ SCHEINER Suite 300 1200 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 861-7800 February 8, 1988 '----..-" 33 / -33- quantitative participation. see Alexander S. Klein, Jr., .upra, '---.-.-' 86 FCC2d at 424-25, Jarad Broadca.ting COllpany, Inc., .upra, 1 FCC Rcd. 181. (1) Richard P. Bott, II 70. Richard P. Bott, II, will be perunently integrated into the day-to-day operation .nd ••nagement of hi. proposed atation on a full-tiM basi. of at leaat 40 hour. per week. Fdgs. '11. Bott will serve •• General Manager of his propo.ed station. Id. General Manager is the highest-level ..nageMnt position, with a substantial policy-making component, and i. specifically cited by the Commission a. a position placed at the highest level of int;egration credit. Policy Stat_nt, .upra, 1 FCC2d at 395. Having specified that the .ole principal of the ~' applicant will be the station's general manager, Bott must receive this level of integration credit. !!! Alexander s. Klein, Jr., supra, 86 FCC2d at 432 n. 41. Accordingly, Bott should receive 100\ quantitative integration credit. 71. Bott's 100' quantitative credit is entitled to qualitative enhanc..ent for his proposed relocation to Blackfoot and hi. sub8tantial broadca.t experience. Bott ha••tated that if his application is granted, he will MOve to Blackfoot. Fdgs. I 12. Thu., Bott ia entitled to a slight local residence enhancement credit for this future local residence. See Vacationland Broadcasting Company, Inc., 97 FCC2d 485, 495 (Rev. Bd. 1984) • Furthermore, although broadcast experience is a factor of lesser enhancement value, Bott is entitled to enhancement for bis extensive broadcast experience, which 34 + ATTACHMENT 8 35 / WITHDRAWN FROM. ORAL ARGUMENT PURSUANT TO LOCAL RULE 13 (i) UHITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT COURT RADIO REPRESEN'l'ATIVES.,- INC. , * '. * Petitioner, * No. 90-1227 * vs. * * FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION * * Respondent, * * RICHARD P. BO'rl', II, * * Intervenor. * RESPONSB .'M MOTIOft TO REIWID 1'0 RIOPIIf TIlE RECORD Richard P. Bott, II ("Bott"), Intervenor in the above referenced appeal, by his attorneys and pursuant to Local Rule 7 (d), hereby responds to the Motion to Remand to Reopen the Record filed herein by Radio Representatives, Inc. ("RRI") , Appellant. In support hereof, Bott states as follows: 1. In presenting its Motion, RRI argues to this Court that it has calle upon new evidence that undercuts the integration credit heretofore awarded Bott by the Federal co_unications Commission ("FCC"), thereby requiring a further evidentiary hearing. The evidence allegedly arises from the Initial Decision of an FCC Administrative Law Judge in a comparative hearing in which Bott was neither a party nor a witness.