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Part IV
Department of Commerce
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National Telecommunications and Information Administration
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Grants for Planning and Construction of Public Telecommunications
Facilities; Acceptance of Applications for Filing; Notice
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Grants for Planning and Construction of Public Telecommunications
Facilities; Acceptance of Applications for Filing
I. New Applications and Major Amendments to Deferred Applications
Notice is hereby given that the following described applications
for Federal financial assistance are accepted for filing under
provisions of title III, part IV, of the Communications Act of 1934, as
amended (47 U.S.C. 390-393, 397) and in accordance with 15 CFR part
2301. All of the applications listed in this section were received by
March 17, 1994. The effective date of acceptance of these proposals,
unless otherwise indicated herein, is ``Dated Received''. Applications
are listed by their State.
The acceptance of applications for filing is a procedure designed
for making preliminary determinations of eligibility and for providing
the opportunity for public comment on applications. Acceptance of an
application does not preclude subsequent return or disapproval of an
application if it is found to be not in accordance with the provisions
of either the Act or 15 CFR part 2301, or if the applicant fails to
file any additional information requested by the Public
Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP). Acceptance for filing
does not ensure that an application will be funded; it merely qualifies
that application to compete for funding with other applications which
have also been accepted for filing.
Any interested party may file comments with the Agency supporting
or opposing an application and setting forth the grounds for support or
opposition. Such comments must contain a certification that a copy of
the comments have been delivered to the applicant. Comments must be
sent to the address listed in 15 CFR 2301.5(a).
The Agency will incorporate all comments from the public and any
replies from the applicant in the applicant's official file.
Charles M. Rush,
Acting Associate Administrator, Office of Telecommunications and
Information Applications.
AK (Alaska)
File No. 94011 CFB Alaska Public Radio Network, 810 East 9th
Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501-3826. Signed By: Ms. Diane S. Kaplan,
President and CEO. Funds Requested: $228,044. Total Project Cost:
$304.058. To improve the production facilities of the Alaska Public
Radio Network by replacing studio production equipment, including an
audio console and tape recorders. The project will also provide a
control center for the applicant's satellite uplink facility and
purchase field production equipment to use with an existing portable
satellite uplink. The Alaska Public Radio Network provides programming
to 29 member public radio stations throughout Alaska and also produces
the daily radio program ``National Native News'' which is distributed
via satellite to over 170 stations in 33 states.
File No. 94089 CTB Capital Community Bdcstg. Inc., 224 Fourth
Street, Juneau, AK 99801-1198. Signed By: Mr. Bill Legere, President
and General Manager. Funds Requested: $709.484. Total Project Cost:
$945,979. To improve the operational capability of public station KTOO,
Ch 3, Juneau, AK, by replacing obsolete and unreliable master and
production control switching equipment, record and playback facilities,
video and audio distribution equipment, test equipment, satellite
receive equipment, terminal accessories, and studio lighting as part of
moving to a new operating facility.
File No. 94115 CTB Bethel Broadcasting, Inc., 640 Radio Street,
Pouch 468, Bethel, AK 99559. Signed By: Mr. Andrew J. Guy, President.
Funds Requested: $92,596. Total Project Cost: $123,462. To improve the
production capability of public station KYUK-TV, Ch 4, Bethel, AK, by
replacing obsolete and unreliable equipment, including an audio mixer,
video tape recorders, a studio lighting system, and a studio intercom
system.
File No. 94129 PTBN Bethel Broadcasting, Inc., 640 Radio Street,
Pouch 468, Bethel, AK 99559. Signed By: Mr. John A. McDonald,
Secretary, GM. Funds Requested: $36,723. Total Project Cost: $37,323.
To develop a distance learning network plan for the Distance Delivery
Consortium of Southwest Alaska, composed of member organizations in K-
12 school districts, higher education, health care services, public
broadcasting, and advisory members in long distance telephone service
and satellite distribution, cable television, medical and technical
training, and public utilities. The proposed plan would explore options
and prepare a feasibility study for a network distribution system that
could include a satellite uplink, satellite downlinks, and various last
mile configurations for the video, voice and data delivery of
educational materials.
File No. 94138 CRB University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Fairbanks North
Star Borough, Fairbanks AK 99775-5620. Signed By: Mr. Ted DeLaca, Dir,
Office of Arctic Research. Funds Requested: $183,098. Total Project
Cost: $273,098. To extend the coverage of public radio station KUAC-FM,
Fairbanks, AK, by changing its frequency from 104.7 MHz to 89.9 MHz, by
relocating its transmitter, by increasing its power, and by upgrading
translators in Delta, Central Circle, and Nenana. This will provide the
first public radio signal to about 20,650 people in the Fairbanks area.
The project will also replace an obsolete and unreliable audio console
at the main studios of KUAC-FM.
File No. 94205 CRB Dillingham City School District, Box 670 Seward
Street, Dillingham, AK 99576. Signed By: Mr. Donald Renfroe,
Superintendent. Funds Requested: $98,258. Total Project Cost: $131,011.
To improve public radio station KCLD, 670 MHz, Dillingham, AK, by
installing an emergency power generator and by replacing worn-out and
obsolete studio equipment, including audio consoles, cart machines,
audio recorders, CD players, and microphones.
File No. 94222 CRB Pickle Hill Public Bdcstg, Inc., Post Office Box
2111, Kenai, AK 99611. Signed By: Mr. Tom Murphy, Station Manager.
Funds Requested: $89,846. Total Project Cost: $119,794. To provide the
first locally originated public radio programming to 25,000 people in
Kenai, Soldotna, Sterling, and Nikiski, AK, by equipping public station
KCZP, 91.9 MHz, with a studio facility. The station now repeats the
programming of public radio station KSKA, Anchorage.
File No. 94278 CRB Rainbird Community Bdcstg Corp., 123 Stedman
Street, Ketchikan, AK 99901. Signed By: Ms. Marty West-White, General
Manager. Funds Requested: $60,026. Total Project Cost: $80,035. To
improve the signal of public radio station KRBD, 105.9 MHz, Ketchikan,
AK, first by replacing its antenna and changing its frequency to 89.7
MHz, eliminating interference from another FM station, and second by
replacing unreliable and obsolete origination equipment, including an
audio console, CD players, digital cart machines, recorders, routing
switcher and microphones.
AL (Alabama)
File No. 94208 CRB Alabama Educational Television, 2112 11th Avenue
S., Birmingham, AL 35205-2884. Signed By: Ms. Judy Stone, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $15,000. Total Project Cost: $30,000. To
improve public radio station WLRH-FM, 89.3 MHz, in Huntsville, AL, by
replacing origination equipment, including master control console,
stereo source selectors, monitor speakers, stereo compressor/limiter,
band graphic equalizer, reel to reel tape decks, digital cart machine,
microphones, CD player, DAT record/playback and patch bay and cords, so
the station may continue quality service to the 600,000 residents in
and around Huntsville.
File No. 94218 CTB Alabama ETV Commission, 2112 11th Avenue South,
Suite 40, Birmingham, AL 35205-2884. Signed By: Ms. Judy Stone,
Executive Director. Funds Requested: $449,142. Total Project Cost:
$898,284. To improve the Alabama TV Network at WIIQ, Ch 41 in Demopolis
and WFIQ, Ch 36 in Florence, by replacing the antenna and transmission
lines at both locations, replacing the frame synchronizer, color
monitor, generator, VCR and still store and by adding Descriptive Video
Service items and stereo audio for all 9 network stations. The
replacement antenna at Demopolis will provide a first signal to 12,642
unserved residents.
AR (Arkansas)
File No. 94264 CTB Arkansas ETV Commission, 350 South Donaghey,
Conway, AR 72032. Signed By: Ms. Susan Howarth, Executive Director.
Funds Requested: $437,747. Total Project Cost: $875,495. To improve the
production facilities of the Arkansas Educational Television Network in
Conway by replacing 3 obsolete camera systems. The project would also
purchase 3 cameras, lights, audio and control equipment for Studio B,
newly constructed at the applicant's headquarters. The control
equipment and two additional field production cameras would be placed
in a mobile production van and could also be used in conjunction with
the applicant's new mobile satellite uplink.
File No. 94281 CRB University of Arkansas, 120 Ozark Hall,
Fayetteville, AR 72701. Signed By: Mr. John Stokes, Director, Research
Programs. Funds Requested: $6,917. Total Project Cost: $9,222. To
extend the public radio service of KUAF, operating on 91.3 MHz,
Fayetteville, AR by constructing a translator in Mena, AR operating on
88.5 MHz, which will provide first service to 17,000 people.
AS (American Samoa)
File No. 94179 CTB American Samoa Government, KVZK, Office of
Public Info., Pago Pago, AS 96799. Signed By: Ms. Vaoita Savali,
Director. Funds Requested: $152,413. Total Project Cost: $152,413. To
improve the production facilities of public television station KVZK-TV,
Ch. 2, Pago Pago, AS by replacing audio and video amplifiers, intercom
and test equipment. The project would also add a video codec so the
station could participate in distance learning programming distributed
by the PEACESAT satellite project. KVZK-TV serves 45,000 residents of
American Samoa.
AZ (Arizona)
File No. 94009 CTN Yavapai Co. Community College Dist., 1100 E.
Sheldon St., Prescott, AZ 86301. Signed By: Mr. W.L. Prather, Interim
VP, Admin. & Finance. Funds Requested: $731,716. Total Project Cost:
$1,463,433. To expand Yavapai College's Instructional Television Fixed
Service (ITFS) to three unserved sites--Chino Valley, Prescott Valley,
and Sedona--and to one site (the College's Verde Valley Campus) already
served.
File No. 94060 CTN Northern Arizona University, PO Box 5751,
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5751. Signed By: Dr. Jeanette Baker, Associate Vice
President. Funds Requested: $2,112,509. Total Project Cost: $2,816,679.
To expand Northern Arizona University's existing duplex microwave
system (NAUNet) to five community colleges and one Navajo Reservation
high school. The schools to be interconnected are Yavapai College
(Prescott), Central Arizona College (Signal Peak campus, near
Coolidge), Mohave Community College (Lake Havasu City campus), Eastern
Arizona College (Thatcher), Estrella Community College (Phoenix), and
The Window Rock School District #8 in Ft. Defiance.
File No. 94068 CTB Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1903.
Signed By: Ms. Janice D. Bennett, Assistant Director, Spon. Proj. Funds
Requested: $478,400. Total Project Cost: $956,800. To improve public
television station KAET-TV, Ch. 8, in Phoenix, by replacing its worn-
out 1978 transmitter and related dissemination equipment. Project would
also acquire an audio/video test set and a spectrum analyzer. Station
serves approximately 2.8 million people.
CA (California)
File No. 94006 CRB CA State University-Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff
Street, Northridge, CA 91330. Signed By: Ms. Louanne Kennedy, Vice
President & Provost. Funds Requested: $32,826. Total Project Cost:
$65,653. To improve the production and operational facilities of public
radio station KCSN, 88.5 MHz, Northridge, CA, by replacing master
control room and production studio equipment damaged or destroyed by
earthquake on January 17, 1994, including cartridge machines, tape
recorders, casette recorders, CD players, and mircophones. The station
serves about 1.5 million people and has been broadcasting with borrowed
equipment since the earthquake.
File No. 94021 CRB Nevada City Community Bdsct Group, P.O. Box
1327, Nevada City, CA 95959. Signed By: Mr. Steve Ramsey, Program
Director. Funds Requested: $44,865. Total Project Cost: $89,730. To
improve the signal of public radio station KVMR, 89.5 MHz, Nevada City,
CA, by replacing its unreliable and obsolete transmitter, antenna, and
tower; and to improve its program service by acquiring a satellite
downlink to provide the first nationally distributed public radio
programming to about 250,000 persons in the Nevada City area.
File No. 94024 CTB Community TV of S. California, 4401 Sunset
Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Signed By: Mr. Donald G. Youpa,
Executive Vice President. Funds Requested: $639,758. Total Project
Cost: $1,279,517. To replace obsolete and unreliable studio lighting
and electrical installations at public television station KCET, Ch 28,
Los Angeles, CA, which produces both local and national public
television programs.
File No. 94036 CRB KCBX, Inc, 4100 Vachell Lane, San Luis Obispo,
CA 93401. Signed By: Mr. Frank R. Lanzone, Jr., President. Funds
Requested: $99,108. Total Project Cost: $132,144. To improve the
operation of public radio station KCBX, 90.1 MHz, San Luis Obispo, CA,
by replacing obsolete and worn-out production equipment, including
audio consoles, tape recorders, CD players, a telephone interface,
routing switcher, and microphones. The project will also replace the
remote control system for the station's transmitter, KCBX serves a
population of about 550,000.
File No. 94057 CRB Northern CA Public Bdcstg. Inc., 280 North Oak
Street, Ukiah, CA 95482. Signed By: Mr. Barry Vogel, President. Funds
Requested: $171,966. Total Project Cost: $229,288. To activate a public
radio station on 88.1 MHz in Ukiah, CA, to provide the first public
radio signal to 28,000 people in Lake and Mendocino Counties.
File No. 94062 CTB Rural CA Broadcasting Corporation, 5850 LaBath
Avenue, Rohnert Park, CA 94928. Signed By: Ms. Nancy Dobbs, President
and CEO. Funds Requested: $24,399. Total Project Cost: $48,798. To
improve the operation of public station KRCB-TV, Ch 22, Rohnert Park,
CA, by replacing worn-out components of its transmitter and acquiring
test equipment. The station provides the only public television service
to about 100,000 homes.
File No. 94067 CTB Redwood Empire Public TV, Inc., Box 13, Eureka,
CA 95502-0013. Signed By: Ms. Sile M. Bauriedel, President. Funds
Requested: $75,750. Total Project Cost: $151,500. To improve the
operation of public station KEET, Ch. 13, Eureka, CA, by replacing
obsolete, unreliable studio equipment including cameras, video
recorders, a character generator, still-store, monitoring and test
equipment and by adding a SAP generator to allow descriptive video or
secondary language broadcasts to special audiences. The station serves
about 120,000 persons.
File No. 94075 CRB Pataphysical Bdcstg Fndn, Inc, P.O. Box 423,
Santa Cruz, CA 95062. Signed By: Mr. Peter Troxell, Manager. Funds
Requested: $225,908. Total Project Cost: $301,908. To extend the signal
of public radio station KUSP, 88.9 MHz, Santa Cruz, CA, by activating
translators to bring the first public radio signal to 888 persons in
Big Sur and Palo Canyon, to 15,815 people in Monterey County, and to
32,721 people in San Benito County. The project will also replace the
station's unreliable and obsolete transmitter and antenna and items of
studio equipment, including a mixing console, tape recorders, and a
cartridge machine.
File No. 94097 CTB Bay Area Multicultural T/C Assn, 3533 19th
Street, San Francisco, CA 94100. Signed By: Mr. Humberto Cintron
Chairman, Board of Director. Funds Requested: $295,041. Total Project
Cost: $393,388. To equip studio and field production facilities for
providing ethnic and minority oriented programming on a public
television station to operate on Channel 32, San Francisco, CA.
File No. 94122 CTB Community TV of S. California, 4401 Sunset
Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Signed By: Mr. Donald G. Youpa,
Executive Vice President. Funds Requested: $1,000,000. Total Project
Cost: $2,183,648. To equip a new studio facility being built by public
television station KCET, Ch 28, Los Angeles, CA, by replacing obsolete
analog equipment with digital routing, signal converters, master sync
systems, distribution amplifiers, frame synchronizers/audio delays,
still store, machine control, equipment racks, and main monitoring.
File No. 94124 CRB Death Valley Natural History Assn, P.O. Box 188,
Death Valley, CA 92328. Signed By: Ms. Feliz N. Fields, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $13,730. Total Project Cost: $18,307. To
provide the first public radio signal to Death Valley, CA, by
activating a 100 watt FM translator on 88.7 MHz to rebroadcast the
programming of public radio station KNPR, Las Vegas, NV.
File No. 94125 CTN Community TV of Santa Cruz Co., Inc., 2828 Casa
de Vida, Aptos, CA 95003. Signed By: Mr. Geoffrey Dunn, President.
Funds Requested: $455,034. Total Project Cost: $910,069. To establish a
production studio, plus a field production capability, to originate
programming for dedicated community access channels serving Santa Cruz
County, which is located on the coast of central California.
File No. 94133 PRTN North Marin T/C Corporation, 899 Northgate
Drive, Suite 302, San Rafael, CA 94903. Signed By: Mr. Maximilian
Hopkins, Assistant Chairman. Funds Requested: $75,000. Total Project
Cost: $100,000. To conduct a feasibility study to explore the
possibility of developing a fully interactive fiber optic information
network in Novato, California and surrounding areas. This proposed
study would plan for an interconnected telecommunications system
throughout the city and its incorporated environs that would include
interactive services for television, computers, the reading of
utilities, and possibly telephone options as permitted.
File No. 94141 PTN Monterey County Office of Education, 901 Blanco
Circle, Salinas, CA 93901. Signed By: Mr. William Barr, Superintendent.
Funds Requested: $84,988. Total Project Cost: $132,368. To design a
multi-channel, multi-technology video distribution system for
educational telecommunications use within a three-county region on
California's central coast, and through collaborations among the
region's educational institutions, government agencies and private
businesses, form the Monterey Bay Educational Telecommunications
Roundtable. This Roundtable would include representatives of K-12
school districts, community colleges, universities and local
governments working cooperatively to establish the Monterey Bay
Educational Telecommunications Network to provide interactive services
among educational institutions, government offices and area businesses.
File No. 94145 CRB Hmong-SE Asian Public Bdcstg Corp, 4590 North
Woodson Avenue, Fresno, CA 93705. Signed By: Mr. Yeu Cha, President.
Funds Requested: $215,960. Total Project Cost: $287,947. To construct a
new public radio station on 91.9 MHz in Madera California to serve a
large Asian-Pacific population with special programming designed to
meet its needs.
File No. 94158 CTB KTEH Foundation, 100 Skyport Drive, MC 54, San
Jose, CA 95110-1301. Signed By: Mr. Thomas F. Fanella, President. Funds
Requested: $45,727. Total Project Cost: $91,454. To construct a
Station-controlled microwave interconnection system to provide KTEH,
Channel 54, programming to a CATV head-end serving an unserved market
in King City, CA. To construct a second station controlled microwave
interconnection system to deliver the KTEH signal to a CATV head-end in
Santa Cruz, CA, replacing an unreliable off-air system. To replace an
existing coaxial cable feeding microwave systems, with a fiber-optic
cable, making it less susceptible to lightning outages.
File No. 94159 CTN San Francisco Public Library, 200 Larkin Street,
San Francisco, CA 94102. Signed By: Mr. Kenneth E. Dowlin, City
Librarian. Funds Requested: $583,779. Total Project Cost: $778,372. To
establish video production facilities to originate programming for a
dedicated government access cable television channel serving San
Francisco. The mission of the channel would be to provide the community
with gavel-to-gavel coverage of Board of Supervisors meetings and other
important City meetings, to inform the residents about local
legislative processes and issues, and to enable maximum participation
in governing decisions.
File No. 94170 CTN University of California, Davis, 410 Mark Hall,
Davis, CA 95616-8671. Signed By: Mr. Keith Young, Contract & Grant
Analyst. Funds Requested: $165,839. Total Project Cost: $290,944. To
expand the distance education offerings of the University of
California, Davis by constructing two new classroom production
facilities to provide live instructional programming to engineers
nationwide via the National Technological University satellite system.
The classrooms will also be used to distribute instructional material
in environmental engineering to the Mare Island Naval Ship Yard via
digital video \1/2\ T1 telephone lines.
File No. 94174 PTN San Diego St. University Found, 5178 College
Avenue, San Diego, CA 92182-1900. Signed By: Mr. Frank J. DiSanto,
Director, Grants & Contracts. Funds Requested: $38,874. Total Project
Cost: $38,874. To plan for a coordinated telecommunications system for
the city of San Diego identified as InfoSanDiego, through the
International Center for Communications of the San Digeo State
University Foundation, that would involve many organizations and
institutions in education, health care, library services, local
government, utilities, military, cable television, broadcasting,
tourism and private industry to provide an interactive educational and
informational service that would be made available to San Diego's
diverse ethnic population through cable television and other forms of
distribution.
File No. 94184 CTB San Diego State University Fndn, 5164 College
Avenue, San Diego, CA 92115. Signed By: Mr. Frank J. DiSanto, Director,
Grants & Contracts. Funds Requested: $519,922. Total Project Cost:
$799,880. To improve the production capability of public station KPBS-
TV, Ch 15, San Diego, CA, by replacing obsolete and unreliable studio
production equipment, including a master routing switcher, production
switcher, and audio console, with digital equivalents and install an
on-line videotape editing suit and test equipment.
File No. 94186 CRB Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA 95221-
8299. Signed BY: Dr. Alistair W. McCrone, President. Funds Requested:
$102,795. Total Project Cost: $137,060. To extend the signal of public
radio station KHSU, 90.5 MHz, Arcata, CA, to approximately 22,460
people by activating a repeater at Crescent City and translators at
Shelter Cove, Orleans, and Burnt Ranch; and to establish a radio
reading service for the visually handicapped by equipping a studio for
the purpose at the station in Arcata.
File No. 94198 CRB CA State University-Sacramento, 3416 American
River Dr. Suite B, Sacramento, CA 95864. Signed By: Mr. Phil
Corrieveau, General Manager. Funds Requested: $61,061. Total Project
Cost: $122.125. To construct a Ku-band satellite interconnection system
to distribute progframming from KXPR and KXJZ, both operated by the
applicant in Sacramento, CA, to several repeater stations. These
include KXSR, operating in Groveland CA; KXKB, for which the applicant
has a construction permit to serve Kings & Tahoe City, CA (and related
translator K201AJ to serve South Lake Tahoe, CA and Stateline, NV); and
KQNC, Quincy, CA for which the applicant has a transfer of licensing
pending at the FCC. The project will also include equipment for the
local origination of programming at each of the three repeater
stations.
File No. 94224 CTN Educational T/C Consortium of, 1101 East
University, Fresno, CA 93741. Signed By: Mr. Robert A. Wyman, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $999,934. Total Project Cost: $2,546,724. To
develop a video and data network using ISDN and Frame Relay
technologies to offer distance learning services to Fresno, Tulare,
King, and Madera counties in central California. The Educational
Telecommunications Consortium of central California comprises the State
Center Community College District, the Fresno County Office of
Education (and all 40 county K-12 districts), West Hills Community
College District, Sequoias Community College District, and California
State University/Fresno.
File No. 94227 PTN Loyola Marymount University, Loyola Blvd. at W
80th St., Los Angeles, CA 90045-2699. Signed By: Dr. Joseph G. Jabbra,
Academic Vice President. Funds Requested: $85,437. Total Project Cost:
$111,397. To plan for an inter-campus telecommunications network
designated as EduLINK, that would interconnect three institutions of
higher education and many schools and agencies in each of their areas
of the United States, through fully interactive system providing video,
voice and data capabilities for shared distance learning and training
services. The three institutions proposing to develop the plan would be
working cooperatively toward the sharing of courses, seminars,
videoconferences, and computer interactive materials that emphasize the
cultural diversity of the institution--Loyola Marymount University, a
multi-cultural university in Los Angeles; Benedict College, a
traditionally African-American college in Columbia, SC; and Sinte
Gleska University, a Lakota tribal university on the Rosebud Sioux
Reservation in South Dakota.
File No. 94237 CRB Radio Bilingue, 1111 Fulton Mall, #700, Fresno,
CA 93721. Signed By: Mr. Hugo Morales, Executive Director. Funds
Requested: $536,324. Total Project Cost: $715,099. To improve the
production facilities operated by the applicant's three California
public radio stations KSJV Fresno, KMPO Modesto and KHDC Salinas. Five
new studios and control rooms will be added to produce programming for
distribution via satellite to public radio station. Radio Bilingue
operates the Satellite radio service, which provides Spanish language
programming to public radio stations. The project will also provide
digital equipment for 7 Hispanic stations to provide programming to
Radio Bilingue for national distribution and will replace microwave
studio-to-transmitter links at KSJV and KMPO.
File No. 94266 CRB Poor Peoples Radio, Inc, Box 425000 (1329
Divisadero St.), San Francisco, CA 94115. Signed By: Mr. Joe Rudolph,
General Manager. Funds Requested: $35,016. Total Project Cost: $46,808.
To replace obsolete origination equipment and transmitter at KPOO-FM,
89.5, serving minority populations in San Francisco, California.
File No. 94273 CRB Rose Resnick Lighthouse, 20 10th Street--Suite
220, San Francisco, CA 94103. Signed By: Ms. Anita Baldwin, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $24,860. Total Project Cost: $49,720. To
improve the radio reading service provided by the Rose Resnick
Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, San Francisco, CA, by
replacing unreliable equipment, including a console, tape recorders,
cartridge machines, distribution amplifiers, and microphones. The
service is broadcast over an SCA channel of KPFA-FM, 94.1, San
Francisco. The project also includes acquisition of additional special
radio receivers for the service.
File No. 94275 CTB Coast Community College District, 15751 Gothard
Street, Huntington Beach, CA 92647. Signed By: Mr. William A. Furniss,
President. Funds Requested: $443,325. Total Project cost: $591,100. To
improve the operation of public television station KOCE, Ch 50,
Huntington Beach, CA, by replacing obsolete and unreliable origination
equipment, including cameras, switchers, monitors, and video tape
recorders. The station serves a population of 8.2-million people.
File No. 94276 CTB KQED, Inc., 2601 Mariposa Street, San Francisco,
CA 94110-1400. Signed By: Ms. Mary G. F. Bitterman, President & CEO.
Funds Requested: $415,323. Total Project Cost: $830,646. To improve the
production capability of public broadcasting station KQED-TV, Ch 9, San
Francisco, CA, by replacing worn-out and obsolete video tape recorders
for both studio and field use. The project will also include test and
monitoring equipment to supplement the station's changeover to digital
taping. KQED-TV serves a population of about 7-million.
File No. 94277 CRB San Mateo Cnty Cmty College Dist, 1700 West
Hillsdale Boulevard, San Mateo, CA 94402. Signed By: Mr. Craig T.
Blake, Acting Chancellor. Funds Requested $211,876. Total Project Cost:
$282,501. To improve the signal of public broadcasting station KCSM-FM,
91.1 Mhz, San Mateo, CA, by replacing its obsolete and unreliable
transmitter, antenna, and test equipment and by raising the height of
its tower. The station serves a population of about 4.6-million people.
File No. 94286 CTN Los Angeles Harbor College, 1111 Figueroa Place,
Wilmington, CA 90744. Signed By: Mr. James Heinselman, President. Funds
Requested: $394,536. Total Project Cost: $638,306. To plan, purchase
equipment for, and activate a distance learning service that will
deliver live interactive instruction, training and specialized
workshops and seminars to remote sites surrounding the Los Angeles Port
area of San Pedro through the use of T-1 lines. The proposed service
would provide distance learning and training courses to students
educators, medical personnel, and those considered to be underserved in
the general population.
File No. 94298 CTB Valley Public TV, Inc., 1544 Van Ness Avenue,
Fresno, CA 93721. Signed By: Mr. Colin Dougherty, Executive Director.
Funds Requested: $356,777. Total Project Cost: $713,555. To replace
obsolete and unreliable transmission, master control, studio
production, field recording, and test equipment at KVPT-TV, Channel 18,
in Fresno, California.
File No. 94300 CTB KVIE, Inc., 2595 Capitol Oaks Drive, Sacramento,
CA 95833. Signed By: Mr. John D. Hershberger, President and General
Manager. Funds Requested: $255,880. Total Project Cost: $551,760. To
replace three broadcasting studio cameras and an audio console at
public broadcasting station KVIE-TV, Channel 6, Sacramento, California.
File No. 94303 CRB University of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific Avenue,
Stockton, CA 95211. Signed By: Mr. Joseph Subbiondo, Executive Vice
President. Funds Requested: $45,101. Total Project Cost: $60,135. To
establish a reading service for sight impaired persons, local history
programs for area schools, and Asian-Pacific programs for Asia-Pacific
population, on two SCA channels of KUOP-FM 91.3 MHz. The project will
fund production equipment, a digital STL and 70 SCA receivers.
File No. 94312 CTBN Kern Educational T/C Consortium, 5801 Sundale
Avenue, Bakersfield, CA 93309-2900. Signed By: Ms. Kelly F. Blanton,
Kern Cnty Superin of Schools. Funds Requested: $899,984. Total Project
Cost: $1,799,984. To establish a first public telecommunications
service in Kern County, located in Southcentral California, by
constructing one phase of a county-wide digital microwave system with
multi-channel capabilities to program two ITFS facilities and two Low-
Power Television (LPTV) facilities, while also providing interactive
video, voice and data services to government agencies, hospitals,
correctional facilities, libraries and educational institutions at all
levels. The proposed telecommunications system would also have four
production classrooms in various locations among the educational
institutions of the consortium, to originate instructional courses for
distribution to an underserved and disadvantaged population in isolated
areas.
File No. 94322 CTB Northern CA ETV Association, Inc, 603 North
Market Street, Redding, CA 96003. Signed By: Mr. Lyle Mettler, General
Manager. Funds Requested: $1,110,000. Total Project Cost: $1,480,000.
To replace obsolete and unreliable transmitter, antenna, tower, video
recorders, play back machines and test equipment at KIXE-TV, Channel 9,
Redding California.
CO (Colorado)
File No. 94035 PRB Leadville Cmnty Brdcst Assoc., Inc., P.O. Box
1256, Leadville, CO 80461. Signed By: Ms. Kathy Bedell, President.
Funds Requested: $44,350. Total Project Cost: $59,350. To plan for the
establishment of a new public FM radio station on 88.9 MHz in
Leadville. Proposed station would provide a first signal to
approximately 6,000 people.
File No. 94072 CRB Denver Ed. Broadcasting, PO Box 11111, Denver,
CO 80211. Signed By: Ms. Florence Hernandez-Ramos, Chief Executive
Officer. Funds Requested: $217,518. Total Project Cost: $290,025. To
improve the facilities of public radio station KUVO-FM, 89.3 MHz, in
Denver by acquiring a backup studio-to-transmitter link (STL), and a
new transmitter. The current 1985 transmitter will be used as a backup.
KUVO-FM will replace a variety of master control room equipment
including a new console. Project will also replace console and other
origination equipment such as reel-to-reel recorders, CD players/
recorders, DAT machines and a variety of associated equipment in the
station's production/news rooms. KUVO-FM also seeks a selection of test
equipment. The replacement and upgrading of KUVO-FM's equipment will
allow it to better serve its multi-cultural audience. The Denver area
is also served by KCFR-FM and KGNU-FM (Boulder).
File No. 94128 CRB Boulder Community Brdcstg. Assoc., 1900 Folsom,
Suite 100, Boulder CO 80302. Signed By: Ms. Marty Durlin, Station
Manager. Funds Requested: $28,640. Total Project Cost: $57,280. To
improve the facilities of public radio station KGNU-FM, 88.5 MHz, in
Boulder by replacing old equipment that has been in use for 16 years.
Requested equipment includes 3 audio consoles, a stereo monitor, an SCA
monitor and a remote control system for the transmitter. Station serves
about 300,000 people.
File No. 94130 CRB Boulder Community Brdcstg. Assoc., 1900 Folsom,
Suite 100, Boulder CO 80302. Signed By: Ms. Marty Durlin, Station
Manager. Funds Requested: $4,102. Total Project Cost: $8,205. To expand
the coverage area of public radio station KGNU-FM, 88.5 MHz, in
Boulder, by constructing a new FM translator on 93.7 MHz to serve Ward/
Nederland. Translator will provide first service to an estimated 10,000
people in the mountains west of Boulder.
File No. 94183 CTB Prowers County, 301 S. Main Street, Lamar, CO
81052. Signed By: Mr. Robert R. Tempel, Chairman. Funds Requested:
$30,431. Total Project Cost: $40,575. To replace two public television
translators: K59AH, Ch. 59, Lamar; and K69AS, Ch. 69, in Las Animas.
Translators serve about 18,000 people by repeating the signal of KTSC-
TV, Ch. 8, in Pueblo. The two EMCEE translators are 22 years old.
File No. 94209 CTB Council for Public Television, 1089 Bannock
Street, Denver, CO 80204. Signed By: Mr. James Morgese, President and
General Manager. Funds Requested: $137,060. Total Project Cost:
$272,120. To improve the facilities of public television station KRMA-
TV, Ch. 6, in Denver, by replacing their 12-year old plumbicon equipped
cameras with 3 complete current technology CCD camera systems. Station
serves approximately 3,000,000 people.
File No. 94226 CRB Carbondale Cmty Access Radio, 417 Main Street,
Carbondale, CO 81623. Signed By: Ms. Missy Bowen, Station Mgr., Funds
Requested: $33,018. Total Project Cost: $44,025. To improve the
facilities of public radio station KDNK-FM, 90.5 MHz, in Carbondale, by
replacing worn-out and unrepairable 11-year-old air control room
equipment, monitoring equipment, and dissemination equipment. New
equipment includes: A stereo modulation monitor, power conditioning
equipment, an on-air console, amplifiers, monitors, speakers and a
variety of other origination equipment. KDNK-FM's signal covers
approximately 23,000 people.
File No. 94246 CTB Front Range Educ. Media Corp., 2246 Federal
Blvd., Denver, CO 80211. Signed By: Mr. Ted Krichels, General Manager.
Funds Requested: $103,417. Total Project Cost: $206,835. To improve the
facilities of public television station KBDI-TV, Ch. 12, in Denver
(Broomfield), by replacing worn-out dissemination and origination
equipment that has become unreliable and deteriorated. Equipment being
requested includes a 7 GHz transmitter/receiver with antennas, a visual
transmitter tube, video tape recorders, encoder remote controls,
mounting equipment, digital audio cart machines, an ENG camera with
battery pack, a video production console, a master control console and
other related equipment. KBDI-TV will be relocating to the Five Points
Media Center and this equipment will assist in the conversion to the
digital format. KBDI-TV serves approximately 2.1 million people.
File No. 94267 CTN National Technological Univ., 700 Centre Avenue,
Fort Collins, CO 80526. Signed By: Mr. Lionel V. Baldwin, President.
Funds Requested: $564,190. Total Project Cost: $867,900. To establish a
Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) satellite network which will
provide information to small and medium manufacturing establishments on
improving manufacturing competitiveness. The project will utilize NTU's
existing digital satellite network and uplinks at 45 engineering
schools and will fund 110 downlinks at sites participating in the MEP
program, which is sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST).
File No. 94295 CTB San Juan Basin Area Voc-Tech School, P.O. Box
970, 33057 Highway 160, Cortez, CO 81321. Signed By: Mr. Howard N.
Acott, Executive Director. Funds Requested: $184,935. Total Project
Cost: $246,580. To activate a low-power noncommercial TV station on
Channel 28 that will bring diverse distance learning services to
Montezuma and Dolores Counties in southwest Colorado. The course work
transmitted will be designed for K-12 schools, San Juan Basin Area
Vocational-Technical School, Pueblo Community College, and area law
enforcement and firefighting institutions. The proposal includes a
satellite Ku-band receive-only earth station, to permit the applicant
to retransmit nationally-distributed instructional programming.
CT (Connecticut)
File No. 94105 CTN Board of Trustees of Community, 61 Woodland
Street, Hartford, CT 06105. Signed By: Mr. Andrew C. McKirdy, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $319,700. Total Project Cost: $639,400. To
establish a compressed video, two-way interactive distance learning
network for the Connecticut Community-Technical College System. The
network would interconnect the System's fifteen campuses, its central
office, and off-campus sites at businesses and State agencies.
DC (District of Columbia)
File No. 94017 CRB Univ. of the District of Columbia, Washington,
DC 20008. Signed By: Ms. Martha J. Bridgeforth, V.P. Institutional
Advancement. Funds Requested: $77,092. Total Project Cost: $154,185. To
improve public radio station WDCU-FM operating on 90.1 MHz in
Washington, DC by upgrading the station with the addition to a C-Band
fixed satellite downlink to improve its programming and by increasing
the power from 6,800 watts to 50,000 watts with the purchase of a new
transmitter and antenna which will increase coverage by 900,000
potential listeners.
File No. 94051 CTB Howard University, 2222 4th Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20059. Signed By: Mr. James A. Fletcher, VP-Business
Affairs/Treasurer. Funds Requested: $478,552. Total Project Cost:
$957,104. To improve public television station WHMM-TV, operating on
Ch. 32 in Washington, DC, by augmenting the present local production
and dissemination capability with the purchase of additional portable
cameras, digital audio tape recorders, video tape players, digital
Betacam players, digital video effects system, computerized video
editing system, audio special effects processor and installation
supplies, plus additional test equipment and transmitter components to
extend the station service structure. This project will provide WHMM-TV
the capability to add services to local minority audiences, including
1,400,000 blacks, as well as to the national audiences.
File No. 94134 CTN Amer. Indian Higher Ed. Consort., 509 Capitol
Court NE., Ste. 100, Washington, DC 200002. Signed By: Ms. Margarett
Perez, President-AIHEC. Funds Requested: $474,802. Total Project Cost:
$633,070. To establish the first phase of a satellite-delivered
distance learning system that would interconnect the 29 member-schools
of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC). The
proposal would purchase a C/Ku-Band receive-only earth station for the
29 AIHEC colleges and for the AIHEC headquarters in Washington, DC; it
would also provide video classroom equipment for the 29 schools. Three
of the AIHEC schools are four-year institutions; the remainder are two-
year community colleges. They are found in Michigan (1), Wisconsin (2),
North Dakota (5), South Dakota (4), Nebraska (1), Kansas (1), Montana
(7), Washington State (1), California (1), New Mexico (3), and Arizona
(1). The proposal is the first result of a major telecommunications
planning effort conducted over the past two years by AIHEC schools.
File No. 94324 PTN Assn of State & Terr Pub Health Lab, 1211 Conn.
Ave. NW., Suite 608, Washington, DC 20036. Signed By: . Funds
Requested: $45,500. Total Project Cost: $45,500. To plan for a pilot
project that would use digitized video in videoconferencing
applications to distribute distance-based learning to rural areas of
the U.S. The plan would include identification and evaluation of
possible sites, and the production of pilot continuing education and
training programs that would focus on medical laboratory methods and
procedures in public health.
FL (Florida)
File No. 94027 CTB University of Florida, 1200 Weimer Hall,
Gainesville, FL 32611. Signed By: Mr. Dillard C. Marshall, Asst.
Director, Sponsored Res. Funds Requested: $188,492. Total Project Cost:
$376,984. To improve public television station, WUFT-TV, Ch 5, in
Gainesville, FL, by replacing 4 studio cameras, so the station may
continue producing local programs to 345,940 residents of North Central
Florida.
File No. 94114 CRB Florida State University, 1600 Red Barber Plaza,
Tallahassee, FL 32310. Signed By: Mr. Robert M. Johnson, Vice President
for Research. Funds Requested: $49,200. Total Project Cost: $65,600. To
activate a repeater noncommercial radio station, WFSU-FM, operating on
89.1 MHz, located 18 miles northwest of Panama City with a power of 100
Kw on an existing tower, providing first signal to 21,349 residents
within a radius of 33 miles which covers 195,000 people.
File No. 94139 CTB Florida State University, 16000 Red Barber
Plaza, Tallahassee, FL 32310. Signed By: Mr. Robert M. Johnson, Vice
President for Research. Funds Requested: $207,965. Total Project Cost:
$415,930. To improve public television station, WFSU-TV, Ch 11 in
Tallahassee, FL, by replacing 3 studio camera systems and 1500 ft. of
RF transmission line, so the station may continue to produce quality
local programs to serve 600,000 residents in 27 counties in North
Florida.
File No. 94151 CRB Florida State University, 1600 Red Barbar Plaza,
Tallahassee, FL 32310. Signed By: Mr. Robert M. Johnson, Vice President
for Research. Funds Requested: $53,289. Total Project Cost: $71,052. To
activate a Radio Reading Service, using the applicant's facilities
located at WFSU-FM, 88.9 MHz, in Tallahassee, FL to bring specialized
programming to the blind, visually impaired and those with other
physical disabilities. The audio will be delivered to approximately
12,560 people by 7 public radio subcarriers and by public TV SAP
channels (the 7 include 4 in Tallahassee, 1 in Panama City and 2 in
Valdosta, GA).
File No. 94164 CTN Okaloosa-Walton Community College, 100 College
Boulevard, Niceville, FL 32578. Signed By: Mr. James R. Richburg,
President. Funds Requested: $235,322. Total Project Cost: $313,763. To
construct an ITFS system, with a satellite receive-only earth station,
that will permit the sharing of instructional programming among the
public schools, Okaloosa-Walton Community College, and the private
homes of Okaloosa and Walton Counties in northwest Florida.
Distribution to the homes will be accomplished through an agreement for
a dedicated channel on the cable television system that serves the
area.
File No. 94204 CTN University of North Florida, 4567 St. Johns
Bluff Rd. So., Jacksonville, FL 32224. Signed By: Dr. Joyce T. Jones,
Director, Sponsored Research. Funds Requested: $82,971. Total Project
Cost: $110,628. To establish an ITFS system at the University of North
Florida to help meet the educational and informational needs of the
university and its surrounding communities, by enabling the university
to extend its academic programs, workforce education and training, and
professional development courses through a two-way interactive distance
learning system. The proposed interconnection system would provide
services to institutions and organizations at all levels of education,
and to libraries, military bases, government offices, retirement
communities, and businesses.
File No. 94217 CRB School Board of Dade County, 172 NE 15th Street,
Miami, FL 33132. Signed By: Mr. Octavio J. Visiedo, Superintendent of
Schools. Funds Requested: $45,182. Total Project Cost: $90,364. To
improve public radio station WLRN-FM, 91.3 MHz, in Miami, FL by
replacing master control items, including an input console, speakers,
cassette recorders, digital cartridges, DAT recorders, CD players, reel
to reel recorders, microphones with booms, stereo headphones and a
stereo gated compressor/limiter, so the station may continue and
increase its local service to the 3,883,700 people in South Florida
from the Florida Keys to Palm Beach.
File No. 94223 CRB University of Florida, 219 Grinter Hall,
Gainesville, FL 32611. Signed By: Mr. Dillard C. Marshall, Assistant
Director, Spon. Res. Funds Requested: $73,369. Total Project Cost:
$146,738. To activate a repeater noncommercial Radio station, WWUA-FM,
operating on 90.1 MHz, with a power of 4,500 watts, in Inverness, FL,
providing first signal to 201,165 residents in the three counties of
Citrus, Hernando and Sumter. This project involves the applicant's
successful negotiation with Alkalodge for assignment of their
Construction Permit for WWUA-FM.
File No. 94251 CTB Florida West Coast Pub. Brdcstg., 1300 North
Boulevard, Tampa, FL 33607. Signed By: Mr. Stephen Rogers, President &
CEO. Funds Requested: $285,171. Total Project Cost: $570,343. To
improve public television station, WEDU-TV, operating on Ch 3 in Tampa,
FL, by replacing essential origination and dissemination equipment
including tape machines, tape handler, frame synchronizer, routing
switcher components and microwave amplifier, so the station can
continue service to the 3,396,000 residents in the Florida West Coast
area.
GA (Georgia)
File No. 94121 PRB Albany State College, 504 College Drive, Albany,
GA 31705. Signed By: Mr. Billy C. Black, President. Funds Requested:
$74,590. Total Project Cost: $92,215. To establish a plan to assess
public radio audience interests and develop first rate programming.
Albany State College is preparing to establish a public radio station
to be a part of the Peach State Radio Network, and wants to offer
programs which both cultivate the interest of the region and emphasize
its uniqueness.
File No. 94126 CTN Macon College, 100 College Station, Macon, GA
31297-4899. Signed By: Dr. S. Aaron Hyatt, President. Funds Requested:
$190,730. Total Project Cost: $467,452. To purchase video origination
equipment to allow Macon College to implement video distance learning
so as to reach off-campus receive sites, including local area high
schools and business/industry sites. Although for the most part the
College's system will be interconnected by T1 telephone transmission,
the system will provide instruction for home-bound non-traditional
students and lower-income minority students via educational access
channels on local cable television. The College's proposed network will
also provide it access to the statewide Georgia State Academic and
Medical Systems (GSAMS) network.
File No. 94136 CRB Radio Free Georgia Broadcasting, 1083 Austin
Ave., NE, Atlanta, GA 30307. Signed By: Mr. Tom Davis, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $88,368. Total Project Cost: $117,824. To
improve public radio station WRFG-FM, 89.3 MHz, in Atlanta, GA by
acquiring a new transmitter, antenna and transmission line, which will
increase the station's power from 23,400 watts to 100,000 watts
directionally. This upgrade will allow WRFG to reach a significant
number of counties in north Georgia that currently do not receive the
station's signal and will greatly improve the quality and reliability
of its broadcast signal.
File No. 94168 CTB GA Public Telecomm. Commission, 1540 Stewart
Ave., SW, Atlanta, GA 30310. Signed By: Mr. Frank D. Bugg, Jr., Deputy
Director. Funds Requested: $291,958. Total Project Cost: $583,916. To
improve public television station WGTV-TV, Ch 8 in Athens, GA by
replacing the transmitter, so the station may continue service to the
3,926,884 residents of greater metropolitan Atlanta which is
approximately 50% of the population of the State.
File No. 94173 PRTN Southern College of Technology, 1100 So.
Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA 30060. Signed By: S.R. Cheshier,
President. Funds Requested: $98,700. Total Project Cost: $180,485. To
assess the technology-related educational needs in the state of Georgia
for students, educators, lifelong learners and the workforce, to
determine the availability and feasibility of instructional technology
and telecommunications delivery systems to provide interactive voice,
video and data services for distance learning courses and for technical
education and training.
File No. 94191 PRTN Georgia State University, 140 Decatur St., Rm.
812, Atlanta, GA 30302-4044. Signed By: Mr. William R. Decatur, Vice
Pres., Financial Affairs. Funds Requested: $153,252. Total Project
Cost: $174,727. To enable the public institutions of higher education
in metropolitan Atlanta, in a cooperative arrangement as the
Metropolitan Atlanta Distance Learning Consortium, develop a plan that
would combine the telecommunications resources of these institutions
along with those of public broadcasting, medical services, associations
and other educational organizations, to establish an interactive
distance learning network using existing and proposed interconnection
systems.
File No. 94203 CTB Atlanta Board of Education, 740 Bismark Road,
NE, Atlanta, GA 30324. Signed By: Dr. Lester W. Butts, Superintendent.
Funds Requested: $359,079. Total Project Cost: $718,158. To improve the
production facilities of WPBA-TV, Ch. 30 in Atlanta by replacing a 20-
year-old video switcher and audio console. The project will also
purchase video tape recorders and upgrade a C-band satellite uplink to
Ku-band to permit satellite distribution of instructional programming
to schools is the Atlanta area.
File No. 94254 CTN Georgia Center/Continuing Education, University
of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-3603. Signed By: S.E. Younts, Vice
President for Services. Funds Requested: $403,516. Total Project Cost:
$548,180. To extend the satellite delivered services of the Georgia
Center for Continuing Education through the construction of a Ku-band
uplink. The Ku-band uplink will serve 1,700 downlinks throughout the
state recently funded by the State of Georgia and will supplement a C-
band service operated by the Center for the past decade.
HI (Hawaii)
File No. 94270 PRB Kekahu Foundation, 2340 Kamalii Street, Kilauea,
HI 96754. Signed By: Ms. Janet Friend, President. Funds Requested:
$30,000. Total Project Cost: $35,100. To plan for the establishment of
the first public radio station to serve the 51,000 residents of the
island of Kauai, Hawaii.
IA (Iowa)
File No. 94052 CTB Iowa Public Broadcasting Board, 6450 Corporate
Drive, Johnston, IA 50131. Signed By: Mr. C. David Bolender, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $302,367. Total Project Cost: $604,735. To
improve the operational capability of Iowa Public Television, Johnston,
IA, by replacing its routing switcher and to augment the operational
capability of IPTV by acquiring an automation system. IPTV serves about
2.7-million people through a statewide system of eight public
television stations.
File No. 94211 CTN Indian Hills Community College, 525 Grandview,
Ottumwa, IA 52501. Signed By: Dr. Lyle Hellyer, President. Funds
Requested: $109,246. Total Project Cost: $273,114. To establish a video
production studio to be located in the Indian Hills Community College
Advanced Technology Center. The classroom would allow for the
origination of instructional programming such as laboratory
demonstrations, experiments, and presentations beyond the capability of
the usual video classroom. The course work produced in the studio would
be transmitted via the Iowa Communications Network to K-12 public
schools, post-secondary academic institutions and business/industry.
File No. 94243 CTN SCOLA, RR #1, Box 204 Highway L52, McClelland,
IA 51548. Signed By: Mr. Lee Lubbers, S.J., President. Funds Requested:
$250,000. Total Project Cost: $500,000. To purchase four digital
compressed video encoders to extend the satellite services of SCOLA.
SCOLA provides foreign language news programming to 10,000 schools and
universities through out the United States. The digital compressed
video encoders will permit SCOLA to use Ku-band satellite distribution
to increase its programming from one channel to four channels. The
three new channels will include documentaries, school courses and
children's programs presented in original foreign languages. SCOLA will
also offer courses in speaking less-commonly-taught languages, such as
Swahili, Lakota and Dutch.
File No. 94325 PRB Suntaman Communications, Inc., 1170 13th Street,
Des Moines, IA 50314. Signed By: Mr. Wesley F. Hall, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $40,000. Total Project Cost: $40,000. To
plan for a series of public radio stations across the country to be
owned and operated by African Americans.
IL (Illinois)
File No. 94043 CRB Northern Illinois University, 801 North First
Street, DeKalb, IL 60115. Signed By: Mr. Douglas J. Moore, Controller.
Funds Requested: $306,564. Total Project Cost: $408,752. To activate
public radio repeater stations in Freeport on 89.1 MHz, in LaSalle on
91.3 MHz, and in Sterling on 91.5 MHz, IL, to bring the first public
radio signal to about 181,356 persons. The new stations will repeat the
programming of WNIU, DeKalb, and WNIJ, Rockford, IL, and the radio
reading service of WNIU will be broadcast on the subcarriers of the new
stations.
File No. 94077 CTB University of Illinois, 1110 West Main Street,
Champaign, IL 61801. Signed By: Mr. Craig S. Bazzani, Comptroller.
Funds Requested: $117,500. Total Project Cost: $235,000. To improve the
operation of public station WILL-TV, Ch. 12, Champaign-Urbana, IL, by
replacing its worn-out and obsolete routing switcher, eight videotape
recorders, and an automation control system. The station serves about
1.3 million persons.
File No. 94092 CTB Chicago Educational TV Assn, 5400 North St.
Louis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60625. Signed By: Mr. Martin J. McLaughlin,
Vice Pres, Corporate Affairs. Funds Requested: $364,750. Total Project
Cost: $729,500. To improve the signal of public television station
WTTW, Ch. 11, Chicago, IL, by replacing its worn-out transmitter. The
station serves about 10.5-million people.
File No. 94106 PTB City Colleges of Chicago, 226 West Jackson
Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60606-6998. Signed By: Ms. Jacqueline E. Woods,
Vice Chancellor. Funds Requested: $50,000. Total Project Cost: $50,000.
To develop architectural and engineering plans for the move of public
television station WYCC, Ch. 20, Chicago, to a larger facility.
File No. 94111 CTB Southern Illinois University, 1048 Comm Bldg,
Mailcode 6602, Carbondale, IL 62901. Signed By: Mr. Benjamin A.
Shepherd, VP for Academic Affairs. Funds Requested: $191,650. Total
Project Cost: $383,300. To improve the production facilities of public
station WUSI-TV, Ch. 16, Olney, IL, by replacing obsolete and worn-out
videotape recording and editing equipment, a character generator,
studio cameras, and a field production unit. WUSI serves a population
of about 876,766 persons.
File No. 94113 CRB University of Illinois, 1110 West Main Street,
Champaign, IL 61801. Signed By: Mr. Craig S. Bazzani, Comptroller.
Funds Requested: $6,031. Total Project Cost: $12,063. To activate a
public radio translator operating at 106.5 MHz in Danville, IL, to
provide the first nightime public radio service to the 43,000 residents
of the area. The translator will repeat the programming of public radio
station WILL-FM, Champaign.
File No. 94123 CTN College of DuPage, 22nd Street and Lambert Road,
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137. Signed By: Mr. H.D. McAninch, President. Funds
Requested: $1,029,615. Total Project Cost: $2,059,231. To assist the
College of DuPage in implementing its distance learning system, called
502NET. The proposal would purchase video classroom equipment,
including codes, that would allow the 502NET participants to interact
fully on the network. Initially, the College will have eight partners:
six local area high schools; the Illinois Math and Science Academy; and
the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The 502NET service area will
be DuPage County and portions of Cook, Kane, Will Counties, all
immediately to the west of Chicago. The network would allow
participants to: receive two-way interactive video and computer
instruction; receive coursework for skills upgrading, re-
certifications, and workforce training and re-training; attend
videoconferences; and have access to Internet and other data systems.
The transmission will be via telephone/fiber optics lines.
File No. 94169 CTN Heartland Community College, 1226 Towanda
Avenue, Bloomington, IL 61701. Signed By: Mr Jerry Weber, Vice
President/Instruction. Funds Requested: $655,646. Total Project Cost:
$849,175. To establish eight additional video classrooms, with
associated test equipment, to permit Heartland Community College to
expand its distance learning network to sites at underserved rural area
high schools and other post-secondary academic institutions in eight
counties in Central Illinois. Each interactive classroom will offer
access to college preparatory, college credit, graduate-level, and
vocational courses.
File No. 94255 CRB Quincy University Corporation, 1800 College
Avenue, Quincy, IL 62301-2699. Signed By: Fr. James F. Toal, OFM,
President. Funds Requested: $69,665. Total Project Cost: $92,887. To
extend the signal of public radio station WQUB, 90.3 MHz, Quincy, IL,
by increasing its power to 31 KW from 10 KW. The extension will bring
the first public radio signal to about 18,000 persons. The project will
also improve service to visually handicapped persons in the WQUB
listening area by making it possible for the station to receive a radio
reading service from public radio station WIUM, Macomb, IL, and
retransmit it.
File No. 94283 CTN Oakton Community College, 1600 East Golf Road,
Des Plaines, IL 60016. Signed By: Mr. Thomas HenHoeve, President. Funds
Requested: $90,966. Total Project Cost: $181,932. To acquire and
activate headend, distribution and playback equipment necessary for a
combined distribution system that incorporates an existing ITFS service
with a proposed cable television channel, for the delivery of distance
learning courses and continuing education programs among educational
institutions, the general population and workforce, and specialized
skills locations such as acute medical care/nursing facilities. Through
the resources of the twenty-one institutions of higher education in a
regional consortium, instructional courses and teleconferences would be
distributed over this system for academic coursework, professional
development and workforce training/retraining.
File No. 94307 CRB Western Illinois University, 900 West Adams
Street, Macomb, IL 61455. Signed By: Mr. Donald Spencer, President.
Funds Requested: $167,193. Total Project Cost: $222,925. To extend the
signal of public radio station WIUM, 91.3 MHz, Macomb, IL, by
activating a repeater station in Warsaw, IL, operating at 89.5 MHz, to
bring the first public radio signal to approximately 44,628 persons.
The project also replaces some items of production equipment and
provides a package of test equipment.
IN (Indiana)
File No. 94013 CTB Fort Wayne Public Television, 3632 Butler Road,
Fort Wayne, IN 46808. Signed By: Mr. Roger G. Rhodes, President &
General Manager. Funds Requested: $174,209. Total Project Cost:
$256,190. To improve the transmission and production capabilities of
public television station WFWA, Ch. 39, Fort Wayne, IN, by replacing
its worn-out and obsolete klystrode tube, video switcher, still store
system, audio control board, and field production equipment. WFWA
serves a population of about 665,100.
File No. 94014 CRB Ball State University, Building AD-103, Muncie,
IN 47306-0550. Signed By: Mr. James L. Pyle, Exec. Dir. of Academic
Resch. Funds Requested: $293,370. Total Project Cost: $391,161. To
extend the signal of public radio station WBST, 92.1 MHz, Muncie, IN,
by activating repeater stations in Marion, 91.1 MHz, Portland, 91.7
MHz, and Hagerstown, 90.5 MHz, IN, to bring the first public radio
signal to about 148,714 residents of East Central Indiana.
File No. 94091 CTB Tri-State Public Teleplex, Inc., 405 Carpenter
Street, Evansville, IN 47708-1027. Signed By: Mr. David L. Dial,
President and General Manager. Funds Requested: $70,696. Total Project
Cost: $141,392. To improve the production capability of public station
WNIN-TV, Ch. 9, Evansville, IN, by replacing obsolete and
malfunctioning items of equipment, including video tape recorders, a
field production package, and test equipment. The station serves a
population of about 750,000 persons.
File No. 94099 CTB Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-6901.
Signed By: Mr. George Walker, Vice President for Research. Funds
Requested: $48,680. Total Project Cost: $97,360. To improve the
operation of public television station WTIU, Ch. 30, Bloomington, IN,
by replacing video tape recorders and associated equipment. The station
serves 485,800 potential viewers in the Bloomington area.
File No. 94172 CRB Metro Indianapolis Pub Bdcstg Inc., 1401 North
Meridian Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202-2389. Signed By: Mr. Lloyd
Wright, President and General Manager. Funds Requested: $36,758. Total
Project Cost: $73,517. To improve the operation of public station WFYI-
FM, 90.1 MHz, Indianapolis, IN, by replacing various items of worn-out
and obsolete equipment, including audio tape recorders, control boards,
and microphones. The station serves a population of about 2-million
people.
File No. 94196 CRB Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.
Signed By: Mr. Larry E. Pherson, Dir, Ofc of Contracts & Grants. Funds
Requested: $41,450. Total Project Cost: $82,900. To augment the
operational capabilities of public radio station WBAA, 920 KHz, West
Lafayette, IN, by acquiring an automation system. The station serves
2.8-million people.
File No. 94253 CRB Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.
Signed By: Mr. Larry E. Pherson, Dir, Ofc of Contracts & Grants. Funds
Requested: $13,250. Total Project Cost: $26,500. To augment the
production capabilities of public radio stations WBAA-AM (920 KHz) and
WBAA-FM (101.3 MHz), West Lafayette, IN, by acquiring an audio
production console. The stations serve a population of 2.8-million
people.
KS (Kansas)
File No. 94066 CRB University of Kansas, Broadcasting Hall,
Lawrence, KS 66045. Signed By: Dr. Robert C. Bearse, Associate Vice
Chancellor. Funds Requested: $54,180. Total Project Cost: $108,360. To
improve the facilities of public radio station KANU-FM, 91.5 MHz, in
Lawrence, by purchasing replacement equipment for the on-air control
and production room as well as audio test equipment. Much of the
equipment being replaced was acquired in 1974. New equipment includes:
two audio consoles, digital cart machines, DAT machines and related
origination equipment. Station serves approximately 1.2 million people.
File No. 94078 CRB Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmont,
Wichita, KS 67260. Signed By: Mr. Harry E. Williford, Director,
Research Admin. Funds Requested: $21,725. Total Project Cost: $43,450.
To improve the facilities of public radio station KMUW-FM, 89.1 MHz, in
Wichita, by replacing the transmitter remote control and telemetry
system, acquiring audio test equipment and origination equipment
including a recorder, a DAT recorder and other related production
equipment. Much of the equipment is over a decade old. The remote
control equipment is out-of-date, and is no longer manufactured thus
replacement parts are unavailable.
File No. 94178 CTB Kansas Public Telecom. Service, 320 West 21st
St., N, Wichita, KS 67203. Signed By: Mr. Zoel Parenteau, President/
General Manager. Funds Requested: $2,907. Total Project Cost: $5,815.
To improve the facilities of public television station KPTS-TV, Ch. 8,
in Wichita, by adding equipment which will permit the broadcast of
Descriptive Video Service (DVS). DVS enables the print-handicapped to
better understand the televised program. The service will be carried on
the Secondary Audio Program (SAP) channel. At this time, KPTS-TV does
not intend to originate any DVS programming only pass through the PBS-
provided service.
File No. 94215 CRB Kansas State University, Fairchild Hall, Room
No. 2, Manhattan, KS 66506. Signed By: Dr. Timothy R. Donoghue, Vice
Provost for Research. Funds Requested: $30,319. Total Project Cost:
$60,638. To improve the facilities of public radio station KKSU-AM, 580
KHz, in Manhattan by replacing a 25 year-old Gates transmitter. Current
transmitter requires frequent and expensive repairs. Station has an
extremely large coverage area over parts of four states: KS, IA, MO and
OK. Approximately 5.4 million people are served by KKSU-AM. Station
shares time with WIBW-AM.
File No. 94239 CTB Kansas Public Telecom. Service, 320 West 21st
Street N., Wichita, KS 67203. Signed By: Mr. Zoel Parenteau, President/
General Manager. Funds Requested: $37,087. Total Project Cost: $74,175.
To improve the facilities of public television station KPTS-TV, Ch. 8,
in Wichita, by replacing equipment which is causing repetitive repair
problems. Service and parts are unavailable. New equipment consists of
a new proc amp, a sync generator, color and black/white monitors and a
graphics generator. KTPS-TV serves approximately 388,000 people.
File No. 94271 CRB Kanza Society, Inc., 210 N. 7th Street, Garden
City, KS 67846. Signed By: Mr. Dale A. Bolton, Executive Director.
Funds Requested: $14,500. Total Project Cost: $29,000. To expand the
coverage of public radio station KANZ-FM, 91.1 MHz, in Garden City, by
relocating two FM translators, increasing their power and the height of
their antennas. The two translators being relocated are in Liberal,
96.3 MHz, and Hays, 96.3 MHz. Approximately 600 people will receive a
first public radio signal as a result of this change and another 2,500
will receive an additional service. KANZ-FM will also acquire a
spectrum analyzer to assist in the diagnosis and repair of their
broadcast equipment.
File No. 94297 CTB Washburn University of Topeka, 301 N. Wanamaker
Road, Topeka, KS 66606-9601. Signed By: Mr. Hugh L. Thompson,
President. Funds Requested: $261,872. Total Project Cost: $523,745. To
improve the facilities of public television station KTWU-TV, Ch. 11, in
Topeka by replacing out-of-date production equipment. KTWU-TV is
continuing the transition to the Beta format by purchasing four record/
playback Beta video tape recorders and related items as well as
acquiring three camera systems. Station currently is using old or
inappropriate cameras not suitable for studio productions.
File No. 94319 CRB Hutchinson Community College, 815 N. Walnut,
Suite 300, Hutchinson, KS 67501. Signed By: Dr. Edward E. Berger,
President. Funds Requested: $43,955. Total Project Cost: $87,910. To
improve the facilities of public radio station KHCC-FM, 90.1 MHz, in
Hutchinson, by replacing the station's 1978 transmitter, stereo
generator and related dissemination equipment. Transmitter is becoming
more expensive and difficult to repair and the design degrades the
stereo and SCA subcarrier signals. Station serves approximately 500,000
people.
KY (Kentucky)
File No. 94085 CRB Appalshop, Inc., 306 Madison Street, Whitesburg,
KY 41858. Signed By: Mr. R. Raymond Moore, Administrative Director.
Funds Requested: $53,660. Total Project Cost: $71,660. To improve and
expand the signal of public radio station WMMT, 88.7 Mhz, Whitesburg,
KY, by replacing its transmitter and antenna and increasing its power.
The increase will add nearly 51,000 persons to the population of about
147,406 persons now served by the station.
File No. 94219 CTB Kentucky Educational Television, 600 Cooper
Drive, Lexington, KY 40502. Signed By: Ms. Virginia G. Fox, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $822,368. Total Project Cost: $1,370,614. To
improve the transmission capabilities of Kentucky Educational
Television, Lexington, KY, by replacing worn-out elements of various
transmitters in its statewide system; and to augment KET by upgrading
an analog satellite uplink to provide two channels of digital
compression, by upgrading 250 current downlink sites to receive
compressed digital signals, by adding a digital telephone bridge, and
by adding an interactive video classroom system at Kentucky State
University. KET operates a statewide network of 15 transmitters and 6
translators.
LA (Louisiana)
File No. 94076 CRB Friends of WWOZ, Inc., 1201 St. Phillip Street,
New Orleans, LA 70116. Signed By: Mr. David Freedman, General Manager.
Funds Requested: $35,318. Total Project Cost: $47,091. To provide a
satellite downlink and digital audio recorders at WWOZ-FM, 90.7 MHz in
New Orleans to permit access to national distributed programming from
the Public Radio Satellite System. WWOZ provides a jazz format public
radio service to 1,000,000 people in the greater New Orleans area.
File No. 94079 CTN Educational Broadcstng Found. Inc., 2929 So.
Carrollton Ave., New Orleans, LA 70118. Signed By: Mr. John Pela,
Station Manager. Funds Requested: $1,133,040. Total Project Cost:
$1,510,721. To implement the New Orleans Educational Telecommunications
Project (NOETP), which will use a two-channel ITFS system to serve
approximately 250,000 students in 419 public, parochial, and private
schools in the seven parishes that comprise greater New Orleans:
Orleans, Jefferson, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. John the
Baptist, and St. Tammany. The project would construct a production
studio at public television station WLAE-TV, an origination video
classroom at each of seven ``hub'' schools (one in each parish), a
total of nine two-channel studio-to-transmitter microwave links to
interconnect the ``hub'' schools and station WLAE-TV to a common
transmission point, and microwave reception equipment to interconnect
to the NOETP as many of the 419 schools as is technically feasible.
File No. 94116 CTB Greater New Orleans ETV Found, 916 Navarre
Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70124. Signed By: Mr. Randall Feldman,
President and General Manager. Funds Requested: $140,417. Total Project
Cost: $280,835. To improve public television station WYES-TV, Ch 12 in
New Orleans, LA, by replacing the production, master control, and
router switchers, 2 monitors, distribution amplifiers, and cable and
connectors, so the station may continue to provide quality service to
the 800,600 residents in greater New Orleans.
File No. 94137 CRB University of New Orleans, 2000 Lakeshore Drive,
New Orleans, LA 70148. Signed By: Ms. Shirley Laska, Vice Chancellor
for Research. Funds Requested: $31,837. Total Project Cost: $42,450. To
extend the signal public radio station WWNO-FM, 89.9 MHz, in New
Orleans, LA by constructing a 200 watt translator system that will
bring first signal to the cities of Houma and Thibodaux and surrounding
communities in Lafourche and Terrebonne Parish, which, combined, total
59,103 unserved residents.
File No. 94157 CTB Louisiana ETV Authority, 7860 Anselmo Lane,
Baton Rouge, LA 70810. Signed By: Ms. Beth Courtney, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $305,250. Total Project Cost: $610,500. To
improve public television station WLPB-TV, Ch 27, the originating
station in the Louisiana Public Broadcasting TV Network, in Baton
Rouge, LA, by replacing three studio cameras and purchasing four, so
the station may continue to serve the network which covers, 3,314,792
residents.
File No. 94207 CTN Louisiana State University, 347 Pleasant Hall,
Baton Rouge, LA 70803. Signed By: Mr. Allen Copping, President. Funds
Requested: $370,856. Total Project Cost: $494,475. To initiate a two-
way interactive compressed video system that would connect the five
campuses of Louisiana State University using a digital data network
that operates over terrestrialP T-1 circuits. The network would serve
as the major carrier of videoconferences and computing data for the
university's delivery of distance learning programs intended to
equitably meet the state's targeted educational needs, with the
possibility of future development and expansion of the network to other
colleges/universities and research centers statewide.
MA (Massachusetts)
File No. 94025 CTN Mass. Corp. for Educational T/C, 38 Sidney
Street, Suite 300, Cambridge, MA 02139-4135. Signed By: Ms. Linda
DiRocco, Acting Executive Director. Funds Requested: $161,615. Total
Project Cost: $323,230. To purchase videobridge, personal work
stations, and associated equipment to allow for the establishment of a
desktop videoconferencing system with learners in 15 secondary schools
in Massachusetts. The system will utilize ISDN interconnection
technology. It will enable students and teachers to interact from
multiple locations using video, data exchange, and shared whiteboard
capabilities. The proposal, which is a coordinated effort with the
Massachusetts Executive Office of Education, is designed to be an
element of the Mass Ed Online project, which is the state educational
technology plan mandated by the State Legislature's Education Reform
Act of 1993.
File No. 94026 CRB University of Massachusetts, Box 33630, Amherst,
MA 01003-3630. Signed By: Ms. Dorothy Baronas, Dir., Grant & Contract
Admin. Funds Requested: $96,097. Total Project Cost: $192,197. To
replace an obsolete and worn-out transmitter at public radio station
WFCR-FM, 88.5 MHz, Amherst, MA. The replacement will accompany a
relocation of the transmitter. The project would also replace WFCR-FM's
antenna and erect a new tower that would allow the station to increase
its antenna tower height. An important project objective is to overcome
multipath and radiation problems.
File No. 94146 PTN Tufts University, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford,
MA 02155. Signed By: Mr. William Edington, Associate Director, Grants.
Funds Requested: $73,791. Total Project Cost: $117,592. To plan for an
educational and instructional video facility and possible methods of
providing a telecommunications interconnection system, originating from
the Edward R. Murrow Center at Tufts University. The proposed video
facility and two-way interactive network would be used for distance
learning instruction in joint degree programs with Northwestern
University and Dartmouth College, and would incorporate TECnet's
(Technologies for Effective Cooperation Network) computer interactive
services to manufacturing technology centers.
MD (Maryland)
File No. 94108 CTB Maryland Public Brdcstg. Comm., 11767 Owings
Mills Boulevard, Owings Mills, MD 21117. Signed By: Mr. Raymond K. Ho,
President & CEO. Funds Requested: $593,050. Total Project Cost:
$1,186,100. To improve and extend public television station WWPB-TV, Ch
31, in Hagerstown, MD by replacing the transmitter and antenna, and, at
the same time, extending the coverage to 809,078 residents who are
unserved by any other TV station. This project will allow the Maryland
TV Network to continue and expand its statewide service.
File No. 94112 CRB University of Maryland, E Shore, Backbone Road,
JT Williams Admin, Princess Anne, MD 21853. Signed By: Dr. William P.
Hytche, President. Funds Requested: $78,771. Total Project Cost:
$105,028. To activate a repeater noncommercial Radio station, call
letters to be assigned, operating on 88.7MHz with an ERP of 10 kw
located at Massey, MD. This extension project will bring first signal
to approximately 70,000 residents located in the southern tip of the
western shore of Maryland.
File No. 94118 PRTBN Triangle for the Arts, Inc., 9410 Merust Lane,
Gaithersburg, MD 20879. Signed By: Mr. Mark D. Pickett, Project
Manager. Funds Requested: $41,825. Total Project Cost: $41,825. A
proposal that intends to consider the possibility of planning for a
facility that could potentially produce and distribute audio and video
educational programs, perhaps through an educational radio station, or
by satellite, or a computer interactive network. One element of the
proposal plan would be to design and arrange floor space configurations
for the administrative, operational, engineering and programming areas
of this facility.
File No. 94202 CRB Supporters of Public Brdcstg, Inc., 1130 East
Coldspring Lane, Baltimore, MD 21239. Signed By: Mr. Lee E. Graham,
President. Funds Requested: $317,686. Total Project Cost: $495,581. To
construct a radio production facility with 3 on-air control rooms, 3
production studios and two news production facilities for a proposed
three channel public radio network to serve 1,000 public radio stations
that are not a part of the NPR Satellite Interconnection system as well
as the 450 stations that are part of the system.
ME (Maine)
File No. 94080 CTN University of Maine System, 107 Maine Avenue,
Bangor, ME 04401. Signed By: Mr. William J. Sullivan, Treasurer, Univ
of Maine Sys. Funds Requested: $782,231. Total Project Cost:
$1,042,975. To construct a statewide distance learning channel composed
of ITFS and D-3 fiber optic interconnection. The channel would be an
addition to the University of Maine System's already-operating network.
The new channel would offer baccalaureate degrees in liberal arts and
business, as well as masters degrees in library science, industrial
technology, educational administration and business administration.
MI (Michigan)
File No. 94053 CTB Northern Michigan University, Elizabeth Harden
Drive, Marquette, MI 49855. Signed By: Mr. Michael J. Roy, V.P. for
Finance & Admin. Funds Requested: $102,550. Total Project Cost:
$205,100. To improve the production and operational capabilities of
public station WNMU-TV, Ch. 13, Marquette, MI, by replacing its worn-
out and obsolete switcher and TV and waveform monitors. The station
serves about 275,000 residents of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
File No. 94096 CTB Detroit Educational TV Foundation, 7441 Second
Boulevard, Detroit, MI 48202-2796. Signed By: Dr. Robert F. Larson,
President & General Manager. Funds Requested: $572,948. Total Project
Cost: $763,931. To improve the production facilities of public
television station WTVS, Ch. 56, Detroit, MI, by replacing worn-out ENG
packages and Betacam player/recorders, and to upgrade the station's
satellite system to transmit as well as receive. WTVS serves
approximately 4.5-million people.
File No. 94109 CTN PACE Telecommunications Consort, 6065 Learning
Lane, Indian River, MI 49749. Signed By: Mr. Jack A. Keck, Director.
Funds Requested: $362,800. Total Project Cost: $477,800. To expand the
PACE Telecommunications Consortium four-channel ITFS network to the K-
12 schools in seven additional communities. The Consortium's ITFS
network already reaches a number of school districts in its service
area, using, beside the ITFS interconnection, cable television and CARS
microwave. The PACE Telecommunications Consortium is located in a rural
six-county area covering 3,302 sq. miles in the northern tip of
Michigan's lower peninsula.
File No. 94162 CRB Central Michigan University, 3965 East
Broomfield Road, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858. Signed By: Mr. Leonard E.
Plachta, President. Funds Requested: $46,000. Total Project Cost:
$92,000. To improve the production capability of public station WCMU-
FM, 89.5 Mhz, Mt. Pleasant, MI, by replacing worn-out and obsolete
program origination equipment, including audio consoles and recorders,
cartridge machines, and CD players.
File No. 94163 CTN Tuscola Intermediate School Dist, 4415 S. Seeger
Street, Cass City, MI 48726. Signed By: Mr. Robert E. Townsend,
R.E.M.C. #10 Director. Funds Requested: $97,394. Total Project Cost:
$196,894. By constructing a two-channel ITFS system, to establish a
distance learning network that would interconnect 24 cable headends in
the Thumb Area of eastern Michigan. Via dedicated channels, the cable
systems would retransmit the educational programming to K-12 schools in
33 communities. The goals would be to make available low-incidence
middle and high school classes--such as advanced mathematics, science,
and foreign languages--where they are not presently offered, to provide
professional development activities and graduate level classes for
teachers and administrators, to offer training opportunities to local
business and industry, and to put into place a comprehensive community
education program.
File No. 94259 CRB Northern Michigan University, Elizabeth Harden
Drive, Marquette, MI 49855. Signed By: Mr. Michael J. Roy, VP, Finance
& Administration. Funds Requested: $22,755. Total Project Cost:
$45,510. To improve the operational capability of public station WNMU-
FM, 90.1 MHz, Marquette, MI, by replacing worn-out and obsolete
monitoring equipment and substituting a hard-disc digital audio system
for its existing reel-to-reel and cartridge audio recorder/playback
machines. The station serves 250,000 residents of Michigan's Upper
Peninsula.
File No. 94317 CTN Northwestern Michigan College, 1701 East Front
Street, Traverse City, MI 49684. Signed By: Mr. Timothy G. Quinn,
President. Funds Requested: $1,000,000. Total Project Cost: $3,903,854.
To acquire the equipment for, construct and extend a two-way
interactive interconnection system designated as Project Interconnect,
that would provide video, voice and data services for distance learning
and training to students, educators and the workforce in Northwestern
Michigan. The proposed fiber optic network would connect colleges,
universities, fifteen school districts, libraries, hospitals, and
government offices to the present digital compressed video connection
from Northwestern Michigan College's main campus in Traverse City to
its satellite campus in Cadillac.
MN (Minnesota)
File No. 94046 CRB Minneapolis Public Schools, 807 NE Broadway,
Minneapolis, MN 55413. Signed By: Mr. Robert E. Montesano, Station
Manager. Funds Requested: $64,114. Total Project Cost: $85,484. To
improve the production capability of public radio station KBEM, 88.5
MHz, Minneapolis, MN, by replacing an audio console, audio tape
recorders, cassette machines, cart machines, and CD players. The
station serves 2,250,000 residents of the Twin Cities area.
File No. 94098 PTBN Asian Media Access, Inc., 3028 Oregon Avenue
South, Minneapolis, MN 55426. Signed By: Mr. Stephen J. Lu, President.
Funds Requested: $58,000. Total Project Cost: $117,271. To plan for a
television production studio in St. Paul, Minnesota that would be
managed, operated and have Board control by Asian-Americans, for the
purpose of producing and distributing distance learning courses and
educational television programs specifically directed to the needs of
Asian-Americans in Minnesota, and potentially nationally.
File No. 94100 CTB Native American Television, Inc., P.O. Box 455,
St. Paul, MN 56302. Signed By: Ms. Martha Crow, President. Funds
Requested: $96,000. Total Project Cost: $128,000. To activate a
facility in St. Cloud, MN, for the production of programs by and for
Native Americans.
File No. 94104 CRB Fresh Air, Inc., 1808 Riverside Avenue,
Minneapolis, MN 55454. Signed By: Ms. Augustine Dominguez, Board
President. Funds Requested: $10,000. Total Project Cost: $20,000. To
extend the signal of public radio station KFAI, 90.3 MHz, Minneapolis,
MN, to the eastern half of the Minneapolis metro area, which is
presently blocked by tall buildings from receiving the station's
transmission. The project will construct a translator to operate at
106.7 MHz and bring KFAI's signal to approximately 400,000 persons now
unable to receive it. The station presently serves approximately 1.2-
million persons in the Minneapolis metro area.
File No. 94132 CTN Independent School District #492,202 Fourth
Avenue N.E., Austin, MN 55912. Signed By: Dr. J. Douglas Myers,
Superintendent of Schools. Funds Requested: $527,301. Total Project
Cost: $878,835. To activate a distance learning system using ITFS,
microwave, and fiber optics technologies. The system will interconnect
the K-12 school districts, cable television systems, and post-secondary
educational institutions in six rural communities in southern
Minnesota: Austin, Adams, Lyle, Leroy, Grand Meadow, and Glenville.
With the cable television connection, the instructional programming
provided over the system will be made available to rural homes and
libraries.
File No. 94147 CTN Minneapolis Telecommun. Network, 125 SE Main
Street, Minneapolis MN 55414. Signed By: Mr. Anthony Riddle, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $884,766. Total Project Cost: $1,769,532. To
construct a playback facility for the applicant's 18 channels of
public, government, and educational programming distributed by the
local cable television system, and to purchase studio production,
editing, and remote production equipment.
File No. 94250 CTB Northern Minnesota Public TV, Inc, 1400
Birchmont Drive, Bemidji, MN 56601. Signed By: Ms. Emily K. Lahti,
General Manager. Funds Requested: $115,885. Total Project Cost:
$154,513. To improve the production capability of public television
station KAWE, Ch 9, Bemidji, MN, by replacing worn-out and obsolete
items of equipment, including a switcher, field cameras, and video tape
recorders. The station serves population of 300,000.
File No. 94279 CTB West Central Minnesota ETV Co, 120 West
Schlieman, Appleton, MN 56208. Signed By: Mr. Ansel W. Doll, General
Manager. Funds Requested: $1,245,497. Total Project Cost: $2,490.995.
To provide the first Minnesota-originated public television signal to
84,284 residents of the Worthington, MN, area by activating a station
on Channel 20 to repeat the signal of public station KWCM, Ch. 10,
Appleton, MN, which serves a population of approximately 500,000.
File No. 94293 CRB Minnesota Public Radio, Inc., 45 East 7th
Street, St. Paul, MN 55101. Signed By: Mr. Dennis Hamilton, Vice
President. Funds Requested: $272,851. Total Project Cost: $545,702. To
improve the production capability of Minnesota Public Radio by
replacing worn-out and obsolete studio equipment, including audio tape
recorders, CD players, audio consoles, microphones, and a telephone
interface. MPR operates twenty public radio stations across Minnesota,
two in Moorehead, ND, one in Decorah, IA, one in Sioux Falls, SD, and
one in Sun Valley, ID. In addition, it operates ten translators in
Minnesota, and one each in Michigan and Wisconsin. Altogether it serves
a population of about 4.9-million persons through parallel networks of
classical music and news stations that operate 24 hours a day.
MO (Missouri)
File No. 94061 CRB Southwest Missouri State Univ., 901 South
National, Springfield, MO 65804-0089. Signed By: Mr. Frank A.
Einhellig, Associate Vice President. Funds Requested: $126,750. Total
Project Cost: $169,000. To replace the broadcast tower of public radio
station KCOZ, 90.5 MHz, Point Lookout, MO, which serves 71,470
residents of southwest Missouri and northwest Arkansas. The tower has a
structural failure that cannot be repaired. KCOZ repeats the
programming of public radio station KSMU, 91.1 MHz, Springfield, MO.
File No. 94063 CTN Central Missouri State University, Humphreys
410, Warrensburg, MO 64093. Signed By: Ms. Kathleen D. Easter, Dean,
Graduate Studies & Res., Funds Requested: $226,521. Total Project Cost:
$348,155. To purchase video classroom and codec equipment to extend the
applicant's distance learning system to the Clinton, MO, public school
system. The project will also position Central Missouri State
University and the Western Missouri Educational Technology Consortium
(WeMET), of which the applicant is a part, to interconnect to the
University of Missouri/Kansas City and to the Kansas City, MO, Public
Schools.
File No. 94213 PTN St. Louis Community College, 300 South Broadway,
St. Louis, MO 63102-2820. Signed By: Ms. Gwendolyn W. Stephenson,
Chancellor. Funds Requested: $24,845. Total Project Cost: $33,184. To
develop a unified educational technology plan that will assist in a
comprehensive study of the most effective use of telecommunications
technology to facilitate the delivery of distance learning and training
throughout the community. This project, when completed, would provide
the necessary information to budget and acquire the technology
considered consistent with institutional goals toward the integration
of telecommunications in distance learning throughout the college's
service area.
File No. 94233 Public Television 19, Inc., 125 E. 31st Street,
Kansas City, MO 64103. Signed By: Mr. William T. Reed, President. Funds
Requested: $271,153. Total Project Cost: $361,537. To construct and
activate a new educational service by implementing an interactive
compressed video classroom project and interconnection system, to be
integrated into a network for student coursework and teacher training
and development. The classroom origination facility, the compressed
video CODEC, and the interconnecting fiber optic transceivers would
comprise a Kansas City compressed video network hub delivering live
interactive instruction to schools and educational centers across
Kansas and Missouri.
File No. 94256 CTN Missouri School Boards Assoc., 2100 I-70 Dr.
S.W., Columbia, MO 65203-0099. Signed By: Mr. Carter Ward, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $905,750. Total Project Cost: $1,207,667. To
extend the satellite delivered educational services offered by the
Missouri School Board by constructing a C-bank uplink with compressed
digital video capability. The uplink will permit the extension of the
applicant's service nationwide through participation in the IDEANET
project (Interactive Distance Education Alliance) with three other
satellite providers, Oklahoma State University, Northern Arizona
University, and Educational Service District 101. The project will also
fund a production studio so the applicant can increase its educational
programming for nationwide distribution.
MP (Marianas Protectorate)
File No. 94323 CRB Northern Marianas College, P.O. Box 1250,
Saipan, MP 96950. Signed By: Ms. Agnes McPhetres, President. Funds
Requested: $432,415. Total Project Cost: $432,415. To provide the first
noncommercial public radio station to the Northern Marianas by
establishing a new station operating on 88.1 MHz. in Saipan. A
translator will also be constructed operating on 88.9 MHz to serve
Chalan Konoa and northern Saipan island. The facilities will serve
43,000 residents of the Northern Marianas Islands.
MS (Mississippi)
File No. 94156 CTN Mississippi Authority for ETV, 3825 Ridgewood
Road, Jackson, MS 39211. Signed By: Mr. Larry D. Miller, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $980,548. Total Project Cost: $1,961,096. To
purchase audio and video equipment to establish 18 multi-media
Interactive Technology Centers across the State of Mississippi. Also
purchased will be codec terminal equipment, a 32-port switcher, and
related hardware and software to allow the Centers to be connected via
T1 lines. Seventeen of the Centers will be housed at public high
schools and one will be located in the Jackson headquarters of the
Mississippi Authority for Educational Television. Each Center's primary
objective will be to allow secondary students in poor, rural schools to
have access to otherwise-unavailable instructional materials. The
Centers, however, will also be used to provide professional support to
teachers and administrators and to offer such functions as adult
literacy courses and industrial training.
File No. 94167 CTB Jackson St. University, 1375 Lynch Street, Box
18590, Jackson, MS 39217-0990. Signed By: Mr. James Lyons, Sr.,
President. Funds Requested: $885,668. Total Project Cost: $1,415,749.
To activate a low power public TV station, W23BC, with a power of 100
watts in Jackson, MS to provide a complete broadcast facility for the
training of students and to provide programs for the 27,523 people who
live in the 10 mile radius of the station. This proposed station
received its FCC license in 1992, and has ordered, prior to the
deadline, the antenna and transmitter. The $1.4 million TPC is almost
all for origination equipment, the transmitter and antenna are in the
Pre-operational Expenses.
MT (Montana)
File No. 94095 CTBN SE Montana Telecomm. Educ. Coop., 500 No.
Trautman, Broadus, MT 59317. Signed By: Mr. Brian Patrick, Chairman.
Funds Requested: $1,270,006. Total Project Cost: $1,693,341. This
project would accomplish two major objectives. First, it would
establish low-power television stations, with local origination
capability, that would bring the first public television signal to
approximately 17,000 residents of a five-county area of southeast
Montana. The station transmitters would be placed in the communities of
Ashland, Broadus, Forsyth, Hysham, and Miles City. The stations would
be associated with the Rural Television System, Inc., which has its
headquarters in Carson City, Nevada. Second, it would purchase video
classroom and interconnection equipment to allow 11 K-12 schools to
activate a two-way interactive distance learning system using fiber
optics.
File No. 94193 CTB Plains--Paradise TV District, Box 215, 417
Rittenour Street, Plains, MT 59859. Signed By: Mr. Leo S. Rambur,
Chairman. Funds Requested: $47,194. Total Project Cost: $62,925. To
improve public low power television station K21CA in Plains, MT by
improving the local production capability to serve this very rural area
with the acquisition of two portable color cameras and associated
items, portable light kits, microphones, \3/4\'' editing system,
monitors, special effects unit, audio cassette, time base corrector,
character generator, and head phones. This project will increase
community access to the station's facilities and increase the quality
of local programming.
File No. 94230 CTB National Indian Media Foundation, 631 North
Center, Hardin, MT 59034. Signed By: Mr. Ronald Holt, Manager. Funds
Requested: $436,475. Total Project Cost: $671,500. To activate a non-
commercial television station, KOUS-TV, Ch 4, in Hardin, MT, providing
first signal to 15,000 to members of the Crow and Northern Cheyenne
Indian Tribes in Montana. Applicant recently purchased the existing
Channel 4 station in Hardin which went off the air in January 1993, but
even though the former owner is including all the TV equipment in the
sale, much of it is not usable especially the dissemination equipment.
So, The National Indian Media Foundation is requesting only
dissemination items and, to start with, will not have local origination
capability.
NC (North Carolina)
File No. 94023 CRB Wake Forest University, P.O. Box 7405, Winston-
Salem, NC 27109. Signed By: Ms. Julie B. Cole, Dir. Office of Res. &
Spon. Funds Requested: $185,145. Total Project Cost: $246,860. To
improve public radio station WFDD-FM, 88.5 MHz Winston-Salem, NC, by
replacing its transmitter, antenna and original tower, destroyed by a
tornado, which is to be installed at a new site, allowing the station
to return to its original 100 kw signal from its current Special
Temporary Authority of 22 kw, and restore the original coverage of
1,275,175 residents from the current 746,689. WFDD-FM has been on
temporary site which has required reauthorization every six months.
File No. 94048 CRB Isothermal Community College, U.S. Highway 74
Bypass, Spindale, NC 28160. Signed By: Dr. Willard L. Lewis, President.
Funds Requested: $12,261. Total Project Cost: $24,522. To extend the
public radio service provided by WNCW-FM, 88.7 MHz, Spindale, NC
through the construction of translators operating on 92.9 MHz Boone, NC
and 95.5 MHz, Beach Mtn., NC. The translators will provide first public
radio service to 5,981 residents of Watauga County.
File No. 94088 CTN East Wake Education Foundation, 5101 Rolesville
Road, Wendell, NC 27591. Signed By: Ms. Linda Johnson, Pres./East Wake
Education Fnd. Funds Requested: $55,825. Total Project Cost: $74,434.
To establish a television production studio at East Wake High School,
to bring distance learning to students at eight public schools--the
high school, two middle schools and five elementary schools--in the
communities of Zebulon, Wendell, and Knightdale, which are located
immediately to the east of Raleigh, NC. The studio would also be used
by local law enforcement agencies and possibly by local governments for
public service needs.
File No. 94090 CTB University of North Carolina, 10 T.W. Alexander
Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. Signed By: Mr. Tom Howe, Direc
& GM UNC Ctr for Pub TV. Funds Requested: $1,344,880. Total Project
Cost: $3,362,200. To activate a non-commercial repeater TV network
station on CH 31 in Lumberton, NC, providing first signal to 611,326
residents in 11 Southeast-central NC counties and 4 North-central SC
counties.
File No. 94188 CTB Elizabeth City State University, 1704 Weeksville
Road, Box 800, Elizabeth City, NC 27909. Signed By: Mr. Jimmy R.
Jenkins, Chancellor. Funds Requested: $8,474. Total Project Cost:
$11,299. To improve non-commercial low power TV station W18BB-TV in
Elizabeth City, NC by completing the construction of its TV production
studio, which requires adding the production console, editing console
system, rack mount slide kits, duplication console, tape cabinets and
mobile video carts, so the station may properly complete its local
production capability to better serve the 14,292 residents in is
coverage area.
File No. 94257 CTN NC Agency for Public T/C, 116 West Jones St.,
Ste. G-102, Raleigh, NC 27603-8003. Signed By: Ms. Leila Tvedt,
Executive Director. Funds Requested: $158,762. Total Project Cost:
$317,524. To extend the services provided by the North Carolina Agency
for Public Telecommunications by constructing C/Ku-band satellite
downlinks at 6 emergency management field offices throughout the state,
including sites in Washington, Butner, Burgaw, Asheboro, Conover,
Asheville and Raleigh. The project will also equip a classroom as a
teleconference production center which will be connected to the North
Carolina Information Highway, a fiber optic network connecting public
institutions statewide. The project will provide emergency management
training and support emergency management communications.
File No. 94304 CRB University of North Carolina, Swain Hall, Chapel
Hill, NC 27599-0915. Signed By: Dr. Robert P. Lowman, Director, Office
of Res. Serv. Funds Requested: $256,425. Total Project Cost: $512,850.
To improve the transmission facilities of WUNC-FM, 91.5 MHz. Chapel
Hill by moving the antenna to a higher tower, thereby increasing the
station's effective power and providing a first service to 70,000
additional people. The project would fund a new antenna, transmitter
and Studio-Transmitter Link. The project would also fund a new
satellite uplink and downlink for transmission and receipt of national
radio programming. WUNC-FM currently provides service to 1.3 million
people in North Carolina.
ND (North Dakota)
File No. 94093 CTN Turtle Mountain Community College, Box 340,
Belcourt, ND 58316. Signed By: Mr. Gerald Monette, President. Funds
Requested: $271,498. Total Project Cost: $361,997. To establish
distance learning facilities at four Native American community colleges
in North Dakota: Turtle Mountain Community College; Ft. Berthold
Community College; Little Hoop Community College (serving the Ft.
Totten Reservation); and United Tribes Technical College, Bismarck. The
four schools will be connected by T-1 transmission lines; all schools
will have video classroom origination facilities. The system will
permit the schools to share instructional programming; to do this, they
will interconnect with and use the switching facilities of Standing
Rock College, located at Ft. Yates, ND. The project would also allow
the schools to participate in the North Dakota University System's
Interactive Video Network (IVN).
NE (Nebraska)
File No. 94086 CRB Nebraska Educ. T/C Commission, P.O. Box 83111,
1800 N. 33rd St., Lincoln, NE 68501-3111. Signed By: Mr. Jack G.
McBride, Secretary & General Manager. Funds Requested: $37,955. Total
Project Cost: $75,911. To extend and improve the facilities of the
Nebraska Public Radio Network by activating four FM translators: Max
(93.3 MHz), Harrison (89.5 MHz), Falls City (91.7 MHz), and Culbertson
(92.7 MHz). Translators would provide first public signal in areas
unserved by the network. In addition, project would replace an obsolete
1980 master control console that is inadequate for the nine station
network's needs.
File No. 94154 CRB Omaha Community Broadcasting 4914 Ames Avenue,
Omaha, NE 68104. Signed By: Mr. William J. Thompson, Chairperson. Funds
Requested: $139,000. Total Project Cost: $185,643. To activate a new
minority controlled and operated public radio station on 88.9 MHz, in
Omaha. Proposed 3 kilowatt station would target programming to minority
community. There are three other public radio stations serving the
market.
File No. 94263 CTB Nebraska Educ. T/C Commission, 1800 N. 33rd
Street, Lincoln, NE 68501-3111. Signed By: Mr. Jack G. McBride,
Secretary/General Manager. Funds Requested: $187,475. Total Project
Cost: $374,950. To improve the Nebraska Educational TV Network by
replacing three worn out television translators at the following
locations: Falls City, K24AC, Ch. 24; Neligh, K65AT, Ch. 65; and
Decatur, K66AR, Ch. 66. In addition, project would replace worn out/
obsolete control and network production equipment by purchasing a new
still store, character generator and digital test equipment. This
project would continue the network's phased upgrade to digital
equipment.
NH (New Hampshire)
File No. 94074 CRB New Hampshire Public Radio, 207 North Main
Street, Concord, NH 03301-5048. Signed By: Mark D. Handley, President.
Funds Requested: $34,517. Total Project Cost: $86,717. To purchase
microwave equipment to improve the interconnection between two public
radio repeater stations and the flagship station of New Hampshire
Public Radio, Station WEVO-FM, 89.1 Mhz, Concord. One repearter,
already on-air, is WEVH-FM (91.3 Mhz) in Hanover; the second, scheduled
to go on-air in June 1994, is WEVN-FM (90.7 Mhz), in Keene. The
proposed microwave STL systems would provide higher quality signals to
the repeaters than are possible from off-air signals. The project would
therefore allow approximately 67,000 residents of the Hanover and Keene
areas to receive truly reliable public radio signals for the first
time. This proposal would also allow for some regionalization of public
radio services to the affected areas.
File No. 94155 CTB University of New Hampshire, Rt. 155A, Mast
Road, PO Box 1100, Durham, NH 03824. Signed By: Mr. Steven Bernstein,
Sr. Grant & Contract Officer. Funds Requsted: $375,000. Total Project
Cost: $750,000. To replace a 12-year-old transmitter and antenna for
New Hampshire Public Television's station WENH-TV, Ch. 11, Durham.
WENH-TV is the flagship station in the applicant's statewide network,
which comprises three stations and two translators. WENH's present
transmission equipment is unreliable and costly to maintain. The
project would also replace an outmoded, low-quality ENG field
production unit consisting of a camera, recorder, microphones, and
associated accessory equipment.
NJ (New Jersey)
File No. 94187 CRB Electronic Info. & Ed. Service, 59 Scottland
Rd., South Orange, NJ 07079. Signed By: Mr. John F. Mulvihill, Jr.,
General Manager. Funds Requested: $96,990. Total Project Cost:
$129,320. To upgrade the applicant's SCA capabilities, using the sub-
carrier of WSOU-FM at Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ, by
replacing the audio consoles, reel-to-reel tape recorder, cassette
recorder, microphones, digital cart machines, CD players, DAT
recorders, booth control system, booth microphones and arm, compressor/
limiters, automation mike mixer, studio speaker, reel-to-reel decks,
monitor speakers, cabinet racks, custom cabinet for console, headphone,
off air receiver and lot of wire. Applicant claims service to 70,000
blind, site impaired and physically disabled.
File No. 94288 PTN Hunterdon Central Regional H.S. Dist, 84 Route
31 North, Flemington, NJ 08822-1239. Signed By: Mr. Raymond Farley,
Superintendent. Funds Requested: $150,831. Total Project Cost:
$196,957. To conduct a feasibility study to determine possible
approaches to the development of an interactive telecommunications
network that would connect the schools in twenty-six school districts
within five counties of New Jersey and one county in Pennsylvania,
using a prototype school facility as a model. The proposed plan would
assess the various technologies that might be appropriate with respect
to engineering, content development, and distribution systems, to
determine the telecommunications methods to employ in establishing an
interactive network capable of providing video, voice and data services
among the schools, libraries, museums, government agencies, and other
organizations.
File No. 94290 CRB Burlington County College, Rte 530, Pemberton-
Browns Mills R, Pemberton, NJ 08068. Signed By: Mr. Robert C. Messina,
Jr., President. Funds Requested: $49,960. Total Project Cost: $66,614.
To construct a C-band satellite downlink at a WBZC-FM 88.9 MHz.
Pemberton, a new noncommercial radio station to be operated by
Burlington County College. The earth station will provide access to
nationally distributed programming for the station, which will provide
the first public radio service to 24,916 in Burlington County.
NM (New Mexico)
File No. 94040 PTN Hispanic Educational Telecom System, 1130
University Blvd., N.E., Albuquerque, NM 87102. Signed By: Mr. Jose F.
Mendez, President & Chairman, HETS. Funds Requested: $128,940. Total
Project Cost: $168,940. To develop the plan for a new Hispanic
Educational Telecommunications System (HETS) to interconnect
institutions of higher education serving significant Hispanic
populations with video and data resources, facilitating the sharing of
credit, non-credit and outreach programs to on-campus and off-campus
students as well as Hispanics in the work force. The founding HETS
institutions are seven universities and community colleges in the
states of Arizona, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, Texas, and in
Puerto Rico.
File No. 94045 CRB The Bd of Regents of the Univ of NM, Bernalillo
County, Albuquerque, NM 87131. Signed By: Ms. Jane Blume, Interim
General Manager. Funds Requested: $37,995. Total Project Cost: $50,660.
To extend the signal of KUNM-FM, 89.9 MHz, in Albuquerque by
constructing six new translators at the following locations: Cuba, 91.1
MHz; Dzilth-na-o-dith-hle, 91.9 MHz; Socorro, 91.9 MHz; Eagle Nest/
Cimarron, 91.1 MHz; Thoreau, 91.1 MHz (will also feed KGLP-FM, in
Gallup), and Farmington, 89.7 MHz. The Farmington translator will
provide a second signal to 38,576 persons in the area. The other
translators will provide a first public radio signal to a total of
16,607 persons.
File No. 94049 CRB The Bd of Regents of the Univ of NM, Bernalillo
County, Albuquerque, NM 87131. Signed By: Ms Jane Blume, Interim
General Manager. Funds Requested: $30,825. Total Project Cost: $61,650.
To improve the facilities of public radio station KUNM-FM, 89.9 MHz, in
Albuquerque by replacing and improving the station's obsolete/worn out
multi-track console and 8-track recorder and also acquiring two digital
workstations and a digital audio tape field production recorder.
File No. 94083 CTB New Mexico State University, Milton Hall, Room
121, Las Cruces, NM 88003. Signed By: Ms. Carol L. Walker, Associate
Dean/Director. Funds Requested: $48,401. Total Project Cost: $96,802.
To improve the facilities of public television station KRWG-TV, Ch. 22,
in Las Cruces by replacing a 1972 intercom system and a 1976 audio
console as well as adding dissemination equipment which will allow for
the transmission of Descriptive Video Service (DVS) and second audio
programming in Spanish for the large Hispanic audience within the
station's converge area.
File No. 94165 CTB Regents/Univ of NM & Bd Of Ed Albuq, 1130
University Blvd. N.E., Albuquerque, NM 87102. Signed By: Ms. Ann
Powell, Director, Research Admin-UNM. Funds Requested: $38,750. Total
Project Cost: $77,500. To improve/extend the signal of public
television station KNME-TV, Ch. 8, in Albuquerque by replacing three TV
translators: K61BA, Ch. 61, in Ft. Wingate; K60AA, Ch. 60, Cimarron;
and K63BD, Ch. 63, in Gallup. The Cimarron translator, a 1990 vintage
unit, will be replaced with a more powerful unit. The other two
translators are 1978 vintage.
File No. 94258 CRB San Juan College, 4601 College Blvd, Farmington,
NM 87402. Signed By: Mr. James C. Henderson, President. Funds
Requested: $22,660. Total Project Cost: $45,320. To improve the
facilities of public radio station KSJE-FM, 90.9 MHz, in Farmington, by
acquiring a receive-only satellite downlink system. KSJE-FM serves
approximately 90,000 people.
File No. 94268 CTB Eastern New Mexico University, 15th & Avenue O
KENW-TV, Portales, NM 88130. Signed By: Mr. Duane Ryan, Director of
Broadcasting. Funds Requested: $170,000. Total Project Cost: $340,000.
To improve the facilities of public television station KENW-TV, Ch. 3,
in Portales, by replacing old, worn-out/outdated production equipment.
Station would acquire a dual channel still store, a \1/2\'' editing
system (including tape machines, a video switcher, edit controller,
audio board and related equipment), and a sync generator. Equipment
will further KENW-TV's move toward broadcasting in stereo.
File No. 94287 PTN Northern New Mexico Network, #50 County Road 13,
Cuba, NM 87013. Signed By: Mr. Joe A. Lopez, President. Funds
Requested: $45,000. Total Project Cost: $47,400. To develop a
comprehensive distance learning plan that would consider the
feasibility of possible telecommunications systems for a two-way
interactive network offering specialized and advanced level courses for
K-12 academic students and vocational students, and professional
development and in-service training to educators and support staff. The
proposed plan would also review long-range options for such an
interconnection system to provide continuing education and training to
the workforce in various professions and occupations, and information
services to the general population in northern New Mexico.
NV (Nevada)
File No. 94140 CTB Clark County School District, 4210 Channel 10
Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89119. Signed By: Dr. Brian Cram, Superintendent.
Funds Requested: $348,500. Total Project Cost: $348,500. To improve the
facilities of public television station KLVX-TV, Ch. 10, in Las Vegas
by replacing old 2 inch video tape recorders, video production
switcher, edit-only edit bay, cameras, character generator and
associated production and test equipment. KLVX-TV serves approximately
919,388 residents of NV, western AZ and eastern CA.
File No. 94176 PRTN Univ. & Cmnty College Sys. of NV, Computing
Center Building, Reno, NV 89557. Signed By: Dr. Donald Zitter,
Executive Director. Funds Requested: $55,992. Total Project Cost:
$55,992. To conduct a planning project for the purpose of assessing the
capabilities and possible activation and extension of sites and
facilities using digital technology, for the interactive distance
learning system providing video, audio and data services to on-campus
and off-campus locations of the University and Community College System
of Nevada.
NY (New York)
File No. 94018 CRB Greece Central School District, P.O. Box 300,
North Greece, NY 14515. Signed By: Mr. Eric Gruner, Operations
Director. Funds Requested: $20,829. Total Project Cost: $27,772. To
purchase a satellite receive-only earth station for noncommercial radio
station WGMC-FM, licensed to the Greece Central School District, North
Greece, NY, which is in the area of Greater Rochester.
File No. 94031 CTB Long Island ETV Council, Inc., Channel 21 Drive,
Plainview, NY 11803. Signed By: Mr. Terrel L. Cass, President & General
Manager. Funds Requested: $275,000. Total Project Cost: $550,000. To
replace aged and obsolete items of studio and test equipment at public
television station WLIW-TV, Ch. 21, Plainview, on Long Island, NY. The
major items that would be purchased are video tape recorders, video
editors, and a digital monitor.
File No. 94064 CTN Hispanic Info. & T/C Network, Inc., 449
Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10013. Signed By: Mr. Jose L.
Rodriguez, President. Funds Requested: $748,500. Total Project Cost:
$998,000. To construct an satellite interconnection system to
distribute Hispanic television programming to fifteen communities
throughout the United States for dissemination by Instructional
Television Fixed Service (IFTS). Ku-band uplinks will be constructed in
Brooklyn, NY, San Antonio and in Puerto Rico. Downlinks will be
constructed to serve ITFS systems in Colorado Springs, CO, Las Vagas,
NV, New Orleans, LA, Orlando, FL, Philadelphia, PA, Riverside, CA,
Tucson, AZ, Houston, TX, Kansas City, MO, Oklahoma City, OK,
Providence, RI, Portland, OR, Dayton, OH, San Antonio, TX, and New York
City, NY.
File No. 94107 CTN Dutchess County BOCES, 578 Salt Point Turnpike,
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601-9784. Signed By: Mr. Duane E. Hutton, Chief
Executive Officer. Funds Requested: $676,352. Total Project Cost:
$1,352,704. To expand the number of school districts and sites served
by Dutchess County's INFINET 2000 fiber-optic distance learning network
(from eleven sites to eighteen), to serve new elements of the
population (e.g., elementary school students), to broaden the reach of
the applicant's classroom computer network (from three sites and 150
personal computers to 6 sites and almost 300 personal computers), and
to provide access to the Internet.
File No. 94135 CRB Research Fdn, SUNY Buffalo, 520 Lee Entrance,
Amherst, NY 14228-2567. Signed By: Mr. Bradley A. Bermudez, Sponsored
Programs Associate. Funds Requested: $116,832. Total Project Cost:
$166,903. To extend the signal of public radio station WBFO-FM, which
operates on 88.7 MHz in Buffalo, NY. The project would increase the
station's transmission power from 10kw to 25kw, change its antenna
pattern from directional to nondirectional, and purchase the station a
new, taller tower. The station estimates that this will allow its
signal to reach 24,273 residents of the greater Buffalo area who do not
now receive a public radio signal.
File No. 94148 CRTB Public Broadcasting Council of, 506 Old
Liverpool Rd., Box 2400, Syracuse, NY 13220-2400. Signed By: Mr.
Richard W. Russell, President and CEO. Funds Requested: $188,302. Total
Project Cost: $376,604. To replace studio equipment for public
television station WCNY, Ch. 24, and for public radio station WCNY-FM,
91.3 MHz. Both stations are licensed to The Public Broadcasting Council
of Central New York, Inc., Syracuse, NY. For the television station,
the project would purchase three types of switchers: master control;
routing; and production. For the radio station, the proposal includes
three SCA generators (for the local radio reading service for the
print-handicapped) as well as audio distribution amplifiers and digital
audio record players (both for studio use and for portable use).
File No. 94166 CTN Columbia University, 530 West 120th Street, New
York, NY 10027. Signed By: Mr. John R. Kender, V. Dean, Eng & Applied
Science. Funds Requested: $414,712. Total Project Cost: $552,450. To
construct a Ku-band satellite uplink at Columbia University which will
provide nationwide distribution of educational programming from the
School of Engineering and Applied Science. Columbia is a member of the
National Technological University (NTU) and the uplink will be
compatible with the compressed digital system used by NTU.
File No. 94180 CTB Western NY Public Brdcstg. Assn., P.O. Box 1263,
Buffalo, NY 14240. Signed By: Mr. J. Michael Collins, President & CEO.
Funds Requested: $723,514. Total Project Cost: $964,686. To improve the
studio production facilities of public television station WNED, Ch. 17,
Buffalo. The project would replace aged and worn-out cameras by
purchasing one portable and four studio cameras, along with separate
camera control units for use in a mobile production van. The proposal
also calls for the purchase of three digital video tape recorders, a
nonlinear edit system, and associated test equipment.
File No. 94234 CTB WSKG Public T/C Council, 601 Gates Road, Vestal,
NY 13850. Signed By: Mr. Michael J. Ziegler, President & CEO. Funds
Requested: $400,000. Total Project Cost: $800,000. To replace aged and
worn-out studio equipment at public television station WSKG, Ch. 46,
Binghamton, NY. The project would purchase a master control/routing
switcher, six editing video tape recorders, two production video tape
recorders, five studio cameras, and an intercom system.
File No. 94238 PRB Indigenous Communications Assoc., Route 37,
(P.O. Box 748), Hogansburg, NY 13655. Signed By: Mr. Ray Cook,
Executive Director. Funds Requested: $183,735. Total Project Cost:
$183,735. To plan for the activation of noncommercial radio stations to
serve Native American reservations or communities, most of which
receive no public radio signal. The communities or native American
institutions to be covered by this planning would be: Pueblo of Acoma,
NM; All Indian Pueblo Council, Albuquerque (representing 19 New Mexican
Pueblo Tribes); Ft. Peck Reservation, northeast MT; St. Regis Mohawk
Tribe, Hogansburg, NY; the Tohono O'odham Nation, in south central AZ;
the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation,
Toppenish, WA; the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin; and the Red
Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Red Lake, MN.
File No. 94280 CTN Cornell Cooperative Extension of, 246 Griffing
Avenue, Riverhead, NY 11901-3086. Signed By: Mr. Kermit W. Graf,
Cooperative Extension Agent. Funds Requested: $85,760. Total Project
Cost: $123,821. To extend the services provided by the Cornell
Cooperative Extension Satellite Network by purchasing a C\Ku-band
satellite downlink at Yaphank, NY to provide service to residents of
Suffolk County.
File No. 94291 CTN Herkimer, Fulton, Hamilt, Ots BOCES, 400 Gros
Blvd., Herkimer, NY 13350. Signed By: Mr. William E. Whitehill, Jr.,
District Superintendent. Funds Requested: $378,178. Total Project Cost:
$504,238. To acquire the necessary equipment to activate a fiber optic
interconnection system in Herkimer County and parts of six surrounding
counties in central New York State among twelve school districts, a
community college, and the Board of Cooperative Educational Services
(BOCES) office. The links in this proposed network would include
fourteen teaching/learning classrooms that could originate and receive
fully interactive video, voice and data materials for instructional
distance learning classes, in-service courses, professional development
programs, and other community service needs.
File No. 94301 CRB Colleges of the Seneca, Hobart and Will. Smith
Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456. Signed By: Mr. Richard Guarasci, Dean,
Hobart College. Funds Requested: $65,140. Total Project Cost: $130,280.
To extend the signal coverage of public radio station WEOS-FM, 89.7
Mhz, Geneva, NY. By purchasing a more powerful transmitter and a new
antenna, the project will increase the station's ERP from 1.5kw to 4kw.
Together with moving the transmitter to a more favorable site, the
project should allow the station's signal to reach an additional 68,000
persons. The proposal also includes a microwave studio-to-transmitter
link and two items of test equipment.
File No. 94313 CTN Orange County Community College, 115 South
Street, Middletown, NY 10940. Signed By: Mr. William F. Messner,
President. Funds Requested: $13,415. Total Project Cost: $17,887. To
construct a C/Ku-band satellite downlink for the Newburgh campus of
Orange County Community College to provide nationally distributed
instructional programming to 1,000 students at that location.
OH (Ohio)
File No. 94005 CRB Ohio University, 9 South College Street, Athens,
OH 45701. Signed By: Mr. T. Lloyd Chesnut, Vice President. Funds
Requested: $130,685. Total Project Cost: $261,370. To improve the
signal of public radio station WOUB-AM, 1340 KHz. Athens, OH, by
replacing its worn-out and obsolete transmitter and antenna and
converting the station to AM stereo. WOUB-AM serves a population of
59,549.
File No. 94056 CTB ETV Assn of Metro Cleveland, 4300 Brookpark
Road, Cleveland, OH 44134. Signed By: Mr. Jerry Wareham, President and
General Manager. Funds Requested: $698,960. Total Project Cost:
$1,397,920. To improve the operation of public television station WVIZ,
Ch. 25, Cleveland, OH, by replacing three obsolete and worn-out video
switchers. The station serves a population of 3.7-million persons.
File No. 94071 PTN Ohio Valley Reg. Dev. Commission, 740 Second
Street, Rm. 102, Portsmouth, OH 45662-4088. Signed By: Mr. Jeffrey
Spencer, Executive Director. Funds Requested: $27,000. Total Project
Cost: $36,000. To plan for an interactive distance learning network
that could potentially involve educational institutions at all levels,
libraries, health care facilities and other public service agencies in
the Ohio Valley Regional Development District of Southern Ohio, in a
consortium effort to consider the alternative technologies that might
be feasible to develop a telecommunications system for providing
educational and training services.
File No. 94082 CRB Ohio State University, 2400 Olentangy River
Road, Columbus, OH 43210-1027. Signed By: Mr. Dale K. Ouzts, General
Manager, WOSU Stations. Funds Requested: $202,650. Total Project Cost:
$270,200. To activate a public radio station, WOSC, 91.1 MHz, in
Coshocton County, OH, to bring the first public radio signal to
approximately 45,569 people. WOSC will repeat the programming of WOSU,
Columbus, OH.
File No. 94084 CTB Ohio State University, 2400 Olentangy River
Road, Columbus, OH 43210. Signed By: Mr. Dale K. Ouzts, General
Manager, WOSU Stations. Funds Requested: $113,532. Total Project Cost:
$227,064. To improve the production capability of public station WOSU-
TV, Ch. 34, Columbus, OH, by replacing worn-out and obsolete camera
pedestals, color and black-and-white monitors, and test equipment. The
station serves a population of about 1.8-million people.
File No. 94110 CTB Bowling Green State University, 245 Troup
Street, Bowling Green, OH 43403-0060. Signed By: Mr. Louis I. Katzner,
Associate V.P. for Research. Funds Requested: $117,200. Total Project
Cost: $234,400. To improve the production capability of public station
WBGU-TV, Ch. 27, Bowling Green, OH, by replacing worn-out and outdated
analog video tape machines and editing with digital technology and also
replacing its field production equipment. The station serves a
population of about 1.3-million people.
File No. 94131 CRB Public Bdcstg Fndn of NW Ohio, 136 Huron Street,
Toledo, OH 43604. Signed By: Ms. Shirley E. Timonere, President &
General Manager. Funds Requested: $182,625. Total Project Cost:
$243,500. To activate a public radio repeater station at 88.5 Mhz to
bring the first public radio signal to 99,010 people in and around
Bryan, OH. The new station will repeat the programing of public radio
station WGTE-FM, 91.3 MHZ. Toledo.
File No. 94177 CTB Public Bdcstg Fndn of NW Ohio, 136 Huron Street,
Toledo, OH 43697. Signed By: Ms. Shirley E. Timonere, President &
General Manager. Funds Requested: $109,945. Total Project Cost:
$219,890. To improve the production capability of public station WGTE-
TV, Ch. 30, Toledo, OH, by replacing worn-out and outdated equipment,
including a field production system, a video tape editing system, and a
character generator. The station serves a population of about 1.3-
million people.
File No. 94221 CRB Kent State University, 1613 East Summit Street,
Kent, OH 44242. Signed By: Ms. Anita D. Herington, Acting VP for Inst
Advancement. Funds Requested: $621,195. Total Project Cost: $847,585.
To activate a public radio repeater station in Thompson, OH, to bring a
first public radio signal to 162,716 residents of extreme northeastern
Ohio; it will repeat the programing of public radio station WKSU, 89.3
MHz, Kent, OH. To extend the coverage area of WKSU by replacing its
transmitter and moving it to Copley, OH. And to improve WKSU's
production capability by replacing and upgrading unreliable equipment.
File No. 94245 CTN City of Columbus, Ohio, 90 West Broad Street,
Columbus, OH 43215. Signed By: Ms. Maria Caprio, Deputy Director, Admin
Svcs. Funds Requested: $233,923. Total Project Cost: $467,845. To
purchase the equipment necessary to construct and activate at the
Martin Luther King, Jr. Performing/Cultural Arts Complex in Columbus,
Ohio, a telecommunications facility, production studio, and fiber optic
link to the existing fiber optic interconnection system in the city of
Columbus. This project would be a part of a larger Telecomplex Project
in which the city would establish a telecommunications and production
center in a central Columbus urban area where the population is 90%
African-American. The proposed production studio and fiber optic link
would enable the residents of this area to produce educational and
training materials for video, voice and data applications, through
which they could interact with other city residents and service
providers on the fiber optic network.
OK (Oklahoma)
File No. 94059 CTB Rogers State College, Will Rogers and College
Hill, Claremore, OK 74017-2099. Signed By: Mr. Richard H. Mosier,
President. Funds Requested: $418,667. Total Project Cost: $837,334. To
improve the facilities of public television station, KRSC-TV, Ch. 35,
in Claremore by acquiring equipment to upgrade its origination
capabilities to current broadcast standards. In 1987, KRSC-TV went on
the air with industrial grade, non-broadcast quality equipment. Much of
that equipment is now worn-out, obsolete and experiences significant
maintenance problems and downtime. Equipment being replaced includes
video tape machines, cameras, master control switcher, edit controller,
sequencer and related items. In addition, KRSC-TV will acquire a KU
Band satellite downlink terminal to obtain programming from a variety
of sources.
OR (Oregon)
File No. 94081 PRTN Treasure Valley Community College, 650 College
Blvd., Ontario, OR 97914. Signed By: Dr. Berton L. Glandon, President.
Funds Requested: $152,618. Total Project Cost: $152,628. To develop a
plan and analyze the feasibility of providing a distance learning
service through alternative forms of telecommunications such as fiber
optic lines and microwave distribution to learning centers for
different levels of education, in a four-county area with a significant
Hispanic population in Eastern Oregon.
File No. 94102 CTB Oregon Public Broadcasting, 7140 SW Macadam
Avenue, Portland, OR 97219-3013. Signed By: Mr. Maynard E. Orme,
President and CEO. Funds Requested: $71,125. Total Project Cost:
$142,250. To purchase three one-half inch Beta video recorders to
replace three three-quarter inch video recorders located at public
television station KOPB-TV, Channel 10, in Portland, Oregon,
originating program service to Oregon Public Broadcasting stations in
Corvallis, Bend, LaGrand, and Eugene, Oregon.
File No. 94216 CTB Southern Oregon Public TV, Inc., 34 South Fir
Street (PO Box 4688, Medford, OR 97501. Signed By: Mr. William R.
Campbell, Vice President/General Manager. Funds Requested: $23,250.
Total Project cost: $31,000. To construct a translator which will
provide first public television service to 2,200 people in Bookings
Harbor, Oregon, by extending the signal of public television station
KSYS-TV, Channel 8, Medford, Oregon. The project will also provide an
additional 11,000 people with their first Oregon based public
television service and provide this service to the last significant
geographic area of the state without such service.
File No. 94220 CTB Southern Oregon Public TV, Inc., 34 South Fir
Street (PO Box 4688, Medford, OR 97501. Signed By: Mr. William R.
Campbell, Vice President/General Manager. Funds Requested: $259,298.
Total Project Cost: $345,730. To replace obsolete, unreliable
origination videotape machines with six \1/2\ inch videotape machines
and one digital, tapeless playback system for use on KSYS-TV, Channel
8, Medford, Oregon.
File No. 94225 CRB Mt. Hood Community College District, 26000 S.E.
Stark Street, Gresham, OR 97030-3300. Signed By: Dr. Bill Becker, Dean
of Administration. Funds Requested: $112,415. Total Project cost:
$224,831. To improve the transmission, origination, and interconnection
facilities at KMHD-FM, 89.1, Gresham, Oregon, by constructing a new
STL, replacing unreliable studio production equipment, replacing
obsolete control room origination equipment, constructing a satellite
receive terminal and replacing test equipment.
File No. 94235 PTBN KWSO. P.O. Box 489, Warm Springs, OR 97761.
Signed By: Mr. Warren R. Clements, Director of Public Information.
Funds Requested: $65,450. Total Project Cost: $65,450. To plan for the
creation of a consolidated Telecommunications Center that would serve
the Confederated Tribes on the Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon. This
proposed center would incorporate facilities for the present public
radio station with other possible telecommunications operations such as
a cable television channel, a satellite earth station, community
library, and interactive computer network. The Telecommunications
Center would provide educational and training components that would
help meet the needs of Native Americans on the reservation.
File No. 94261 CTN Deschutes Cnty Education Ser Dist, 1340 N.W.
Wall Street, Bend, OR 97701. Signed By: Mr. Dennis Douglass,
Superintendent. Funds Requested: $807,900. Total Project Cost:
$1,162,960. To acquire the equipment necessary to construct and
activate non-broadcast facilities for an interactive system that would
include a production studio to produce instructional programming, and a
microwave link and ITFS network through four counties of central Oregon
for distance learning, workforce training and economic development
services to an underserved population. The proposed project would be a
cooperative effort of the Central Oregon Strategic Training and
Education Partnership (CO-STEP), which includes school districts,
education service agencies, colleges, businesses, government agencies,
and telephone and broadcast companies, to accomplish youth education
and workforce training initiatives.
PA (Pennsylvania)
File No. 94029 CRB Pennsylvania State University, 202 Wagner
Building, University Park, PA 16802-3899. Signed By: Mr. Robert
Killoren, Director of Sponsored Programs. Funds Requested: $47,151.
Total Project Cost: $62,869. To extend the signal of public radio
station WPSU, 91.1 MHz, State College, PA, by activating translators in
Clearfield, Lewistown, and DuBois, PA, to bring first public radio
service to 33,028 unserved residents of central Pennsylvania.
File No. 94117 CTB Northeastern PA ETV Association, 70 Old Boston
Road, Pittston, PA 18640. Signed By: Mr. A. William Kelly, President &
CEO. Funds Requested: $193,760. Total Project Cost: $387,520. To
improve the broadcast signal of public station WVIA-TV, Ch. 40,
Scranton (Pittston), PA, by replacing its worn-out and failing studio-
transmitter link, and to improve its production capability by replacing
worn-out video tape recorders. The situation serves approximately one
million residents of northeast Pennsylvania.
File No. 94228 CTB WHYY, Inc., 150 North Sixth Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19106. Signed By: Mr. Frederick Breitenfeld, Jr.,
President. Funds Requested: $442,387. Total Project Cost: $884,774. To
improve the operational capability of public station WHYY-TV, Ch. 12,
Philadelphia, PA, by replacing worn-out and obsolete equipment,
including its on-air and routing switchers, video tape recorders,
monitors, a character generator, and test equipment. The station serves
a potential audience of about 7-million people.
File No. 94231 CTB QED Communications, Inc., 4802 Fifth Avenue,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Signed By: Mr. Donald C. Korb, Chief Executive
Officer. Funds Requested: $351,045. Total Project Cost: $702,090. To
improve the production capability of public station WQED-TV, Ch. 12,
Pittsburgh, PA, by replacing worn-out and obsolete video tape recorders
and a character generator. The station serves a population of about
3.25-million.
File No. 94247 CTN Allegheny Intermediate Unit, 4 Station Square,
Flr. 2, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. Signed By: Dr. Joseph F. Lagana,
Executive Director. Funds requested: $62,538. Total Project Cost:
$125,076. To extend the satellite delivered services of the Allegheny
Intermediate Unit (AIU) to 14 additional school districts through the
purchase of 14 C/Ku-band steerable downlinks. The downlinks will be
connected by fiber-optic cable to school buildings in each district to
deliver teacher in-service, administrative and instructional
programming to an additional 50,000 students and faculty. AIU currently
provides satellite delivered services to 16 school districts in the
suburban Pittsburgh area.
File No. 94274 CRB Lehigh Valley Cmty Bdcstrs Assn, P.O. Box 1456,
Allentown, PA 18102. Signed By: Mr. Brian F. Landers, President. Funds
Requested: $23,908. Total Project Cost: $47,817. To expand the signal
of public radio station WDIY, 88.1 MHz, Allentown, PA, by activating a
translator to operate on 93.9 MHz in Easton, PA, to enhance the signal
by activating a translator to operate on 93.5 MHz in Bethlehem, PA, and
to equip the station with remote broadcast equipment. The station
presently serves a population of approximately 351,167 persons. The
translators will add about 69,547 persons to that number.
File No. 94315 CRB Public Broadcasting of NW PA, 8425 Peach Street,
Erie, PA 16509. Signed By: Mr. Paul Stankavich, President & General
Manager. Funds Requested: $104,238. Total Project Cost: $208,477. To
activate a public radio station to operate on 90.5 MHz in Erie, PA, to
provide a second public radio service to approximately 229,000
residents of Erie County. The station will be affiliated with WQLN-FM,
91.3 MHz, Erie, which serves approximately 420,000 persons.
File No. 94316 CRB Public Broadcasting of NW PA, 8425 Peach Street,
Erie, PA 16509. Signed By: Mr. Paul Stankavich, President & General
Manager. Funds Requested: $17,265. Total Project Cost: $34,530. To
extend the signal of public station WQLN-FM, 91.3 MHz, Erie, by
activating translators at 91.5 MHz in Titusville, PA, and at 91.9 MHz
in Franklin/Oil City, PA, and by upgrading its existing translator at
90.1 MHz in Warren, PA. Approximately 45,000 persons will receive their
first public radio signal from this project.
PR (Puerto Rico)
File No. 94320 CTN Fundacion Educativa Ana G. Mendez, State Road
176 Km. 0.3, Cupey Rio Piedras, PR 00928. Signed By: Mr. Jose F.
Mendez, President. Funds Requested: $778,274. Total Project Cost:
$1,037,699. To extend the geographic reach of the Mendez Universities'
ITFS signal to portions of Puerto Rico not currently able to receive
the signal, by constructing five ITFS repeaters or relay stations in
the Southeast, Southcentral and Southwest regions as part of an island-
wide ITFS plan. This project would also include construction of a video
classroom for the production of instructional courses and programs for
distance learning and training through the ITFS system.
RI (Rhode Island)
File No. 94194 CTN Brown University in Providence, 164 Angell
Street, Providence, RI 02912-1929. Signed By: Ms. Alice Tangredi-
Hannon, Director-Ofc of Research Admin. Funds Requested: $671,967.
Total Project Cost: $895,956. To activate a currently non-functioning
ITFS system that would enable Brown University to extend its academic,
scientific, cultural and medical resources throughout the state of
Rhode Island in cooperation with K-12 school districts, colleges/
universities, libraries, professional development organizations,
government agencies, hospitals/medical facilities, and community
centers. In combination with the activated ITFS system, the university
also seeks to purchase and install the equipment for a KU-Band
satellite uplink/downlink system for distance learning and training,
and to interconnect other educational institutions as participants in
its international satellite project involving NASA and the Institute
for Space Research in Russia.
SC (South Carolina)
File No. 94153 CTN Horry-Georgetown Technical College, 2050 Hwy 501
E., P.O. Box 1966, Conway, SC 29526. Signed By: Mr. D. Kent Sharples,
President. Funds Requested: $660,936. Total Project Cost: $881,248. To
activate the first phase of a distance learning system featuring two-
way, interactive, computer-aided video instruction, the main
interconnection being by microwave. In this phase, Horry-Georgetown
Technical College will link its main campus, in Conway, to its
satellite campus at Georgetown.
File No. 94210 CTN The World Class Partnership, 5588 Airport Road,
Anderson, SC 29624. Signed By: Ms. Jane S. Cahaly, Director. Funds
Requested: $1,929,572. Total Project Cost: $1,929,572. To acquire
equipment and establish a two-way interactive telecommunications
network to regional centers and high schools throughout South Carolina
using ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) technology through
telephone or possible fiber optic lines, as an interconnection system
providing video, voice and data services statewide, and possibly
nationally and internationally. The proposed network would incorporate
desktop video and data units at each location, in order for students
and educators to participate in a partnership to exchange programs and
videoconferences focusing particularly on international understanding.
SD (South Dakota)
File No. 94020 CTB SD Bd of Dir for Educ Telecom, Cherry & Dakota
Sts, Box 5000, Vermillion, SD 57069-5000. Signed By: Mr. Don Checots,
Executive Director. Funds Requested: $70,925. Total Project Cost:
$141,850. To extend the signal coverage of the SD Educational
Television Network by activating a new medium power (13 kW ERP) public
television station on Ch. 23 in Sioux Falls. Station would improve
signal strength of the network and improve reception problems caused by
terrain factors.
File No. 94037 CTB SD Bd of Dir for Educat'l Telcomm., Cherry &
Dakota Sts, Box 5000, Vermillion, SD 57069-5000. Signed By: Mr. Don
Checots, Executive Director. Funds Requested: $237,500. Total Project
Cost: $475,000. To improve the facilities of public television station
KTSD-TV, Ch. 10, in Pierre, by replacing a 25-year old transmitter,
transmission line, diplexer, exciter and related dissemination
equipment as well as associated test equipment. Station serves 84,397
residents.
File No. 94073 CRB Dakota Nation Broadcasting Corp., 410 East 2nd
Avenue, Sisseton, SD 57262. Signed By: Mr. Michael Simon, Station
Manager. Funds Requested: $581,615. Total Project Cost: $775,486. To
extend the public radio service of KSWS, 89.3 MHz, Sisseton, SD to
serve additional members of the Dakota and Sioux nations. Six FM
translators will be constructed from a list that includes eleven
communities including Shakopee, Welsch, Granite Fall, and Redwood Falls
in MN; Flandreau, Marty, Lower Brule and Ft. Thompson in SD; Niobrara
and Ft. Totten in ND; and Ft. Peck in MT. A C-band uplink will be
constructed in Sisseton SD and each of the six translator will have C-
band downlink capability. A Ku-band uplink to provide news programming
to the system and four production studios will also be constructed in
Sisseton. The project will be affiliated with the ARIOS service which
distributes Native American programming to public radio stations
nationwide.
TN (Tennessee)
File No. 94039 CTB Mid-Atlantic Public Comm Fdn., 900 Getwell,
Memphis, TN 38111. Signed By: Mr. Michael J. LaBonia, President & CEO/
Treasurer. Funds Requested: $33,584. Total Project Cost: $67,168. To
improve public television station WKNO-TV, Ch 10, in Memphis, TN by
replacing the STL microwave link with hot standby, so the station may
continue uninterrupted service to the 2,140,000 residents.
File No. 94047 CTN Univ. of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 615 McCallie
Avenue, Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598. Signed By: Mr. Frederick W. Obear,
Chancellor. Funds Requested: $49,666. Total Project Cost: $99,332. To
establish a second two-way interactive video classroom, using T-1
transmission, on the applicant's campus. The facility will provide
continuing education courses to rural health nurses and special
education teachers. The project will serve southeast Tennessee,
northeast Alabama, and northwest Georgia. The specific project
objectives are as follows: to increase the number of rural health
nurses trained in advanced childbirth care to better provide services
to the women and children in these remote areas; to increase the number
of certified special education teachers who work in the remote areas of
southeast Tennessee; and to increase the number of master's level
speech/language teachers in southeast Tennessee to state mandates for
certification by the year 2000.
File No. 94103 CTB Upper Cumberland Broadcast Cncl, PO Box 2040,
Cookeville, TN 38502. Signed By: Mr. Richard L. Castle, Jr., President
& General Manager. Funds Requested: $230,270. Total Project Cost:
$460,540. To improve the operation of public station WCTE-TV, Ch 22,
Cookeville, TN, by replacing obsolete master control and production
equipment, including video tape recorders and editing, a field camera,
graphics system, an audio console, and test equipment.
File No. 94197 CRB University of TN at Chattanooga, 615 McCallie
Avenue, Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598. Signed By: Mr. Frederick W. Obear,
Chancellor. Funds Requested: $7,775. Total Project Cost: $15,550. To
improve the signal of public radio station WUTC, 88.1 MHz, Chattanooga,
TN, by replacing its obsolete shared-frequency analog microwave STL
with a digital STL to reduce crosstalk from the shared frequency.
File No. 94262 CRB Guiding Hands for the Blind, Inc., 1970-D North
Highland Ave., Jackson, TN 38305. Signed By: Mr. Ernest Harper, Jr.,
General Manager. Funds Requested: $90,000. Total Project Cost:
$120,000. To construct a noncommercial public radio station operating
on 88.7 MHz, Lexington, TN to provide information to visually and
physically impaired residents of West Tennessee. The station would also
provide the first public radio service to 33,000 people, and the first
locally originated service to 99,000 additional persons. The applicant
currently provides service for the visually impaired on a Second Audio
Program (SAP) channel of WLJT, Ch. 11, Lexington. The proposed station
will serve 133,000 people, which includes an estimated 2,500 visually
impaired individuals.
File No. 94284 CTB West Tennessee Public TV Council, University of
Tennessee @ Martin, Martin, TN 38237. Signed By: Mr. John C. Hesse,
General Manager. Funds Requested: $258,016. Total Project Cost:
$516,032. To improve public television station WLJT-TV, Ch. 11, in
Lexington, KY by acquiring applicant owned first local production
capability which will replace presently loaned production items.
Equipment requested includes studio cameras, VTR's, audio console and
related, monitors, intercom system, signal distribution/monitoring
items and installation supplies. This project will enable this station
to radically increase its local program production by not having to use
not always available, badly worn, borrowed equipment.
TX Texas
File No. 94004 CTB South Texas Pub. Brdcstg. System, 4255 S. Padre
Island Dr. No. 38, Corpus Christi, TX 78411. Signed By: Mr. Peter A.
Frid, President and General Manager. Funds Requested: $718,500. Total
Project Cost: $958,000. To improve the facilities of public television
station KEDT-TV, Ch. 16, in Corpus Christi, by replacing worn out
studio equipment including cameras, video tape recorders, character
generator, video switcher, cart machines, increasing capacity of their
routing switcher as well as other associated origination equipment.
KEDT-TV also seeks to update transmitter to stereo and Secondary Audio
Programming (SAP) and acquire appropriate test equipment. Station
provides only public television signal to about 580,000 residents.
File No. 94010 PRTN Southwest Texas State University, 601
University Drive, San Marcos, TX 78666. Signed By: M. Marion Tangum,
Director, Research & Spon Prog. Funds Requested: $134,601. Total
Project Cost: $178,228. To conduct a feasibility study and develop a
strategic plan for the telecommunications infrastructure within a
fifteen county area of Southwest Texas for the purpose of considering
possible collaborative efforts in distance learning projects at all
levels of education, from elementary school through graduate level
courses.
File No. 94016 CTN Alliance for Higher Education, 17103 Preston
Road, Dallas, TX 75248-1373. Signed By: Dr. Allan Watson, President.
Funds Requested: $465,342. Total Project Cost: $930,684. To purchase
equipment for six ``candid'' video classrooms, one each at the Baylor
College of Dentistry (Dallas), Collin County Community College (Plano),
Dallas Education Center, East Texas State University (Commerce),
Midwestern State University (Wichita Falls), and the University of
North Texas Health Science Center (Fort Worth). Using the TAGER
Television Network, these entities will produce instructional
programming for new and historically underserved members of the
population in K-12 education, teacher training, health, dental health,
and allied health training.
File No. 94030 CTB University of Houston, 1600 Snith, Suite 3400,
Houston, TX 77002. Signed By: Mr. E. Dell Felder, Senior Vice
Chancellor. Funds Requested: $295,410. Total Project Cost: $590,820. To
improve the facilities of public television station KUHT-TV, Ch. 8, in
Houston, by replacing (rebuilding) the aged and worn-out inter
conductor tower transmission line. KUHT-TV also seeks to upgrade and
replace its existing editing equipment by acquiring new digital editing
equipment including video cassette recorders, production, switcher,
audio console, edit controller, digital video effects, graphics
generator and associated origination equipment. KUHT-TV provides the
only public television signal to approximately 3.6 million residents.
File No. 94065 CRB University of Texas at Austin, P.O. Box 7726,
University Station, Austin, TX 78713-7726. Signed By: Mr. Stephen A.
Monti, Vice Provost. Funds Requested: $33,399. Total Project Cost:
$66,800. To improve public radio station KUT-FM, 90.5 MHz, in Austin,
by replacing worn-out origination equipment including tape recorders,
digital cart machines, on-air and production microphones and a
telephone hybrid. KUT-FM also seeks equipment that will allow it to
meet FCC requirements for unattended operation. Station reaches more
than 1 million people in central TX.
File No. 94144 CTN Houston Community College System, 22 Waugh
Drive, P.O. Box 7849, Houston, TX 77270-7849. Signed By: Dr. Charles A.
Green, Chancellor. Funds Requested: $146,513. Total Project Cost:
$293,027. To establish a video production studio, with mobile
capability, to originate educational and instructional programming for
an educational access channel on the cable television system serving
the city of Houston.
File No. 94149 CTN San Isidro Independent School Dist., Highway
1017, P.O. Box 10, San Isidro, TX 78588. Signed By: Mr. Lisandro Ramon,
San Isidro Superintendent. Funds Requested: $292,045. Total Project
Cost: $584,090. To establish a two-way, interactive distance learning
network--the Valley Inter-Active Network, or VIA-MET-1--interconnecting
four Independent School Systems in South Texas: San Isidro,
Raymondville, Mirando City, and San Perlita. The project will use
compressed video technology, with the programming transmitted over the
fiber optics lines of the Valley Telephone Cooperative; the Cooperative
is an active partner in the proposal.
File No. 94182 PTN Amarillo Junior College District, 2201 South
Washington, Amarillo, TX 79109. Signed By: Mr. Neil Mosley, Vice
President for Business. Funds Requested: $48,908. Total Project Cost:
$55,128. To develop a comprehensive telecommunications plan for a
distance learning system that would provide instructional courses and
educational programs throughout the twenty six counties of the northern
Texas Panhandle. The plan would be developed by the six colleges and
universities in the Texas Higher Education Consortium of Texas and
Oklahoma, and would cooperatively involve institutions and agencies in
K-12 education, continuing education, government services and other
non-profit activities to consider the feasibility of options.
File No. 94185 CRB North Texas Public Brdcstg., Inc., 3000 Harry
Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75201. Signed By: Mr. Richard J. Meyer,
President. Funds Requested: $18,876. Total Project Cost: $37,752. To
extend the signal of public radio station KERA-FM, 90.1 MHz, in Dallas
by constructing a new FM translator on 88.7 MHz, in Wichita Falls.
Translator will bring first public radio signal to 68,696 residents. In
addition, KERA-FM seeks Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN)
system equipment which will allow it direct access to the uplink in
Austin.
File No. 94192 PTB Alamo Public T/C Council, 501 Broadway, San
Antonio, TX 78215. Signed By: Ms. Joanne Winik, President and General
Manager. Funds Requested: $23,750. Total Project Cost: $23,750. To plan
for the extension of public television station KLRN-TV, Ch. 9, in San
Antonio, by constructing a lower power television station in Laredo.
The initial programming would originate largely from KLRN-TV but there
would be a provision for local origination insertion. This would
provide first public television service to approximately 38,600
residents. Project would conduct engineering surveys, research
microwave tower locations and prepare the appropriate FCC applications
for the new station.
File No. 94195 PTN Texas Environmental Center, 1609 Virginia
Avenue, Austin, TX 78704. Signed By: Mr. Marshall Frech, Director.
Funds Requested: $73,340. Total Project Cost: $155,340. A proposal to
plan for the extension of an electronic environmental library project
initiated by the Texas Environmental Center and Rice University, using
high-speed phone lines and the internet in several schools providing
students with the opportunity to monitor water quality of area rivers
and to contribute data to a state assessment of area watersheds. The
plan would consider the expansion of this network and the testing of
teleconference lines so that water monitoring trainers could instruct
students from remote sites, to standardize scientific procedures and
ensure validity of the data collected.
File No. 94244 CRB University of Texas at Austin, P.O. Box 7726,
University Station, Austin, TX 78713-7726. Signed By: Mr. Stephen A.
Monti, Vice Provost. Funds Requested: $91,534. Total Project Cost:
$122,046. To provide the first public radio service to 99,000 residents
of Tom Green County by constructing an FM repeater station in San
Angelo operating on 91.1 MHz. The station will rebroadcast the program
service of KUT, 90.5 MHz, Austin and will be fed by satellite delivery.
File No. 94252 CTN Texas Tech. University, 17th Street & Indiana
Avenue, Lubbock, TX 79409-2161. Signed By: Mr. Donald R. Haragan,
Executive Vice President. Funds Requested: $198,941. Total Project
Cost: $265,255. To acquire the distribution and origination equipment
necessary to activate a fiber optic distribution system from Texas Tech
University to school systems, universities, regional education service
centers and medical facilities in southwestern Texas, to provide
distance learning coursework at many levels from adult basic education
to GED to graduate courses in areas such as health sciences. The
proposed two-way interactive network would interface with and
interconnect the University's Health Science Center TechLink Network,
presently using T-1 lines with future expansion to DS-3 services, and
the West Texas Educational Network which provides a compressed video
service through T-1 lines.
File No. 94289 PTN Austin Independent School District, 1111 West
6th Street, Austin, TX 78703-5399. Signed By: Mr. Terry N. Bishop,
Superintendent. Funds Requested: $105,424. Total Project Cost:
$146,467. To develop a telecommunications plan as a cooperative project
among representatives of a consortium that includes school districts,
colleges and other organizations formed as the Central Texas Distance
Learning Network, to identify, integrate and utilize non-broadcast
technologies throughout ten counties in central Texas for distance
learning classes and training programs. The proposed plan would
determine the appropriate equipment and potential educational materials
for both one-way and two-way interactive systems for video, voice and
data services to as many as forty school districts, incorporating a
planned fiber optic network in the overall design.
UT (Utah)
File No. 94248 PRTB University of Utah, 101 Wasatch Drive, Salt
Lake City, UT 84112. Signed By: Mr. Ted Capener, Vice President. Funds
Requested: $17,966. Total Project Cost: $20,417. To plan for the
construction of a transmission facility in southwestern UT. Proposed
facility would provide service from public radio and television
stations KULC-TV, Ch. 9; KUED-TV, Ch. 7; and KUER-FM, 90.1 MHz.
Although much of this area is covered by a series of public TV/radio
translators, the proposed facility should improve signal penetration
and allow for some of the existing translators to be relocated to
pockets that are unserved.
File No. 94260 CRTB University of Utah, 101 Wasatch Drive, Salt
Lake City, UT 84112. Signed By: Mr. Ted R. Capener, Vice President.
Funds Requested: $197,157. Total Project Cost: $274,106. To extend the
signal of KULC-TV, Ch. 9, Salt Lake City, by activating nine (9) public
television translators to carry the educational/instructional
programming of KULC-TV. Project will also extend the (PBS) signal of
KUED-TV, Ch. 7, Salt Lake City, by installing a new translator and
replacing two worn-out translators. Lastly, to extend the signal of
public radio station KUER-FM 90.1 MHz, in Salt Lake City, by activating
two new translators in Dutch John-Manila and Mt. Hillers-Ticaboo. This
project affects the following counties in UT: Kane, Garfield, Wasatch,
Millard, Iron, Tooele, Juab, Daggett, and Duchesne.
VA (Virginia)
File No. 94015 PTN Arlington Cmmnty Access Corp. & TV, 3401 N.
Fairfax Drive, #300, Arlington County, VA 22201. Signed By: Mr. Paul
LeValley, Executive Director. Funds Requested: $85,963. Total Project
Cost: $85,963. To conduct a comprehensive study of Arlington County,
Virginia's non-profit service organizations regarding their
telecommunications needs, in order to effectively plan methods to use
the resources of Arlington Community Television, which incorporates
public access television and other methods of telecommunications in
providing community services.
File No. 94033 CRB CAPRA, Inc., Route 2, Box 50, Mechanicsville, VA
23111. Signed By Ms. Catherine Patterson, Project Manager. Funds
Requested: $11,820. Total Project Cost: $23,640. To construct a
satellite downlink at WCPB-FM, a proposed public radio station for
operation on 91.9 MHz in Charlottsville, VA. The satellite downlink
will enable WCPB-FM to provide programming distributed nationally by
the public radio satellite system.
File No. 94042 CTN Clarendon Foundation, 13422 Elliot An Court,
Herndon, VA 22071. Signed By: Mr. Kemp R. Harshman, President. Funds
Requested: $4,200. Total Project Cost: $8,400. To expand the services
provided by the applicant through the purchase of a satellite downlink
and S-VHS recorder to record public domain educational programs for
distribution by ITFS systems in Henderson, NV, Syracuse, NY and other
potential locations.
File No. 94050 CTB Hampton Roads Educ. T/C Assoc., 5200 Hampton
Boulevard, Norfolk, VA 23508. Signed By: Mr. John R. Morison, President
and General Manager. Funds Requested: $571,719. Total Project Cost:
$1,143,438. To improve the transmission facilities of public television
station WHRO-TV, Ch. 15, Norfolk by replacing a 20 year old transmitter
and related equipment. The project will also replace three 14 year old
1'' videotape recorders. WHRO-TV serves 1.6 million people in the
southeast Virginia and Northeast North Carolina.
File No. 94055 CRB James Madison University, Seeger Hall, 821 South
Main St., Harrisonburg, VA 22807. Signed By: Mr. Henry J. Schiefer,
Asst. V.P. Finance. Funds Requested: $9,602. Total Project Cost:
$19,204. To improve the production capabilities of noncommercial radio
station WXJM-FM, 88.7 MHz., Harrisonburg, by replacing an obsolete
audio console. WXJM-FM is operated by the students of James Madison
University and serves 89,300 residents of Rockingham County.
File No. 94236 CTN Old Dominion University, Room 228 Education
Building, Norfolk, VA 23539-0228. Signed By: Dr. James C. Phillips,
Director, Academic TV Services. Funds Requested: $1,822,352. Total
Project Cost: $3,644,705. To extend the satellite delivered
instructional services of Old Dominion University and initiate a new
higher education service called Teletechnet. This service will provide
the final two years of bachelors degree programs via satellite to 13
community colleges within Virginia. The project will fund 5
instructional classrooms at Old Dominion University and Ku-band
satellite video downlinks, VSAT downlinks for data, and instructional
classrooms at each community college. Community Colleges participating
in the project are located in Weyers Cave, Clifton Forge, Dansville,
Locust Grove, Middletown, Dublin, Annandale, Martinsville, Richlands,
Roanoke, and Wytheville.
File No. 94302 CTN Black College Satellite Network, 2011 Crystal
Drive, Suite 1100, Arlington, VA 22202. Signed by: Dr. Mabel P. Phifer,
President. Funds Requested: $1,151,250. Total Project Cost: $1,535,000.
To add five additional satellite uplinks to the Black College Satellite
Network (BCSN) in order to provide additional minority programming for
distribution to 105 historically and predominantly black colleges and
universities nationwide. New satellite uplinks will be placed at
Tuskegee University in Alabama, Hampton University in Virginia,
Cheumney University in Pennsylvania, Clark Atlanta University in
Georgia, and at BCSN headquarters in Washington, DC. Microwave
equipment will also be constructed to connect Bowie State University in
Maryland and Delaware State University in Delaware with existing BCSN
member school uplinks.
File No. 94314 CTB Great WA Educ. T/C Association, 3620 South 27th
Street, Arlington, VA 22206. Signed by: Mr. Jerry Butler, V.P. Eng and
Computer Service. Funds Requested: $595,300. Total Project Cost:
$1,190,600. To improve the production capabilities of public television
station WETA-TV, Ch. 26, Washington, by replacing 10 videotape
recorders over 10 years old with an automated tape cart system. The
videotape equipment will permit continuation of production of local and
national programming.
File No. 94318 CRB Greater WA Educ. T/C Association, 3700 S. Four
Mile Run Drive, Arlington, VA 22206-2304. Signed by: Mr. Tom
Livingston, Senior VP/GM WETA-FM. Funds Requested: $324,259. Total
Project Cost: $432,345. To establish a repeater FM station operating on
91.7 MHz, Leonardtown, MD to provide the first public radio service to
130,000 people in southern Maryland and the northern neck of Virginia.
The proposed station will rebroadcast the program service of WETA-FM,
Washington.
VT (Vermont)
File No. 94001 CRB Vermont Public Radio, 107.9 Ethan Allen Avenue,
Colchester, VT 05446. Signed by: Mr. Mark Vogelzang, President and CEO.
Funds Requested: $194,970. Total Project Cost: $389,940. To replace
obsolete studio equipment and improve the program production
capabilities of Vermont Public Radio, which operates three stations in
that state--in Windsor, Colchester, and Rutland. Vermont Public Radio
is moving its headquarters--which will include its main production
facility--from Windsor to Colchester. This project is part of that
relocation. The project would purchase full master control room,
production control room, news production room, and talk studio
equipment. It would also purchase subcarrier units to permit Vermont
Public Radio to use Vermont ETV's existing microwave system; this would
provide a technically superior transmission of Vermont Public Radio's
signal from its main studio to its two repeater stations.
File No. 94044 CTBN Vermont ETV, Inc., 88 Ethan Allen Avenue,
Colchester, VT 05446-3129. Signed by: Mr. John E. King, VP/Finance &
Administration. Funds Requested: $1,042,500. Total Project Cost:
$1,390,000. To improve the switching and interconnection facilities of
Vermont ETV, Inc. (``VETV''), which operates four stations and offers
the sole public TV signal to most of the State's residents. For VETV's
control center in Colchester, the project would purchase machine
control and signal switching systems as well as a control room
automation package. This would increase the center's signal routing
capacity and greatly improve the integration of its signal and control
systems. The proposed microwave would provide a full duplex, digital
system connecting the Colchester studio to VETV's four transmission
sites. It would be able to transmit three TV, 12 audio, and many data
circuits. This would enable VETV to distribute diverse distant learning
services via cable television, wireless cable, and ITFS and to offer
data interconnection to varied noncommerical entities.
File No. 94094 PTBN Critical Lang&Area Stud's Cons, Inc., Kipling
Road, P.O. Box 676, Brattleboro, VT 05302. Signed by: Mr. Harry G.
Barnes, Jr., Executive Director. Funds Requested: $82,701. Total
Project Cost: $108,707. To plan a telecommunications service for the
forty-three member organizations of the Critical Language and Area
Studies Consortium (CLASC) plus other K-12 and higher education
schools, distance learning providers, national foreign language
centers, research institutes and other organizations involved in
foreign language education and training. The plan would assess possible
options for a national and potentially international interactive
distance learning network, particularly to focus on Arabic, Chinese,
Japanese and Russian languages and cultures.
WA (Washington)
File No. 94032 CRB Washington State University, Administration
Road, Pullman, WA 99164-2530. Signed by: R.V. Smith, Vice Provost for
Research. Funds Requested: $315,996. Total Project Cost: $450,801. To
bring first public radio service to 62,428 people in eastern Washington
by constructing FM repeaters at Moses Lake and Walla Walla, to carry
the signal of the Northwest Public Radio Network in Pullman, WA; to
construct new digital audio interconnection facilities to provide
service to those stations; and to replace an analog microwave
interconnection that can no longer provide service to other receiving
stations on the system.
File No. 94034 CTB Washington State University, Administration
Road, Pullman, WA 99164-2530. Signed by: Mr. R.V. Smith, Vice Provost
and Dean. Funds Requested: $35,407. Total Project Cost: $70,814. To
provide local program production capability for public television
station KNTW, Ch. 31, Richland, WA, a repeater station of public
station KWSU-TV, Pullman, WA, by equipping an editing suite and an
electronic field production unit.
File No. 94161 CTB KCTS Television, 401 Mercer Street, Seattle, WA
98109. Signed by: Mr. Burnill F. Clark, President and CEO. Funds
Requested: $249,663. Total Project Cost: $499,326. To improve the
production capability of public television station KCTS, Ch. 9,
Seattle, WA, by replacing unreliable and obsolete analog videotape
machines, a switcher and a digital video effects machine. The station
serves 3 million persons.
File No. 94171 PRTN City of Richland, 505 Swift Blvd., Richland, WA
99352. Signed by: Mr. Joseph C. King, City Manager. Funds Requested:
$150,000. Total Project Cost: $250,000. To develop a master plan for a
civic information highway within the city of Richland, Washington, that
would be a coordinated effort involving community stakeholders
including educational institutions at all levels, libraries,
foundations, public utilities and services, and local government
agencies. In developing the plan and consensus for the aspects of a
voice, video and data network for distance learning/training, public
safety, emergency communications and other services, the city would
appoint a Citizen's Advisory Council to provide advice and
recommendations.
File No. 94175 CRB Centralia College, 600 West Locust, Centralia,
WA 98531. Signed by: Dr. Henry P. Kirk, President. Funds Requested:
$182,231. Total Project Cost: $242,975. To replace and relocate
obsolete transmitter and tower, and to upgrade studio production
equipment at KCED-FM, 91.3 MHz, Centralia, WA, which will provide first
public radio service to 30,000 persons in the proposed coverage area.
WI (Wisconsin)
File No. 94041 CRTB Educational Communications Board, 3319 West
Beltline Highway, Madison, WI 53713-4296. Signed by: Mr. Glenn A.
Davison, Executive Director. Funds Requested: $599,917. Total Project
Cost: $1,199,835. To improve the signals of two public radio stations,
two public television stations, and one television translator in the
Wisconsin statewide public broadcasting system by replacing various
worn-out and outmoded components of their transmission systems. The
stations are WHHI-FM, 91.3 MHz, Highland; WHWC-TV/FM, Ch. 28/88.3 MHz,
Menomonie; WHRM-FM, 90.9 MHz, Wausau; and translator W64AU, Adams. The
improvements will assist approximately 120,000 persons to receive
better signals from these stations.
File No. 94189 CTB University of Wisconsin, 821 University Avenue,
Madison, WI 53706. Signed by: Ms. Cheryl E. Gest, Admin. Officer/
Res.Adm-Fin. Funds Requested: $150,000. Total Project Cost: $300,000.
To improve the production capability of WHA Television/Green Bay, Green
Bay, WI, by replacing worn-out and unreliable field and studio
production equipment, including cameras and a character generator. The
facility provides programming to the six stations of Wisconsin Public
Television, which serve the entire state.
File No. 94201 PTN University of Wisconsin Centers, 150 E. Gilman
Street, Madison, WI 53703. Signed by: Mr. Robert Erikson, Director,
Research Admin. Funds Requested: $50,041. Total Project Cost: $57,589.
To design a distance education network to connect the thirteen campuses
that comprise the University of Wisconsin Centers, with the central
administration in Madison and with local, regional, state and national
networks. The proposed distance learning network could potentially
involve various technologies in an interconnected system that would
enable participating organizations in higher education, professional
development, K-12 education, libraries and government offices to be
included in interactive video, voice and data services.
File No. 94269 CRB University of Wisconsin, 821 University Avenue,
Madison, WI 53706. Signed by: Ms. Cheryl E. Gest, Administrative
Officer. Funds Requested: $114,710. Total Project Cost: $229,420. To
improve the production capability of public station WHA-TV, Ch. 21,
Madison, WI, by developing a digital video exchange network to allow
for the timely exchange of works in progress among widely dispersed
workstations for collaborative productions.
File No. 94305 CRB White Pine Community Bdcstg, Inc., 303 West
Prospect Street, Rhinelander, WI 54501. Signed By: Mr. Robert M.
Fiocchi, President. Funds Requested: $30,800. Total Project Cost:
$30,800. To expand the signal of public radio station WXPR, 91.7 MHz,
Rhinelander, WI, by raising the power of its translator, W265AI, at
Ironwood, WI, to 100 watts and providing first public radio service to
3,500 residents in addition to the more than 12,500 persons presently
served by the translator; to improve the production capability of WXPR
by replacing worn-out and obsolete equipment, including an audio
console, a CD player, and switchers. The project will also make some
minor adjustments to the operation of the main transmitter. WXPR
currently serves 63,000 residents of northern Wisconsin.
WV (West Virginia)
File No. 94008 CTB WV Educational Bdcstng Authority, 600 Capitol
Street, Charleston, WV 25301. Signed By: Ms. Rita Ray, Acting Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $116,080. Total Project Cost: $232,160. To
improve public television station WPBY-TV, Ch 33, in Charleston, WV, by
upgrading its local production capability to meet PBS station
standards, through securing Beta tape machines, a portable camera and a
dockable tape machine, so the station may continue quality State, and
PBS, acceptable production of programs to serve the West Virginia
Network of 772,451 residents and the national audience.
File No. 94028 CRB WV Educational Bdcstng Authority, 600 Capitol
Street, Charleston, WV 25301. Signed By: Ms. Rita Ray, Acting Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $523,611. Total Project Cost: $758,130. To
improve the West Virginia Public Radio Network, whose originating
station is WVPN-FM in Charleston, WV, by constructing two repeater
stations, one at Petersburg and one at White Sulphur Springs, each with
its own satellite downlink, bringing first signal to 80,575 unserved
residents. Additionally, applicant is requesting an upgrade of the
Charleston production studio which includes 4 studio consoles and 6
downlinks for its 6 other radio stations resulting in providing quality
programs to many unserved rural people and increase the signal
reliability over the present microwave system. This network currently
serves 1,956,264 people.
File No. 94309 CTB WV Educational Bdcstng Authority, 600 Capitol
Street, Charleston, WV 25301. Signed By: Ms. Rita Ray, Acting Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $149,500. Total Project Cost: $299,000. To
improve public television station WNPB-TV, Ch 24, in Morgantown, WV by
replacing basic studio production equipment, including 3 studio
cameras, video monitors, switcher, video control console and
vectorscope, so the station may continue to serve 718,016 residents in
the State TV Network with programs of statewide interest.
WY (Wyoming)
File No. 94069 CRB Northern Arapaho Tribe, 533 Ethete Road, Ethete,
WY 82520. Signed By: Mr. John Smith, Chairman, Radio Commun. Commit.
Funds Requested: $325,744. Total Project Cost: $434,325. To construct a
new noncommercial radio station operating on 89.5 MHz, Ethete, to
provide the first public radio service to 35,733 people in the Big Horn
Basin and the Wind River Indian Reservation. The station will provide
local broadcasts and also rebroadcast programming from KUWR(FM),
Wyoming Public Radio in Laramie. A satellite receive terminal will
provide Native American programming from the ARIOS program service.
File No. 94306 CTN Campbell Co. Board of Cooperative, 525 West
Lakeway, Suite 107, Gillette, WY 82718. Signed By: Mr. Mark A. Higdon,
Superintendent. Funds Requested: $431,000. Total Project Cost:
$806,000. To establish a distance learning network using varied
technologies to serve diverse entities in Campbell Co. and the
community of Kaycee in southern Johnson Co., WY. The project would
purchase a four-channel ITFS system (with two transmission sites), a
fixed VSAT uplink, a mobile VSAT uplink, video classrooms, a C/Ku-band
satellite video receive-only earth station, a telephone bridge, codec
equipment, a community fiber loop, and other associated equipment.
AK (Alaska)
File No. 94002 CRB, Old File No. 93080, Raven Radio Foundation,
Inc., Sitka, AK.
File No. 94022 CRB, Old File No. 93234, Kuskokwim Public Bdcstg
Corp, McGrath, AK.
File No. 94142 CTBN, Old File No. 93259, University of Alaska-
Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK.
File No. 94285 CRB, Old File No. 93191, Kashunamiut School
District, Chevak, AK.
AL (Alabama)
File No. 94143 CTB, Old File No. 93084, Auburn University, Auburn
Univ., AL.
CA (California)
File No. 94212 CRB, Old File No. 93125, Mendocino County Public
Bdcstg, Philo, CA.
File No. 94249 CRB, Old File No. 93019, Santa Monica Community
College, Santa Monica, CA.
CO (Colorado)
File No. 94214 CTB, Old File No. 93037, University of Southern
Colorado, Pueblo, CO.
CT (Connecticut)
File No. 94019 CRB, Old File No. 93226, Connecticut Radio Info.
System, Inc., Wethersfield, CT.
File No. 94038 CTB, Old File No. 93293, Connecticut Public
Brdcstg., Inc., Hartfort, CT.
FL (Florida)
File No. 94120 CTB, Old File Nos. 93285, 92052, Community
Communications, Inc., Orlando, FL.
File No. 94150 CTB, Old File No. 93288, WJCT, Inc., Jacksonville,
FL.
File No. 94282 CTB, Old File No. 93235, FL Keys Educat'l
Broadcasters, Inc., Key West, FL.
KS (Kansas)
File No. 94119 CTB, Old File No. 93271, Smoky Hills Public
Television, Bunker Hill, KS.
MA (Massachusetts)
File No. 94199 CRB, Old File No. 93255, University of
Massachusetts, Boston, MA.
MI (Michigan)
File No. 94012 CTB, Old File No. 93090, Grand Valley State
University, Grand Rapids, MI.
File No. 94127 CTB, Old File No. 93116, Michigan State University,
East Lansing, MI.
File No. 94272 CRB, Old File No. 93179, Central Michigan
University, Mt. Pleasant, MI.
MO (Missouri)
File No. 94200 CTB, Old File No. 93005, Ozarks Public T/C, Inc.,
Springfield, MO.
File No. 94206 CTB, Old File No. 93278, St. Louis Regional Ed &
Public TV, St. Louis, MO.
NC (North Carolina)
File No. 94299 CTN, Old File No. 93071, Pembroke State University,
Pembroke, NC.
NY (New York)
File No. 94058 CTB, Old File No. 93255, WMHT Educational Telecomm.,
Inc., Schenectady, NY.
File No. 94240 CTB, Old File No. 93061, Mountain Lake Public T/C
Council, Plattsburgh, NY.
OK (Oklahoma)
File No. 94152 CRB, Old File No. 93300, Langston University,
Langston, OK.
File No. 94292 CRB, Old File No. 93158, East Central University,
Ada, OK.
TN (Tennessee)
File No. 94007 CTB, Old File No. 93137, Metropolitan Board of Pub.
Educ., Nashville, TN.
TX (Texas)
File No. 94003 CRB, Old File No. 93266, South Texas Public
Broadcasting, Corpus Christi, TX.
File No. 94181 CTB, Old File No. 93189, Capital of TX Public T/C
Council, Austin, TX.
VA (Virginia)
File No. 94087 CTB, Old File Nos. 93168, 92100, Shenandoah Valley
ETV Corp., Harrisonburg, VA.
WA (Washington)
File No. 94241 CRB, Old File No. 93114, Bellevue Community College,
Bellevue, WA.
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