Advanced Television Systems and Their Impact on the Existing Television Service

By this Order, we are denying a request from Hogan and Hartson, L.L.P., that we consolidate the due date for responses to the petitions for reconsideration of the Sixth Report and Order in MM Docket No. 87-268, 62 FR 26684, with the due date that will be established for responses to any supplemental filings relating to channel change requests that we may receive under the procedure we established recently for such filings. In denying this request, we are concerned that extending the time for filing responses to the petitions for reconsideration to consolidate those responses with responses any supplemental filings we may receive would serve to delay the final resolution of issues relating to the allotment of DTV channels.