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[email protected] WoNW.COV.COM SAN FRANCISCO SILICON VALLEV WASHINGTON September 25,2009 Ms. Marlene Dortch, Secretary Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20554 Re: National Broadband Plan, GN Docket 09-51 Mobile Wireless Competition, WT Docket 09-66 Fostering Innovation and Investment in the Wireless Communications Market, GN Docket 09-157 Spectrumjor Broadband, GN Dockets 09-47, 09-137 Public Interest Obligations ojLicensees, MM Docket 99-360 Standarized and Enhanced Disclosure Requirements, MM Docket 00-168 Broadcast Localism, MB Docket 04-233 Dear Ms. Dortch: On September 24, 2009, Barrington Broadcasting Group, LLC, Belo Corp., Dispatch Broadcast Group, Freedom Broadcasting, Inc., Gannett Co., Inc., LIN TV Corp., Post-Newsweek Stations, Inc., and Raycom Media, Inc., represented by Alan Frank, President ofPost-Newsweek Stations, Inc., Dave Lougee, President, Broadcasting Division, Gannett Co., Inc., Paul McTear, President and CEO ofRaycom Media, Inc., Doreen Wade, President, Freedom Broadcasting, Inc., Jim Yager, CEO ofBarrington Broadcasting Group, LLC, and Jon Blake and Kurt Wimmer of Covington & Burling, met with Chairman Julius Genachowski, Edward P. Lazarus, Chiefof Staff, and Bruce Liang Gottlieb, ChiefCounsel and Senior Legal Advisor. Although the participants did not make a presentation addressing the merits of pending proceedings, they did discuss the importance of broadcasting to the public and the need to preserve and strengthen local broadcast journalism; broadcasters' innovative and intensive use ofdigital spectrum; the central role ofpublic service to broadcasters' communities oflicense; the potential for effective and reasonable programming documentation requirements; and the value ofmarket-based retransmission consent negotiations in supporting local community service.