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May 30, 2008

HAND-DELIVERED
ATTN: Video Division, License Renewal Processing Team
Room 2-A665
Office of the Secretary
Federal Communications Commission
c/o Natek, Inc.
236 Massachusetts Ave., N.E.
Suite 110
Washington, DC 20002

RE: Station call sign: WABC (Channel 7)
City and State: New York, New York
Station facility Identification number: 1328
License renewal application file number: BRCT-20070201BHD

I am writing this letter of informal objection to the broadcast license renewal of television station Channel 7 WABC located in New York, New York.

Although I am not currently a resident of WABC's broadcast market, I have standing to file this informal complaint regarding WABC's license renewal in that I object to a WABC broadcast which was simulcast and rebroadcast nationally, and I travel to WABC's broadcast market at least once a year and indeed did dwell in WABC's broadcast market at the time of its last broadcast license renewal in 1999.

My objection to WABC's renewal regards, specifically, the images broadcast by the station on September 11, 2001. After close review of the footage broadcast at approximately 9:03 a.m. that day, as simulcast nationwide by AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANIES, INC (the holder of WABC's license), Fox News Channel, and others, I have come to the conclusion that the images of an "airplane" purportedly broadcast live was in fact a real-time animation inserted by the WESCAM camera system which WABC was broadcasting that morning.

The evidence for this conclusion is several-fold, the most notable and graspable perhaps being the "stop-motion" nature of the plane image across several frames, rather than a blur of "go-motion" which would have been left by a genuine photographic image of a flying airplane. You may verify this by examination of WABC's archives. I have carefully examined my personal VHS recording of Fox News Channel's rebroadcast of the WABC footage which revealed this stop-animation.

I do not know or allege whether this false broadcast was done out of negligence or malice aforethought. But given the ramifications this broadcast has had on the United States republic, including but not limited to two foreign military actions and passage of laws and executive orders which curb Constitutional liberties, even negligence would disqualify WABC from having its license renewed as the broadcast was a gross violation of the public interest and no remedial steps have been taken by WABC to correct it.

Please consider this informal complaint as you undertake the license renewal process of New York's American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.'s owned and operated Channel 7 WABC's license to operate on the public airwaves. I am hopeful that the FCC will keep in mind the public's objections to this station as the FCC reviews the application to renew the operating licenses for ABC Channel 7 television station. . .

Sincerely,

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