| Section | Question | Response |
|---|---|---|
| Attachments | Are attachments (other than associated schedules) being filed with this application? |
| Applicant | Address | Phone | Applicant Type | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contact Name | Address | Phone | Contact Type |
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| Section | Question | Response |
|---|---|---|
| Station Type | Station Type | Network Affiliation |
| Affiliated network | My Network | |
| Nielsen DMA | Raleigh-Durham | |
| Web Home Page Address | www.myrdctv.com |
| Question | Response |
|---|---|
| State the average number of hours of Core Programming per week broadcast by the station on its main program stream | 4.0 |
| State the average number of hours per week of free over-the-air digital video programming broadcast by the station on other than its main program stream | 168.0 |
| State the average number of hours per week of Core Programming broadcast by the station on other than its main program stream. See 47 C.F.R. Section 73.671: | 3.0 |
| Does the Licensee provide information identifying each Core Program aired on its station, including an indication of the target child audience, to publishers of program guides as required by 47 C.F.R. Section 73.673? | Yes |
| Does the Licensee certify that at least 50% of the Core Programming counted toward meeting the additional programming guideline (applied to free video programming aired on other than the main Yes No program stream) did not consist of program episodes that had already aired within the previous seven days either on the station's main program stream or on another of the station's free digital program streams? | Yes |
| Digital Core Program (1 of 9) | Response |
|---|---|
| Program Title | Teen Kid News |
| Origination | Syndicated |
| Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled | Saturdays 9am, 9:30am |
| Total times aired at regularly scheduled time | 26 |
| Total times aired | |
| Number of Preemptions | 0 |
| Number of Preemptions for other than Breaking News | |
| Number of Preemptions Rescheduled | |
| Length of Program | 30 mins |
| Age of Target Child Audience | 13 years to 16 years |
| Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. | Teen Kids News is the first kid to kid newscast, created for and delivered by children. Hosted by a diverse news team made up of child journalists reporting from a professional news set. Meets the needs of children whose sophistication and curiosity about their world is motivated by the information explosion. Delivered eye to eye with a pre-adolescent sensibility and sense of humor. Emphasis on diversity and experience. This program aired on the secondary digital stream on WRDC channel 28.2 as part of Cool TV programming. |
| Does the Licensee identify the program by displaying throughout the program the symbol E/I? | Yes |
| Digital Core Program (2 of 9) | Response |
|---|---|
| Program Title | Made In Hollywood Teen Edition |
| Origination | Syndicated |
| Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled | Fridays 7am |
| Total times aired at regularly scheduled time | 12 |
| Total times aired | |
| Number of Preemptions | 0 |
| Number of Preemptions for other than Breaking News | |
| Number of Preemptions Rescheduled | |
| Length of Program | 30 mins |
| Age of Target Child Audience | 13 years to 16 years |
| Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. | Teen Edition provides its target age group of teens 13-16 with behind-the-screen background & techniques for entering the motion picture, television and home entertainment fields, while introducing them to career opportunities focusing on the creative, technical and artistic skills of the profession. This program aired on the main digital stream. |
| Does the Licensee identify the program by displaying throughout the program the symbol E/I? | Yes |
| Digital Core Program (3 of 9) | Response |
|---|---|
| Program Title | Will and Dewitt |
| Origination | Syndicated |
| Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled | Monday, Tuesday 7am |
| Total times aired at regularly scheduled time | 26 |
| Total times aired | |
| Number of Preemptions | 0 |
| Number of Preemptions for other than Breaking News | |
| Number of Preemptions Rescheduled | |
| Length of Program | 30 mins |
| Age of Target Child Audience | 3 years to 7 years |
| Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. | Will and Dewitt, along with their human and animal friends, face challenges, such as the first day of school, or tying their shoes for the first time. They often overcome these challenges by means of their own brand of ingenuity and perseverance, mixed with an ample dose of joy and humor. The boy and his frog, just like real little kids, commonly make mistakes and errors of judgment which at the time may seem monumental, but serves as motivators of growth. Along with this essential kill-based and pro-social education, the series also gives viewers an opportunity to learn primary knowledge based skills. Along with Will and Dewitt, children work with the alphabet, language, numbers, directions, sequences and colors. This program aired on the main digital stream. |
| Does the Licensee identify the program by displaying throughout the program the symbol E/I? | Yes |
| Digital Core Program (4 of 9) | Response |
|---|---|
| Program Title | Ultimate Choice |
| Origination | Syndicated |
| Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled | Saturdays 8am, 8:30am |
| Total times aired at regularly scheduled time | 26 |
| Total times aired | |
| Number of Preemptions | 0 |
| Number of Preemptions for other than Breaking News | |
| Number of Preemptions Rescheduled | |
| Length of Program | 30 mins |
| Age of Target Child Audience | 13 years to 16 years |
| Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. | Follow eight teenagers through a carefully orchestrated extreme adventure throughout the Sunshine State. During their time, the teenagers live their adventure 24 hours a day, saying goodbye to their normal lives and hello to an experience they will never forget. Every episode presents to our teens a heart-stopping extreme adventure along with an opportunity to discuss that experience and its application to major real life issues. These experiences then help the teens develop their own individual convictions about each of the moral issues. This program aired on the secondary digital stream on WRDC channel 28.2 as part of Cool TV programming. |
| Does the Licensee identify the program by displaying throughout the program the symbol E/I? | Yes |
| Digital Core Program (5 of 9) | Response |
|---|---|
| Program Title | Wild America |
| Origination | Syndicated |
| Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled | Saturdays 7am |
| Total times aired at regularly scheduled time | 13 |
| Total times aired | |
| Number of Preemptions | 0 |
| Number of Preemptions for other than Breaking News | |
| Number of Preemptions Rescheduled | |
| Length of Program | 30 mins |
| Age of Target Child Audience | 13 years to 16 years |
| Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. | The ambitious goal of this program is to produce a television experience with which teens could identify and from which teens would learn valuable life lessons. This program presents basic biological facts to this most curious segment of our society. Where does food come from? Where do babies come from? Do animals relate to one another? How does ecology work? And what is the relationship between life and death/humans and nature? This program aired on the main digital stream. |
| Does the Licensee identify the program by displaying throughout the program the symbol E/I? | Yes |
| Digital Core Program (6 of 9) | Response |
|---|---|
| Program Title | Liberty's Kids |
| Origination | Syndicated |
| Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled | Wednesday-Thursday 7am |
| Total times aired at regularly scheduled time | 26 |
| Total times aired | |
| Number of Preemptions | 0 |
| Number of Preemptions for other than Breaking News | |
| Number of Preemptions Rescheduled | |
| Length of Program | 30 mins |
| Age of Target Child Audience | 3 years to 7 years |
| Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. | Ben Franklin hires an American teenage boy, a young English lady and a French orphaned boy as reporters during the Revolution for his newspaper the Pennsylvania Gazette. Through these reporters and their travels to ordinary homes, battlefields from Virginia to Massachusetts and the royal courts of France and England, the viewer is exposed to the issues which prompted the colonies to seek freedom. Through the explanation of these issues by such historical figures as Jefferson and Paine, the viewer also learns the impact theses issues have on the lives of ordinary citizens. This program aired on the main digital stream. |
| Does the Licensee identify the program by displaying throughout the program the symbol E/I? | Yes |
| Digital Core Program (7 of 9) | Response |
|---|---|
| Program Title | Beta Records |
| Origination | Syndicated |
| Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled | Saturdays 7am |
| Total times aired at regularly scheduled time | 13 |
| Total times aired | |
| Number of Preemptions | 0 |
| Number of Preemptions for other than Breaking News | |
| Number of Preemptions Rescheduled | |
| Length of Program | 30 mins |
| Age of Target Child Audience | 13 years to 16 years |
| Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. | Beta Records TV is a weekly half-hour music centric show that follows a magazine format with segments ranging from major and indie artist interviews and unplugged performances in BETA's studios, "Electro" Ross Blomgren's tutorials and how-to's, producer and music executive tips, Internet heroes, The vault (legendary artists), and music as it pertains to fashion and pop culture. This program aired on the secondary digital stream on WRDC channel 28.2 as part of Cool TV programming. |
| Does the Licensee identify the program by displaying throughout the program the symbol E/I? | Yes |
| Digital Core Program (8 of 9) | Response |
|---|---|
| Program Title | Real Life 101 |
| Origination | Syndicated |
| Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled | Saturdays 7:30am |
| Total times aired at regularly scheduled time | 13 |
| Total times aired | |
| Number of Preemptions | 0 |
| Number of Preemptions for other than Breaking News | |
| Number of Preemptions Rescheduled | |
| Length of Program | 30 mins |
| Age of Target Child Audience | 13 years to 16 years |
| Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. | Real Life 101 presents real people pursuing real jobs and careers in an educational and informational format designed to help its viewers make important decisions about perparing for the future. The careers and people featured are carefully selected in order to present vivid impressions that can be used by the series' young audience. This program aired on the secondary digital stream on WRDC channel 28.2 as part of Cool TV programming. |
| Does the Licensee identify the program by displaying throughout the program the symbol E/I? | Yes |
| Digital Core Program (9 of 9) | Response |
|---|---|
| Program Title | Mad About... |
| Origination | Syndicated |
| Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled | Saturdays 7:30am |
| Total times aired at regularly scheduled time | 13 |
| Total times aired | |
| Number of Preemptions | 0 |
| Number of Preemptions for other than Breaking News | |
| Number of Preemptions Rescheduled | |
| Length of Program | 30 mins |
| Age of Target Child Audience | 13 years to 16 years |
| Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. | Mad About Money is the program that helps you learn about earning, saving,spending and sharing your money. And we do all this while making you laugh! Mad About Money combines improv sketch comedy along with great information about your money: * The difference between cash and credit * The importance of forming a savings habit * The different levels of risk in investing This program aired on the main digital stream. |
| Does the Licensee identify the program by displaying throughout the program the symbol E/I? | Yes |
| Question | Response |
|---|---|
| Does the Licensee publicize the existence and location of the station's Children's Television Programming Reports (FCC 398) as required by 47 C.F.R. Section 73.3526(e)(11)(iii)? | Yes |
| Name of children's programming liaison | Scott Bradsher |
| Address | 3012 Highwoods Blvd. Suite 101 |
| City | Raleigh |
| State | NC |
| Zip | 27604 |
| Telephone Number | 919-872-9535 |
| Email Address | sbradsher@sbgnet.com |
| Include any other comments or information you want the Commission to consider in evaluating your compliance with the Children's Television Act (or use this space for supplemental explanations). This may include information on any other noncore educational and informational programming that you aired this quarter or plan to air during the next quarter, or any existing or proposed non-broadcast efforts that will enhance the educational and informational value of such programming to children. See 47 C.F.R. Section 73.671, NOTES 2 and 3. | WRDC aired approximately 3 hours of Kid related PSA's for the 1st quarter. The PSA's were about such subjects as: Environment, education, crime, Health, and fitness. WRDC also gives station tours, for school groups and scout troops. The station's channel number changed from 27 to 28 on 06/12/09. |
| Other Matters (1 of 9) | Response |
|---|---|
| Program Title | Wild America |
| Origination | Syndicated |
| Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled | Saturdays 7am |
| Total times aired at regularly scheduled time | 13 |
| Length of Program | 30 mins |
| Age of Target Child Audience from | 13 years to 16 years |
| Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. | The ambitious goal of this program is to produce a television experience with which teens could identify and from which teens would learn valuable life lessons. This program presents basic biological facts to this most curious segment of our society. Where does food come from? Where do babies come from? Do animals relate to one another? How does ecology work? And what is the relationship between life and death/humans and nature? This program will air main digital stream. |
| Other Matters (2 of 9) | Response |
|---|---|
| Program Title | Ulitmate Choice |
| Origination | Syndicated |
| Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled | Saturdays 8am and 8:30am |
| Total times aired at regularly scheduled time | 26 |
| Length of Program | 30 mins |
| Age of Target Child Audience from | 13 years to 16 years |
| Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. | Follow eight teenagers through a carefully orchestrated extreme adventure throughout the Sunshine State. During their time, the teenagers live their adventure 24 hours a day, saying goodbye to their normal lives and hello to an experience they will never forget. Every episode presents to our teens a heart-stopping extreme adventure along with an opportunity to discuss that experience and its application to major real life issues. These experiences then help the teens develop their own individual convictions about each of the moral issues. This program will air on the secondary digital stream on WRDC channel 28.2 as part of Cool TV programming. |
| Other Matters (3 of 9) | Response |
|---|---|
| Program Title | Liberty's Kids |
| Origination | Syndicated |
| Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled | Wednesday-Thursday 7am |
| Total times aired at regularly scheduled time | 26 |
| Length of Program | 30 mins |
| Age of Target Child Audience from | 7 years to 12 years |
| Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. | Ben Franklin hires an American teenage boy, a young English lady and a French orphaned boy as reporters during the Revolution for his newspaper the Pennsylvania Gazette. Through these reporters and their travels to ordinary homes, battlefields from Virginia to Massachusetts and the royal courts of France and England, the viewer is exposed to the issues which prompted the colonies to seek freedom. Through the explanation of these issues by such historical figures as Jefferson and Paine, the viewer also learns the impact theses issues have on the lives of ordinary citizens. This program will air main digital stream. |
| Other Matters (4 of 9) | Response |
|---|---|
| Program Title | Mad About... |
| Origination | Syndicated |
| Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled | Saturdays 7:30am |
| Total times aired at regularly scheduled time | 13 |
| Length of Program | 30 mins |
| Age of Target Child Audience from | 13 years to 16 years |
| Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. | Mad About Money is the program that helps you learn about earning, saving,spending and sharing your money. And we do all this while making you laugh! Mad About Money combines improv sketch comedy along with great information about your money: * The difference between cash and credit * The importance of forming a savings habit * The different levels of risk in investing This program will air on the main digital stream. |
| Other Matters (5 of 9) | Response |
|---|---|
| Program Title | Real Life 101 |
| Origination | Syndicated |
| Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled | Saturdays 7:30am |
| Total times aired at regularly scheduled time | 13 |
| Length of Program | 30 mins |
| Age of Target Child Audience from | 13 years to 16 years |
| Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. | Real Life 101 presents real people pursuing real jobs and careers in an educational and informational format designed to help its viewers make important decisions about perparing for the future. The careers and people featured are carefully selected in order to present vivid impressions that can be used by the series' young audience. This program will air on the secondary digital stream on WRDC channel 28.2 as part of Cool TV programming. |
| Other Matters (6 of 9) | Response |
|---|---|
| Program Title | Will and Dewitt |
| Origination | Syndicated |
| Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled | Monday-Tuesday 7am |
| Total times aired at regularly scheduled time | 26 |
| Length of Program | 30 mins |
| Age of Target Child Audience from | 3 years to 7 years |
| Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. | Will and Dewitt, along with their human and animal friends, face challenges, such as the first day of school, or tying their shoes for the first time. They often overcome these challenges by means of their own brand of ingenuity and perseverance, mixed with an ample dose of joy and humor. The boy and his frog, just like real little kids, commonly make mistakes and errors of judgment which at the time may seem monumental, but serves as motivators of growth. Along with this essential kill-based and pro-social education, the series also gives viewers an opportunity to learn primary knowledge based skills. Along with Will and Dewitt, children work with the alphabet, language, numbers, directions, sequences and colors. This program will air on the main digital stream. |
| Other Matters (7 of 9) | Response |
|---|---|
| Program Title | Made In Hollywood Teen Edition |
| Origination | Syndicated |
| Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled | Fridays 7am |
| Total times aired at regularly scheduled time | 13 |
| Length of Program | 30 mins |
| Age of Target Child Audience from | 13 years to 16 years |
| Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. | Teen Edition provides its target age group of teens 13-16 with behind-the-screen background & techniques for entering the motion picture, television and home entertainment fields, while introducing them to career opportunities focusing on the creative, technical and artistic skills of the profession. This program will air on the main digital stream. |
| Other Matters (8 of 9) | Response |
|---|---|
| Program Title | Beta Records |
| Origination | Syndicated |
| Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled | Saturdays 7am |
| Total times aired at regularly scheduled time | 13 |
| Length of Program | 30 mins |
| Age of Target Child Audience from | 13 years to 16 years |
| Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. | Beta Records TV is a weekly half-hour music centric show that follows a magazine format with segments ranging from major and indie artist interviews and unplugged performances in BETA's studios, "Electro" Ross Blomgren's tutorials and how-to's, producer and music executive tips, Internet heroes, The vault (legendary artists), and music as it pertains to fashion and pop culture. This program will air on the secondary digital stream on WRDC channel 28.2 as part of Cool TV programming. |
| Other Matters (9 of 9) | Response |
|---|---|
| Program Title | Teen Kid News |
| Origination | Syndicated |
| Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled | Saturdays 9am and 9:30am |
| Total times aired at regularly scheduled time | 26 |
| Length of Program | 30 mins |
| Age of Target Child Audience from | 13 years to 16 years |
| Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. | Teen Kids News is the first kid to kid newscast, created for and delivered by children. Hosted by a diverse news team made up of child journalists reporting from a professional news set. Meets the needs of children whose sophistication and curiosity about their world is motivated by the information explosion. Delivered eye to eye with a pre-adolescent sensibility and sense of humor. Emphasis on diversity and experience. This program will air on the secondary digital stream on WRDC channel 28.2 as part of Cool TV programming. |
| Question | Response |
|---|---|
The undersigned certifies that he or she is (a) the party filing the Children's Television Programming, or an officer, director, member, partner, trustee, authorized employee, or other individual or duly elected or appointed official who is authorized to sign on behalf of the party filing the Children's Television Programming; or (b) an attorney qualified to practice before the Commission under 47 C.F.R. Section 1.23(a), who is authorized to represent the party filing the Children's Television Programming, and who further certifies that he or she has read the document; that to the best of his or her knowledge, information,and belief there is good ground to support it; and that it is not interposed for delay. FAILURE TO SIGN THIS APPLICATION MAY RESULT IN DISMISSAL OF THE APPLICATION AND FORFEITURE OF ANY FEES PAID Upon grant of this application, the Authorization Holder may be subject to certain construction or coverage requirements. Failure to meet the construction or coverage requirements will result in automatic cancellation of the Authorization. Consult appropriate FCC regulations to determine the construction or coverage requirements that apply to the type of Authorization requested in this application. WILLFUL FALSE STATEMENTS MADE ON THIS FORM OR ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE PUNISHABLE BY FINE AND/OR IMPRISONMENT (U.S. Code, Title 18, §1001) AND/OR REVOCATION OF ANY STATION AUTHORIZATION (U.S. Code, Title 47, §312(a)(1)), AND/OR FORFEITURE (U.S. Code, Title 47, §503). |
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| I certify that this application includes all required and relevant attachments. | |
| I declare, under penalty of perjury, that I am an authorized representative of the above-named applicant for the Authorization(s) specified above. |
Raleigh (WRDC-TV) Licensee, Inc.
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