[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 92 (Friday, May 12, 1995)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-11746]
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Part II
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
Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 92 / Friday, May 12, 1995 /
Notices
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Grants for Planning and Construction of Public Telecommunications
Facilities; Acceptance of Applications for Filing
Notice is hereby given that the following described applications
for Federal financial assistance are accepted for filing under
provision 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
February 15, 1995. The effective date of acceptance of these proposals,
unless otherwise indicated herein, is ``Date Received''. Applications
are listed by their State.
The acceptance of applications for filing is a procedure designed
for providing the opportunity for public comment on applications.
Acceptance of an application for filing does not preclude subsequent
disapproval of an application if it is found to be not in accordance
with the provision 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 is eligible to receive
funding or that an application will be funded, 15 CFR 2301.15.
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 has 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.
James J. Hartman,
Chief, Management Division, Department of Commerce NTIA/PTFP, Room
4625, 14th St. & Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20230, (202)
482-1800.
AK (Alaska)
File No. 95018 CRB Kuskokwim Public Broadcasting Corp., PO Box 70,
5 Airport Way, McGrath, AK 99627. Signed By: Ms. Betsy McGuire, General
Manager. Funds Requested: $14,040. Total Project Cost: $28,080. To
replace obsolete and worn out studio and transmitter equipment at KSKO
AM, 870 KHz, McGrath, Alaska providing the only public radio service to
4,500 persons in McGrath, Takotna, Galena, Nulato and Kaltag, Alaska.
File No. 95090 CRB Alaska Public Broadcasting Comm., 333 Willoughby
Avenue, Juneau, AK 99801. Signed By: Mr. Douglas Samimi-Moore. Funds
Requested: $915,060. Total Project Cost: $1,830,121. To acquire audio
codec and related routing, controlling, distribution, digital satellite
uplink-downlink conversion, DAT machines, digital STL, and portable
recording equipment enabling the Alaska Public Radio Network, which
provides local and national public radio programming to 620,000
Alaskans, to construct a full duplex digital audio network among 27
Alaska Public Radio Stations in a hub and spoke configuration using
leased 56 and 128 KBS digital circuits and digital satellite uplinks.
File No. 95143 CRB Pickle Hill Pub Broadcasting, Inc, 1604 Tanaga
Avenue, Kenai, AK 99611. Signed By: Mr. Jon Lillevik, President. Funds
Requested: $95,974. Total Project Cost: $127,965. To provide first
locally originated public radio programming to 27,200 people in Kenai,
Soldotna, Nikiski and Sterling, Alaska by acquiring studio and field
production equipment, STLs and monitoring equipment at KDLL-FM, 91.9
MHz, formerly KCZP-FM, Kenai, Alaska.
File No. 95151 CRB Dillingham City School District, POB 670, Seward
Street, Dillingham, AK 99576. Signed By; Mr. Keith Evans,
Superintendent. Funds Requested: $124,883. Total Project Cost:
$166,511. To extend first public radio service to approximately 500
persons in King Cove and Pedro Bay, Alaska by constructing 2 low power
FM translators to repeat the signal from KDLG AM, 670 KHz, Dillingham,
Alaska, and by upgrading studio production facilities at KDLG.
File No. 95161 CRB Pribilof School District, POB 905, St. Paul, AK
99660. Signed By: Ms. Tammy White, Finance Officer. Funds Requested:
$143,385. Total Project Cost: $191,780. To extend the signal of KUHB
FM, 91.9 MHz, St. Paul, Alaska to St. George, Alaska by building a 5KW
AM repeater transmitter, tower and related equipment on St. George
Island, Alaska.
File No. 95245 CRB AK Info. Radio Reading & Ed. Svc., 1102 W.
International Airport Rd, Anchorage, AK 99518. Signed By: Mr. Richard
Gardenhire, President. Funds Requested: $86,505. Total Project Cost:
$115,340. To replace an obsolete and worn out SCA transmitter,
recording and playback equipment, control board, and automation system
with new digital technology, and to acquire a 3.8 meter satellite
receive system to receive national reading service programming that
will provide radio reading service to approximately 7,500 print
impaired persons in Anchorage, Alaska.
File No. 95249 CRB Bethel Broadcasting, Inc., 640 Radio St., Pouch
468, Bethel, AK 99559. Signed By: Ms. Mari Yates, Treasurer. Funds
Requested: $168,364. Total Project Cost: $224,486. To improve the only
public radio service to approximately 20,000 residents in the Bethel
area, and to provide first public radio service to approximately 5,000
residents in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, by replacing an obsolete and
worn out transmitter, antenna and ground support structure at KYUK-AM,
640 KHz, Bethel, Alaska.
File No. 95250 CRB Alaska Public Telecom., Inc., 3877 University
Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508. Signed By: Mr. Richard Enders, Acting
General Manager. Funds Requested: $282,300. Total Project Cost:
$377,300. To upgrade public radio service to 225,005 citizens, and
contingent on the status of construction of another public radio
station in the area, to provide an additional 75,058 potentially first
service listeners with public radio programming, by replacing an
obsolete and worn out transmitter at KSKA FM, 91.1 MHz, Anchorage,
Alaska, by replacing a studio transmitter link and by moving the
antenna to a new, more advantageous location.
AL (Alabama)
File No. 95025 CRB Alabama ETV Commission, 2112 11th Avenue South,
Ste. 400, Birmingham, AL 35205-2884. Signed By: Ms. Judy Stone,
Executive Director. Funds Requested: $8,500. Total Project Cost:
$17,000. To improve the production facilities of public radio station
WLRH-FM operating on 89.3 MHz in Huntsville, Alabama, by replacing the
old and worn-out production console.
File No. 95038 CTB Alabama ETV Commission, 2112 11th South, Ste
400, Birmingham, AL 35205-2884. Signed By: Ms. Judy Stone, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $150,000. Total Project Cost: $300,000. To
improve the broadcast services of the nine-station Alabama Public
Television Network by replacing basic origination equipment at the
Network's only studio located in Montgomery and at its Birmingham
editing suite. In addition, APT will replace an obsolete video/audio
switcher located at APT's central control routing point and processing
amps at all nine transmitters.
File No. 95055 CTB City of Prichard, 216 East Prichard Lane,
Prichard, AL 36610. Signed By: Hon. Jesse Norwood, Mayor. Funds
Requested: $418,924. [[Page 25773]] Total Project Cost: $668,924. To
establish a low power noncommercial television station operating on
Channel 60 in Prichard, Alabama, to provide educational and
informational services to the city of Prichard and surrounding areas.
File No. 95060 IPTN Livingston University, Highway 11 North,
Livingston, AL 35470. Signed By: Dr. Don Hines, President. Funds
Requested: $81,609. Total Project Cost: $102,011. To conduct a planning
project and evaluate the feasibility of technologies and delivery
options for a possible distance learning network service to a
disadvantaged population in six counties of west central Alabama.
File No. 95082 ICTN Black Warrior T/C Consortium, Inc, 607 Highway
80 West, Demopolis, AL 36732. Signed By: Mr. Marcus Walters, President.
Funds Requested: $193,484. Total Project Cost: $257,978. To construct a
video production studio and related test equipment for the Black
Warrier Telecommunications Consortium, Inc., Demopolis, AL. The studio
will allow the Consortium to originate educational programming to be
transmitted over the ITFS systems operated by the Consortium members.
The Consortium is composed of five school systems (Marengo, Greene, and
Sumter Counties and the cities of Demopolis and Linden City) and the
West Alabama Health Services, all located in rural west Alabama.
File No. 95228 CTB The University of Alabama, Box 870104, G-60 Rose
Admin Bldg, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487. Signed By: Dr. Robert Wells, Assist.
Acad VP for Research. Funds Requested: $200,000. Total Project Cost:
$400,000. To improve the production facilities of the Center for Public
Television in Tuscaloosa, which produces programming for the Alabama
Public Television Network, by replacing basic production equipment
including the 40-year-old lighting board and by adding close captioning
capability.
AR (Arkansas)
File No. 95014 CRTN Philander Smith College, 812 West 13th Street,
Little Rock, AR 72202. Signed By: Dr. Myer L. Titus, President. Funds
Requested: $301,134. Total Project Cost: $401,512. To establish video
and audio production studios and an ITFS receive/response facility that
will allow Philander Smith College--a Historically Black College
located in Little Rock, AR--to originate educational programming to be
transmitted via ITFS, the Black College Satellite System, and a local
cable television access channel.
File No. 95127 CTB Arkansas ETV Commission, 350 South Donaghey,
Conway, AR 72032. Signed By: Ms. Susan Howarth, Executive Director.
Funds Requested: $409,966. Total Project Cost: $819,932. To upgrade the
broadcast operations of public television station KEMV-TV, Channel 6 in
Mountain View, AR, by replacing the transmitter. In addition, the
Commission will purchase and install aircraft warning lights at the
transmission towers of KAFT-TV, Channel 13 in Fayetteville/Winslow and
KTEJ-TV, Channel 19 in Jonesboro/Bono.
AS (American Samoa)
File No. 95132 CTB American Samoa Government, Office of Public
Information, Pago Pago, AS 96799. Signed By: Mrs. Vaoita Savali,
Director. Funds Requested: $435,000. Total Project Cost: $470,000. To
replace the transmitter of public television station KVZK-TV, operating
on Ch. 2, Pago Pago, which serves the 55,000 residents of American
Samoa. The transmitter is 17 years old and has suffered corrosion
damage from two hurricanes which partially destroyed the transmitter
building.
File No. 95247 PRB American Samoa Community College, P.O. Box 2609,
Pago Pago, AS 96799. Signed By: Dr. Tusi Avegalio, President. Funds
Requested: $14,740. Total Project Cost: $15,740. To plan for the
establishment of the first public radio station to serve the 55,000
residents of American Samoa.
AZ (Arizona)
File No. 95072 CRB Maricopa County Commun. College, 3124 East
Roosevelt, Phoenix, AZ 85008. Signed By: Dr. Alfredo de los Santos,
Vice Chancellor Educ. Dev. Funds Requested: $45,945. Total Project
Cost: $91,890. To improve the Sun Sounds Radio Reading Service by
replacing nine (9) old reel-to-reel recorders with a computerized hard
disk audio recording and origination system. Equipment will provide
automation of much of the control room and individual recording
procedures. Sun Sounds serves approximately 24,000 people via public
radio, TV, and cable FM and TV.
File No. 95087 IPTN Navajo Community College, Box 218, Tsaile, AZ
86556. Signed By: Mr. Algirdis Kuslikis. Funds Requested: $46,000.
Total Project Cost: $56,000. To plan for an interactive
telecommunications network for distance learning and teleconferencing
applications at sites throughout the Navajo Nation, which encompasses a
25,000 square mile area in parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.
File No. 95160 CRB Northern Arizona University, Building 16, Room
229, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. Signed By: Dr. Henry Hooper, Interim VP
Academic Affairs. Funds Requested: $208,405. Total Project Cost:
$277,874. To extend the signal of public radio station KNAU-FM, 88.7
MHz, in Flagstaff, by constructing two new 100-watt Rocky Mountain
Alternative Stations (RMAS) in Prescott (89.3 MHz) and Show Low (90.7
MHz). The stations will provide first public radio service to about
13,478 and local origination capacity. The Prescott station will
replace a displaced translator. The RMAS will serve Yavapai and Navajo
Counties.
File No. 95203 CTB University of Arizona, Modern Language Building,
Tucson, AZ 85721. Signed By: Mr. James Wheeler, Director. Funds
Requested: $91,900. Total Project Cost: $183,800. To improve the
facilities of public television station, KUAT-TV, Ch. 8, in Tucson.
Project will replace \3/4\'' record/play recorders in master control
with \1/2\'' record/play units and replace \3/4\'' record/play ENG
record deck with a \1/2\'' unit. KUAT-TV serves approximately 890,533
people.
File No. 95204 CRB University of Arizona, Modern Language Building,
Tucson, AZ 85721. Signed By: Mr. James Wheeler, Director. Funds
Requested: $20,008. Total Project Cost: $40,016. To improve the
facilities of public radio station KUAT-FM, 90.5 MHz, in Tucson
replacing its 20-year-old transmitting antenna, digitizing the studio-
to-transmitter link (STL) and replacing its 20-year-old remote control.
KUAT-FM serves approximately 687,616 people.
File No. 95214 ICTN Arizona Board of Regents, Communications Bldg
16, Room 229, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. Signed By: Dr. Henry Hooper, VP,
Academic Affairs. Funds Requested: $1,569,770. Total Project Cost:
$2,354,656. To extend first distance learning service to 131,000
persons in rural Arizona by constructing analog and digital video and
audio service, and classroom distance learning production facilities at
five remote locations in Arizona, and to establish a network hub at the
eastern Navajo Reservation in Arizona.
File No. 95283 CTB Arizona State University, Box 871405, Tempe, AZ
85287-1405. Signed By: Ms. Janice Bennett, Director, Research/Creat.
Act. Funds Requested: $87,447. Total Project Cost: $174,895. To replace
five old, unreliable public television translators of KAET-TV, Ch. 8,
in Tempe.
Stations are as follows: Cottonwood (K42AC), Flagstaff (K66BS),
Prescott [[Page 25774]] (K55DB), Williams (K64AP) and Globe (K67AB).
Pending FCC approval, KAET-TV will be assigned the Globe translator
from the current licensee, Community Television Project.
CA (California)
File No. 95010 ICTN California State University, 1000 East Victoria
Street, Carson, CA 90747. Signed By: Dr. Samuel Wiley, Vice President.
Funds Requested: $455,263. Total Project Cost: $915,879. To activate a
regional distance learning consortium that will allow secondary and
postsecondary academic institutions in southeast Los Angeles County to
access the scientific resources of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and
the California Museum of Science and Industry. The consortium is named
the ``Telecommunications Educational Liaison for Science Proficiency
Advancement Network'' (TELSPAN). The consortium's headquarters will be
located at California State University/Dominguez Hills. Using
telephonic transmission, the project would create an advanced multi-
media science education network utilizing interactive video, remote
data bases, and real-time visualization techniques. The consortium's
membership includes GTE, Inc. and Pacific Bell.
File No. 95016 CRB Humboldt State University, KHSU-FM, Arcata, CA
95221. Signed By: Dr. Alistair McCrone, President. Funds Requested:
$17,585. Total Project Cost: $35,170. To improve noncommercial radio
station, KHSU-FM, operating on 90.5 KHz in Arcata, CA, by replacing the
FM exciter and control room audio console which are unreliable and
functionally obsolete.
File No. 95024 CRB KQED, Inc. 2601 Mariposa Street, San Francisco,
CA 94110. Signed by: Mrs. Mary G.F. Bitterman, President and CEO. Funds
Requested: $20,632. Total Project Cost: $41,265. To improve non-
commercial radio station, KQED-FM, operating on 88.5 MHz, in San
Francisco, CA, by replacing essential but chronically unreliable
transmission audio equipment, including an Audio Processor, a Digital
Exciter, Digital Encoder and Digital Decoder. The station serves a
population of 5.3 million potential listeners.
File No. 95030 ICTN Educ. T/C Consortium of Central CA, 1101 E.
University, Fresno, CA 93741. Signed by: Mr. Robert A. Wyman, Executive
Director/ETCCC. Funds Requested: $672,900. Total Project Cost:
$1,353,465. To purchase compression equipment to allow the transmission
of 20 digitized channels of diverse educational programming--using
video, voice, and data--through two ITFS channels interconnecting 350
school sites--most of them K-12 public schools--in Fresno, Madera,
Kings, and Tulare Counties in the Central San Joaquin Valley. The
Educational Telecommunications Consortium of Central California is
composed of the State Center Community College District, the Fresno
County Office of Education, the West Hills Community College District,
the Sequoias Community College District, and California State
University, Fresno.
File No. 95032 ICTN Los Angeles Community College Dist., 400 W.
Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90015. Signed by: Mr. Thomas Stevens,
Jr., President. Funds Requested: $150,000. Total Project Cost:
$269,059. To interconnect the Los Angeles Trade-Technical College with
a two-way interactive Codec-based distance learning system already in
place linking the College of the Desert (Rancho Mirage CA), Cummins
Diesel Co. (New Mexico), and Detroit Diesel Co. (Detroit, MI). The
project includes video classroom equipment. The system would be used to
exchange educational programming on the subject of alternative fuel
conversion related to recent clean-air mandates imposed on the Los
Angeles metropolitan area.
File No. 95063 IPTN Golden Gate University, 536 Mission Street, San
Francisco, CA 94105. Signed by: Dr. Thomas Stauffer, President. Funds
Requested: $76,550. Total Project Cost: $95,668. To develop a
telecommunications plan assessing appropriate alternative technologies
and systems for a possible two-way distance learning and
teleconferencing network, including interactive classrooms between
Golden Gate University in San Francisco, and American Samoa.
File No. 95076 CTB Regents of the Univ. of California, 9500 Gilman
Dr., Dept 0176, LaJolla, CA 92093. Signed by: Dr. Steven Relyea, Vice
Chancellor, Bus. Affairs. Funds Requested: $57,001. Total Project Cost:
$114,002. To improve low-power television station K35DG, known as UCSD-
TV, operating on Channel 35, providing the first local production
capability for the station's first owned studio. This project will
fully equip this studio by adding editing and graphics capabilities and
four studio cameras. The station currently serves 1.7 million potential
viewers.
File No. 95085 CRB University of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific Avenue,
Stockton, CA 95211. Signed by: Dr. Lee Fennell, Interim Academic Vice
Pres. Funds Requested: $5,694. Total Project Cost: $11,389. To improve
non-commercial radio station, KUOP-FM, operating on 9l.3 KHz in
Stockton, CA, by replacing the trouble-causing composite STL
transmitter and receiver. The existing STL will be utilized as a ``hot
standby''. The critical need is to increase reliability by providing
KUOP redundant STL facilities and to provide KUOP an STL system with
improved specifications to allow more accurate control broadcast
modulation levels. The coverage area encompasses 1 million residents in
the greater Stockton area and in the Central Valley on the Eastern edge
of the Sacramento/San Joaquin River Delta.
File No. 95092 CTB California Community TV Network, 559 E. Alisal
St., #106, Salinas, CA 93905. Signed by: Ms. Arlene Kimata. Funds
Requested: $608,010. Total Project Cost: $810,680. To extend the signal
of public TV station, KCAH-TV, Ch 25, in Salinas, CA, by replacing the
1 kw low-power transmitter with a full power 10 kw system to increase
the station's coverage from 468,000 to approximately 1,503,716
residents in the KCAH new coverage area. Also included in the package
is the necessary equipment the station needs to bring the production,
editing, master control and satellite systems up to the PTFP's basic
level of equipment requirements.
File No. 95093 CTB KTEH Foundation, 100 Skyport Drive, San Jose, CA
95110-1301. Signed by: Mr. Thomas Fanella, President. Funds Requested:
$150,917. Total Project Cost: $301,835. To improve public TV station,
Ch 54, in San Jose, CA, by purchasing the AVID Technology, Inc. non-
linear digital-media broadcast and post-production systems. This
proposed new hardware includes AVID Airplay, GPI Triggers, Interface,
Log, Remote Control, Hard Disks, Software, Training, Media Composer,
Monitors, Audio Channels, Field Resolution, DVE, Encoder, and
Documentation. This project will directly support the ambitious new PBS
``Ready to Learn'' service. KTEH is the only Ready to Learn station for
America's 5th television market, and the only Ready to Learn
broadcaster in Northern California. The station's coverage totals 6.4
million potential viewers.
File No. 95098 CTB KVIE, Inc., 2595 Capitol Oaks Drive, Sacramento,
CA 95833. Signed by: Mr. Michael Levine, Acting General Manager. Funds
Requested: $279,276. Total Project Cost: $558,552. To improve public
television station, KVIE-TV, Ch 6, in Sacramento, CA, by replacing
basic existing essential production equipment, including 3 studio
cameras, an audio console, waveform monitor, picture monitor, 2 rack
mount kits and 2 rack mount frames. KVIE serves a 28 county area in
[[Page 25775]] North Central California, currently numbering 5,153,000
viewers.
File No. 95104 CTB Bay Area Multicultural T/C Assoc., 3533 19th
Street, San Francisco, CA 94110. Signed by: Mr. Humberto Cintron, Pres.
Bd. of Directors. Funds Requested: $263,166. Total Project Cost:
$350,888.
Applicant is requesting the construction of a public TV station in San
Francisco, CA; applicant has no call letters yet, but plans to operate
on Ch 32 if it is awarded. The station, when activated, plans to
provide programming to meet the informational, educational and cultural
needs of the 2.2 million Bay Area residents who are members of minority
groups.
File No. 95109 CTB San Diego State University Fndn, 5200 Campanile
Drive, San Diego, CA 92182. Signed By: Mr. Robert Benshoff, Asso
General Mgr for Fin Mgmt. Funds Requested: $177,784. Total Project
Cost: $355,568. To improve public TV station, KPBS-TV, operating on CH
15, in San Diego, CA, by replacing critically worn-out and obsolete
basic equipment, including a videotape editing system, a video
production switcher, 4 videotape recorders, an audio mixer, an
electronic still store system, monitors, digital interface, sync
generator, digital audio recorder/reproducer, digital audio processor,
audio power amplifier, a speaker system, and test equipment. These
items are essential, according to the applicant, to establishing the
station's first independent on-line videotape editing suite, allowing
KPBS to expand its local program production.
File No. 95114 CRB California State University, 3416 American River
Dr., Ste B, Sacramento, CA 95864. Signed By: Mr. Phil Corriveau,
Licensee Designate. Funds Requested: $123,200. Total Project Cost:
$246,401. To extend the signal of public radio station, KXPR-FM,
operating on 90.9 MHz, in Sacramento, CA, by activating KXKB-FM, a new
FM station in Tahoe City, and improve and extend coverage of the
applicant's licensee, KXSR-FM in Groveland. This project will provide
first public radio signal to 107,000 people living in the Lake Tahoe
Basin and Northern and Central Sierra Mountains. The mother station,
KXPR, currently serves 1,340,800 potential listeners.
File No. 95115 CTB Rural CA Broadcasting Corporation, 5850 LaBath
Ave., Rohnert Park, CA 94928. Signed By: Mrs. Nancy Dobbs. Funds
Requested: $110,165. Total Project Cost: $146,887. To improve non-
commercial TV station, KRCB-TV, operating on Ch 22, in Rohnert Park,
CA, by replacing the basic origination equipment in master control and
the production studio. This package includes an EAS encoder, 7 VTR's, 3
studio cameras, and 5 color monitors. As a Community Broadcast
Licensee, which receives no State aid, KRCB provides the only non-
commercial TV service to 100,000 homes within its coverage area and
provides service to 2,803,000 potential viewers.
File No. 95164 PRB Hoopa Valley Tribal Council, Hoopa Valley
Shopping Ctr, Hwy 9, Hoopa, CA 95546. Signed By: Mr. Frank Starkey,
Jr., General Manager. Funds Requested: $75,411. Total Project Cost:
$79,741. The purpose of this Planning Application for KIDE-FM,
operating on 91.3 MHz, in the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, located
in Hoopa, CA, is to locate a suitable new site to gain maximum
coverage, to conduct an environmental assessment, and develop an
engineering cost estimate to relocate the current tower and
transmitter. This project will affect Northwestern Trinity County and
the Rural and Coastal areas of Humboldt County. Relocating the
transmission system will bring first signal to a thousand residents and
increase the total population to 10,000.
File No. 95193 CRB Rural CA Broadcasting Corporation, 5850 LaBath
Ave., Rohnert Park, CA 94928. Signed By: Ms. Nancy Dobbs, Chief
Executive Officer. Funds Requested: $31,905. Total Project Cost:
$42,539. To improve non-commercial radio station, KRCB-FM, operating on
91.1 MHz in Rohnert, CA, by replacing the main studio equipment,
originally donated from a variety of sources. The package includes an
encoder/decoder, audio mixer, reel to reel tape recorder, cassette
recorder, digital cart recorder, microphones with booms, turntable,
equipment rack, patch panel, patch cords, headphones, distribution
amplifier, remote control tape recorder, tape recorder input switcher,
DAT cassette recorder, modulation monitor, misc wire and installation
material, frequency counter and oscilloscope. The station serves
265,000 potential listeners.
File No. 95216 ICTN Cal. State University, Chico, West First &
Normal Streets, Chico, CA 95929-0250. Signed By: Dr. Elaine Wangberg,
Vice Provost for Research. Funds Requested: $298,275. Total Project
Cost: $596,550. To establish a satellite delivered distance education
network in California by equipping an existing Ku-band uplink with
digital compression equipment and by constructing 41 satellite
downlinks at locations throughout the state. The applicant currently
provides a nationwide Ku-band satellite service for computer training
and an undergraduate curriculum via microwave and ITFS in Northern
California. The proposed system would replace the microwave/ITFS system
which is almost 20 years old and is operating on frequencies which must
be vacated to avoid interference to commercial direct broadcast
satellite television services. The satellite delivery system would
permit the distribution of the applicant's distance learning to
additional areas of the state.
File No. 95219 CRB Santa Monica Cmty College District, 1900 Pico
Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405-1628. Signed By: Mr. Thomas Donner,
Interim Superintendent. Funds Requested: $138,257. Total Project Cost:
$184,343. To extend the signal of non-commercial radio station, KCRW-FM
operating on 89.9 MHz, in Santa Monica, CA, by constructing a new
repeater station, to operate on 88.1 MHz and provide first signal to
the unserved city of Mojave, CA. This proposed station will serve
approximately 83,498 residents living within the primary coverage area
of this proposed 10K station.
File No. 95223 CTB Community TV of South California, 4401 Sunset
Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027. Signed By: Mr. Donald G. Youpa, Executive
Vice President. Funds Requested: $575,171. Total Project Cost:
$1,150,343. To improve non-commercial TV station, KCET-TV, operating on
Ch 28 in Los Angeles, CA, by replacing 6 CCD Studio Cameras. This
flagship station of the Public Broadcasting System serves 15,357,200
viewers in the greater Los Angeles area and covers the southern and
central section of California.
File No. 95224 CTB Community TV of S. California, 4401 Sunset
Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Signed By: Mr. Donald G. Youpa,
Executive Vice President. Funds Requested: $102,221. Total Project
Cost: $136,295. To extend the signal of non-commercial TV station,
KCET, Ch. 28 in Los Angeles, CA, by constructing a translator system
which will bring 198,393 residents of San Luis Obispo County its first
public television signal. KCET-TV will bring its award winning program
service to the bulk of the county population of 237,597.
File No. 95230 CRB Humboldt State University, KHSU-FM, Arcata, CA
95221. Signed By: Dr. Alistar McCrone, President. Funds Requested:
$14,975. Total Project Cost: $29,950. To improve non-commercial radio
station, KHSU, operating on 90.5 KHz in Arcata, CA, by replacing the FM
broadcast antenna at the KHSU transmitter site, on Barry Ridge near
Kneeland, CA, and reconstructing the FM translator,
[[Page 25776]] K207BL, Willow Creek, CA, both of which were severely
damaged by recent winter storms.
File No. 95244 IPTN Kern Community College District, 3000 College
Heights Blvd., Ridgecrest, CA 93555. Signed By: Dr. Raymond McCue,
President. Funds Requested: $64,125. Total Project Cost: $127,879. To
develop a plan that would include cooperative agreements among
educational institutions and service agencies in Kern, Inyo and Mono
counties in eastern California, and would design an interactive
telecommunications system to provide distance learning and training
opportunities, particularly to the population in isolated areas of
rural Inyo and Mono counties.
File No. 95256 CRB Monterey Bay Public Bd. Foundation, 176 Forest
Avenue, POB 10, Pacific Grove, CA 93950. Signed By: Mr. Ken Peterson,
President, Board of Directors. Funds Requested: $19,880. Total Project
Cost: $44,880. To replace and upgrade an on-air console, reel-to-reel
tape decks, DAT recorders, microphones, turntables, cart machines,
digital transceivers and related equipment at KAZU-FM, 90.3 MHz,
Pacific Grove, CA, providing public radio service to approximately
500,000 persons in the Monterey area of California.
File No. 95270 CRB Radio Bilingue, Inc., 1111 Fulton Mall, #700,
Fresno, CA 93721. Signed By: Mr. Hugo Morales, Executive Director.
Funds Requested: $69,000. Total Project Cost: $138,000. To improve the
non-commercial radio station, KSJV-FM, operating on 91.5 MHz, in
Fresno, CA by adding state-of-the-art production studio equipment to
augment the essential production equipment the applicant now owns and
by replacing the 15 year old transmitter. This augmentation includes 2
Portable Recorders, 11 mikes, 3 mike arms, 13 Headphones, 2 Digital
Tape Recorders 3 Reel-to-Reel Recorders, 3 Dual Cassette Players, 6
Cart Machines, 4 CD Players, 4 DAT Recorders, 2 telephone Adapters, 4
Carrying Cases, 1 Mixing Console, 3 Amplifiers, 4 Turntables, Turntable
Pre-Amp, 2 Monitor Speakers, 2 Gentner Interfaces, 1 Digital Hybrid, 9
Racks, 2 Patch Bays, 1 Misc. wire etc. and 1 Impedence Converter. KSJV-
FM is the flagship station of Radio Bilingue and the primary production
facility for the Latino Station Satellite Network. This station
currently serves 1.7 million potential listeners.
CO (Colorado)
File No. 95077 CRB Boulder Community Broadcast Assoc, 1900 Folsom
Avenue, No. 100, Boulder, CO 80302. Signed By: Ms. Marty Durlin,
Station Manager. Funds Requested: $28,640. Total Project Cost: $57,280.
To upgrade the studio facilities of public radio station KGNU-FM,
operating on 88.5 MHz in Boulder, CO, by replacing three 17-year-old
audio consoles, the air monitor and the telemetry unit.
File No. 95095 CRB North Fork Valley Public Radio, Inc, 213 Grand
Avenue, Paonia, CO 81428. Signed By: Ms. Dottie Talmage, Station
Manager. Funds Requested: $21,045. Total Project Cost: $28,060. To
improve satellite recording capabilities and studio facilities of
public radio station KVNF-FM, operating on 90.9 MHz in Paonia, CO, by
replacing old and worn-out reel-to-reel tape machines and the
production console.
File No. 95113 CRB KUTE Incorporated, P.O. Box 737, 123 Capote
Street, Ignacio, CO 81137. Signed By: Mr. Carlos Sena, General Manager.
Funds Requested: $89,798. Total Project Cost: $119,730. To improve the
facilities of public radio station KSUT-FM operating on 91.3 MHz in
Ignacio, CO, by replacing 20-year-old master control and studio
equipment, including the air console and the production console, 7 DAT
recorders, the cart machine and 4 monitors.
File No. 95140 CTB Front Range Educational Media Corp., 2900 Welton
Street, First Floor, Denver, CO 80205. Signed By: Mr. Ted Krichels,
General Manager. Funds Requested: $358,174. Total Project Cost:
$488,174. To improve the reliability of the signal and upgrade its
broadcast quality, KBDI-TV, Channel 12 in Denver, CO, will install a
three-phase power system, a three-phase UPS and a hot-standby STL.
Applicant will also replace old and worn-out studio equipment and
purchase new equipment for stereo and second language broadcast
capability.
File No. 95149 CTB Council for PTV, Channel 6, Inc., 1089 Bannock
Street, Denver, CO 80204. Signed By: Mr. James Morgese, President &
General Manager. Funds Requested: $759,220. Total Project Cost:
$1,518.439. To provide first service to over 100,000 people in Mesa
County, Colorado, KRMA-TV, Channel 6 in Denver will build a
noncommercial full power satellite station in Grand Junction, Colorado,
and, in collaboration with Mesa State College, will provide local
origination programming. Applicant also proposes construction of a full
duplex microwave system between the Denver studios and Grand Junction
to provide real-time, full bandwidth two-way video link between the two
stations.
File No. 95179 CRB Equal Rep. of Media Advocacy Corp, 528 9th
Street, Alamosa, CO 81101. Signed By: Mr. Tim Grove, President. Funds
Requested: $11,475. Total Project Cost: $15,300. To upgrade public
radio station KRZA-FM, operating on 88.7 MHZ in Alamosa, CO, by
replacing the STLs, converting to EAS and replacing studio analog
equipment with digital equipment.
File No. 95183 CTB University of Southern Colorado, 2200 Bonforte
Boulevard, Pueblo, CO 81001-4901. Signed By: Dr. Robert Shirley,
President. Funds Requested; $548,949. Total Project Cost: $1,097,898.
To provide first public television service to approximately 25,000
people in the areas of Grand Junction, Durango and the Southern Ute and
Ute Mountain Indian Reservations, KTSC-TV, Channel 8 in Pueblo,
Colorado, will install four new translators and a microwave
interconnection system. Applicant will also purchase test and stereo
broadcast equipment and upgrade its origination equipment.
File No. 95186 ICTN Northern CO Bd. of Coop. Ed. Werv., 830 W.
Lincoln Street, Longmont, CO 80501. Signed By: Mr. Jack Hale, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $528,781. Total Project Cost: $875,832. To
construct a two-way, interactive compressed video system, using
PictureTel studios and T1 service to link four remote sites in
northeastern Colorado with existing T1 educational networks serving
other parts of Colorado.
File No. 95262 ICTN National Technological University, 700 Centre
Avenue, Ft. Collins, CO 80526. Signed By: Dr. Lionel Baldwin,
President. Funds Requested: $478,515. Total Project Cost: $957,030. To
construct three additional Ku-band satellite uplinks in the National
Technological University system which will increase engineering
programming distributed nationwide. The uplinks will be located at the
University of Florida, Gainsville, FL; the University of California at
Berkeley, CA; the University of Texas at Austin, TX. The project also
proposes to add digital compression equipment for an existing Ku-band
uplink at Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.
File No. 95291 CRB Denver Educat'l Broadcasting, Inc., 2900 Welton
Street, Suite 200, Denver, CO 80205. Signed By: Ms. Florence Hernandez-
Ramos, President & CEO. Funds Requested: $167,412. Total Project Cost:
$334,824. To improve public radio station KUVO-FM operating on 89.3 MHz
in Denver, Colorado, by replacing its 10-year old transmitter and
installing a backup STL system. Applicant also proposes to upgrade its
studio and master control equipment, purchase test equipment and
install a new performance studio. [[Page 25777]]
CT (Connecticut)
File No. 95075 CTB Connecticut Pub. Broadcasting, Inc., 240 New
Britain Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106. Signed By: Mr. Jerry Franklin,
President & CEO. Funds Requested: $137,332. Total Project Cost:
$274,665. To replace obsolete and worn out videotape machines,
character generator, switching equipment and a microwave
interconnection system at the Connecticut Public Broadcasting
headquarters in Hartford, Connecticut, providing the only national and
statewide oriented public television programming to 3,225,000 citizens
over WEDH-TV, Channel 24 Hartford, WEDN-TV, Channel 53, Norwich, WEDY-
TV, Channel 65, New Haven, and WEDW-TV, Channel 49, Bridgeport,
Connecticut.
File No. 95157 ICTN CT Community-Technical Colleges, 61 Woodland
Street, Hartford, CT 06105. Signed By: Mr. Andrew McKirdy, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $322,200. Total Project Cost: $644,400. To
extend distance learning programs to 16 Connecticut community colleges
serving 47,655 students, to provide first distance learning programs to
12,335 additional students, and to offer on-site instruction at
businesses throughout Connecticut by constructing portable,
interactive, compressed video systems and telephone access switches at
each site.
DC (District of Columbia)
File No. 95154 CRB University of District of Columbia, 4200
Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20008. Signed By: Dr. Martha
Bridgeforth, VP, Institutional Advancement. Funds Requested: $29,917.
Total Project Cost: $59,835. To extend the signal of non-commercial
radio station, WDCU-FM, 90.1 MHz, Washington, D.C., by increasing the
power of the station's transmitter form 6,800 to 50,000 watts. This
project will increase WCDU's coverage by 900,000 potential listeners
from its present coverage of approximately 3,283,159.
File No. 95155 CRB University of District of Columbia, 4200
Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20008. Signed By: Mr. Martha
Bridgeforth, VP, Institutional Advancement. Funds Requested: $22,495.
Total Project Cost: $44,990. To improve non-commercial radio station,
WDCU-FM, 90.1 MHz, Washington, D.C., by constructing a C-Band fixed
satellite downlink in order to directly receive cultural and news
programs from the Public Radio Satellite System.
File No. 95015 CTB University of Florida, Weimer Hall, Gainesville,
FL 32611. Signed By: Mrs. Karen Holbrook, Vice President/Dean. Funds
Requested: $19,610. Total Project Cost: $39,220. WUFT-TV, Channel 5 in
Gainesville, Florida, will purchase equipment for a SAP channel, that
will be used to deliver Descriptive Video Services and Radio Reading
Services to visually-impaired individuals.
File No. 95019 CTB South Florida Public Telecomm. Inc., 3401 South
Congress Avenue, Boynton Beach, FL 33426. Signed By: Mrs. Mary Souder,
President/CEO. Funds Requested: $68,850. Total Project Cost: $137,700.
To replace outdated \3/4\'' record and playback machines to improve
editing, promo playback and recording facilities at WXEL-TV, Channel
42, Boynton Beach, Florida.
File No. 95035 CTB Florida W. Coast Pub. Brdcstg, Inc., 1300 North
Boulevard, Tampa, FL 33607. Signed By: Mr. Stephen L. Rogers, President
& CEO. Funds Requested: $487,385. Total Project Cost: $974,770. To
improve the facilities of public television station WEDU-TV, Channel 3
in Tampa, Florida, by constructing a new production control room and
studio. The applicant proposes purchase of four cameras, a digital
switcher, a digital video effects unit and an audio mixer.
File No. 95106 CTB WJCT, Inc., 100 Festival Park Avenue,
Jacksonville, FL 32202. Signed By: Mr. William Dresser, President and
General Manager. Funds Requested: $212, 387. Total Project Cost:
$424,775. To replace worn out and failure-prone equipment, WJCT-TV,
operating on Channel 7 in Jacksonville, Florida, will purchase a master
control routing switcher, an on-air station break switcher and the
national and local programming productions video switcher.
File No. 95116 CRB University of Florida, 2208 Weimer Hall,
Gainesville, FL 32611. Signed By: Mr. Richard A. Lehner, General
Manager. Funds Requested: $26,916. Total Project Cost: $53,832. To
preserve 24-hour a day operation, public radio station WUFT-FM,
operating on 89.1 MHz in Gainesville, Florida, will purchase and
install equipment to automate late evening and weekend programming.
File No. 95229 IPTN Florida Gulf Coast University, 17595 So.
Tamiami Trail, Ste 200, Fort Myers, FL 33908. Signed By: Dr. Roy
McTarnaghan, President. Funds Requested: $69,108. Total Project Cost:
$102,370. To develop a plan for a coordinated, interactive distance
education network in five southwestern Florida counties that will
explore options for an interconnection system among educational
institutions, public broadcasting facilities, government offices and
service agencies for distance learning and training.
GA (Georgia)
File No. 95046 IPTN Clark Atlanta University, James Brawley Dr. at
First St SW, Atlanta, GA 30314. Signed By: Dr. Kofi Bota, V.P.,
Research/Sponsored Pgms. Funds Requested: $94,413. Total Project Cost:
$107,799. To develop a comprehensive plan for a telecommunications
system using appropriate technologies for a distance learning network
among the colleges and universities of the Historically Black Colleges
and Universities/Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) Environmental
Technology Consortium in ten states and Washington, D.C.
File No. 95059 ICTN City of Thomasville, 144 E. Jackson Street,
Thomasville, GA 31792. Signed By: Ms. Camille Payne, Mayor. Funds
Requested: $722,810. Total Project Cost: $1,445,620. To establish an
interactive distance learning network that will use a fiber optics
SONET-based system to interconnect diverse municipal and educational
institutions in Thomas County, located in southern Georgia. The
entities to be connected include the City of Thomasville, the
Thomasville City Schools, the Thomas County Schools, Thomas Area
Technical School, Thomas College, and the Thomas County Public Library.
File No. 95061 IPRTN Georgia/Carolina Tech. Coll. Cnsort, 2704
Benson Road, Augusta, GA 30906. Signed By: Dr. Jim Weaver, Director.
Funds Requested: $91,000. Total Project Cost: $182,000. To determine
the feasibility of the possible technologies that might be appropriate
for a two-way, interactive interconnection system for distance learning
and training among the five technical colleges in the Georgia/Carolina
Technical College Consortium, serving a nine-county area in Georgia and
South Carolina.
File No. 95144 IPTN Georgia State University, 140 Decatur Street,
Ste 805, Atlanta, GA 30303. Signed By: Dr. Cleon C. Arrington, VP for
Research & Info Tech. Funds Requested: $74,849. Total Project Cost:
$74,849. To assess the facilities and equipment of the present Georgia
Public Telecommunications Commission facility in Atlanta, and to plan
for and design this facility as a statewide telecommunication
distribution, production and training center, for distance learning and
training applications.
File No. 95146 CTB Atlanta Board of Education, 740 Bismark Road,
NE, Atlanta, GA 30324. Signed By: Dr. [[Page 25778]] Benjamin Canada,
Superintendent. Funds Requested: $681,955. Total Project Cost:
$1,363,909. To improve the mobile production facilities of public
television station WPBA-TV, operating on Ch. 30 in Atlanta, by
replacing obsolete equipment in a mobile production unit. The project
will also convert an existing Ku-band satellite downlink to an uplink
to permit distribution of instructional programming to the state of
Georgia.
File No. 95281 CRB Georgia Public Telecomm. Commission, 1540
Stewart Avenue, SW., Atlanta, GA 30310. Signed By: Mr. Frank Bugg,
Deputy Director. Funds Requested: $27,000. Total Project Cost: $54,000.
Peach State Public Radio will establish a noncommercial FM radio
station operating on 88.3 in Demorest, GA, to provide first service to
a population of cover 260,000 people in the Northeast section of
Georgia.
File No. 95285 CRTBN Georgia Public Telecom Commissions, 1540
Stewart Avenue, SW., Atlanta, GA 30310. Signed By: Mr. Frank Bugg,
Deputy Director. Funds Requested: $342,000. Total Project Cost:
$760,000. To increase the satellite uplink capabilities of Georgia
Public Television by purchasing digital compression equipment for an
existing satellite uplink in Atlanta, and for existing portable uplinks
in the state. The project will increase the number of programs
distributed to schools, libraries and institutions of higher education
throughout the state using the state-owned satellite transponder on
Telstar 401.
HI (Hawaii)
File No. 95033 CRB Hawaii Public Radio, 738 Kaheka St., Honolulu,
HI 96814-3726. Signed By: Mr. Albert Hulsen, President & Gen. Mgr.
Funds Requested: $395,575. Total Project Cost: $527,434. To establish
an FM repeater station operating on 91.1 MHz in Hilo, Hawaii. The
station will repeat the broadcast signal of KHPR (FM), Honolulu and
provide the first public radio service to 66,628 residents (55% of the
population of the Island of Hawaii) living in the Hilo area. Some
Island of Hawaii residents, those living along the Kohala, Kona and
Hamakua coasts, already receive Hawaii Public Radio from KKUA (90.7
MHz, Wailuku) transmitting from atop Mt. Haleakala on the Island of
Maui.
File No. 95068 CRB Kekahu Foundation, Inc., 2204 Io'ela Street,
Kilauea, HI 96754. Signed By: Mrs. Janet Friend, President. Funds
Requested: $174,200. Total Project Cost: $232,270. To provide the first
public radio service to the island of Kauai by constructing a new FM
station operating on 91.9 MHz, Kilauea, and an FM station operating on
90.9 MHz in Hanalei. The stations will be interconnected by microwave
and will be programmed from a local studio.
File No. 95167 PRB Hawaiian National Broadcast Corp, 477 Opihikao
Place, Suite A, Honolulu, HI 96825. Signed By: Mrs. Marsha Joyner,
President. Funds Requested: $15,000. Total Project Cost: $46,426. To
plan for the establishment of a noncommercial radio station in Honolulu
to serve the ethnic peoples of the island of Oahu.
File No. 95232 CRB Hawaii Public Radio, 738 Kaheka St., Honolulu,
HI 96814-3726. Signed By: Mr. Albert Hulsen, President & General
Manager. Funds Requested: $275,373. Total Project Cost: $428,883. To
provide the first public radio service to the island of Kauai by
constructing an FM repeater station operating on 90.1 MHz in Lihue. The
station will rebroadcast programming from stations the applicant
operates in Honolulu, island of Oahu, including KHPR (FM), operating on
88.1 MHz, KIPO-FM, operating on 89.3 MHz and KIFO (AM) operating on
1380 KHz.
IA (Iowa)
File No. 95094 PRB Suntaman Communications, Inc., 1170 13th Street,
P.O. Box 4296, Des Moines, IA 50333. Signed By: Mr. Wesley Hall,
Executive Director. Funds Requested: $6,000. Total Project Cost:
$6,000. To plan for a non-commercial, black, FM radio station which
will serve the urban area of Omaha, Nebraska. The funds requested,
{$6,000} will be used specifically to hire an engineering firm to
perform a frequency compatibility test. The applicant hopes this plan
would result in the development of an African American owned and
operated public radio station, serving approximately 51,426 African
Americans residing in Omaha.
File No. 95162 CTB Iowa Public Broadcasting Board, 6450 Corporate
Drive, Johnston, IA 50131. Signed By: Mr. C. David Bolender, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $147,800. Total Project Cost: $295,600. To
improve the quality of the broadcast services of Iowa Public Television
by replacing four old and unreliable translators serving 150,000
residents of the rural communities of Rock Rapids and Sibley in
northwest Iowa, and Ottumwa and Ft. Madison in the southeast corner of
Iowa.
File No. 95165 CRB Afro-American Cmty. Broadcasting, 527 Cottage
Ave, Waterloo, IA 50703. Signed By: Mr. Jimmie Porter, CEO. Funds
Requested: $88,404. Total Project Cost: $117,873. To improve non-
commercial, Afro American radio station, KBBG-FM, 88.1 MHz, Waterloo,
IA, by replacing the inadequate tower (raising its height), transmitter
and antenna, and replacing its control room equipment. This project is
in conjunction with construction of new studios and a move of the
transmission site required due to the current locations in a
residential area. KBBG's signal covers approximately 110,000 residents,
and new listeners will be added as a result of the higher tower.
File No. 95188 ICTN Eastern Iowa Community College Di, 306 West
River Drive, Davenport, IA 52801. Signed By: Mr. Ed Stoessel, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $81,053. Total Project Cost: $162,107. To
establish a fiber optic interconnection with the Iowa fiber optics
system, and to construct instructor-operated production facilities at
the Graphic Arts Technology Center in Clinton, Iowa, to provide
training in high-tech printing and graphics to 22,000 Iowa residents
involved in that vocation.
File No. 95235 ICTN Iowa Civil Rights Commission, 211 East Maple,
Des Moines, IA 50309. Signed By: Mr. Don Grove, Executive Director.
Funds Requested: $107,857. Total Project Cost: $143,809. To construct a
classroom production center to interconnect the Iowa Civil Rights
Commission facilities in Des Moines with the Iowa Communication Network
to allow for provision of civil rights related programming and
information to 3,000,000 citizens of Iowa.
File No. 95238 CRB Iowa State Univ of Science & Tech., 204
Communications Building, Ames, IA 50011. Signed By: Mr. Richard E.
Hasbrook, Contracts & Grants Officer. Funds Requested: $161,540. Total
Project Cost: $215,387. To extend the broadcast area of public radio
station WOI-FM, 90.1 MHz, Ames, IA, by activating a repeater station in
Ottumwa to provide first public radio service and radio reading
services to approximately 75,000 people in Southeastern Iowa.
IL (Illinois)
File No. 95029 CRB Southern IL University-Edwardsville, Box 1773,
Edwardsville, IL 62026. Signed By: Dr. Nancy Belck, President, SIUE.
Funds Requested: $336,076. Total Project Cost: $468,131. To extend the
signal of public radio station WSIE, 88.7 MHz, Edwardsville, IL, by
activating a repeater station on 91.3 MHz in Effingham, IL. The new
repeater will bring the first public radio signal to approximately
61,844 persons central Illinois. In addition, the project will
[[Page 25779]] improve the production capability of WSIE by replacing
worn-out and obsolete studio equipment, including an audio console, DAT
recorders, a cassette recorder, CD players, microphones, and an audio
processor. The project would also replace the station Emergency
Broadcast System equipment with the Emergency Alert System recently
adopted by the Federal Communications Commission.
File No. 95047 CTB Southern IL University-Carbondale, 1048
Communications Building, Carbondale, IL 62901. Signed By: Dr. Benjamin
A. Shepherd, VP/Academic Affairs & Provost. Funds Requested: $103,522.
Total Project Cost: $207,044. To improve the reliability of broadcasts
by public television station WSIU-TV, Ch. 8, Carbondale, IL, by
replacing its worn-out studio-transmitter link, and to improve its
production capability by replacing obsolete studio equipment, including
video switchers, audio mixers, production editor, and test equipment.
The station serves a population of approximately 880,300.
File No. 95277 CTB University of Illinois, 801 South Wright Street,
Champaign, IL 61820. Signed By: Mr. Craig S. Bazzani, Comptroller.
Funds Requested: $269,000. Total Project Cost: $538,000. To improve the
operation of public television station WILL-TV, Ch. 12, Champaign-
Urbana, IL, by replacing worn-out and obsolete studio equipment,
including video tape recorders, routing switcher, and monitors. The
station serves a population of about 1.3-million.
IN (Indiana)
File No. 95118 CTB Tri-State Public Teleplex, Inc., 405 Carpenter
Street, Evansville, IN 47708-1027. Signed By: Mr. David Dial, President
& General Manager. Funds Requested: $56,987. Total Project Cost:
$113,974. To improve public station WNIN-TV, Ch 9, Evansville, IN, by
replacing its worn-out and obsolete STL, a failing routing switcher and
sync generator. The station has no standby STL and must go off the air
when the unit goes off the air. WNIN owns no prompting system for its
studio cameras, so is rounding out the package by requesting a
teleprompter. The station serves 750,000 potential viewers.
File No. 95274 CRB Ball State University, Building AD-103, Muncie,
IN 47306-0550. Signed By: Dr. James L. Pyle, Executive Director. Funds
Requested: $69,777. Total Project Cost: $93,037. To extend the
broadcast area of public radio station WBST-FM, 92.1 MHz, Muncie, IN,
and to provide first service to approximately 83,000 people in the
communities of Anderson, Alexandria and surrounding areas of East
Central Indiana by activating a repeater station in Anderson on 89.5
MHz.
File No. 95278 CRB Ball State University, Building AD-103, Muncie,
IN 47306-0550. Signed By: Dr. James L. Pyle, Executive Director. Funds
Requested: $258,630. Total Project Cost: $344,840. To extend the signal
of public radio station WBST-FM operating on 92.1 MHz in Muncie,
Indiana, and provide first service to approximately 148,000 people in
East Central Indiana by activating repeater stations in Marion (91.1
MHz), Portland (91.7 MHz) and New Castle/Hagerstown (90.5 MHz).
File No. 95280 CTB Metro Indianapolis Pub Bdcstg Inc., 1401 North
Meridian Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202-2389. Signed By: Mr. Lloyd
Wright, President & General Manager. Funds Requested: $350,000. Total
Project Cost: $700,000. To improve the broadcast operations of public
station WFYI-TV, Ch. 20, Indianapolis, IN, by replacing its 25-year-old
transmitter and related equipment.
KS (Kansas)
File No. 95048 ICTN Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmont, Campus
Box 57, Wichita, KS 67260-0057. Signed By: Dr. Bobby Patton, VP/
Academic Affairs. Funds Requested: $300,000. Total Project Cost:
$600,000. To activate a two-way video, two-way audio microwave distance
learning system that would interconnect the main campus of Wichita
State University and three of the University's outreach centers in the
City of Wichita and in Sedgwick County. The system would allow not only
for the exchange of interactive, full motion educational programming,
but also for the transmission of high-speed data between the outreach
centers and the University's computing and library resources. The
proposal includes equipment for three video classrooms, one of each of
the outreach centers.
File No. 95080 CRB Kansas State University, Room 2, Fairchild Hall,
Manhattan, KS 66506. Signed By: Ms. Kay Cogley, Asst. Vice Provost for
Res. Funds Requested: $27,639. Total Project Cost: $50,663. To improve
the facilities of public radio station KKSU-AM, 580 KHz, in Manhattan
by acquiring new and replacement origination, test and other equipment.
KKSU-AM's audio consoles, tape machines and test equipment are more
than 20 years old. KKSU-AM's coverage area includes parts of four
states.
File No. 95086 CRB Kanza Society, Inc., 210 N. 7th Street, Garden
City, KS 67846. Signed By: Mr. Dale Bolton, Executive Director. Funds
Requested: $44,873. Total Project Cost: $89,746. To improve the
facilities of public radio station KANZ-FM, 91.1 MHz, in Garden City,
by completing the inter-city microwave relay connecting the KANZ-FM
studio and KZNA-FM, 90.5 MHz, a full-power repeater/satellite station
in Hill City. At present, KZNA-FM uses only a partial studio-to-
transmitter link (STL) by picking the signal off-air at Dighton, 55
miles from KANZ-FM, and relaying it by inter-city relays. This will
complete the terrestrial microwave system.
File No. 95110 CTB Washburn University of Topeka, 1700 SW College
Avenue, Topeka, KS 66621. Signed By: Dr. Hugh Thompson, President.
Funds Requested: $283,928. Total Project Cost: $567,856. To improve the
facilities of public television station KTWU-TV, Ch. 11, in Topeka by
replacing three aging studio camera systems and its 22-year old
production switcher and related equipment. Station serves about 1.25
million residents in KS and MO.
File No. 95192 CRB Wichita State University, 3317 E. 17th Street,
Wichita, KS 67208. Signed By: Mr. Frederick Sudermann, VP Research/
Industrial Gov Res. Funds Requested: $59,442. Total Project Cost:
$118,885. To improve the facilities of public radio station KMUW-FM,
89.1 MHz, in Wichita by replacing 15 to 20 year old On-air and
Production Control room equipment including two audio consoles and
associated origination equipment. In addition, project would acquire
transient voltage surge protectors. KMUW-FM serves approximately
678,000 residents.
File No. 95213 CRB Hutchinson Community College, 815 N. Walnut,
Suite 300, Hutchinson, KS 67501. Signed By: Dr. Edward Berger,
President. Funds Requested: $45,572. Total Project Cost: $91,145. To
improve the facilities of public radio station KHCC-FM, 90.1 MHz, in
Hutchinson by replacing old, unreliable cartridge machines with digital
technology, replacement of an old SCA generator and monitoring
equipment. In addition, KHCC seeks to replace the transmitter-to-studio
link (TSL) antenna system to protect against interruptions due to icing
conditions. KHCC-FM is also broadcast on two repeater stations, KHCD-FM
and KHCT-FM. The three stations cover approximately 925,000 people in
central KS.
File No. 95215 CTB Kansas Public T/C Services Inc., 320 West 21st
Street, N, Wichita, KS 67203. Signed By: Mr. Zoel Parenteau, President
and General Manager. Funds Requested: $28,825. Total Project Cost:
$57,650. To improve the facilities of public television station
[[Page 25780]] KPTS-TV, Ch. 8, in Wichita by replacing a 1978 character
generator and increasing the size of the station's existing router
switcher in order to meet increased demands. KPTS-TV serves
approximately 387,773 people.
File No. 95260 CRB Pittsburg State University, 1701 S. Broadway,
Pittsburg, KS 66762. Signed By: Dr. Donald W. Wilson, President. Funds
Requested: $26,144. Total Project Cost: $43,304. To extend the coverage
area of public radio station KRPS-FM, 89.9 MHz, in Pittsburg by
constructing a new translator in Iola on 91.3 MHz. Existing KANU-FM
(Lawrence) 10-watt translator is being replaced by this more powerful
unit that will serve 6,351 people. In addition, KRPS-FM seeks to
upgrade by purchasing new origination equipment including a production
console, remote recording equipment and some test equipment.
File No. 95268 CRB University of Kansas, Broadcasting Hall,
Lawrence, KS 66045. Signed By: Dr. Robert C. Bearse, Associate Vice
Chancellor. Funds Requested: $60,680. Total Project Cost: $121,361. To
improve the facilities of public radio station KANU-FM, 91.5 MHz, in
Lawrence by acquiring transmitter monitoring equipment and digital
encoders/decoders. KANU-FM, which places a strong emphasis on local
news production, seeks to acquire news control room and remote news
gathering equipment and other production equipment for utilization by
the Kansas Public Radio network. Project also includes a satellite
downlink and C-Band receiver as well as 50 SAP receivers for the radio
reading service. KANU-FM serves approximately 1,167,000 people.
KY (Kentucky)
File No. 95001 CRB University of Kentucky Research Fdn, 201 Kinkead
Hall, Lexington, KY 40506. Signed By: Mr. Jack Supplee, Associate
Director. Funds Requested: $48,535. Total Project Cost: $97,070. To
improve the production facilities of public radio station WUKY, 91.3
MHz, Lexington, KY, by replacing obsolete and worn-out equipment,
including three audio consoles, microphones, CD players, DAT recorders,
two cassette decks, and cartridge machines and by acquiring a telephone
hybrid. WUKY serves a population of about 477,298.
File No. 95199 CTB Kentucky Educational Television, 600 Cooper
Drive, Lexington, KY 40502. Signed By: Mrs. Virginia G. Fox, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $573,943. Total Project Cost: $956,571. To
improve the service of Kentucky Educational Television (KET) by
replacing the worn-out and obsolete transmitters, associated equipment
items, and test equipment of its full-power public television station
WKLE, Ch. 46, Lexington/Richmond, KY, and its translator on Ch. 10 at
Louisa, KY. In addition the project seeks to replace existing Emergency
Broadcast System equipment with the newly required Emergency Alert
System equipment, add to KET's network center routing equipment, and
acquire additional test equipment. KET operates 15 full-power
television stations and 5 translators across Kentucky, serving a
population of approximately 3.7-million people.
File No. 95201 IPTN Hopkinsville Community College, 734 North
Drive, Hopkinsville, KY 42241-2100. Signed By: Dr. James Kerley,
President. Funds Requested: $78,142. Total Project Cost: $78,142.
Hopkinsville Community College of the University of Kentucky proposes
to develop a plan that will determine the feasibility of appropriate
technologies for a distance learning distribution system through cable
television and other methods, to a disadvantaged population in five
counties of western Kentucky and three counties of northwestern
Tennessee.
File No. 95264 CRB Western Kentucky University, 1 Big Red Way,
Bowling Green, KY 42101. Signed By: Dr. Charles M. Anderson, Ass't VP
for Finance & Admin. Funds Requested: $25,227. Total Project Cost:
$50,455. To upgrade the production capability of public radio station
WKYU, 88.9 MHz, Bowling Green, KY, by acquiring three digital audio
work stations. The station serves a population of about 3.4-million.
LA (Louisiana)
File No. 95008 ICTN Louisiana State University and, 347 Pleasant
Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803. Signed By: Dr. Allen Copping, President.
Funds Requested: $657,372. Total Project Cost: $876,496. To establish a
two-way interactive compressed video system that would connect the five
campuses of the Louisiana State University System using a digital data
network operating over terrestrial T-1 circuits. The campuses are
located at Alexandria, Baton Rouge, Eunice, New Orleans, and
Shreveport. A video classroom would be placed at each campus. The
system's multipoint control unit would be housed on the Baton Rouge
campus, where the director of the system would be located. The system
would allow for the exchange of teleconferencing and course work among
the five campuses.
File No. 95147 ICTN Northwestern State Univ. of LA, Kyser Hall,
Room 153, Natchitoches, LA 71457. Signed By: Dr. Robert Alost,
President. Funds Requested: $569,528. Total Project Cost: $759,371. To
purchase a Ku-band mobile satellite uplink to expand the distance
learning opportunities to under served areas of Louisiana, Arkansas,
Mississippi and Oklahoma.
File No. 95217 CTB Greater New Orleans ETV Foundation, 916 Navarre
Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70124. Signed By: Mr. Randall Feldman,
President & General Manager. Funds Requested: $102,000. Total Project
Cost: $204,000. To improve the technical quality of its production
facilities, public television station WYES-TV, Channel 12 in New
Orleans, LA, will replace aging analog video tape recorders with three
digital video cassette recorders. WYES will also purchase a new
computer editor and a digital voice over system.
File No. 95258 CTB Louisiana ETV Authority, 7860 Anselmo Lane,
Baton Rouge, LA 70810. Signed By: Mrs. Beth Courtney, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $600,000. Total Project Cost: $1,200,000. To
improve broadcast operations, KLTM-TV, Channel 13 in Monroe, LA, will
replace its 18-year-old VHF television transmitter, its transmission
line and antenna.
File No. 95259 ICTN New Orleans Educ. T/C Consortium, 2929 S.
Carrollton Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118. Signed By: Dr. Robert Lucas,
Executive Director. Funds Requested: $37,750. Total Project Cost:
$75,500. To acquire portable television production facilities and a
2GHz STL to produce and deliver locally originated educational services
to 1,563,100 currently served citizens, and to provide first
educational service to an additional 4,200,000 Louisiana citizens.
File No. 95275 CRB Louisiana State University, One University
Place, Shreveport, LA 71115. Signed By: Ms. Catherine Fraser, General
Manager. Funds Requested: $37,666. Total Project Cost: $50,222. To
extend its service area and to provide first service to Grambling and
the surrounding communities of Ruston and Arcadia, public radio station
KDAQ-FM, operating on 89.9 MHz in Shreveport, LA, will install a new
translator facility in Grambling.
MA (Massachusetts)
File No. 95022 IPTN CTSB (Community TV, S. Berkshires), 925
Pleasant Street, South Lee, MA 01260. Signed By: Mr. Shawn Serre,
Executive Director. Funds Requested: $75,900. Total Project Cost:
$75,900. To plan a two-way interactive network throughout Berkshire
County, Massachusetts, possibly through fiber optic distribution, to
serve educational and governmental needs with connections
[[Page 25781]] among area high schools and public and private colleges.
File No. 95037 ICTN Northeastern University, 284 Huntington Plaza,
Boston, MA 02115. Signed By: Mr. Robert Culver, Senior Vice President &
Treas. Funds Requested: $468,607. Total Project Cost: $624,810. To
establish a two-way interactive videoconferencing system, using
telephone line transmission, that would interconnect Northeastern
University, Boston, with six learning centers in Maine. The system
would offer a master's degree program in speech-language pathology.
File No. 95145 CRB Cape & Islands Cmty Pub Radio, Inc, 78 Gardiner
Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543. Signed By: Mr. Jay Allison, President.
Funds Requested: $212,450. Total Project Cost: $283,270. To provide
first public radio service to 70,639 citizens of Woods Hole and
Nantucket, Massachusetts by constructing new FM broadcast studios,
control rooms, antennas and transmitters at 90.1 MHz, Woods Hole,
Massachusetts, and 91.1 MHz, Nantucket, Massachusetts.
MD (Maryland)
File No. 95111 IPTN University of Maryland Univ. Coll, University
Blvd. at Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20742. Signed By: Dr. T.
Benjamin Massey, President. Funds Requested: $99,612. Total Project
Cost: $141,242. To develop a plan for the integration of technologies
in a telecommunications network as a ``virtual university'' through the
University of Maryland's Virtual University Task Force and its Open
Learning Program, to provide distance learning services to U.S.
citizens in the U.S., its territories, and in other countries.
File No. 95243 CTB Maryland Public Broadcasting Comm., 11767 Owings
Mills Boulevard, Owings Mills, MD 21117. Signed By: Mr. Raymond Ho,
President/CEO. Funds Requested: $143,530. Total Project Cost: $287,060.
To improve the facilities of WMPB-TV, Channel 67 in Owings Mills and
the state's public television network by replacing its 13-year-old mono
audio cart and reel-to-reel tape machines with state of the art digital
stereo audio systems. In addition, MPT will purchase two digital Beta
units and a non-linear storage system for in school programming feeds
and delayed broadcast.
ME (Maine)
File No. 95210 CRTB Maine Public Broadcasting Corp., 65 Texas
Avenue, Bangor, ME 04401. Signed By: Mr. Gil Maxwell, Director of
Engineering. Funds Requested: $551,980. Total Project Cost: $849,200.
To replace an obsolete and worn out microwave system delivering public
television and radio programming to five public television, and six
public ratio stations serving approximately 1,200,000 persons
throughout Maine.
MI (Michigan)
File No. 95044 ICTN Shiawassee Reg. Ed. Svc. District, 1025 North
Shiawassee Street, Corunna, MI 48817. Signed By: Mr. Patrick Gilbert,
Superintendent. Funds Requested: $84,890. Total Project Cost: $169,781.
To purchase fiber optic cable (and related installation), equipment for
video transmission via fiber optics, and equipment for two video
classrooms. The project would allow the Shiawassee Regional Education
Service District to interconnect Owosso (MI) High School and a special
education Development Center to the Service District's interactive
video distance leaning system. As presently configured, the system
interconnects seven local education agencies in Shiawassee County,
which is located in south central Michigan.
File No. 95071 CRB Central Michigan University, 3965 East
Broomfield Road, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859. Signed By: Mr. Russell
Herron, Vice President. Funds Requested: $54,347. Total Project Cost:
$108,695. To improve the service public radio station WCMU, 89.5 MHz,
Mt. Pleasant, MI, provides to approximately 2,192,550 citizens in
central Michigan by replacing its obsolete and worn out audio consoles,
DAT recorders, CD players, cartridge recorders, and its EBS system, and
by upgrading its transmission facilities with a new FM exciter and
stereo generator.
File No. 95081 ICTN Regents of the Univ. of Michigan, 1321 East
Court Street, Flint, MI 48502. Signed By: Mr. Chandler Matthews, Assoc.
Vice President, Finance. Funds Requested: $50,000. Total Project Cost:
$100,000. To purchase equipment to activate a video classroom and to
interconnect the University of Michigan/Flint with compressed video via
telephone lines to diverse other academic institutions.
File No. 95202 ICTN Alpena-Montmorency-Alcona, 2118 U.S. 23,
Alplena, MI 49707. Signed By: Mr. Thomas Lanway, Superintendent. Funds
Requested: $444,000. Total Project Cost: $839,500. To install coaxial
cables in every classroom in 17 schools, and in libraries in Michigan's
Alpena-Montmorency-Alcona school districts, and to install 45 computers
in schools and libraries to provide distance learning and Internet
access to 15,000 students in the Lower Michigan Peninsula.
File No. 95220 CTB Detroit Educational TV Foundation, 7441 Second
Boulevard, Detroit, MI 48202-2796. Signed By: Mr. Robert Larson,
President & General Manager. Funds Requested: $493,252. Total Project
Cost: $657,670. To improve the facilities of public television station
WTVS-TV, Ch. 56, Detroit, MI, by purchasing digital special effects,
switcher and character generator for its production studio. The project
also seeks to acquire a digital Ku-band satellite uplink for national
program distribution.
File No. 95222 CTB Grand Valley State University, 301 West Fulton
Street, Grand Rapids, MI 49504-6492. Signed By: Ms. Jean Enright,
Secretary, Board of Control. Funds Requested: $391,808. Total Project
Cost: $783,616. To improve public television for approximately 634,720
persons in the Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo areas of Michigan by replacing
obsolete and worn out video tape machines, monitors, cartridge machines
and test equipment at WGVU-TV, Ch. 35, Grand Rapids, Michigan and WGVK-
TV, Ch. 52, Kalamazoo.
File No. 95266 CRB Central Michigan University, 3965 East
Broomfield Road, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859. Signed By: Mr. Russell
Herron, V.P., University Relations. Funds Requested: $299,959. Total
Project Cost: $399,946. To provide improved public radio service to
5,722 citizens, and first public radio service to approximately 51,501
citizens of Oscoda, Michigan and surrounding counties by constructing a
new FM repeater station at 95.7 MHz, Oscoda, Michigan, and a TSL from
WCMU-FM, 89.5 MHz, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan to the proposed new station
which will carry WCMU programming.
File No. 95284 CTB Central Michigan University, 3965 East
Broomfield Road, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859. Signed By: Mr. Russell
Herron, Secretary, Board of Trustees. Funds Requested: $65,553. Total
Project Cost: $131,106. To improve public television service to
1,115,000 citizens of central Michigan by replacing obsolete and worn
out television editing, production, character generation and recording
equipment, an emergency alert system, and master control playback
equipment at WCMU-TV, Channel 14, Mount Pleasant, Michigan.
MN (Minnesota)
File No. 95049 CTB West Central Minnesota ETV Co., 120 West
Schlieman Avenue, Appleton, MN 56208. Signed By: Mr. Ansel W. Doll,
General Manager. Funds Requested: [[Page 25782]] $920,000. Total
Project Cost: $1,840,000. To provide the first Minnesota-originated
public television signal to 84,000 residents of the Worthington, MN,
area by activating a station on Channel 20 to repeat the signal of
public television station KWCM, Ch. 10, Appleton, MN, which serves a
population of approximately 500,000.
File No. 95089 CTB Northern Minnesota Public TV, Inc, Box 9,
Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN 56601-2699. Signed By: Ms. Emily
K. Lahti, General Manager. Funds Requested: $90,427. Total Project
Cost: $120,570. To improve the production capability of public
television station KAWE, Ch. 9, Bemidji, MN, by replacing its obsolete
and worn-out production switcher and camera pedestals and heads. The
station serves approximately 300,000 persons.
File No. 95150 CTB Twin Cities Public Television, Inc., 172 East
Fourth Street, St. Paul, MN 55101. Signed By: Mr. Jack Willis,
President & CEO. Funds Requested: $275,000. Total Project Cost:
$557,460. To improve the signal of public television station KTCA, Ch.
2, St. Paul, MN, by replacing its 17-year-old transmitter. The station
serves a population of about 3,038,000.
File No. 95163 CRB Minnesota Public Radio, 45 E. 7th Street, St.
Paul, MN 55101. Signed by: Mr. Dennis Hamilton, Vice President. Funds
Requested: $194,757. Total Project Cost: $389,515. To improve the
production capability of Minnesota Public Radio, St. Paul, MN, by
replacing various items of worn-out and obsolete equipment, including
microphones, a telephone interface, an intercom, audio recorders, and a
mixing console. The project will also acquire equipment to implement
the new Emergency Alert System required by the FCC as a replacement for
the Emergency Broadcast System. Minnesota Public Radio operates twenty-
one public radio stations in Minnesota, two in Moorehead, ND, two in
Decorah, IA, one in Houghton, MI, one in Sioux Falls, SD, and one in
Sun Valley, ID; and it operates fifteen translators in Minnesota and
one each in Michigan and Wisconsin. Altogether it serves a population
of about 4.5-million persons through parallel networks of news/
information and classical music stations that broadcast 24 hours a day.
It also produces national programs.
File No. 95170 ICTN Independent School District #492, 202 Fourth
Avenue, N.E., Austin, MN 55912. Signed By: Mr. Barry Baker, General
Manager. Funds Requested: $393,010. Total Project Cost: $786,020. To
construct a 4-channel ITFS facility with return microwave capability,
fiber optic connections and routing equipment to establish two-way
video, audio and data communications providing first service to 35,354
students in five rural school districts in central Minnesota.
File No. 95178 PRB White Earth Land Recovery Project, Rural Route
#1, Box 308, Ponsford, MN 56575. Signed By: Mr. Earl Hoagland,
Chairman. Funds Requested: $34,540. Total Project Cost: $54,797. To
plan for the establishment of a public radio station for the White
Earth Ojibwe Indian reservation in Northern Minnesota. It is estimated
that the proposed station will bring the first public radio service to
about 9,200 persons.
File No. 95196 IPTN University of St. Thomas, 2115 Summit Avenue,
St. Paul, MN 55105. Signed By: Dr. Robert Rehn, Director, I.S.S. Funds
Requested: $81,195. Total Project Cost: $91,235. To initiate a
telecommunications plan that will involve the private colleges and
universities in Minnesota in a consortium effort to identify the
potential uses of technologies statewide for distance education,
consistent with the state's distance learning network, the ``Learning
Network of Minnesota'' and its data/video system ``MNET.''
File No. 95207 CRB University of Minnesota, 10 University Drive,
Duluth, MN 55812. Signed By: Mr. Todd Morrison, Assistant Director.
Funds Requested: $103,720. Total Project Cost: $159,566. To extend the
signal of public radio station KUMD, 103.3 MHz, Duluth, MN, by
activating a repeater station to operate on 90.7 MHz in Grand Marais,
MN, to bring the first public radio service to about 16,149 residents
of Cook County. The project includes studio equipment to allow for
locally originated broadcasts from the new station as well as programs
repeated from KMUD.
MO (Missouri)
File No. 95079 ICTB Public Television 19, Inc., 125 East 31st
Street, Kansas City, MO 64108. Signed By: Mr. William T. Reed,
President. Funds Requested: $54,773. Total Project Cost: $109,546. To
expand the audio/video signal distribution capability and to construct
a digital audio recording capability to allow public television station
KCPT, Ch. 19, Kansas City, MO, to improve its capability to offer
educational programming via a diversity of media to school districts in
a wide area in both Missouri and Kansas. The proposal requests a master
router expansion kit, a frame synchronizer, and an audio product
system.
File No. 95131 CRB University of Missouri--St. Louis, 8001 Natural
Bridge Road, St. Louis, MO 63121. Signed By: Mr. Douglas Wartzok,
Associate Vice Chancellor. Funds Requested: $23,500. Total Project
Cost: $47,000. To improve the production capability of pubic radio
station KWMU, 90.7 MHz, St. Louis, MO, by replacing outmoded and worn-
out equipment, including its on-air audio console, DAT recorders, cart
machines, a switcher, and microphones. The project would also improve
the station's transmission reliability by acquiring a transmission line
dehydrator. The station serves a population of about 2.734,900 persons.
File No. 95141 CTB St. Louis Reg Ed & Public TV Comm, 6996
Millbrook Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63130. Signed By: Mr. Michael
Hardgrove, President & CEO. Funds Requested: $583,125. Total Project
Cost: $1,166,251. To improve the transmission capability of public
television station KETC, Ch. 9, St. Louis, MO, by replacing its worn-
out and obsolete 24-year-old transmitter, transmission line, and
related test equipment. The station serves a population of about 3-
million persons.
File No. 95153 CRB Northwest Missouri State University, 800
University Drive, Maryville, MO 64468. Signed By: Dr. Dean Hubbard,
President. Funds Requested: $90,896. Total Project Cost: $181,792. To
improve the signal of public radio station KXCV, 90.5 MHz, Maryville,
MO, by replacing its obsolete 24-year-old transmitter, antenna, and
transmission line. KXCV serves a population of about 157,400.
File No. 95158 IPTN University of Missouri--St. Louis, 8001 Natural
Bridge Rd Lucas Hal, St. Louis, MO 63121. Signed By: Dr. Douglas
Wartzok, Assoc. V.Chan/Rsch & Grad Dean. Funds Requested: $20,500.
Total Project Cost: $44,915. The St. Louis EdNet consortium which
includes the University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis Community
College, and 28 K-12 public school districts propose to develop a plan
for a two-way, interactive interconnection system providing video,
voice and data distance learning services among educational
institutions, government offices, service agencies and other
organizations in an eleven county area of Missouri and Illinois.
File No. 95242 ICTN Monett R-1 School District, 8th & Scott
Streets, Monett, MO 65708. Signed By: Dr. Charles Cudney,
Superintendent. Funds Requested: $211,133. Total Project Cost:
$324,820. To construct classroom production facilities, and a fiber
optic network to produce and distribute first instructional programming
service to five school districts serving 28,366 students in the Western
Ozark region of Southern Missouri. [[Page 25783]]
MP (Marianas Protectorate)
File No. 95056 IPTN Northern Marianas College, P.O. Box 1250,
Saipan, MP 96950. Signed By: Ms. Agnes McPhetres, President. Funds
Requested: $61,530. Total Project Cost: $61,530. To conduct a study for
the design and possible technical options in planning a two-way,
interactive video distance education system between the main campus of
Northern Marianas College at Saipan, and its extension center at
Songsong, Rota.
MS (Mississippi)
File No. 95057 ICTN University of Mississippi, 201 Bishop Hall,
University, MS 38677. Signed By: Dr. Michael R. Dingerson, Assoc. Vice
Chancellor/Research. Funds Requested: $193,910. Total Project Cost:
$387,820. To establish a video production studio at the Teleproductions
Resource Center of the University of Mississippi. The new studio would
allow the University to offer diverse instructional programming to
audiences it cannot at present reach. The University hopes to provide
additional programming for Project LEAP--an adult literacy program
primarily serving African-American women--in Georgia, Alabama, South
Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, and Michigan. It also wishes to
provide specialized programming on nutrition education (targeted
towards elderly Mississippians, with funding from the State's
Department of Human Services), and to a variety of rural public
services employees; e.g., firefighters; emergency management personnel;
state, municipal, and county employees; court personnel; and health
professionals.
File No. 95190 CTB Mississippi Authority for ETV, 3825 Ridgewood
Road, Jackson, MS 39211. Signed By: Mr. Larry Miller, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $173,070. Total Project Cost: $346,140. To
provide reliable public television service to the entire population of
Mississippi by replacing twenty-three and twenty-four year old
transmission lines at WMAW-TV, Channel 14 in Meridian, WMAE-TV, Channel
12 in Booneville and WMAB-TV, Channel 2 in Ackerman.
MT (Montana)
File No. 95007 CRB University of Montana, PA/R-TV Building, Room
180, Missoula, MT 59812. Signed By: Mr. John Cleaveland, Ex. Dir. of
Information Tech. Funds Requested: $583,791. Total Project Cost:
$778,388. To establish a series of FM repeater stations and translator
stations to extend the broadcast services of public radio station
KUFM(FM), operating on 89.1 MHz. in Missoula, to 101,000 additional
residents of Montana. New 1 KW FM repeater stations will be established
operating on 91.7 MHz. in Helena, 89.9 MHz. in Kalispell, 91.3 MHz. in
Butte and 91.9 MHz. in Hamilton, MT. A 100 watt FM translator will also
be constructed operating on 91.7 MHz to serve Dillon, MT. KUFM (FM)
programming will be fed to each new facility via a C-band satellite
uplink to be constructed in Missoula.
File No. 95208 CRB Montana State University-Billings, 1500 North
30th Street, Billings, MT 59101. Signed By: Dr. Ronald Sexton, Acting
Chancellor. Funds Requested: $20,726. Total Project Cost: $27,632. To
extend the public radio service of KEMC(FM), operating on 91.7 MHz in
Billings MT, to three additional communities through the construction
of FM translators operating on 91.1 MHz in Forsyth, 89.1 MHz in
Ashland, and 91.9 in Broadus, MT. The project will provide first public
radio service to an additional 12,555 residents of Montana.
File No. 95209 ICTN South East MT T/C Ed. Coop., P.O. Box 500, 500
N. Trautman, Broadus, MT 59317. Signed By: Mr. Brian Patrick,
President. Funds Requested: $802,433. Total Project Cost: $1,069,911.
To provide distance learning production and interconnection facilities
to serve 17,000 students at ten sites in southeast Montana.
NC (North Carolina)
File No. 95017 CRB Fayetteville State University, 1200 Murchison
Road, Fayetteville, NC 28301. Signed By: Dr. Donna Benson, Interim
Chancellor. Funds Requested: $107,837. Total Project Cost: $143,783. To
improve the broadcast operations of public radio station WFSS-FM,
operating on 91.9 MHz in Fayetteville, NC, by replacing old and failing
equipment in its on-air control room and its primary production studio.
File No. 95028 CRB Shaw University, 118 East South Street, Raleigh,
NC 27601. Signed By: Dr. Talbert O. Shaw, President. Funds Requested:
$318,054. Total Project Cost: $424,072. To eliminate interference and
improve its broadcast operations, WSHA-FM, operating on 88.9 MHz in
Raleigh, NC, will relocate its facilities, built a new tower and
replace the transmitter, antenna and associated equipment. WSHA will
also replace old and worn-out on-air equipment.
File No. 95041 CTN Bennett College, 900 East Washington Street,
Greensboro, NC 27401. Signed By: Dr. Gloria Scott, President. Funds
Requested: $175,934. Total Project Cost: $234,578. To purchase a
digital satellite uplink without compression for the purpose of
providing Distance Learning degree programs in the fields of Social
Work and in Education.
File No. 95091 CRB Craven Community College, 800 College Court, New
Bern, NC 28562. Signed By: Ms. Kathleen Beal, General Manager. Funds
Requested: $186,300. Total Project Cost: $248,400. To extend its
coverage area and provide first public radio service to unserved areas
in Wayne County and Carteret County, WTEB-FM operating on 89.3 MHz in
New Bern, NC, will build a 300 foot tower with a 4 kilowatt transmitter
to re-broadcast its signal to the Wayne County area and a 195 watt, 7
kilowatt transmitter to re-broadcast its signal to coastal Carteret
County.
File No. 95100 CRB Better Life, Inc., 230-B Roanoke Avenue, Roanoke
Rapids, NC 27870. Signed By: Mr. George Campbell, Executive Director.
Funds Requested: $75,150. Total Project Cost: $100,200. To expand its
service area and to provide first service to portions of Northampton
County, noncommercial radio station WZRU-FM, operating on 88.5 MHz in
Roanoke Rapids, NC, will move to an existing taller tower and increase
its operating power.
File No. 95252 CTB University of North Carolina, 10 T.W. Alexander
Drive, Research Triangle Pk, NC 27709. Signed By: Mr. Tom Howe,
Director & General Manager. Funds Requested: $731,000. Total Project
Cost: $1,462,000. To improve its broadcast operations, WUNF-TV, Channel
33 in Asheville, NC, will replace its transmitter, antenna, associated
terminal equipment and remote control equipment. The antenna will be
located higher on the existing tower and microwave interconnection
equipment will also be replaced.
ND (North Dakota)
File No. 95096 CRB Prairie Public Broadcasting, Inc., P.O. Box
3240, 207 N 5th St., Fargo, ND 58108-3240. Signed By: Mr. Steve
Leyland, President/General Manager. Funds Requested: $367,083. Total
Project Cost: $489,444. To construct a new public radio station on 90.3
MHz in Devils Lake. Repeater/satellite station (with limited local
origination capacity) will extend the signal of the state public radio
network. Station will provide a first public radio signal to 12,199
people and an additional service to 8,825 people who currently receive
a signal from three existing FM translators.
File No. 95101 CRB Prairie Public Broadcasting, Inc., P.O. Box
3240, 207 N 5th St., Fargo, ND 58108-3240. Signed By: Mr. Steve
Leyland, President/ [[Page 25784]] General Manager. Funds Requested:
$104,800. Total Project Cost: $139,734. To extend the signal of the
state public radio network by constructing six FM translators at the
following ND locations: Beach (91.9 MHz); Bowman (91.9 MHz); Crosby
(91.9 MHz); Harvey (91.9 MHz); Hettinger (91.9 MHz); Tioga (91.9 MHz)
and one translator at Plentywood, MT (91.9 MHz). New translators will
provide a first public radio signal to 11,509 people.
File No. 95267 CRB KEYA, Incorporated, POB 190, Belcourt, ND 58316.
Signed By: Mrs. Betty Hamley, General Manager. Funds Requested:
$17,389. Total Project Cost: $34,778. To improve the facilities of
public radio station KEYA-FM, 88.5 MHz, in Belcourt, by replacing old
control room origination equipment with a new console, digital audio
tape (DAT) players, a cassette player, a modulation monitor system, a
remote control unit, and other related origination equipment. KEYA-FM
provides a signal to about 25,000 people on the Turtle Mt. Indian
Reservation/Rolette County, ND.
NE (Nebraska)
File No. 95123 CTB University of Nebraska, 60th & Dodge Streets,
Omaha, NE 68182-0022. Signed By: Mr. Howard Lowe, General Manager.
Funds Requested: $133,800. Total Project Cost: $293,800. To improve
public television station KYNE-TV, Ch. 26, in Omaha by replacing three
12 to 15 year old studio cameras. The facility serves as the Omaha
production center for the Nebraska ETV Network. It serves approximately
605,097 people.
File No. 95148 CRB Sunrise Communications, Inc., 941 O Street,
Suite 1025, Lincoln, NE 68508. Signed By: Mr. Dick Noble, General
Manager. Funds Requested: $84,612. Total Project Cost: $112,816. To
improve the facilities of public radio station KZUM-FM, 89.3 MHz, in
Lincoln by acquiring new and replacement equipment for the on-air
control and production control rooms as well as a C-band satellite
downlink. Station serves approximately 214,000 people.
File No. 95174 CTN Agricultural Satellite Corporation, C218 Animal
Science Building, Lincoln, NE 68583. Signed By: Dr. Janet Poley,
President/CEO. Funds Requested: $776,500. Total Project Cost:
$1,553,000. To convert 9 existing Ku-band satellite uplinks in the
Agsat system and 315 existing satellite downlinks operated by Agsat
affiliated schools from analog to digital technology.
File No. 95273 CRB Nebraska Educ. T/C Commission, 1800 N. 33rd
Street, Lincoln, NE 68501-3111. Signed By: Mr. Jack McBride, Secretary.
Funds Requested: $31,500. Total Project Cost: $63,000. To improve the
facilities of public radio station KUCV-FM, 90.9 MHz, in Lincoln by
replacing the network's worn out and obsolete master control console
and routing switcher. In addition, KUCV-FM would acquire a digital
audio workstation to replace the existing analog editing system.
Nebraska's nine Station public radio network serves approximately
854,154 people.
File No. 95276 CTB Nebraska Educ. T/C Commission, 1800 N. 33rd
Street, Lincoln, NE 68501-3111. Signed By: Mr. Jack McBride, Secretary.
Funds Requested: $145,802. Total Project Cost: $291,604. To improve the
facilities of the state public television network and public television
station KLNE-TV, Ch. 3, in Lincoln, by replacing two television
translators: a 16-year-old translator in Beatrice (K23AA) and a 17-
year-old unit in Pawnee City (K33AC). The project would also replace
existing worn out, obsolete still store and audio editing equipment
with a new still store and a digital audio work station, and a digital
audio test set. The state public television network serves
approximately 1.5 million people.
NH (New Hampshire)
File No. 95166 CRB New Hampshire Public Radio, Inc., 207 North Main
Street, Concord, NH 03301. Signed By: Mrs. Gail Devoid, Dir. Admin.
Services. Funds Requested: $52,334. Total Project Cost: $104,669. To
replace an obsolete and worn out transmitter, test equipment, and an
emergency generator providing public radio service to approximately
950,000 persons at WEVO FM, 89.1 MHz, Concord, New Hampshire.
File No. 95177 CTB University of New Hampshire, Mast Road, Box
1100, Durham, NH 03824. Signed By: Mr. Robert Ross, Director of
Engineering. Funds Requested: $30,000. Total Project Cost: $60,000. To
replace an obsolete and worn out master control switcher and an ENG
field videotape recorder at WENH-TV, Channel 11, Durham, New Hampshire,
providing public television to approximately 1,109,252 citizens
throughout New Hampshire.
NJ (New Jersey)
File No. 95073 CRB New Jersey Public Brdcstg Authority, 25 South
Stockton Street, Trenton, NJ 08625. Signed By: Mr. William Jobes,
Acting General Manager. Funds Requested: $129,775. Total Project Cost:
$192,951. To replace obsolete and worn out transmitters providing
public radio programming to approximately 302,346 persons at WNJS-FM,
88.1 MHz, Berlin, New Jersey, and WNJT-FM, 88.1 MHz, Trenton, New
Jersey, with a power increase at WNJT; and to provide first public
radio service to approximately 252,654 persons by constructing new
transmitting facilities at WNJB-FM, 89.3 MHz, Bridgeton, New Jersey and
WNJP-FM, 88.5 MHz, Sussex, New Jersey.
File No. 95078 IPTN Ocean County College, College Drive, Toms
River, NJ 08754. Signed By: Dr. Milton Shaw, President. Funds
Requested: $42,890. Total Project Cost: $42,890. To identify the most
effective means of establishing an interactive, distance learning
system among fifteen county high schools, Ocean County College, five
vocational-technical schools, the Ocean County library, five area
hospitals, and Thomas Edison State College.
NM (New Mexico)
File No. 95012 CTB Eastern New Mexico University, 15th and Avenue
O, Portales, NM 88130. Signed By: Mr. Duane W. Ryan, Director of
Broadcasting. Funds Requested: $49,230. Total Project Cost: $98,460. To
improve the facilities of public television station KENW-TV, Ch. 3, in
Portales, by replacing an obsolete character generator and test/
monitoring equipment including a waveform/vectorscope, signal test
generator and a modulation monitor. KENW-TV serves about 350,000
residents of eastern New Mexico and west Texas.
File No. 95129 CTB New Mexico State University, Jordon St. Milton
Hall, Room 100, Las Cruces, NM 88003. Signed By: Mr. Ronald Salak,
General Manager. Funds Requested: $55,988. Total Project Cost:
$111,976. To improve the facilities of public television station KRWG-
TV, Ch. 22, in Las Cruces by replacing very old, unreliable \3/4\''
field production cameras and associated equipment, off-line editing
equipment and post-production recorder/players used in news and
production areas. KRWG-TV serves approximately 865,094 people.
File No. 95287 ICTN Hispanic Educational Telecom System, 1130
University Blvd., NE, Albuquerque, NM 87102. Signed By: Mr. Jose
Mendez, Chair of HETS Board. Funds Requested: $1,225,626. Total Project
Cost: $1,634,168. To establish a C-band VSAT satellite-based network to
provide distance learning to Hispanic students attending nine
institutions of higher education: Lehman College and Hostos Community
College, Bronx, NY; South Mountain Community College, Phoenix, AZ;
Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, MS; University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Ana Mendez [[Page 25785]] University System
and the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR; University of Texas,
Brownsville, and the University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, TX.
NV (Nevada)
File No. 95088 ICTN Univ. & Community Coll Sys of NV, P.O. Box
9060, Reno, NV 89507. Signed By: Dr. Donald Zitter, Executive Director.
Funds Requested: $868,885. Total Project Cost: $1,737,770. To expand
the interactive compressed video distance learning network of the
University and Community College System of Nevada. The project would
construct instructional sites at three campuses: Stead; Truckee Meadows
Community College; and the Southern Nevada Science Center. It would do
the same at eight off-campus, high-usage learning centers: Alamo,
Beatty, Caliente, Incline Village, Lovelock, Minden, Round Mountain,
and Yerington. It would also upgrade the current system's multipoint
switching hub sites in Las Vegas and Reno and add such a switching site
in Elko.
File No. 95236 CTB Lander County (Austin TV Assoc.), P.O. Box 10,
Austin, NV 89310. Signed By: Mr. Gerald La Miaux, Chairman. Funds
Requested: $24,510. Total Project Cost: $32,680. To extend the signal
of public television station KNPB-TV, Ch. 5, in Reno, by constructing
two television translator stations in Austin. K28EI and K60FK will
translate the signal from an existing translator, K50AI, in Hawthorne.
The two new translators will provide a first public television signal
to Austin/South Lander County, NV.
File No. 95237 ICTBN Clark County School District, 4210 Channel 10
Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89119. Signed By: Mr. Thomas Axtell, General
Manager. Funds Requested: $210,250. Total Project Cost: $358,500. To
provide first instructional television service to Pahrump and Boulder
City, Nevada, and to install satellite downlinks at 13 sites in Clark,
Lincoln, White Pine and Nye Counties, Nevada, and locations in western
Arizona and eastern California, serving approximately 30,042 persons
with both broadcast and non-broadcast programs.
NY (New York)
File No. 95003 CTB Western NY Public Brdcstg. Assn., P.O. Box 1263,
Buffalo, NY 14240. Signed By: Mr. J. Michael Collins, President and
CEO. Funds Requested: $283,102. Total Project Cost: $566,204. To
replace obsolete and worn out studio cameras, and to acquire digital
VTRs and test equipment for local and national television productions
at WNED, Channel 17, Buffalo, New York.
File No. 95039 CRB State University of NY, Oswego, 14 Lanigan Hall,
Oswego, NY 13126. Signed By: Dr. Stephen Weber, President. Funds
Requested: $68,985. Total Project Cost: $137,970. To construct a new
1000 Watt FM repeater station on a frequency of 90.3 MHz, located in
Dewitt, New York and serving approximately 125,000 residents of
Syracuse, New York.
File No. 95043 ICTN NY City Dept. of Info Tech & T/com., 75 Park
Place, New York, NY 10017. Signed By: Mr. Ralph Balzano, Commissioner.
Funds Requested: $563,850. Total Project Cost: $939,750. To establish a
SONET-based fiber optic network that will interconnect Hunter College
School of Social Work, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York
City's Department of Personnel, and the City's municipal cable
television network, called Crosswalks. The objective is to deliver
educational programming that will help encourage the City's economic
development by enhancing the work force skills of the City's residents
and of its municipal workforce.
File No. 95051 ICTN Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES, 5980 South Street Road,
Auburn, NY 13021. Signed By: Dr. Frank Ambrosie, District
Superintendent. Funds Requested: $331,083. Total Project Cost:
$441,444. To purchase video classrooms at twelve academic institutions
in the Cayuga-Onondaga area of central New York, under the aegis of the
Cayuga-Onondaga Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES). The
sites will be connected by fiber optics to form a distance learning
system. The system would comprise 9 public school districts, one BOCES
site, a community college and a four-year private college and would
permit the exchange of live educational programming, satellite
teleconferences and programs, data communication, and media
distribution.
File No. 95052 ICTN Fashion Institute of Technology, Seventh Ave.
at West 27 Street, New York, NY 10001. Signed By: Dr. Durwood Long,
Treas. & VP/Finance & Admin. Funds Requested: $372,969. Total Project
Cost: $497,293. To establish a broadcast-quality video classroom at the
Fashion Institute of America, New York City, and to purchase fiber
optic cable and a terminal multiplexer to allow the Institute to
originate diverse educational/instructional programming and transmit
that programming throughout New York City, the State, and, via
satellite, the Nation.
File No. 95062 ICTN Cattaraugus/Allegany BOCES, 1825 Windfall Road,
Olean, NY 14760. Signed By: Mr. Thomas P. Nickler, Asst. District
Superintendent. Funds Requested: $434,140. Total Project Cost:
$1,118,380. To help establish a two-way interactive, full-motion video,
analog distance learning system to interconnect 13 public schools and
one post-secondary school in Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties, a
mainly-rural, economically depressed area in southwest New York State.
The proposal would support the activation of 14 video classrooms for
the new system.
File No. 95064 CTB WXXI Public Broadcasting Council, 280 State
Street, Rochester, NY 14614. Signed By: Mr. William Pearce, President &
General Mgr. Funds Requested: $115,640. Total Project Cost: $236,000.
To construct a Ku-band satellite uplink to permit public television
station WXXI-TV, operating on Ch. 21 in Rochester, NY, to distribute
programming nationwide. The uplink would permit timely distribution of
programming such as ``Assignment: The World'' and ``New York Speaks
Out'' after the demise of the New York Terrestrial Distribution System,
which interconnected all New York State public television stations with
an uplink in New York City.
File No. 95107 ICTN State University of New York, Whipple
Administration Bldg., Morrisville, NY 13408. Signed By: Dr. Frederick
Woodward, President. Funds Requested: $431,577. Total Project Cost:
$575,981. To establish a distance learning network connected by fiber
optic cable carrying interactive voice, video, and data. The network
would connect nine public schools, a cooperative education center, the
Oneida Indian Nation, and two state operated college campuses. The
programming schedule would include academic classes, Indian cultural
education, workforce training, adult education, and civic activities.
File No. 95108 CRB State University of New York, 14 Lanigan Hall,
Oswego, NY 13126. Signed By: Mr. William Shigley, Station Manager.
Funds Requested: $124,586. Total Project Cost: $124,586. To replace an
obsolete and worn out transmitter and related equipment at WRVO-FM,
89.9 MHz, serving 549,000 persons from Oswego, New York.
File No. 95122 CRTB WMHT Educational Telecommunications, 17 Fern
Avenue, Schenectady, NY 12301-0017. Signed By: Mr. William D. Rogosin,
President & General Manager. Funds Requested: $330,300. Total Project
Cost: $660,600. To replace an obsolete, worn out routing switcher and
related equipment, a master control console, an automation system and
monitoring equipment for WMHT-TV, Channel 17, WMHQ-TV, Channel 45,
[[Page 25786]] WMHT-FM, 89.1 MHz, Schenectady, New York, and WRNV-FM,
88.7 MHz, Poughkeepsie, New York, providing Public Radio and TV to
approximately 2,225,550 people in eastern New York, western
Massachusetts, Connecticut and Vermont.
File No. 95168 CTB St. Lawrence Valley ETV Council, 1056 Arsenal
Street, Watertown, NY 13601. Signed By: Mr. William Saiff, Jr.,
President General Manager. Funds Requested: $965,837. Total Project
Cost: $1,931,674. To replace worn out and obsolete transmitters serving
approximately 395,000 U.S. citizens, and additionally serving Canadian
citizens from public television stations WNPE-TV, Channel 16, in
Watertown, New York, and WNPI-TV, Channel 18, in Norwood, New York.
File No. 95172 CTB Long Island Educ. TV Council, Inc., Channel 21
Drive, P.O. Box 21, Plainview, NY 11803. Signed By: Mr. Terrel Cass.
Funds Requested: $192,900. Total Project Cost: $385,800. To replace an
obsolete television antenna, and to acquire test equipment for WLIW-TV,
Channel 21, Plainview, New York, providing service to 2,400,000 people
in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
File No. 95191 CRB Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Sv, 15 Industrial
Parkway, Cheektowaga, NY 14227. Signed By: Mr. Robert Sikorski,
Executive Director. Funds Requested: $51,900. Total Project Cost:
$103,838. To replace and augment studio origination equipment including
a control console, reel-to-reel tape decks, compact disc, cassette and
cart players, microphones, mixers and amplifiers; and to purchase 200
SCA, and 200 SAP receivers for a radio reading service for 30,000 print
impaired persons in Western New York State.
File No. 95288 ICTN City College of CUNY, 138th Street & Convent
Avenue, New York, NY 10031. Signed By: Ms. Regina Masterson, Acting
Director, Ofc of Resrch. Funds Requested: $320,300. Total Project Cost:
$640,675. To construct classroom multi-media production facilities
providing first educational service to 3,000 students at three
educational sites in the Harlem District of New York City, and to
acquire interface facilities to link them with an on-campus multi-media
delivery system at City College of New York.
OH (Ohio)
File No. 95002 CRB Akron Board of Education, 65 Steiner Avenue,
Akron, OH 44301. Signed By: Mr. Phil R. Hoffman, General Manager. Funds
Requested: $15,000. Total Project Cost: $30,000. To improve the
operational capability of public radio station WAPS, 91.3 MHz, Akron,
OH, by replacing obsolete and worn-out production equipment, including
an audio console, CD players, and DAT recorders. WAPS serves a
population of about 15,000 persons.
File No. 95065 CTB Ohio University, 9 South College Street, Athens,
OH 45701. Signed By: Mr. T. Lloyd Chestnut, Vice President. Funds
Requested: $169,160. Total Project Cost: $338,320. To improve the
production capability of public station WOUB-TV, Ch. 20, Athens, OH, by
replacing worn-out and obsolete equipment, including its production
lighting system and switcher, still store, and monitors, and by
upgrading its routing switcher. WOUB-TV serves a population of about
950,000.
File No. 95083 ICTN City of Columbus, Ohio, 90 West Broad Street,
Columbus, OH 43215. Signed By: Mr. Noel Reese, Administrator. Funds
Requested: $70,162. Total Project Cost: $140,325. To extend the City of
Columbus's fiber optics network to the Martin Luther King Jr.
Performing and Cultural Arts Center and to install a video production
studio in the Center so as to allow for the production of programming,
much of which will be directed towards the interests of African-
Americans.
File No. 95112 CRB Miami University, Spring & Oak Streets, Oxford,
OH 45056. Signed By: Mr. Edward Demske, Vice President/Finance. Funds
Requested: $57,173. Total Project Cost: $114,346. To improve the
transmission capability of public radio station WMUB, 88.5 MHz, Oxford,
OH, by replacing its 13-year-old transmitter and adding an emergency
power generator. The project would also upgrade its Emergency Broadcast
System to the new Emergency Alert System mandated by the FCC. WMUB
serves a population of about 312,302.
File No. 95126 CTB ETV Assn of Metro Cleveland, 4300 Brookpark
Road, Cleveland, OH 44134. Signed By: Mr. Jerry Wareham, President &
General Manager. Funds Requested: $441,822. Total Project Cost:
$883,645. To improve the operation of public television station WVIZ,
Ch. 25, Cleveland, OH, by replacing its manual video recording and
playback system with an automated one. The station serves a population
of about 3.7-million.
File No. 95184 CTB Greater Dayton Public TV, Inc., 110 South
Jefferson Street, Dayton, OH 45402-2402. Signed By: Mr. David M.
Fogarty, President & General Manager. Funds Requested: $81,715. Total
Project Cost: $163,430. To improve the broadcast signal of public
television station WPTD, Ch. 16, Dayton, OH, by replacing the 19-year-
old transmitters of its translators in Maplewood, Ch. 63, and Celina,
Ch. 17, OH, and by replacing worn-out and obsolete test equipment,
including a spectrum analyzer, a portable oscilloscope, a waveform
monitor, and a video test signal generator. WPTD serves a population of
about 384,537.
File No. 95205 ICTBN Greater Cincinnati TV Educ. Fdn., 1223 Central
Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45214. Signed By: Mr. W. Wayne Godwin. Funds
Requested: $399,960. Total Project Cost: $799,921. To replace an
obsolete, worn out routing switcher and 15 video recording/playback
machines at WCET, Channel 48, Cincinnati, Ohio, serving 1,500,000
public television viewers, and 250,000 students in 400 schools, and
local cable subscribers with public television and educational
programming.
File No. 95240 CRB Kent State University, 1613 East Summit Street,
Kent, OH 44242. Signed By: Dr. Carol Cartwright, President. Funds
Requested: $328,202. Total Project Cost: $437,603. To extend the signal
of public radio station WKSU, 89.7 MHz, Kent, OH, by replacing its
worn-out transmitter and antenna and relocating the transmitter to
Copley, OH, and increasing the tower height of its antenna. The change
will provide the first public radio signal to about 58,187 residents of
three counties and additional service to about 268,400 residents. The
station presently serves a population of about 2,340,307 persons.
File No. 95251 CRB Ohio State University, 2400 Olentangy River
Road, Columbus, OH 43210. Signed By: Mr. Dale K. Ouzts, Director/
General Manager. Funds Requested: $227,261. Total Project Cost:
$303,015. To extend the signal of public radio station WOSU-FM, 89.7
MHz, Columbus, OH, by activating a repeater station on 91.1 MHz in
Marion, OH. The new station will provide the first public radio signal
to about 19,061 persons.
File No. 95271 CRB Public Broadcasting Fndn of NW Ohio, 136 Huron
Street, Toledo, OH 43604. Signed By: Ms. Shirley E. Timonere, President
& General Manager. Funds Requested: $245,223. Total Project Cost:
$326,964. To extend the signal of public radio station WGTE-FM, 91.3
MHz, Toledo, OH, by activating repeaters on 91.9 MHz in Bryan, OH, and
on 90.9 MHz, in Defiance, OH. The new stations will bring the first
public radio service to about 97,889 persons. WGTE-FM presently serves
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File No. 95279 CRB Kent State University, 1613 East Summit Street,
Kent, OH 44242. Signed By: Dr. Carol Cartwright, President. Funds
Requested: $169,996. Total Project Cost: $226,661. To extend the
coverage of public radio station WKSU, 89.7 MHz, Kent, OH, by
activating a repeater station on 89.1 MHz in Thompson, OH. The new
station would serve a population of about 247,987.
File No. 95282 CTB Ohio State University, 2400 Olentangy River
Road, Columbus, OH 43210. Signed By: Mr. Dale K. Ouzts, Director/
General Manager. Funds Requested: $207,321. Total Project Cost:
$414,642. To improve the production capability of public television
station WOSU-TV, Ch. 34, Columbus, OH, by replacing worn-out and
obsolete items of studio, editing and test equipment, including video
tape machines, an audio mixer, camera pedestals and heads, monitors,
oscilloscopes, a logic analyzer, and a color analyzer. All items are at
least 10 years old, some are more than 20 years old, and some are
nearly 40 years old. WOSU-TV serves a population of about 1,866,000.
File No. 95296 CRB Xavier University, 3800 Victory Parkway,
Cincinnati, OH 45207-7211. Signed By: Mr. John Kucia, Administrative
Vice President. Funds Requested: $263,169. Total Project Cost:
$350,893. To extend the signal of public radio station WVXU, 91.7 MHz,
Cincinnati, OH, by activating a repeater to operate on 106.3 MHz, in
Crawfordsville, IN, bringing WVXU's program service to approximately
58,328 people. The station presently serves a population of about
1,364,000.
OK (Oklahoma)
File No. 95004 ICTN Oklahoma Panhandle State University, 323 W.
Eagle Blvd., P.O. Box 126, Goodwell, OK 73939. Signed By: Dr. Carl
Westbrook, Interim President. Funds Requested: $400,000. Total Project
Cost: $3,400,000. To purchase a DS-3 video switcher and to assist
Oklahoma Panhandle State University upgrade the distance learning
network that the University shares with 12 public schools in the three
counties of the Oklahoma Panhandle. The project would allow the network
to extend its services to the school districts in the communities of
Guymon and Tyrone, add a second video classroom to each of the current
sites, and permit Internet access.
File No. 95182 CRB University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N.
University Drive, Edmond, OK 73034. Signed By: Dr. Joyce Mounce, V.P.
for Administration. Funds Requested: $319,100. Total Project Cost:
$487,003. To expand its broadcast area and provide first service to
approximately 75,000 people in greater Oklahoma City, KCSC-FM operating
on 90.1 MHz in Edmond, OK, will relocate its antenna to a higher
location and increase transmitter power. In addition, KCSC will replace
old and worn-out equipment in its on-air and production rooms.
File No. 95198 CRB University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N.
University Drive, Edmond, OK 73034. Signed By: Dr. Joyce Mounce, V.P.
for Administration. Funds Requested: $156,567. Total Project Cost:
$208,757. To provide first service to approximately 40,000 people,
KCSC-FM operating on 90.1 MHz in Edmond, OK, will activate a repeater
noncommercial radio station on 91.9 MHz in McAlester, Oklahoma.
File No. 95227 CTB Oklahoma Educational TV Authority, 7403 N.
Kelley Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73113. Signed By: Mr. Robert Allen,
Executive Director. Funds Requested: $350,000. Total Project Cost:
$700,000. To upgrade the technical facilities of public television
stations KETA-TV, Channel 13 in Oklahoma City and KOED-TV, Channel 11
in Tulsa by purchasing stereo audio equipment and establishing a
secondary audio program channel (SAP). Six translators will also be
upgraded to provide enhanced services to the community.
OR (Oregon)
File No. 95097 CTB Oregon Public Broadcasting, 7140 SW Macadam
Avenue, Portland, OR 97219. Signed By: Mr. Maynard Orme, President &
CEO. Funds Requested: $158,875. Total Project Cost: $317,750. To
replace the 30-year-old broadcast antenna, transmission line and tower
of public station KOAC-TV, Ch. 7, Corvallis, OR. The project will
enable the station to continue service to 220,000 residents of the
Willamette Valley and coastal communities in western Oregon.
File No. 95233 CTB Southern Oregon Public Television, 34 South Fir
St., Medford, OR 97501. Signed By: Mr. William Campbell, President,
General Manager. Funds Requested: $296,456. Total Project Cost:
$569,127. To extend the signal of public station KSYS-TV, Ch. 8,
Medford, OR, by activating a 100-watt translator in Brookings, OR, to
serve 13,000 residents in the Brookings/Harbor area. The project also
seeks to improve the facilities of KSYS-TV by replacing obsolete
production equipment, including video cassette machines, production
switcher, field cameras, and post-production editing. KSYS-TV serves
405,000 people in the Medford and Klamath Falls area.
File No. 95293 IPTN Southwestern Oregon Cmmty College, 1988 Newmark
Avenue, Coos Bay, OR 97420-2956. Signed By: Dr. Stephen Kridelbaugh,
President. Funds Requested: $109,677. Total Project Cost: $146,236. To
develop a telecommunications plan for the use of technologies in
distance learning and training applications, in a geographically
isolated rural area of potentially three counties served by
Southwestern Oregon Community College.
PA (Pennsylvania)
File No. 95013 CRB QED Communications, Inc., 4802 Fifth Avenue,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Signed By: Mr. George L. Miles, Jr., President &
CEO. Funds Requested: $112,994. Total Project Cost: $171,167. To extend
the service of public station WQED-FM, 89.3 MHz, Pittsburgh, PA, in the
Johnstown, PA, area by activating a full-power repeater station on 89.7
MHz to replace its existing translator. The new repeater will bring the
first public radio signal to about 263,005 persons in the Johnstown
area. The project will also improve the transmission capability, of
WQED-FM by replacing its 20-year-old antenna.
File No. 95119 CRB Pennsylvania State University, 202 Wagner
Building, University Park, PA 16802-3899. Signed By: Mr. Robert
Killoren, Director of Sponsored Programs. Funds Requested: $47,142.
Total Project Cost: $62,856. To extend the signal of public radio
station WPSU 91.5 MHz, University Park, PA, by activating three
translators to operate on 96.1 MHz in Clearfield, 100.3 MHz in
Lewistown, and 106.5 MHz in DuBois, all PA. The new translators will
bring the first public radio signal to about 33,028 residents of
Clearfield and Mifflin Counties. WPSU presently serves a population of
about 366,196.
File No. 95134 CBT Pennsylvania State University, 202 Wagner
Building University Park, PA 16802-3899. Signed By: Mr. Robert
Killoren, Director of Sponsored Programs. Funds Requested: $25,021.
Total Project Cost: $50,042. To improve the service of public
television station WPSX, Ch. 3, University Park, PA, by acquiring the
necessary equipment to provide Descriptive Video Service and
stereophonic audio. The station serves a population of about 1,365,627.
File No. 95138 CTB WHYY, Inc., 150 N. Sixth Street, Philadelphia,
PA 19106. Signed By: Dr. Frederick Breitenfeld, Jr., President. Funds
Requested: $292,157. Total Project Cost: $584,314. To improve the
operation of public [[Page 25788]] television station WHYY-TV, Ch. 12,
Philadelphia, PA, by replacing its worn-out and obsolete master control
and routing switchers, video tape recorders, and distribution and
monitoring equipment. The station serves a population of about 7
million persons.
File No. 95171 CRB Lehigh Valley Cmty Bdcstrs Assn, 301 Broadway,
Bethlehem, PA 18015. Signed By: Mr. Brian F. Landers, President. Funds
Requested: $25,429. Total Project Cost: $50,858. To enhance the signal
of public radio station WDIY, 88.1 MHz, Bethlehem, PA, by activating
translators to operate on 93.9 MHz in Easton, PA, and on 93.5 MHz in
Bethlehem, and to improve the operational capability of the station by
acquiring remote origination equipment. WDIY presently serves a
population of about 351,167. The new translators will add about 69,547
persons.
PR (Puerto Rico)
File No. 95197 CRB University of Puerto Rico, Ponce de Leon &
Pastrana St., San Juan, PR 00931. Signed By: Prof Rafael Garcia-
Machuca, Director. Funds Requested: $174,619. Total Project Cost:
$349,238. To provide first public radio programming to 476,379 persons
on the west coast of Puerto Rico by activating a new station, WTRU-FM,
89.7 MHz, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
File No. 95248 CTB Fundacion Educativa Ana G. Mendez, P.O. Box
21345, Rio Piedras, PR 00928. Signed By: Mr. Jose F. Mendez, President.
Funds Requested: $449,456. Total Project Cost: $599,275. To improve
current public television service to 2,530,120 citizens, and to provide
first public television service to an additional 118,000 citizens in
eastern Puerto Rico by replacing an obsolete and worn out transmitter
at WMTJ-TV, Channel 40, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
SC (South Carolina)
File No. 95185 ICTN Horry-Georgetown Technical College, 2050
Highway, 501 East, Conway, SC 29526. Signed By: Dr. D. Kent Sharples,
President. Funds Requested: $319,745. Total Project Cost: $569,745. To
establish two-way interactive compressed video and audio linking three
campuses of Horry-Georgetown Technical College campuses in Conway,
Georgetown and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and to establish studio
production facilities to serve the system.
File No. 95231 ICTN South Carolina ETV Commission, 1101 George
Rodgers Boulevard, Columbia, SC 29201. Signed By: Mr. Ronald
Schoenherr, Senior Vice President. Funds Requested: $722,912. Total
Project Cost: $1,445,825. To extend the services of South Carolina
Educational Television by placing satellite downlink equipment at 383
middle, secondary and vocational schools throughout the state. The
applicant currently distributes 6 channels of distance learning via
satellite to 102 schools in the state.
File No. 95295 CRB South Carolina State University, 300 College
Street, PO Box 7656, Orangeburg, SC 29117. Signed By: Dr. Barbara
Hatton, President. Funds Requested: $139,327. Total Project Cost:
$185,770. To improve and upgrade the facilities of public station WSSB-
FM, 90.3 MHz, Orangeburg, SC, by installing a satellite downlink to
receive national programming and by replacing analog control room
equipment with digital equipment.
TN (Tennessee)
File No. 95034 ICTN University of TN at Chattanooga, 615 McCallie
Avenue, Chattanooga, TN 37403. Signed By: Dr. Frederick Obear,
Chancellor. Funds Requested: $116,367. Total Project Cost: $232,734. To
activate a video classroom for the Division of Continuing Education and
Public Service at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The
classroom will originate educational/instruction programming that will
be delivered via cable television throughout the greater Chattanooga
area. The course work will center on the following: Combating
illiteracy; expanding parenting skills; and offering teacher education
in conflict resolution, technology in the classroom, and teach
recertification in rural areas.
File No. 95036 IPRTN Knoxville College, 901 College Street,
Knoxville, TN 37921. Signed By: Dr. Lois Williams, President. Funds
Requested: $80,000. Total Project Cost: $80,000. To explore all
reasonable and feasible telecommunications options in developing a plan
to establish the Knoxville College Communications Center, for a
possible future radio broadcasting facility and an interconnection
system for distance learning programs between Knoxville College and the
University of Tennessee.
File No. 95042 CTB West TN Public TV Council, Inc., University of
Tenn.-Clement Hall, Martin, TN 38237. Signed By: Mr. John Hesse,
General Manager. Funds Requested: $33,832. Total Project Cost. $67,664.
To assure reliability of the station's broadcast services, public
television station WLJT-TV, Channel 11 in Martin, TN, will relocate the
intermediate point of the station's studio transmitter link.
File No. 95058 CRB Metropolitan Governt of Nashville, 225 Polk
Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203. Signed By: Mr. Chase Adams, Interim
Library Director. Funds Requested: $55,695. Total Project Cost:
$74,260. To extend the service of noncommercial radio station WPLN-FM
operating on 90.3 MHz in Nashville, TN, by constructing a repeater
station in Cookeville to provide first service to approximately 43,550
people.
File No. 95069 CTB Mid-South Public Commun. Found., 900 Getwell
Street, Memphis, TN 38111. Signed By: Mr. Michael LaBonia, President &
CEO. Funds Requested: $138,600. Total Project Cost: $277,200. To
provide uninterrupted, high quality broadcast services, WKNO-TV,
Channel 10 in Memphis, TN, will replace outdated \3/4\'' machines with
three state-of-the-art digital videotape machines and will enhance its
graphics capability by purchasing a new computer graphics system.
File No. 95074 CRB Guiding Hands for the Blind, Inc., 1970-D North
Highland Avenue, Jackson, TN 38305. Signed By: Mr. Ernest Harper, Jr.,
General Manager. Funds Requested: $35,000. Total Project Cost: $74,511.
Guiding Hands for the Blind, Inc. proposes the construction of a non-
commercial FM radio station operating on 88.7 MHz to provide
information from local and national publications, local public affairs
programming, news and other services to visually and physically
impaired persons in its service area.
File No. 95103 CTB Upper Cumberland Broadcast Council, PO Box 2040,
Stadium Drive, Cookeville, TN 38502. Signed By: Mr. Richard Castle,
Jr., General Manager. Funds Requested: $193,990. Total Project Cost:
$387,980. To replace and upgrade outdated equipment, WCTE-TV, Channel
22 in Cookeville, TN, will purchase video and audio test equipment,
routers, processors and a video monitor. To improve remote production
facilities, WCTE will replace one camera, two VTRs, the audio console
and the video and graphics processors.
File No. 95128 CRB University of Tennessee @ Chatt., 615 McCallie
Avenue, Chattanooga, TN 37403. Signed By: Dr. Frederick Obear,
Chancellor. Funds Requested: $20,600. Total Project Cost: $41,200. To
upgrade its program origination facilities, public radio station WUTC-
FM, operating on 88.1 MHz in Chattanooga, TN, will purchase and install
a master control console, four digital audio tape recorders and four
professional compact disc players.
File No. 95221 CTB Metropolitan Board of Public Educ., 161 Rains
[[Page 25789]] Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203. Signed By: Dr. Richard
Benjamin, Director of Schools. Funds Requested: $627,367. Total Project
Cost: $1,254,733. To upgrade the facilities of public television
station WDCN-TV, Channel 8 in Nashville, TN, by replacing the 22-year
old transmitter, antenna, transmission line, studio-to-transmitter link
and associated monitoring and test equipment.
File No. 95263 ICTB Knoxville Communications Coop. In, 3018 East
5th Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37914. Signed By: Mr. Emanuel Bailey,
President. Funds Requested: $311,000. Total Project Cost: $415,000. To
construct a community based, minority owned and operated, television
production Facility to serve 200,000 citizens in Knoxville, Tennessee.
File No. 95286 CTB East Tennessee Public Comm. Corp., 1611 E.
Magnolia Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917. Signed By: Mr. Richard
Meschendorf, Chairman, Board of Directors. Funds Requested: $190,026.
Total Project Cost: $380,053. To replace obsolete or technically-
deficient Master Control equipment at WSJK-TV, Channel 2 and WKOP-TV,
Channel 15 in Knoxville, Tennessee.
TX (Texas)
File No. 95011 ICTN Prairie View A & M University, New Classroom
Bldg., Room 129, Prairie View, TX 77446. Signed By: Dr. Joahanne
Thomas-Smith, Provost/VP-Academic Affairs. Funds Requested: $150,000.
Total Project Cost: $200,000. To establish an educational access
channel for Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas. The
University--which is an Historically Black University--will use the
equipment to originate educational and instructional programming to be
distributed over the cable television systems in the communities of
Prairie View and Waller, both in Waller County in southeast Texas.
File No. 95125 CTB University of Houston, 1600 Smith Street, Suite
3400, Houston, TX 77002. Signed By: Dr. B. Dell Felder, Senior Vice
Chancellor. Funds Requested: $490,826. Total Project Cost: $981,652. To
improve public television station KUHT-TV, Ch. 8, in Houston by
replacing on-air analog video tape machines with six (6) digital video
machines. In addition, KUHT-TV will acquire an automation system for
on-air and a digital editing system to replace existing equipment.
KUHT-TV serves approximately 3.9 million people.
File No. 95135 ICTN TX State Tech. College Sweetwater, 300 College
Drive, Sweetwater, TX 79556. Signed By: Dr. Robert Musgrove, Dean of
Instruction. Funds Requested: $126,898. Total Project Cost: $211,498.
To provide first distance education services to 5,000 students on the
Abeline, Breckenridge, and Brownwood campuses of Texas State Technical
College, Sweetwater (TSTC) and their surrounding communities by
acquiring studio production equipment for the Sweetwater studio, VTEL
equipment for Sweetwater and three other unnamed sites, and by
constructing a multipoint bridge to access other T1 networks in a hub
and star configuration from the Sweetwater Campus.
File No. 95156 ICTN Alliance for Higher Education, 17103 Preston
Road, Dallas, TX 75248-1373. Signed By: Dr. Allan Watson, President.
Funds Requested: $553,011. Total Project Cost: $1,106,022. To support
delivery of distance learning programs to multiple users of a variety
of digital technologies and high speed fiber optic network systems
serving 23 Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas higher education and medical
institutions, by acquiring digital switching, fiber optic terminals,
fiber optic multiplexers, and codec equipment to provide network
access.
File No. 95159 CTB Capital of TX Pub Telecom Council, 2504-B Whitis
Street, Austin, TX 78705. Signed By: Mr. Bill Arhos, President/General
Manager. Funds Requested: $157,274. Total Project Cost: $314,549. To
improve the facilities of public television station KLRU-TV, Ch. 18, in
Austin, by replacing a worn-out lighting dimmer system that is 22 years
old. KLRU-TV serves approximately 1.04 million people in Austin and
produces nationally distributed programming.
File No. 95195 CTB Alamo Public Telecomm. Council, 501 Broadway,
San Antonio, TX 78125. Signed By: Ms. Joanne Winik, President and
General Mgr. Funds Requested: $251,143. Total Project Cost: $502,286.
To improve the facilities of public television station KLRN-TV, Ch. 9,
in San Antonio by replacing essential videotape delay equipment,
replacing inadequate studio cameras and associated equipment, and
acquiring off-line editing equipment that will improve the efficiency
of the existing on-line editing system. KLRN-TV serves approximately 2
million people.
File No. 95206 CRB University of Texas at Austin, POB 7726,
University Station, Austin, TX 78713. Signed By: Mr. Wayne Kuenstler,
Director, Sponsored Projects. Funds Requested: $73,299. Total Project
Cost: $146,600. To improve the facilities of public radio station KUT-
FM, 90.5 MHz, in Austin by replacing and/or upgrading the transmitter/
antenna system, acquiring digital audio tape (DAT) machines and
replacing a 1976 remote audio recording console. KUT-FM provides
service to approximately 1.1 million people in central TX.
File No. 95211 ICTN Corpus Christi Public Library Fdn, 805
Comanche, Corpus Christi, TX 78401. Signed By: Mr. William White,
President. Funds Requested: $168,670. Total Project Cost: $255,561. To
acquire a UNIX-based host computer, telecommunications equipment and
digital communication lines, including T1, at the Central Library and
several branch sites, serving 147,000 persons, in Corpus Christi,
Texas, and adding 107,000 persons by constructing the proposed system.
File No. 95261 ICTB Ysleta Independent School District, 9600 Sims,
El Paso, TX 79925. Signed By: Mr. Anthony Trujillo, Superintendent.
Funds Requested: $1,608,900. Total Project Cost: $2,145,200. To
activate a low power television station to provide public television
service to 415,000 persons in El Paso, Texas, and to construct a
television studio and editing facility at a building owned by the
Ysleta Independent School District in El Paso.
UT (Utah)
File No. 95040 ICTN Utah State University, Eccles Conference
Center, Rm 102, Logan, UT 84322-5035. Signed By: Mr. M.K. Jeppesen,
Director, Contracts & Grants. Funds Requested: $1,003,875. Total
Project Cost: $1,338,500. To establish a two-way video, two-way audio,
distance learning system to interconnect Utah State University's
Continuing Education program with 48 academic sites through the State.
The system would be based on compressed video transmission via
telephone lines. Ten of the proposed sites would have origination
capacity. The system would replace the University's outdated slow-scan
video conferencing system, which reaches only 37 sites.
File No. 95050 CRB Utah State University, 745 North 1200 East,
Logan, UT 84322. Signed By: Mr. M.K. Jeppesen, Director. Funds
Requested: $8,775. Total Project Cost: $11,700. To extend the signal of
public radio station KUSU-FM, 91.5 MHz, in Logan by activating two new
FM translators to serve Hanksville (91.9 MHz) and Teasdale/Torrey (94.5
MHz). Translators would provide first public radio service to
approximately 2,177 people.
File No. 95130 CTB University of Utah, 101 Wasatch Drive, Salt Lake
City, UT 84112. Signed By: Mr. Ted Capener, V. Pres. for Univ.
Relations. Funds [[Page 25790]] Requested: $287,769. Total Project
Cost: $457,040. To extend the signal of public television station KULC-
TV, Ch. 9, by activating eight new translators. First instructional/
educational television service would be provided to the following
areas: Long Valley Junction (Ch. 46), Tooele (K20ER), Panquitch (Ch.
18), Alton (Ch. 62), Orangeville (Ch. 15), Monticello/Blanding (Ch.
21), rural Sanpete County (Ch. 18) and Heber City (Ch. 68). KUED-TV
(PBS), Ch. 7, would be extended by providing first public television to
the following communities: Rural Grand County (Ch. 17), Rockville/
Springdale (Ch. 58) and Bullfrog (Ch. 15). Existing translators would
be replaced at Laketown/Garden City (K63BF), Randolph/Woodruff (K55BS)
and Monticello/Blanding (K40AF). Project would also replace video tape
recorders and related equipment as well as replace a WWII vintage
diesel generator at a very critical communications site in the state
network.
VA (Virginia)
File No. 95005 CTB Shenandoah Valley ETV Corp., 298 Port Republic
Road, Harrisonburg, VA 22801. Signed By: Mr. Arthur Albrecht,
President. Funds Requested: $444,227. Total Project Cost: $888,453. To
improve WVPT-TV, Channel 51, Harrisonburgh, Virginia public television
reception for 156,925 persons, and to provide first public television
service to an additional 5,000 persons in the Front Royal area of
Virginia, by replacing an obsolete and worn out 1KW non-commercial TV
translator with a 5KW TV repeater station on Channel 42, Front Royal,
Virginia; and to acquire a new studio transmitter link to deliver the
signal to the new facility.
File No. 95031 CTB Greater WA Educ. T/C Association, 3700 S. Four
Mile Run Drive, Arlington, VA 22206. Signed By: Mr. Jerry Butler, Vice
President, Engineering. Funds Requested: $431,000. Total Project Cost:
$862,000. To replace obsolete studio production equipment, and to
improve nationally and locally distributed program production
capabilities at WETA-TV, Channel 26, Washington, DC, by acquiring a new
audio console, character generator, digital effects generator, frame
synchronizer and four studio cameras.
File No. 95084 ICTN Old Dominion University, Room 228, Education
Bldg., Norfolk, VA 23529-0526. Signed By: Dr. John Eck, Assoc. VP for
Rsrch & Grad Std. Funds Requested: $677,318. Total Project Cost:
$1,354,637. To extend the TELETECHNET distance learning network of Old
Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, to eight presently unserved and, for
the most part, rural learning centers and to expand the University's
ability to provide educational programming to areas the TELETECHNET
system already services. The TELETECHNET system provides baccalaureate
programs (2+2) to students at community colleges throughout Virginia.
The project would establish video classrooms at the new sites, purchase
25 satellite receive-only earth stations, and provide an additional
video originating classroom at the system's Virginia Beach Higher
Education Center.
File No. 95102 IPTN Network for Instructional TV, Inc., 11490
Commerce Park Dr., Ste 110, Reston, VA 22091. Signed By: Mr. Thomas A.
Pyle, Executive Director/CEO. Funds Requested: $132,018. Total Project
Cost: $191,643. To help the Network for Instructional TV, Inc. (NITV)
plan how best to provide instructional and training programming to
traditionally-underserved audiences with interactive multi-media
materials to be delivered to NITV affiliates as well as to neighborhood
learning centers via ITFS transmission from a central distribution
center in Washington, DC. Today, NITV has 64 ITFS channels on-air in 16
cities in ten states and the District of Columbia. This planning
project would assist NTIV to move towards the delivery of interactive,
multi-media services through a national distribution system.
File No. 95152 CTB Central VA Educ Telecomm Corp, 8101A Lee
Highway, Falls Church, VA 22042. Signed By: Mr. Frederick Thomas,
Station Manager. Funds Requested: $23,986. Total Project Cost: $47,972.
To acquire equipment to sub-title foreign language programming for
approximately 3,923,574 English-speaking viewers served by WNVC-TV,
Channel 56, Fairfax, Virginia.
File No. 95180 IPTN Campbell County School Division, School Admin.
Bldg., Main Street, Rustburg, VA 24588. Signed By: Dr. George Nolley,
Superintendent. Funds Requested: $65,050. Total Project Cost: $71,250.
To plan a two-way interactive audio and video classroom system
connecting four secondary schools in Campbell County, Virginia, and
determine methods to establish direct access connections to the
Internet.
File No. 95200 PRB Saint Paul's College, 406 Windsor Avenue,
Lawrenceville, VA 23868. Signed By: Dr. Thomas Law, President. Funds
Requested: $77,791. Total Project Cost: $86,791. To plan for the
activation of a non-commercial FM radio station to provide public radio
programming to Brunswick County, Virginia.
File No. 95226 ICTN Amer. Indian Higher Ed. Consortium, 121 Oronoco
Street, Alexandria, VA 22314. Signed By: Ms. Margarett Perez,
President. Funds Requested: $915,363. Total Project Cost: $1,220,484.
To establish a C-band VSAT satellite network to provide distance
learning to students attending institutions which are members of the
American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC). C-band VSAT
terminals will be placed at 11 colleges: Bay Mills Community College,
Brimley, MI; D-Q University, Davis, CA; Haskell Indian Nation
University, Lawrence, KS; Leech Lake Tribal College, Cass Lake, MN;
Navajo Community College, Tsaile, AZ; Northwest Indian College,
Bellingham, WA; Salish-Kootenai Community College, Pablo, MT; Stone
Child Community College, Rocky Boy, MT; Sinte Gleska University,
Rosebud, SD; Southwest Indian Polytechnical Institute, Albuquerque, NM;
and Turtle Mountain Community College, Belcourt, ND. Eighteen
additional Native American colleges will receive the programming
distributed by the VSAT system.
File No. 95272 ICTN Southside VA Community College, 109 Campus
Drive, Alberta, VA 23821. Signed By: Dr. John Cavan, President. Funds
Requested: $252,500. Total Project Cost: $505,000. To construct
classroom compressed video production facilities, and to activate a
fiber optic telecommunications network to serve 8 public and secondary
schools and 2 community college campuses in southern rural Virginia.
File No. 95289 ICTN Fairfax Cable Access Corporation, 2929 Eskridge
Road, Suite S, Fairfax, VA 22031. Signed By: Mr. James Flynn,
President, Board FCAC. Funds Requested: $135,000. Total Project Cost:
$180,000. To construct 25 C/Ku-band satellite downlinks to link 25
existing National Public Access Telecommunications Network/Consortium
members located in 14 states.
VI (Virgin Island)
File No. 95142 CRB Virgin Islands PTV System, PO Box 7879, Barbel
Plaza S., Charlotte Amalie, VI 00801. Signed By: Mr. Richard P Bourne-
Vanneck, Board Chairman. Funds Requested: $255,264. Total Project Cost:
$340,352. To provide first local and national public radio service to
100,000 persons in St. Croix and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands by
activating FM stations at 89.1 MHz, Charlotte Amalie, and at 88.5 MHz,
Christiansted, Virgin Islands, and [[Page 25791]] by constructing
studio, master control, and satellite receive facilities at Charlotte
Amalie and Christiansted, V.I.
VT (Vermont)
File No. 95257 ICTN University of Vermont, 322 South Prospect
Street, Burlington, VT 05401-3505. Signed By: Ms. Regina White,
Director, Sponsored Programs. Funds Requested: $542,170. Total Project
Cost: $1,084,339. To provide master control, classroom production and
interconnection equipment for the University of Vermont to permit
increased distribution of distance learning programming via the Vermont
Interactive Television system. The project will also provide for
satellite distribution of advanced placement and credit degree programs
to sites throughout the state.
WA (Washington)
File No. 95136 CTB KCTS Television, 401 Mercer Street, Seattle, WA
98109. Signed By: Mr. Burnill F. Clark, President & CEO. Funds
Requested: $242,958. Total Project Cost: $485,916. To improve the
technical facilities of public television station KCTS, Ch. 9, Seattle,
WA, by replacing analog equipment including three videotape machines, a
production switcher, and a video effects unit.
File No. 95173 CRB Washington State University, 382 Murrow
Communication Ctr., Pullman, WA 99164-2530. Signed By: Mr. Dennis
Haarsager, General Manager. Funds Requested: $252,053. Total Project
Cost: $336,071. To extend the signal of Northwest Public Radio, based
in Pullman, Washington, by activating repeater stations at 9.15 MHz in
Moses Lake and 89.7 MHz in Walla Walla, bringing first public radio
service to approximately 62,400 residents in central and south central
Washington, and to improve service by constructing a digital audio
interconnection to deliver the public radio signal to those stations
and to other stations in the system.
File No. 95175 CTB Washington State University, 382 Murrow
Communications Center, Pullman, WA 99164-2530. Signed By: Dr. R. V.
Smith, Vice Provost for Research. Funds Requested: $36,809. Total
Project Cost: $73,618. To provide first local origination capacity to
the coverage area of KTNW-TV, Ch. 31, Richland, WA, by constructing an
editing suite and establishing an electronic field production unit.
File No. 95218 CTB Spokane School District #81, 3911 S. Regal
Street, Spokane, WA 99223. Signed By: Dr. Gary Livingston,
Superintendent of Schools. Funds Requested: $470,107. Total Project
Cost: $940,214. To improve the broadcast operations of public station
KSPS-TV, Ch. 7, Spokane, WA, by replacing a worn-out and failing 18-
year-old transmitter, an old one-inch video tape machine, and by
purchasing a disk-based playback device for on-air programming.
File No. 95239 ICTN Washington Public Affairs Network, 1063 South
Capitol Way, Ste 16, Olympia, WA 98501. Signed By: Mr. Dennis Heck,
President. Funds Requested: $157,085. Total Project Cost: $314,171. To
construct a television production center at the State Capitol in
Olympia, Washington to record government deliberations and public
policy events for dissemination on cable television outlets serving
5,400,000 citizens.
File No. 95290 CRB Spokane Public Radio, 2319 North Monroe Street,
Spokane, WA 99205. Signed By: Mr. Richard Kunkel, General Manager.
Funds Requested: $18,480. Total Project Cost: $24,640. To provide first
public radio service to 9,147 persons by constructing a new FM station
on 90.7 MHz in Bonners Ferry, ID, to repeat the signal of KPBX, 91.1
MHz, Spokane, WA.
File No. 95292 IPTN City of Richland, 505 Swift Boulevard,
Richland, WA 99352. Signed By: Mr. Joseph King, City Manager. Funds
Requested: $155,101. Total Project Cost: $310,202. To prepare an
integrated telecommunications plan for the city of Richland,
Washington, in a cooperative project involving many organizations and
agencies in government, education, and business including the Richland
School District, the Richland Campus of Washington State University,
telecommunications companies, and city departments in developing an
interconnection system for distance education and training.
WI (Wisconsin)
File No. 95053 CRB University of Wisconsin, 1725 State Street, La
Crosse, WI 54601. Signed By: Dr. Julius Erlenbach, Provost/Vice
Chancellor. Funds Requested: $15,325. Total Project Cost: $30,650. To
improve the broadcast operations of public radio station WLSU-FM, 88.9
MHz, La Crosse, WI, by replacing 15- and 20-year-old studio equipment
and purchasing a transmitter spare parts kit.
File No. 95054 CRB University of Wisconsin, 105 Garfield Avenue,
Eau Claire, WI 54702. Signed By: Dr. Marjorie Smelstor, Provost/Vice
Chancellor. Funds Requested: $25,872. Total Project Cost: $51,744. To
extend the signal of public radio station WUEC, 89.7 MHz, Eau Claire,
WI, by increasing its transmitter power, which will provide first
service to approximately 75,000 rural residents of West Central
Wisconsin.
File No. 95137 CTB Bd of Regents of the Univ of WI Sys, 821
University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706. Signed By: Ms. Cheryl Gest,
Admin. Officer, Res Admin-Fin. Funds Requested: $97,169. Total Project
Cost: $194,338. To improve the production facilities of public station
WHA-TV, Ch. 21, Madison, WI, by replacing one-inch videotape machines
in the on-line editing suite and in the remote production unit.
File No. 95189 ICTN Western Wisconsin Tech. College, 304 North
Sixth Street, La Crosse, WI 54602. Signed By: Ms. Denise Warner,
Advancement Manager. Funds Requested: $78,800. Total Project Cost:
$109,157. To construct a fully interactive, two-way, video/audio
network between the Western Wisconsin Technical College campus at La
Crosse, and the Sparta Campus in Monroe County, Wisconsin, and to
construct a teacher-operated TV production facility at the La Crosse
campus.
File No. 95194 IPTN Fox Valley Technical College, 1825 N. Bluemound
Drive, Appleton, WI 54913. Signed By: Dr. H. Victor Baldi, President.
Funds Requested: $164,702. Total Project Cost: $388,121. To plan for an
interconnected, interactive distance learning network among the K-12
schools and colleges of the East Wisconsin Distance Learning Consortium
in five counties of northeastern Wisconsin, for the use of technologies
in secondary and post-secondary distance education programs in rural
and small urban areas.
File No. 95253 CRTB Wisconsin Ed. Communications Board, 3319 West
Beltline Highway, Madison, WI 53713-4296. Signed By: Mr. Glenn A.
Davison, Executive Director. Funds Requested: $1,004,430. Total Project
Cost: $2,008,860. To improve the broadcast signals of the Wisconsin
Educational Communications Board by replacing one TV translator located
in Adams, WI, and old and worn-out transmission equipment at WHWC-TV,
Ch. 28, Menomonie-Eau Claire; WLEF-TV, Ch. 36, Park Falls; WHHI-FM,
91.3 MHz, Highland; and WHRM-FM, 90.9 MHz, Wausau. The new transmission
system will extend the signal of WHHI-FM to provide first service to
approximately 82,000 people in the southwestern region of
Wisconsin. [[Page 25792]]
WV (West Virginia)
File No. 95121 CRB WV Educ. Broadcasting Authority, 600 Capitol
Street, Charleston, WV 25301. Signed By: Ms. Rita Ray, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $274,933. Total Project Cost: $366,578. To
provide first public radio service to approximately 82,000 people in
the rural area of Matewan, Petersburg and Union, West Virginia, by
installing one transmitter near Petersburg, one translator in Union and
one translator near Matewan, plus all necessary satellite equipment.
File No. 95246 CTB WV Ed. Broadcasting Authority, 1615 Third
Avenue, Huntington, WV 25701. Signed By: Ms. Rita Ray, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $156,000. Total Project Cost: $312,000. To
improve public television station WPBY-TV, Channel 33 in Huntington, WV
by replacing six \3/4\'' videotape machines and the production audio
console.
WY (Wyoming)
File No. 95139 ICTN No. Wyoming Cmmty College District, 525 West
Lakeway, Suite #107, Gillette, WY 82718. Signed By: Dr. Steve Maier,
President, NWCCD. Funds Requested: $462,317. Total Project Cost:
$924,634. To provide first educational services to approximately 60,754
citizens in Campbell, Johnson and Sheridan Counties, Wyoming by
constructing three, four-channel ITFS transmitters in Gillette, Pumpkin
Buttes and Sheridan, fixed classroom production facilities at the
Northern Wyoming Community College campus in Gillette, fiber optic STL
equipment at Sheridan and Gillette to link studios with transmitters,
statewide compressed video, computer equipment at one of the
interactive sites, and satellite downlinks at various locations.
File No. 95169 CRB Northern Arapaho Tribe, 533 Ethete Road, Ft.
Washakie, WY 82514. Signed By: Mr. Richard Brannon, Chairman, Tribal
Council. Funds Requested: $329,344. Total Project Cost: $439,125. To
activate a new public radio station operating on 89.5 MHz in Ethete,
WY, to bring the first public radio service to the Wind River Indian
Reservation.
File No. 95294 IPTN Lincoln-Uinta Association of Gov't, P.O. Box
389, Kemmerer, WY 83101. Signed By: Ms. Mary Crosby, Director. Funds
Requested: $15,000. Total Project Cost: $15,000. The two-county
Lincoln-Uinta Association of Governments in southwestern Wyoming
proposes to plan for the incorporation of appropriate technologies
which might be feasible for an interconnected distance learning and
training network and public broadcasting distribution system, across
mountainous terrain to a scattered population in rural areas.
AK (Alaska)
File No. 95021 CRB, Old File Nos. 94285,93191, Kashunamiut School
District, Chevak, AK.
File No. 95181 CRB, Old File Nos. 94138, University of Alaska,
Fairbanks, AK.
CA (California)
File No. 95176 CRB, Old File Nos. 94277, San Mateo Cnty Cmty
College Dist, San Mateo, CA.
File No. 95234 ICTBN, Old File Nos. 94312, Kern Educational T/C
Consortium, Bakersfield, CA.
IL (Illinois)
File No. 95006 CRB, Old File Nos. 94043, Northern Illinois
University, DeKalb, IL.
MA (Massachusetts)
File No. 95045 CRB, Old File Nos. 94026, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
NC (North Carolina)
File No. 95070 ICTN, Old File Nos. 94299,93071, Pembroke State
University, Pembroke, NC.
NM (New Mexico)
File No. 95120 ICTN, Old File Nos. 94321,93124, Eastern New Mexico
University, Portales, NM.
NY (New York)
File No. 95009 ICTN, Old File Nos. 95064, Hispanic Info. & Telecom.
Net, Inc., New York, NY.
File No. 95027 CRB, Old File Nos. 94301, Colleges of the Seneca,
Geneva, NY.
File No. 95255 CRTB, Old File Nos. 94234, WSKG Public T/C Council,
Vestal, NY.
PA (Pennsylvania)
File No. 95225 CRB, Old File Nos. 94316, Public Broadcasting of NW
PA, Inc, Erie, PA.
PR (Puerto Rico)
File No. 95099 ICTN, Old File Nos. 94320, Fundacion Educativa Ana G
Mendez, Rio Piedras, PR.
RI (Rhode Island)
File No. 95241 ICTN, Old File Nos. 94194, Brown University,
Providence, RI.
VA (Virginia)
File No. 95026 CRB, Old File Nos. 94318, Greater Washington Educ.
T/C Assoc., Arlington, VA.
File No. 95254 CRB, Old File Nos. 94033, CAPRA, Inc.,
Mechanicsville, VA.
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