7 Applicants for UHF Station Reach Agreement The seven remaining appli cants for a Littte Rode televi sion station on Channel 16 have submitted an agreement that they will Join together to get a permit and one of them will be selected to operate the station. • The purpose of the agreement is to avoid the time and expense of going through the hearings procedure before the Federal Communications Commission, which has lasted two years al ready and could have lasted an other two years or longer before a final selection was marie .The agreement is subject to approval by the F&. if appro ved is given, a construction per mit could be issued early next year. Channel 16 is in the ultra-high frequency (UHF) band. The three existing Little Rock tele vision stations broadcast oo the VHP (very high frequency) band whose transmissions generally extend farther than UHF sig nals. The agreement will be for mally submitted to the FOC by January :$, after which the agency will allow IS days for objections to be filed and eight more days for replies to those objections. An administraive law judge could then approve or deny the settlement petition. A spokesman for one of the corporations that applied for the channel permit in Mhy 1980 said that his firm and the others had signed a joint “memorandum of understanding” at a brief hear ing at the F(X? December 8. The Execution Stayed memorandum generally calls for the seven remaining appli cants to merge into one cor poration that would own the new channel An FCC spokesman said the agreement specified that the managing applicant would com pensate the other joint owners for part of their expense in pur suing their applications. FCC Administrative Law Judge Wal ter C. Miller could then desig nate one of those applicants, supposedly LRTV Limited Part nership of Little Rock and New York, to manage the station. Salah M. Hassanien a| yl wn«» England Hassanien of New York filed as the firm’s limited part ners, and MMT Sales, Inc., of New York as a general partner in LRTV Limited Partnership. MMT, whose president is Gary Scollard, represents local televi sion stations that seek to sell time through national advertis ing agencies. The FCC said in a news re lease that it would suspend all procedural deadlines previously set in the case until it acted on the applicants’ petition for ap proval of their settlement The FCC said such settlements could avert “expensive and time-con suming hearings.” Other applicants who signed the agreement memorandum are Gemini Broadcasting Com pany of Atlanta; Teleco Arkan sas, Inc., of Detroit; Little Rode TV 18, Inc., of Little Rode; Cell ing Company of Shenandoah, la., and Grant Broadcasting Cor poration of Little Rock. Deborah Mathis and Randy Wilburn, both of Little Rock, and Robin Martin of New York are officers for LRTV 16; Mil- ton Grant of Washington owns Grant Broadcasting; Anthony Kupris of Atlanta owns Gemini; state Senator Ben Allen of Little Rock and four other local busi nessmen are associates of Teleco, Inc., and Daniel Garner of Little Rock, former owner of KLAZ radio, heads Central Ar kansas Television. The Christian Center of North Little Rock applied first for the FCC permit in November 1979, but it later withdrew its appli cation because of the length and expense of the process. tral Arkansas Television, Inc., of Little Rock; May Broadcast