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EEO PUBLIC FILE REPORT For LINCOLN BROADCASTING COMPANY dba KTSF-TV

This EEO Public File Report Covers the Period Beginning August 1, 2006 and Ending on July 31, 2007

This EEO Public File Report is filed in Station KTSF-TV’s public inspection file and posted on its website at www.ktsf.com pursuant to Section 73.2080 (c)(6) of the Federal Communications Commission's ("FCC") rules.

During the period beginning August 1, 2006 and ending July 31, 2007 the station filled the following full-time vacancies:

News Reporter – Mandarin News Writer

During the year, a total of 16 people were interviewed for the 2 vacancies. The sources of the 16 interviewees were: Sing Tao (a local Chinese-language newspaper) [1], World Journal (a national Chinese-language newspaper) [1], Craigslist [7], KTSF website [5] and employee referrals [2]

Listed below are each vacancy identified by the job title, date of hire, the referral sources used for each vacancy, and the source of each hiree. Attachment A to this annual EEO Public File Report is a list of all referral sources used during the reporting period in connection with the vacancies. All sources listed in Attachment A were notified of all vacancies. None of the sources requested notification. In addition, KTSF utilized, for selected vacancies only, as shown below three additional referral sources: Sing Tao (Cynthia Yu, 5000 Marina Blvd., 3rd Floor, Brisbane, CA 94005, (650) 808-8800), World Journal (Brenda Song, 231 Adrian Rd., Millbrae, CA 94030 (650) 259-2046) and Craigslist (Clint Powell, 1381 9th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94122 (415) 566-6394).

Attachment B below describes KTSF’s general outreach initiatives.

FULL-TIME POSITIONS FILLED DURING THE REPORTING PERIOD

Job Title	Referral Sources Used By KTSF	Source for Hiree
Mandarin News Reporter	Attachment A (Referral Source list) KTSF Website Sing Tao Craigslist	KTSF web site
Date of Hire: October 30, 2006
Job Title	Referral Sources Used By KTSF	Source for Hiree
News Writer	Attachment A World Journal Craigslist KTSF Website Employee Referral	KTSF Website
Date of Hire: November 1, 2006

ATTACHMENT B
GENERAL OUTREACH INITIATIVES

KTSF TV has continued to implement the two initiatives of the internship and mentoring programs from 2005 and 2006, and, in addition has further implemented the two additional initiatives implemented in the 2006 report. All four programs are reported in detail below:

MENU OPTION NO. 5: INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

KTSF has continued its commitment to the internship program, which was established in 2003. The program is designed to assist members of the community to acquire skills needed for broadcast employment.

This reporting period all except one of the interns coming from local colleges San Francisco State University, City College of San Francisco, University of California, Berkeley, De Anza College, San Jose State University and one from Emerson College in Boston, MA.

It is a policy requirement that all interns participate in an academic internship program and receive credit for their time spent at KTSF. On the average an intern participates 20 hours per week, totaling 360 hours in a semester. Most interns came with only academic training and no actual broadcast experience.

Activity within the Reporting Period.
Due to the cancellation of both Stir and Nightshift productions, KTSF has had less opportunity to avail students of program production internships. However our internship program has been maintained with participation in Sales and Marketing departments involving a total of eight interns.

A Description of each of those internships, and the results of each, follows:

(2) Marketing Interns

Two interns joined the Marketing Department in the 2006-2007 period. One from San Francisco State University, got started as early as August 1, 2006 and finished September 1, 2006. The second intern, from San Jose State University, joined the program this summer in July 13, 2007, is still with us, and her last day will be on December 1, 2007.

The skills acquired in the Marketing Department involve production of promotional announcements tapes, editing and logging tapes and assisting in the public street for events.

(6) News Department Interns

Three interns joined the News Department in the summer/fall period starting in August 18, 2006 and ending in December 22, 2006. Two of these interns come from San Francisco State with the third from De Anza College.

Another three interns were hired in 2007, started as early as April 2007 and will stay through September 22, 2007. One intern is from San Jose University and the second is from Emerson College in Boston and the third is from U. C. California, Berkeley.

Interns in the News Department acquire journalism skills including researching stories, checking facts on stories and assisting News Reporters with field interviews.

One of the interns is hired as a Temporary Production Assistant will return school after the paid internship is completed while the other five are either back to school or looking for jobs after graduation.

MENU OPTION NO. 7: SCHOLARSHIP

KTSF initiated a new outreach initiative by providing a scholarship award to qualified students from San Francisco State University in the reporting period 2005-2006. The name of the scholarship is The KTSF Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts Scholarship.

Eligibility criteria, which were determined with Carmen M. Zisman, Associate Director of Development of San Francisco State University and Shirley Klippel, Director of Human Resources at KTSF, are as follows:

1. Be a graduate or undergraduate returning student enrolled full-time
2. Be pursuing a major in Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts
3. Have a minimum GPA of 3.0
4. Be a US citizen or permanent resident

The Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts (BECA) scholarship committee will be comprised of at least two individuals appointed by the BECA Department Chair or the Dean of the College of Creative Arts and will make the final determination of award recipients in consultation with KTSF.

The goal of this initiative is to encourage students to explore a career in broadcasting and to provide qualified candidates the chance to fill KTSF positions and those of other local broadcasters.

In this reporting period four candidates were submitted to Shirley Klippel, Director of Human Resources for scholarship awards for the 2006/2007 Spring session. From the four candidates presented, two were selected and reported to the administrator of the SFSU scholarship program.

MENU OPTION NO. 8: TRAINING PROGRAM

As reported in last year's report, KTSF entered into an agreement with Bay Area Video Coalition, a local bay area provider of technical training programs.

Classes offered include video production, post-production, audio, graphic design, web design and editing. The program is sponsored by the State of California and is paid by the state for students who comply with the rules of the program. The goal of this initiative is to encourage employees to expand their skills so that they may qualify potentially for higher-level positions.

In total seven employees have attended classes starting in August 2006 and continuing through June 2007 with ongoing enrollments through October 2007. Classes include: Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Intro to Apple Mac Motion, Dream weaver and After /Effects. The average classes involve 40 hours of training with the total hours of training for this reporting period running approximately over 200 hours.

KTSF paid the participating employees their regular hour rate while they attended these classes and either paid another employee to fill in for them and or paid overtime. This program has been well received and has increased employee morale and productivity. In addition, many of those employees who received this training have become trainers to other employees.

MENU OPTION NO. 9 ESTABLISHMENT OF A MENTORING PROGRAM

KTSF continues the Mentoring Program, which was implemented in the 2005 reporting period and continued through the 2006 report with an expansion of the original 4 in 2005 to 5 participants I 2006. In this reporting period three new participants have been added in the News department. We now have a total of 8 participants in the mentorship program.

Mentoring is provided by each person’s manager and by the Human Resources Director. Participants are coached in hiring, training and termination process as well as employee relations issues. Each employee develops at their own pace depending on the departmental needs and the individual’s skill level.

MENU OPTION NO. 14 IMPLEMENTATION OF MANAGEMENT TRAINING PROGRAM

In addition to an ongoing informal management training program to ensure managers are aware of employment and anti-discrimination laws impacting hiring, promoting, training and terminating of employees, KTSF has recently initiated a formal anti-sexual harassment training program for managers.

On July 10, 2007, all KTSF managers, consisting of twenty participants including employees in the supervisory/mentoring training program (discussed in option No. 10), attended a two-hour live presentation conducted by a California attorney sponsored by the California Broadcasters Association.

The materials covered specific examples of discrimination in both theory and actual case studies as well as results of case law and the financial impact on employers who violate the law. All those attending will receive a certificate of completion of the program.

Ongoing informal training will continue and the new formal classroom program will be scheduled on a two-year rotation basis.