[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 97 (Tuesday, May 20, 1997)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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Part II
Department of Commerce
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National Telecommunications and Information Administration
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Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP); Notice
Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 97 / Tuesday, May 20, 1997 /
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
[Docket Number: 960205021-7110-04]
RIN 0660-ZA01
Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP)
AGENCY: National Telecommunications and Information Administration,
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of applications received.
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SUMMARY: The National Telecommunications and Information Administration
(NTIA) previously announced the solicitation of grant applications for
the Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP) for planning
and construction grants for public telecommunications facilities. This
notice announces the list of applications received and notifies any
interested party that it may file comments with the Agency supporting
or opposing an application.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dennis Connors, Director, Public
Telecommunications Facilities Program, telephone: (202) 482-5802; fax:
(202) 482-2156. Information about the PTFP can also be obtained
electronically via Internet (send inquiries to http://
www.ntia.doc.gov).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: By Federal Register notice dated November 8,
1996, the NTIA, within the Department of Commerce, announced that the
program was soliciting grant applications, and that the closing date
for receipt of applications was 5 p.m. EST, February 12, 1997
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In all, the program received 220 applications from 44 states, the
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and American
Samoa. The total amount of funds requested by the applicants is $49.9
million.
Notice is hereby given that the PTFP received applications from the
following organizations. The list includes all applications received.
Identification of any application only indicates its receipt. It does
not indicate that it has been accepted for review, has been determined
to be eligible for funding, or that an application will receive an
award.
Any interested party may file comments with the Agency supporting
or opposing an application and setting forth the grounds for support or
opposition. PTFP will forward a copy of any opposing comments to the
applicant. Comments must be sent to PTFP at the following address:
NTIA/PTFP, Room 4625, 1401 Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.
20230.
The Agency will incorporate all comments from the public and any
replies from the applicant in the applicant's official file.
Alaska
File No. 97001CRB Silakkuagvik Communications, Inc., KBRW-AM Post
Office Box 109 1696 Okpik Street Barrow, AK 99723. Contact: Mr. Donovan
J. Rinker, VP & General Manager. Funds Requested: $78,262. Total
Project Cost: $104,500. On an emergency basis, to replace a transmitter
and a transmitter-return-link and to purchase an automated fire
suppression system for public radio station KBRW-AM, which provides the
only noncommercial radio signal to the residents of the North Slope of
Alaska. The station's transmission system was completely destroyed by
fire on October 16, 1996.
File No. 97037CRB Kodiak Public Broadcasting Corp., KMXT-FM 620
Egan Way Kodiak, AK 99615. Contact: Mr. Dave Perkins, General Manager.
Funds Requested: $17,605. Total Project Cost: $35,210. To improve the
signal quality of translators operated by KMXT-FM, operating on 100.1
FM, in Kodiak, by adding a satellite receive capability at each of the
five sites and a C-band uplink in Kodiak. The satellite delivery would
replace a 3.5 KHz phone line which currently feeds the translators. The
translators serve the communities of Old Harbor, Ahkiok, Larsen Bay,
Karluk and Port Lions, all on Kodiak Island.
File No. 97057CTB University of Alaska, KUAC-TV 201 Theatre
Building 312 Tanana Drive Fairbanks, AK 99775-5620. Contact: Mr. Jerry
Brigham, General Manager. Funds Requested: $163,682. Total Project
Cost: $244,302. To improve the facilities of public television station
KUAC-TV, operating on Ch. 9 in Fairbanks, by purchasing two local
insertion servers and upgrade a video router. The equipment will help
localize PSA and other material on Alaska One, the public television
service distributed statewide via satellite to other public television
stations in the state.
File No. 97141CTB Alaska Public Telecomm., Inc., Station KAKM-TV
3877 University Drive Anchorage, AK 99508. Contact: Ms. Susan S. Reed,
President/General Manager. Funds Requested: $91,550. Total Project
Cost: $183,100. To purchase a satellite television receive-only earth
station for station KAKM-TV, which operates on Ch. 7, Anchorage, AK,
and provides the only public television service to over 300,000
residents of south central Alaska. The purchase of a new earth station
has been necessitated by the failure of the Telstar 401 satellite and
the subsequent move of Public Broadcasting Service programming
distribution to the Telstar 402R satellite. Because of topographical
considerations, the latter satellite cannot be viewed from the site of
Station's KAKM-TV's present earth station. Thus, a new receive site
must be installed away from the station's studio location in order for
full PBS service to be restored.
File No. 97205CRB Kotzebue Broadcasting Inc., 396 Lagoon Drive P.O.
Box 78 Kotzebue, AK 99752. Contact: Ms. Suzy Erlich, General Manager.
Funds Requested: $123,750. Total Project Cost: $165,000. To improve the
facilities of public radio station KOTZ-AM, operating on 720 KHz in
Kotzebue by replacing obsolete production equipment. The project would
provide digital audio storage and editing equipment, an audio console,
digital cart machines and audio processing, monitoring and test
equipment. The station serves 8,500 residents of northwest Alaska.
Alabama
File No. 97089CTB Alabama Educational Television Comm, Alabama
Public Television 2112 11th Avenue South Suite 400 Birmingham, AL
35205-2884. Contact: Mr. Philip Hutcheson, Deputy Director/CFO. Funds
Requested: $192,903. Total Project Cost: $385,806. To improve the
Alabama Public Television Network, serving approximately 4,000,000
people throughout the state, by replacing 30-year old microwave
antennas at seven sites of the statewide interconnection system, the
30-year old lighting system at the network's production studio in
Montgomery, and acquiring a video server for the Network Operations
Center in Birmingham, AL.
Arkansas
File No. 97129CRB Arkansas State University, KASU-FM 104 Cooley
Street P.O. Box 2160 State University, AR 72467. Contact: Mr. William
McGinley, Station Manager. Funds Requested: $177,852. Total Project
Cost: $237,136. To activate a new public radio station on 88.7 MHZ in
Mountain Home, AZ. Station will repeat the signal of KASU-FM, State
University, but will also have some local origination capability. New
station will provide first service to 107,422 and additional service to
about 23,965 people.
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File No. 97159CTB Arkansas Educational TV Commission, 350 South
Donaghey Conway, AR 72032. Contact: Ms. Susan Howarth, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $524,928. Total Project Cost: $1,049,857. To
improve the state's public television network by establishing a new
production and distance learning studio in Little Rock, augmenting the
origination equipment in Studio B, acquiring equipment to convert an
uplink truck to a basic remote production truck, and replacing an old
character generator in the main production/editing control room (Studio
A). The network serves about 2.35 million people.
File No. 97161CTN Arkansas Educational TV Commission, 350 South
Donaghey Conway, AR 72032. Contact: Ms. Susan Howarth, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $525,771. Total Project Cost: $1,051,543. To
expand the applicant's statewide distance learning satellite delivery
system by conversion to digital transmission and the establishment of
25 community electronic learning centers throughout the state of
Arkansas.
American Samoa
File No. 97023CTB American Samoa Government, Office of Public
Information KVZK-TV Pago Pago, AS 96799. Contact: Mrs. Vaoita Savali,
Acting Director. Funds Requested: $122,095. Total Project Cost:
$122,095. To improve the facilities of public television station KVZK-
TV, operating on Ch. 2 which serves the 57,000 residents of American
Samoa. The application would replace an obsolete routing switcher,
establish means for stereo monitoring and acquire needed test
equipment.
File No. 97137ICTN Government of American Samoa, AS PEACESAT
Alliance (ASPETA) Office of the Governor Pago Pago, AS 96799. Contact:
Mr. Frank Pritchard, Federal Programs Officer. Funds Requested:
$389,800. Total Project Cost: $389,800. To activate a new service for
distance education by purchasing a digital satellite system to serve
American Samoa. The system will provide compressed digital video and be
affiliated with the Pan-Pacific Educational and Communications
Experiments by Satellite (PEACESAT) program headquartered in Hawaii.
Arizona
File No. 97016CTB Arizona State University, KAET Channel 8 Stauffer
Hall, B Wing, Tenth St. P.O. Box 871405 Tempe, AZ 85287-1405. Contact:
Mr. Ben Fasano, Sponsored Projects Officer. Funds Requested: $102,131.
Total Project Cost: $204,263. To improve public television station
KAET-TV, Ch. 8, in Tempe by replacing old origination equipment and in
so doing begin the conversion to digital television. Equipment being
requested includes a video file server, 7 audio spot record/playback
machines, an audio/video routing switcher and a digital signal
analyzer. KAET-TV provides service to about 2.97 million people.
File No. 97149CRB The Hopi Foundation, Highway 264 Marker 367-9
P.O. Box 705 Hotevilla, AZ 86030. Contact: Ms. Barbara Poley, Executive
Director. Funds Requested: $310,658. Total Project Cost: $414,211. To
activate a new public radio station on 89.1 MHZ in Hotevilla. Project
will serve about 10,000 people on or near the Hopi Reservation.
File No. 97163ICTN Northern Arizona University, Educational Systems
Development Comm. Bldg #16/Room 123 Corner Osborne & Tormey Ave.
Flagstaff, AZ 86011. Contact: Mr. Edward G. Groenhout, Interim VP/
Instit. Advancement. Funds Requested: $878,198. Total Project Cost:
$1,351,075. To extend the duplex microwave-based, two-way interactive
distance learning network of Northern Arizona University--called
NAUNet--to Chinle Unified School District, Ganado School District, Red
Mesa School District, and to the Hualapai Library at Peach Springs; all
these sites are in Arizona. All the locations will receive video
classroom and production control equipment. Chinle Unified School
District will also receive hub equipment. Chinle, Ganado, and Red Mesa
are communities on the Navajo Indian Reservation; Peach Springs is on
the Hualapai Indian Reservation.
California
File No. 97003CTB Community Television of Southern CA, KCET (TV)
4401 Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90027. Contact: Mr. Donald G.
Youpa, Executive Vice President. Funds Requested: $753,930. Total
Project Cost: $1,507,861. To improve and upgrade the facilities of
KCET-TV, Channel 28 in Los Angeles (CA), serving an audience of over 18
million people, by replacing aging and obsolete equipment including the
routing system, signal converters, master control switcher and machine
control system.
File No. 97038CRB Humboldt State University, KHSU Radio Humboldt
State University Arcata, CA 95521. Contact: Ms. Jill Paydon, General
Manager. Funds Requested: $78,675. Total Project Cost: $104,900. To
extend the signal of KHSU-FM, 90.5 MHZ in Arcata, CA, by constructing a
satellite studio and a repeater station in Crescent City, operating on
91.9 MHZ, that will providing the first public radio service with local
origination capabilities to about 13,000 residents of Del Norte County,
California.
File No. 97053ICTN Shasta College, Far Northern CA Com Col Consort.
11555 Old Oregon Trail P.0. Box 496006 Redding, CA 96049-6006. Contact:
Dr. James Poulsen, Dir/Off. of Ext'd Educ. & T/C. Funds Requested:
$112,500. Total Project Cost: $225,000. To purchase nine codec
teleconferencing systems to expand the network of the Far Northern
California Community College Distance Education Consortium. The
Consortium comprises Shasta College, Butte College, the College of the
Siskiyous, and Lassen College. The teleconferencing systems would be
placed at The Shasta Regional Occupational Program High School, South
Redding; the Shasta Community Health Center, Redding; the Hill Country
Community Health Center, Round Mountain; libraries in the communities
of Oroville and Orland; Siskiyou Union High School; Yreka Union High
School; Trinity High School, Weaverville; and Fall River High School,
Burney.
File No. 97066CTB N. California Educ'l TV Assoc., Inc, Broadcast/
Engineering 603 N. Market Street Redding, CA 96003. Contact: Mr.
Michael Lampella, Operations Manager. Funds Requested: $784,594. Total
Project Cost: $1,046,126. To improve the facilities of KIXE-TV, Channel
9 in Redding, by replacing obsolete and unreliable analog origination
and test equipment with state-of-the-art digital equipment including
studio cameras, videotape recorders, video switcher, video effects
unit, character generator, still store system, file server and
miscellaneous ancillary equipment.
File No. 97074CRB Monterey Bay Public Brdcstg Fdn., KAZU-FM 176
Forest Avenue Pacific Grove, CA 93950. Contact: Mr. Peter Williams,
Station Manager. Funds Requested: $35,062. Total Project Cost: $46,749.
To augment and enhance the facilities of KAZU-FM, operating on 90.3 MHZ
in Pacific Grove (CA) by establishing a remote recording mobile unit
equipped with state-of-the-art, digital equipment to meet national
broadcast standards.
File No. 97078ICTB Kern Educational T/C Consortium, 1300 17th
Street/City Centre Bakersfield, CA 93301-4533. Contact: Mr. Larry R.
Ciecalone, Director of Broadcasting. Funds Requested: $1,118,429. Total
Project Cost: $1,491,239. To establish a noncommercial television
station in Bakersfield, CA, which would bring a first public TV signal
with local origination capability to approximately
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995,000 residents of that area. Of these, approximately 195,000
residents would receive the new station's signal as a ``first public TV
signal''. In addition to some nationally-distributed public television
programming, the station would transmit a vast amount of instructional
programming from the Kern Educational Telecommunications Consortium,
which has its headquarters in Bakersfield. The new station will also
incorporate into its schedule programming targeted towards the
Hispanic-American population, which constitutes approximately 30% of
the total population of the station's proposed service area.
File No. 97081ICTN Monterey County Office of Education, Instruct'l
Resources & Technology. 901 Blanco Circle Salinas, CA 93901. Contact:
Mr. Michael Mellon, Dir/Instruc. Resources & Tech. Funds Requested:
$684,313. Total Project Cost: $1,368,626. To establish a distance
learning system that will serve over 138 schools, plus residences and
businesses, in Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz
Counties, CA. The system will be based on two channels of ITFS, and
extended by microwave and low-power television stations.
File No. 97088CRB Rural California Broadcasting Corp., KRCB-FM 5850
Labath Avenue Rohnert Park, CA 94928. Contact: Ms. Nancy Dobbs, Chief
Executive Officer. Funds Requested: $54,275. Total Project Cost:
$72,367. To improve and upgrade the origination facilities of KRCB-FM,
91.1 MHZ in Rohnert Park (CA) by replacing old and unreliable studio
equipment including the audio console, the modulation monitor, the
storage delivery system, DAT recorders, and microphones.
File No. 97101CTB KTEH Foundation, 1585 Schallenberger Road San
Jose, CA 95131. Contact: Mr. Gary S. Martinez, Grants Associate. Funds
Requested: $719,039. Total Project Cost: $1,438,078. To upgrade and
improve the facilities of KTEH-TV, Channel 54 in San Jose by replacing
the 22-year-old transmitter, the transmission line, the antenna and the
routing and master control switchers.
File No. 97107ICTN Kern Educational T/C Consortium, 1300 17th
Street/City Centre Bakersfield, CA 93301-4533. Contact: Dr. Daniel
Darnell, President/Cerro Coso Com. Coll. Funds Requested: $796,318.
Total Project Cost: $2,132,018. To extend the Kern County distance
learning microwave system into rural Inyo and Mono Counties in order to
bring the first such services to nearly 30,000 isolated rural
residents, and to provide interactive educational opportunities as well
as Internet access to educational institutions at all levels--K-12,
community college, and university.
File No. 97113IPTN California State Univ./Stanislaus, Associate VP
Academ. Affairs Ofc 801 West Monte Vista Avenue Turlock, CA 95382.
Contact: Ms. Maithreyi Manoharan, Associate VP Info Technology. Funds
Requested: $54,648. Total Project Cost: $54,648. To develop a
telecommunications plan for the potential use of appropriate
technologies in a distance learning network among California State
University-Stanislaus, public schools, community colleges and service
agencies in an isolated and economically-disadvantaged area in central
California that includes 6 counties and would focus particularly on
Merced County.
File No. 97118ICTN Oxnard School District, Prog. for Instruct'l
Excellence 1051 South A Street Oxnard, CA 93030. Contact: Mr. Richard
Duarte, Assistant Superintendent. Funds Requested: $42,927. Total
Project Cost: $85,855. To purchase production equipment that would
allow the Oxnard, CA, school district to originate Spanish-language
programming and caption-based educational programming for residents of
the City of Oxnard and surrounding areas. The programming will be
distributed via cable television channels. The programming will target
children in grades K-8.
File No. 97125CRB Nevada City Community Broadcast Grp, 401 Spring
Street Nevada City, CA 95959. Contact: Mr. Brian Terhorst, General
Manager. Funds Requested: $50,491. Total Project Cost: $100,982. To
improve and upgrade the signal of KVMR-FM, 89.5 MHZ in Nevada City (CA)
by replacing the old and failure prone transmitter, antenna, feedline
and tower. KVMR will also purchase a stereo generator for the station's
broadcast studio and install a satellite downlink facility to bring the
first nationally distributed programming to the community.
File No. 97127CTB Los Angeles Unified School District, KLCS-TV 1061
West Temple Street Los Angeles, CA 90012. Contact: Mr. Tom Mossman,
Station Manager. Funds Requested: $559,370. Total Project Cost:
$1,118,740. To improve the signal and enhance the transmission
capabilities of KLCS-TV, Channel 58 in Los Angeles (CA) by replacing
the old and failure prone 24-year-old transmitter and by establishing a
fiber optic link with the ETN facilities at the Los Angeles County
Office of Education.
File No. 97130 Fullerton Interfaith Productions, 409 Pebble Beach
Place Fullerton, CA 92835. Contact: Mr. Ed Lillibridge, Owner. Funds
Requested: $100,000. Total Project Cost: $100,000. Production oriented
project.
File No. 97133CTB Bet-Nahrain, Inc., KBSV-TV23 P.O. Box 4116 3119
South Central Ave Modesto, CA 95307. Contact: Dr. Sargon Dadesho,
Director of Mass Media. Funds Requested: $95,000. Total Project Cost:
$128,000. To improve the facilities of KBSV-TV, Channel 23 in Ceres
(CA) by replacing old and unreliable basic equipment including the
master control switcher, four VTRs and two cameras.
File No. 97146CTB KQED, Inc., KQED-TV 2601 Mariposa Street San
Francisco, CA 94110. Contact: Ms. Judy Holme, Associate Director. Funds
Requested: $379,651. Total Project Cost: $759,302. To upgrade and
improve the facilities of KQED-TV, Channel 9 in San Francisco by
replacing old and unreliable equipment including 11 to 18 year old
production videotape systems and the production audio console.
File No. 97151CRB Santa Monica Community College Dist, KCRW 1900
Pico Boulevard Santa Monica, CA 90405-1628. Contact: Ms. Ruth Seymour,
General Manager. Funds Requested: $221,293. Total Project Cost:
$295,058. To expand the services of KCRW-FM, operating on 88.1 MHZ in
Santa Monica, by constructing a repeater station in Mojave, operating
on 88.7 MHZ, which will provide first public radio services to
approximately 83,000 residents.
File No. 97152CTB California Community Television Net, KCAH (TV)
559 E. Alisal Street, #106 Salinas, CA 93905. Contact: Ms. Arlene
Kimata, Corporate Secretary. Funds Requested: $323,497. Total Project
Cost: $431,330. To improve and expand the signal of KCAH-TV, Channel 25
in Salinas, by replacing the transmitter and antenna. The stronger
signal will reach new areas in the Central Coastal California region
and the South Bay area, providing first public television service to
approximately 198,000 residents of Santa Clara, San Benito, Monterey
and Santa Cruz counties.
File No. 97190CRB San Diego State University Fdn., KPBS-FM 5200
Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182. Contact: Ms. Susan Holloway,
Director, Admin. Services. Funds Requested: $230,114. Total Project
Cost: $306,819. To expand and improve the signal of KPBS, operating on
89.5 MHZ in San Diego (CA) by relocating and replacing the aging
transmission chain with digital state-of-the-art equipment. This
upgrade will improve service to KPBS' current listeners and will
provide first public radio service to about 168,000 residents of the
greater San Diego area.
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File No. 97197ICTN San Diego Co. Superint. of Schools, 6401 Linda
Vista Road San Diego, CA 92111. Contact: Dr. Bruce Braciszewski,
Director ITV/Communications. Funds Requested: $133,429. Total Project
Cost: $266,857. To purchase a video matrix switcher for the San Diego
County Office of Education that will allow the Office to expand the
number and type of courses that it offers to teachers and students in
San Diego County, CA. The courses are transmitted via ITFS.
File No. 97200ICTN California State Un. Fresno Fdn., 4910 N.
Chestnut Avenue Fresno, CA 93726. Contact: Dr. Daniel Griffin, Assoc.
Dir. Grants Research. Funds Requested: $873,020. Total Project Cost:
$1,754,762. To extend the Valley Educational Network (VEN) to 12
additional school sites. VEN is an integrated voice, data and video
network providing college and K-12 distance education programming to
educational institutions in Madera, Fresno, Kings and Tulare Counties.
Colorado
File No. 97035CTB Rocky Mountain Public Broadcasting, 1089 Bannock
Street Denver, CO 80204. Contact: Mr. James Morgese, General Manager.
Funds Requested: $389,039. Total Project Cost: $518,718. To
interconnect the facilities of public television stations KRMA-TV, Ch.
6, in Denver and KTSC-TV, Ch. 8, in Pueblo by installing a two-way
microwave interconnection. KRMA-TV will also acquire computer
automation equipment to provide a distinct program feed to Pueblo. Two
stations cover the entire state of Colorado, approximately 3.9 million
people.
File No. 97044CRB North Fork Valley Public Radio Inc, KVNF-FM 213
Grand Avenue P.O. Box 1350 Paonia, CO 81428. Contact: Ms. Kristy
McFarland, Station Manager. Funds Requested: $92,511. Total Project
Cost: $123,348. To extend the signal of public radio station KVNF-FM,
90.9 MHZ, in Paonia by activating a new repeater station in Montrose on
89.1 MHZ. Station will provide first public radio service to about
9,868 people and an additional service to about 22,000 more.
File No. 97064CTB Rocky Mountain Public Broadcasting, 1089 Bannock
Street Denver, CO 80204. Contact: Mr. James Morgese, General Manager.
Funds Requested: $206,500. Total Project Cost: $413,000. To improve
public television station KRMA-TV, Ch. 6, in Denver, by replacing 10
videotape recorders with new digital equipment. Current equipment was
purchased between 1983 and 1994. KRMA-TV serves approximately 3.9
million people.
File No. 97071CRB Crested Butte Mountain Educational, KBUT-FM P.O.
Box 308 801 Butte Avenue Crested Butte, CO 81224. Contact: Ms. Jackie
Scalzo, General Manager. Funds Requested: $180,840. Total Project Cost:
$241,120. To improve and expand the coverage area of public radio
station KBUT-FM, 90.3 MHZ, in Crested Butte by relocating the
transmitter site to Sunlight Ridge which is 800 ft. higher than the
current location. Project will replace the 11-year-old transmission
system and old, worn out origination and interconnection equipment.
KBUT-FM currently serves about 10,401 people and relocation will add
about 926 more.
File No. 97121CRB Equal Representation of Media Advoc, KRZA-FM 528
9th Street Alamosa, CO 81101. Contact: Ms. Kim Allison, Station
Manager. Funds Requested: $10,968. Total Project Cost: $14,625. To
improve public radio station KRZA-FM, 88.7 MHZ, in Alamosa by re-
aligning the existing antenna and replacing old, worn-out origination
equipment with a new telephone hybrid interconnect, cassette players,
speakers, CD players and Mini-disk players. KRZA-FM, a community radio
station which has been on the air since 1986, provides service to about
75,000 people.
File No. 97124CTB Front Range Educational Media Corp., KBDI-TV 2900
Welton St., First Floor Denver, CO 80205. Contact: Mr. Richard James,
Grants Manager. Funds Requested: $181,209. Total Project Cost:
$317,909. To improve and expand public television station KBDI-TV, Ch.
12, in Denver by acquiring a new master control router, a master
control switcher, replacing the 100 watt translator that serves
Colorado Springs with a 1 kilowatt unit, and acquiring a telemetry
system. KBDI-TV serves about 2.1 million people and will add an
additional service to about 400,000 more.
File No. 97147ICTN National Technological University, 700 Centre
Avenue Ft. Collins, CO 80526. Contact: Dr. Lionel Baldwin, President.
Funds Requested: $294,170. Total Project Cost: $392,230. To activate an
interactive learning environment for individuals at home which combines
Internet, personal computer and satellite delivered compressed digital
video technology.
File No. 97201CRB KUTE Incorporated, KSUT-FM Four Corners Public
Radio P.O. Box 737 123 Capote Ignacio, CO 81137. Contact: Mr. Carlos
Sena, General Manager. Funds Requested: $55,989. Total Project Cost:
$74,655. To improve the facilities of public radio station KSUT-FM,
91.3 MHZ, Ignacio, by acquiring local origination equipment for a new
studio which will be fully dedicated to the affairs, education and
cultural preservation of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe. In addition,
project will acquire a studio-to-transmitter link (STL) to permit a
new, second station, 90.1 MHZ, located on Missionary Ridge, to be
programmed with a different public radio signal. Programming for both
stations will originate from the KSUT-FM studios.
Connecticut
File No. 97195CTB Simsbury Community Television, 754 Hopmeadow
Street P.O. Box 767 Simsbury, CT 06070. Contact: Mrs. Elise Sirman,
President. Funds Requested: $10,349. Total Project Cost: $13,799. To
upgrade the production capabilities of Simsbury Community Television,
which transmits its community access programming over a dedicated
channel of the Simsbury cable television system.
File No. 97218CTN West Hartford Community TV, Inc., WHC-TV 50 South
Main Street West Hartford, CT 06107. Contact: Ms. Cheryl Fine,
Executive Director. Funds Requested: $250,000. Total Project Cost:
$312,500. To establish video production studios at Hall High School and
at Conard High School, both in the City of West Hartford, CT. The
studios would originate programming to be transmitted over two
dedicated community access channels of the city's cable television
system.
District of Columbia
File No. 97144CTB Howard University, WHMM 2222 Fourth Street NW
Washington, DC 20059. Contact: Mr. M. J. Watkins, General Manager.
Funds Requested: $425,549. Total Project Cost: $851,098. To improve
public television station WHMM-TV, operating on Channel 32 in
Washington, DC, by replacing the routing switcher, master sync and
timing system with distribution amplifiers, TV demodulator, video
processing amplifiers, and a non-linear editing system. The project
includes upgrading by acquiring the Secondary Audio Program and
Auxiliary Audio Program Transmission System, virtual recorder system,
broadcast color monitors, and test equipment.
File No. 97150ICTN Soundprint Media Center Inc., 4000 Brandywine
Street NW Suite 620 Washington, DC 20016. Contact: Ms. Moira Rankin,
President. Funds Requested: $298,554. Total Project Cost: $510,348. To
expand the services provided by the ``Education
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Connection,'' a distance learning project which is intended to provide
at-risk schools (K-12) with multimedia, interactive, Internet and
satellite-delivered video conferencing capability. The project will
provide Education Connection programming to 58 additional schools. The
Education Connection is a partnership of the applicant and public
television stations (KCET-TV Los Angeles, Louisiana Public
Broadcasting, Mississippi Educational TV, WHYY-TV Wilmington, and WHRO-
TV Norfolk). The project includes a satellite uplink and video
conferencing studio at Soundprint, and satellite receive downlinks,
computers and ITFS equipment at school sites.
File No. 97171IPTN Assoc. of Jesuit Colleges & Univ., 1 Dupont
Circle Suite 405 Washington, DC 20036-1110. Contact: Dr. William
Husson, Dean of Professional Studies. Funds Requested: $58,410. Total
Project Cost: $147,706. To plan for a telecommunications system that
will establish an interconnected network of the 28 colleges and
universities in the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities,
for a nationwide distance learning and training service among these
colleges/universities and each of their surrounding communities.
Florida
File No. 97010CRB University of Florida, WUFT-FM/WJUF-FM 2208
Weimer Hall University Of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611. Contact: Mr.
Henri Pensis, Station Manager. Funds Requested: $26,753. Total Project
Cost: $53,506. To install automation equipment at WUFT-FM, operating on
89.1 MHZ in Gainesville, FL, to maintain 24-hour-a-day programming in a
cost-effective manner. WUFT-FM currently serves approximately 1,700,000
people in the Gainesville area.
File No. 97018CRB Florida Institute of Technology, WFIT-FM 150 W.
University Blvd Melbourne, FL 32901. Contact: Mr. David Kershaw,
General Manager. Funds Requested: $27,614. Total Project Cost: $36,819.
To improve its facilities and provide first public radio service to
approximately 13,000 people, WFIT-FM, operating on 89.5 MHZ in
Melbourne, FL, will raise its antenna height, increase its power from
2,350 Watts to 8,000 Watts, and install equipment for remote
transmitter control.
File No. 97030CRB School Board of Dade County, WLRN/FM Radio 172 NE
15th Street Miami, FL 33132. Contact: Mrs. Laurel Long, Coordinator,
Finance/Admin. Funds Requested: $54,986. Total Project Cost: $109,973.
WLRN-FM, 91.3 MHZ, serving approximately 3,900,000 people in an area
that includes Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach and the Florida Keys,
will replace its outdated and unreliable transmission system.
File No. 97061CTB South Florida Public Telecomm., WXEL-TV 3401 S.
Congress Ave. Boynton Beach, FL 33426. Contact: Mr. Philip Dicomo, V.
P., Ext. Affairs. Funds Requested: $185,269. Total Project Cost:
$370,538. To improve public television station WXEL-TV, Channel 42 in
Boynton Beach, FL, serving approximately 4,400,000 people, by replacing
obsolete three-quarter inch and one-inch video recorders with digital
video recorders and a video server system for a more efficient on-air
recording and playback operation.
File No. 97075CRB WJCT, Inc., WJCT-FM 100 Festival Park Avenue
Jacksonville, FL 32202. Contact: Mr. William Dresser, President and
General Mgr. Funds Requested: $92,850. Total Project Cost: $185,701. To
improve public radio station WJCT-FM, 89.9 MHZ in Jacksonville, FL, by
replacing outdated and unreliable 25-to-30-year old reel-to-reel, audio
cartridge, and cassette equipment with a digital audio storage system,
replacing the transmitter control link, and acquiring the capability of
ISDN connectivity for effective remote production and interconnection
to other NPR stations. WJCT-FM provides public radio service to
approximately 1,600,000 people in the Jacksonville area.
File No. 97108CRB Nathan B. Stubblefield Foundation, WMNF-FM 1210
East Martin Luther King Blvd Tampa, FL 33603. Contact: Mr. Richard
Eiswerth, Station Manager. Funds Requested: $23,600. Total Project
Cost: $47,200. To improve WMNF-FM, operating on 88.5 MHZ , and serving
approximately 1,300,000 people in the Tampa, FL area, by replacing
outdated and unreliable master control, studio, and studio-to-
transmitter link equipment.
File No. 97119CTB University of Florida, WUFT-TV Weimer Hall
University Of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611. Contact: Mr. Richard
Lehner, General Manager. Funds Requested: $164,680. Total Project Cost:
$329,360. To improve public television station WUFT-TV, Channel 5 in
Gainesville, FL, serving approximately 2,000,000 people, by replacing
13-year old one-inch videotape machines with digital video recorders-
editors for master control recording, editing, and playback operations.
File No. 97132ICTN Okaloosa-Walton Community College, 100 College
Boulevard Niceville, FL 32578. Contact: Mr. Glenn Tripplett, Dir./
Learning Resources Ctr. Funds Requested: $118,935. Total Project Cost:
$158,580. To establish three video classrooms for the Okaloosa-Walton
Distance Learning Consortium of Northwest Florida, which will be
interconnected by Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS). The
classrooms will be located at the Niceville Campus of Okaloosa-Walton
Community College, the Instructional Technology Center of the Walton
County School District, and Shalimar Elementary School, which is part
of the Okaloosa County School District.
File No. 97138CTB Brevard Community College, WBCC-TV 1519 Clearlake
Road Cocoa, FL 32922. Contact: Mr. Joe Williams, General Manager, WBCC.
Funds Requested: $715,382. Total Project Cost: $1,480,971. WBCC-TV,
Channel 68 in Cocoa, FL, serving approximately 1,000,000 people, will
replace a 10-year old obsolete transmitter with a digital transmitter,
and will acquire a mobile digital production system as an interim
control room and also as a remote production unit.
File No. 97153CTB University of South Florida, Division of Public
Broadcasting 4202 Fowler Avenue, Svc 0001 Tampa, FL 33620. Contact: Mr.
William Buxton, Station Manager. Funds Requested: $41,812. Total
Project Cost: $83,624. To replace its outdated and unreliable optical
disc units, WUSF-TV, Channel 16, serving approximately 3,500,000 people
in the Tampa, FL area, will install a video spot player for on-air
station break operations.
File No. 97173CTB Florida State University, WFSU-TV 1600 Red Barber
Plaza Tallahassee, FL 32310. Contact: Mrs. Donna Landrum, Business
Manager. Funds Requested: $105,525. Total Project Cost: $211,050. To
improve WFSU-TV in Tallahassee and WFSG-TV in Panama City, FL, serving
approximately 600,000 people, by replacing a 16-year old analog routing
switcher with a digital/analog routing switcher.
File No. 97175CTB WJCT Inc., WJCT-TV 100 Festival Park Avenue
Jacksonville, FL 32202. Contact: Mr. William Dresser, President and
General Manager. Funds Requested: $177,541. Total Project Cost:
$355,082. To improve public television station WJCT-TV, Channel 7 in
Jacksonville, FL, by replacing four, 12-year old one-inch videotape
machines for recording, on-air playback, and post-production
operations. WJCT-TV provides public television service to approximately
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1,600,000 people in the Jacksonville area.
File No. 97196CTB Florida West Coast Public Broadcast, WEDU 1300
North Boulevard Tampa, FL 33607. Contact: Ms. Elsie Garner, Sr. Vice
President & COO. Funds Requested: $650,000. Total Project Cost:
$1,850,000. To ensure the continuation of public television service to
approximately 4,000,000 people in the Tampa Bay area, WEDU-TV, Channel
3 in Tampa, FL, will construct a tower which is critically needed in
order to relocate the station's primary transmission facility for
uninterrupted service, to prepare for tower requirements in the
transition to digital television, and to provide co-location tower
space to public radio and television stations WUSF-FM and WUSF-TV.
Hawaii
File No. 97022CTB Hawaii Public Broadcasting Auth., KHET-TV 2350
Dole Street Honolulu, HI 96822. Contact: Mrs. Karen Yamamoto,
Administration/Finance Mgr. Funds Requested: $26,750. Total Project
Cost: $53,000. To improve the facilities of Hawaii Public Television by
replacing three transmitter shelters which house public television
translators serving the island of Kauai. The translators serve
residents in the vicinity of the communities of Anahola, Kaumakani, and
Princeville/Hanalei.
File No. 97024CTB Hawaii Public Broadcasting Auth., KHET-TV 2350
Dole Street Honolulu, HI 96822. Contact: Mrs. Karen Yamamoto,
Administrative/Finance Mgr. Funds Requested: $118,000. Total Project
Cost: $236,000. To improve the facilities of public television repeater
station KMEB-TV, operating on Ch. 10 on the island of Maui, by
replacing an obsolete transmitter. KMEB-TV serves 300,000 people on the
island of Maui and also feeds a series of translators which serve the
Big Island of Hawaii.
Iowa
File No. 97033PTB Iowa Public Broadcasting Board, Iowa Public
Television 6450 Corporate Drive Johnston, IA 50131. Contact: Mr. Dennis
Malloy, Director, Dev & Community Rel. Funds Requested: $66,500. Total
Project Cost: $133,000. To plan for the re-engineering needed to
convert the transmissions of Iowa Public Television, Johnston, IA, to
advanced television by the year 2003. Iowa PTV serves a population of
about 2,841,688.
File No. 97123CTN City of Sioux City, City Hall/Orpheum Electric
Bldg. 520 Pierce Street, P.O. Box 447 Sioux City, IA 51102-0447.
Contact: Mr. D. Craig Whitehead, City Manager. Funds Requested:
$102,495. Total Project Cost: $136,660. To establish a studio
production facility that would originate public service programming to
be transmitted over a dedicated cable television channel to the
residents of the City of Sioux City, IA, and surrounding Woodbury
County.
File No. 97184CRB Kirkwood Community College, KCCK 6301 Kirkwood
Boulevard SW P.O. Box 2068 Cedar Rapids, IA 52404. Contact: Mr. Steven
Carpenter, Station Manager. Funds Requested: $45,420. Total Project
Cost: $113,549. To improve the transmission and production capabilities
of public radio station KCCK, 88.3 MHZ, Cedar Rapids, IA, by replacing
its worn-out and obsolete transmitter, antenna and transmission line
and by replacing its audio recording equipment with a hard-disk non-
linear storage and editing system.
Idaho
File No. 97076PTB Idaho Public Television, KAID 1455 North Orchard
Boise, ID 83706. Contact: Ms. K. Gail Richardson, Grants Officer. Funds
Requested: $326,725. Total Project Cost: $326,725. To plan for Idaho
Public Television (1) to upgrade the existing statewide analog
microwave system to digital; (2) to develop an implementation plan for
the conversion of the statewide IPTV system to ATV; (3) to develop a
fundraising plan to fund the cost of ATV conversion for the statewide
system. Idaho PTV serves a population of about 1,133,034 from five
stations across the state.
File No. 97180CRB Idaho State University, College of Business
Campus Box 8020 Pocatello, ID 83209-8020. Contact: Dr. Paul Dishman,
Assistant Professor. Funds Requested: $168,544. Total Project Cost:
$229,437. To activate a public radio station operating at 91.1 MHZ in
Pocatello, Idaho. The new station will provide the first public radio
signal to about 13,678 persons, of whom approximately 2,100 are Native
Americans on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation. It will provide the
first local public radio signal to about 58,397 persons. The station
will be staffed and operated primarily by students.
File No. 97191CRB Idaho State Board of Education, BSU Radio Network
BSU Radio/SMITC 213 1910 University Drive Boise, ID 83725. Contact: Dr.
James Paluzzi, General Manager. Funds Requested: $63,772. Total Project
Cost: $85,030. To activate a public radio repeater station on 88.5 MHZ
in Burley, Idaho, to bring the first public radio signal to about
33,317 persons in the region often referred to as the ``Mini-Cassia''
region, including the communities of Burley, Paul, Rupert, Heyburn,
Declo, Albion, and Malta, Idaho. The new station will carry the
programing of the Boise State University radio network.
Illinois
File No. 97029CRB Bradley University, WCBU Radio 1501 West Bradley
Avenue Peoria, IL 61625. Contact: Mr. Anthony Dean, Station Manager.
Funds Requested: $169,399. Total Project Cost: $225,866. To improve the
operation of public radio station WCBU, 89.9 MHZ, Peoria, by replacing
obsolete and worn-out items of production equipment, including a hard
disk storage system, mixing consoles, CD players, and audio cassette
recorders. The station serves a population of about 300,000.
File No. 97045CRB University of Illinois/Springfield, WUIS/WIPA
Shepherd Road Building L 130 Springfield, IL 62707. Contact: Mr. David
Anderson, General Manager. Funds Requested: $122,230. Total Project
Cost: $244,460. To improve the operation of public radio station WUIS,
91.9 MHZ, Springfield, IL, by replacing worn-out and obsolete
production equipment, including audio consoles, minidisk recorders/
players, CD players, microphones, and telephone hybrids. WUIS and its
repeater, WIPA, 89.3 MHZ, Pittsfield, IL, provide service to a combined
population of 1,063,912 persons.
File No. 97063CTB Window to the World Communications, WTTW 5400
North St. Louis Avenue Chicago, IL 60625. Contact: Mr. Martin J.
McLaughlin, Vice President, Corp Affairs. Funds Requested: $268,340.
Total Project Cost: $536,680. To improve the operation of public
television station WTTW, Ch. 11, Chicago, IL, by replacing items of
production equipment, including video tape recorders, a character
generator, and a srtill store. The station serves a population of about
10.5-million people.
File No. 97122CTB University of Illinois, WILL-TV 1110 West Main
Street Urbana, IL 61801. Contact: Ms. Danda Tish Beard, Director/Grants
& Corp Support. Funds Requested: $160,000. Total Project Cost:
$320,000. To improve the operation of public television station WILL-
TV, Ch. 12, Urbana, IL, by replacing worn-out and obsolete equipment,
including an automation system and a routing switcher. The station
serves a population of about 1.3-million persons.
File No. 97215CRB University of Illinois, WILL-AM 1110 West Main
Street Urbana, IL 61801. Contact: Ms.
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Danda Tish Beard, Director/Grants & Corp Support. Funds Requested:
$7,438. Total Project Cost: $14,876. To improve the transmission system
of public radio station WILL-AM, 580 KHz, Urbana, IL, by replacing its
worn-out and unrepairable directional antenna monitor and the
associated remote control units. The station serves a population of
about 10,350,456 persons.
Indiana
File No. 97082CTB Metropolitan Indianapolis Pub Bdcst, WFYI
TelePlex 1401 North Meridian Street Indianapolis, IN 46202. Contact:
Mr. Lloyd Wright, President & General Manager. Funds Requested:
$312,500. Total Project Cost: $625,000. To improve the operation of
public station WFYI-TV, Ch. 20, Indianapolis, IN, by replacing three
worn-out and obsolete cameras and related equipment. The station serves
a population of about 2 million persons.
File No. 97085CRB Indiana University, WFIU Radio-TV Center
Bloomington, IN 47405-6901. Contact: Dr. Barrie Zimmerman, Director/
Opns & Engineering. Funds Requested: $16,041. Total Project Cost:
$32,082. To extend the signal of public radio station WFIU, 103.7 MHZ,
Bloomington, IN, by activating a translator at 106.1 MHZ in Kokomo, IN,
to bring the first public radio signal to about 50,000 persons. WFIU
presently serves a population of about 600,000.
File No. 97091CTB Ball State University, WIPB E. F. Ball Building
Ball State University Muncie, IN 47306. Contact: Mrs. Alice J. Cheney,
General Manager. Funds Requested: $237,988. Total Project Cost:
$475,976. To improve the operation of public television station WIPB,
Ch. 49, Muncie, IN, by replacing three worn-out and obsolete cameras
with their related equipment and by acquiring a local insertion server.
The station serves a population of about 980,000.
File No. 97182CTB Michiana Public Broadcasting Corp., WNIT 2300
Charger Boulevard Elkhart, IN 46514. Contact: Ms. Trina Cutter,
President/General Manager. Funds Requested: $67,484. Total Project
Cost: $89,979. To improve the operation of public television station
WNIT, Ch. 34, Elkhart, IN, by replacing worn-out and obsolete video
tape recorders with a digital video server. The station serves a
population of about 881,600.
File No. 97204CTB Tri-State Public Teleplex, Inc., WNIN-TV 405
Carpenter Street Evansville, IN 47708. Contact: Mr. David L. Dial,
President. Funds Requested: $40,521. Total Project Cost: $81,042. To
improve the operation of public station WNIN-TV. Ch. 9, Evansville. IN,
by replacing worn-out and obsolete items of production equipment,
including a character generator, camera pedestals, and a lighting
package. The station serves a population of about 750,000 persons.
Kansas
File No. 97013CTB Washburn University of Topeka, KTWU-TV 1700 S.W.
College Avenue Topeka, KS 66621. Contact: Mr. Robert Fidler, Director
of Operations. Funds Requested: $415,174. Total Project Cost: $830,349.
To improve public television station KTWU-TV, Ch. 11, Topeka by
replacing a 19 year old television transmitter, transmitter line and
associated equipment. KTWU-TV serves about 1.26 million people.
File No. 97040CTB Kansas Public Telecom. Service, In, 320 West 21st
St. N. Wichita, KS 67203. Contact: Mr. Dale Heckel, VP/Dir. Operations.
Funds Requested: $42,500. Total Project Cost: $85,000. To improve
public television station KPTS-TV, Ch. 8, in Wichita by purchasing a
new editor. This equipment will provide additional editing capability
and begin the conversion to ATV. KPTS-TV provides service to about
387,773 people.
File No. 97188CRB The Kanza Society Inc., KANZ-FM 210 North Seventh
Garden City, KS 67846. Contact: Ms. Kathleen Holt, Project Director.
Funds Requested: $19,341. Total Project Cost: $38,682. To extend the
signal of KANZ-FM (91.1 MHZ) in Garden City, KS by activating two FM
translators in Washburn, TX (91.3 MHZ) and Amarillo, TX (94.9 MHZ). The
Washburn facility will be fed by satellite and the Amarillo translator
will receive its signal off-air from the Washburn translator. Stations
will provide first nationally distributed public radio service to about
164,132 people.
File No. 97189CRB The Kanza Society Inc., KANZ-FM 210 North Seventh
Garden City, KS 67846. Contact: Ms. Kathleen Holt, Project Director.
Funds Requested: $33,292. Total Project Cost: $66,088. To improve and
extend public radio station KANZ-FM, 91.1 MHZ, in Garden City by
activating a new FM translator in Hugoton (92.3 MHZ) and acquiring a
digital audio automation system that will enhance the station's
production capabilities and allow it to extend its hours of operation.
The Hugoton translator will provide a first public radio service to an
additional 4,390 people.
File No. 97202CRB Wichita State University, KMUW-FM 3317 E. 17th
Street Wichita, KS 67208. Contact: Mr. Mark McCain, General Manager.
Funds Requested: $43,040. Total Project Cost: $86,080. To improve the
facilities of public radio station KMUW-FM, on 89.1 MHZ, in Wichita by
replacing an Uninterrupted Power Supply, upgrading the transmitter
remote control system, replacing analog production equipment with
digital recording and editing equipment and replacing the station's
remote recording and broadcast equipment. KMUW-FM provides service to
about 650,000 people. in south central KS.
File No. 97211CRB Kansas State University of Agricult, KKSU-AM Room
2 Fairchild Hall Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 66506. Contact:
Mr. Larry Jackson, KKSU-AM Station Manager. Funds Requested: $10,800.
Total Project Cost: $21,600. To improve public radio station KKSU-AM,
580 KHz, in Manhattan by replacing outdated remote transmission
equipment, improving telephone audio broadcast capability and
establishing a digital audio studio. KKSU-AM serves about 5.4 million
people in most of KS and parts of ND, MO, IA and OK.
Kentucky
File No. 97077CRB Murray State University, WKMS Price Doyle Fine
Arts Building 15th & Olive Streets Murray, KY 42071. Contact: Mrs. Kate
B. Lochte, Station Manager. Funds Requested: $27,450. Total Project
Cost: $36,600. To extend the signal of public radio station WKMS, 91.3
MHZ, Murray, KY, by activating translators on 92.1 MHZ in Paducah, KY,
and on 99.5 MHZ in Paris, TN. The new translators will bring the first
public radio signal to about 43,213 persons. WKMS serves about 278,000
persons from its existing facilities.
File No. 97087CRB Kentucky Public Radio (dba Public Radio
Partnership) 301 York Street Louisville, KY 40203. Contact: Ms. Kathi
Ellis, Grant Writer. Funds Requested: $344,959. Total Project Cost:
$689,919. To improve the operation of the three public radio stations
operated by Kentucky Public Radio--WFPL, 89.3 MHZ, WUOL, 90.5 MHZ, and
WFPK, 91.9 MHZ--in Louisville, KY, by replacing worn-out and obsolete
equipment, including two STL's, audio consoles, CD players, a CD
recorder, compressor-limiters, DAT recorders, a hard-disk storage and
editing system, microphones, patch bays, speakers, and a routing
switcher. The three stations serve a population of about 3,057,566.
File No. 97096IPTN The Center for Rural Development, 2292 South
Highway 27 Suite 300 Somerset, KY 42501. Contact: Mrs. Hilda Legg,
Executive Director & CEO. Funds
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Requested: $150,000. Total Project Cost: $200,000. To develop a plan
for a video production and distribution facility that will be managed
by the Center for Rural Development in Somerset, KY, through the
cooperation of educational institutions, government agencies and
corporate donors, to provide distance learning and training courses and
economic development programs particularly to Kentucky's underdeveloped
southern and eastern rural counties.
File No. 97142CTB Kentucky Educational Television, 600 Cooper Drive
Lexington, KY 40502. Contact: Mrs. Virginia G. Fox, Executive Director.
Funds Requested: $85,647. Total Project Cost: $171,295. To improve the
operation of Kentucky Educational Television (KET) by refurbishing the
antennas of WKGB, Ch. 53, Bowling Green, and WKON, Ch. 52, Owenton,
both Kentucky, and by acquiring a package of test equipment for WKLE,
Ch. 46, Lexington. KET serves a population of about 3,700,000 from
fifteen full-power stations and five translators.
File No. 97179CTN Kentucky Educational Television, 600 Cooper Drive
Lexington, KY 40502. Contact: Mrs. Virginia Fox, Executive Director.
Funds Requested: $602,425. Total Project Cost: $1,204,850. To equip
five state universities with satellite uplinks for the distribution of
distance learning programing using the state owned satellite
transponder to 1700 downlink sites within the state.
Louisiana
File No. 97021ICTN Orleans Parish Public Schools, Consolidated
Programs 3500 General DeGaulle Dr. Room 232 New Orleans, LA 70114.
Contact: Dr. James Lloyd, Compliance Officer. Funds Requested:
$439,500. Total Project Cost: $605,500. To purchase the equipment
necessary to asist the Orleans Parish Public Schools--in a partnership
with public television station WLAE-TV, Ch. 32, New Orleans--to
activate an ITFS system that would allow the school system to transmit
diverse instructional programming to 130 schools in the greater New
Orleans area. The project would also purchase the equipment for a
remote production van.
File No. 97042ICTN New Orleans Educ. T/C Consortium, 2929 S.
Carrollton Avenue New Orleans, LA 70118. Contact: Mr. Robert J. Lucas,
Executive Director. Funds Requested: $85,303. Total Project Cost:
$170,606. To extend the present ITFS-based distance learning network of
the eight-college New Orleans Educational Telecommunications Consortium
to the newly-established Slidell Campus of Delgado Community College as
well as to the Stennis Space Center in nearby Mississippi.
File No. 97052CTB Greater New Orleans ETV Fdn., WYES-TV 916 Navarre
Avenue New Orleans, LA 70124. Contact: Mr. Randall Feldman, President &
General Mgr. Funds Requested: $177,332. Total Project Cost: $354,665.
To improve public television station WYES-TV, operating on Channel 12
in New Orleans, LA, by replacing the worn-out antenna feedlines, on-air
playback VCR's, the old digital effects generator, and waveform
monitors.
File No. 97070CTB Educational Broadcasting Foundation, WLAE-TV 2929
S. Carrollton Ave. New Orleans, LA 70118. Contact: Mr. John Pela,
Station Manager. Funds Requested: $101,637. Total Project Cost:
$203,275. To improve public television station WLAE-TV, operating on
Channel 32 in New Orleans, LA, by replacing the master control
equipment and activating creation of a new educational cable channel,
which is a Special Application project in the category of Distance
Learning Development.
Massachusetts
File No. 97165CRB University of Massachusetts, WUMB-FM Radio 100
Morrissey Boulevard Boston, MA 02125. Contact: Ms. Patricia Monteith,
General Manager. Funds Requested: $110,803. Total Project Cost:
$158,290. To extend and improve the signal of public radio station
WFPB-FM, operating on 91.9 MHZ in Falmouth, MA, by replacing the
transmitter, antenna and transmission line and providing first public
radio service to over 48,000 residents of Upper and Mid Barnstable
county.
Maryland
File No. 97067CTB Maryland Public Broadcasting Commis, 11767 Owings
Mills Boulevard Owings Mills, MD 21117. Contact: Mr. Robert Hoerr,
Chief Engineer. Funds Requested: $219,800. Total Project Cost:
$439,600. To improve the facilities of the State network, Maryland
Public Broadcasting will replace the 23-year-old antenna and
transmission line at WMPT-TV, Channel 22 in Annapolis, which provides
public television services to over 6 million residents of Maryland.
File No. 97084CRB Salisbury State University Fdn., WSCL FM Route 13
(p.o. Box 2596) Caruthers Hall Salisbury, MD 21801. Contact: Mr. Fred
Marino, General Manager. Funds Requested: $149,451. Total Project Cost:
$229,925. To extend the signal of WSCL-FM, operating on 89.5 MHZ in
Salisbury (MD) by constructing a repeater station serving Ocean City,
operating on 90.7 MHZ. The new station will provide first public radio
service to about 350,000 permanent and seasonal residents of Worcester
County, Maryland and Sussex County, Delaware.
File No. 97154ICTN Chesapeake Regional Network, Inc., 269 Trinity
Church Road Northeast, MD 21901. Contact: Mr. Douglas Donley,
President. Funds Requested: $60,685. Total Project Cost: $84,285. To
construct a four-channel ITFS facility to transmit instructional
programming to the primary and secondary schools of the Cecil Co.
Public School system. Cecil County is located in Maryland between
Baltimore and Philadelphia.
File No. 97178CTN Community TV of Prince George's, Production
Department 9475 Lottsford Road Suite 125 Largo, MD 20774. Contact: Ms.
Sherry Byrne, Executive Director. Funds Requested: $440,000. Total
Project Cost: $587,000. To replace worn-out production equipment and to
purchase mobile studio equipment for Community Television of Prince
George's, Largo, MD. The applicant's service is transmitted over the
cable television system serving Prince George's County, MD.
Maine
File No. 97055CRB Maine Public Broadcasting Corp., 65 Texas Avenue
Bangor, ME 04401. Contact: Mr. Gil Maxwell, Director of Engineering.
Funds Requested: $30,387. Total Project Cost: $60,774. To improve the
facilities of the state network, Maine Public Broadcasting will replace
the 21-year-old transmitter at WMEM-FM, operating on 106.1 MHZ, serving
the residents of Aroostook County, Maine.
File No. 97062CTB Maine Public Broadcasting Corp., 65 Texas Avenue
Bangor, ME 04401. Contact: Mr. Gil Maxwell, Director of Engineering.
Funds Requested: $150,000. Total Project Cost: $300,000. To improve
broadcast facilities within the State network and to meet current
industry standards, Maine Public Broadcasting will replace 12-year-old
studio VTRs with DVC Pro format tape machines.
Michigan
File No. 97026ICTN Northern Michigan University, Learning Resources
Center Elizabeth Harden Drive Marquette, MI 49855. Contact: Mr. Scott
K. Seaman, Director of Learning Resources. Funds Requested: $225,000.
Total Project Cost: $450,000. To install microwave to provide for two-
way interactive video and audio as well as data transmission between
and among
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11 sites in a system terminating at Northern Michigan University,
Marquette; Michigan Technological University, Houghton; and Bay de Noc
Community College, Escanaba. The project will allow for T-1 service
over video at all 11 installations. It will also interconnect the
Keweenaw Bay Indian Tribe, Baraga, and the Hannahville Indian Tribe,
LaBranche, by T-1 and construct distance learning classrooms on those
Reservations.
File No. 97028ICTN Dickinson-Iron ISD, 1074 Pyle Drive Kingsford,
MI 49802. Contact: Mrs. Mary L. Brien, Superintendent. Funds Requested:
$253,367. Total Project Cost: $337,823. To install video classrooms in
10 high schools and two intermediate school districts, all located in
extremely rural areas of Northern Michigan. The project will allow
these schools to participate in a two-way interactive distance learning
network interconnected by optical fiber.
File No. 97041CRB Detroit Board of Education, WDTR 5057 Woodward
Avenue Detroit, MI 48202. Contact: Mr. Clifford E. Cox, Deputy
Superintendent. Funds Requested: $449,163. Total Project Cost:
$598,884. To improve the operation of public radio station WDTR, 90.0
MHZ, Detroit, MI, by replacing worn-out and obsolete transmission and
production equipment, including the transmitter, consoles, and other
items. The station serves a population base of about 3,968,575.
File No. 97115PTB Central Michigan University, CMU Public
Broadcasting Public Broadcasting Center 3965 E. Broomfield Road Mt.
Pleasant, MI 48859. Contact: Mr. Randall G. Kapenga, Director of
Technical Services. Funds Requested: $68,407. Total Project Cost:
$91,259. To plan for the conversion to Advanced Television by WCMU-TV,
Ch. 14, Mt. Pleasant, MI, which serves a population of about 1,115,000.
The plan will look at relocation, consolidation, cooperative
construction, and educational outreach potential while maintaining the
objective of universal coverage at sustainable operational expense.
File No. 97116CRB Central Michigan University, CMU Public
Broadcasting Public Broadcasting Center 3965 East Bloomfield Road Mt.
Pleasant, MI 48859. Contact: Mr. Thomas Hunt, Director of Radio. Funds
Requested: $37,827. Total Project Cost: $75,655. To improve the
production capacity of public station WCMU-FM, 89.5 MHZ, Mt. Pleasant,
MI, by replacing worn-out and obsolete items of production equipment,
including an audio console, CD players, jack panels, and DAT recorders
and by acquiring a non-linear digital editing system. CMU Radio serves
a population base of about 2,192,550.
Minnesota
File No. 97012CTB Northern Minnesota Public TV, KAWE/KAWB 1500
Birchmont Drive, Box Number 9 Bemidji, MN 56601. Contact: Mr. Bill
Sanford, Director of Engineering. Funds Requested: $48,928. Total
Project Cost: $65,237. To improve public television station KAWB-TV,
operating on Channel 22 in Brainerd, MN, by providing the first local
origination service to Central Minnesota. The other towns in the
coverage area are Crosby, Staples, Breezy Point, Baxter, Pequot Lakes
and Nisswa, MN.
File No. 97046CTB West Central Minnesota ETV, Pioneer Public
Television 120 West Schlieman Avenue Appleton, MN 56208. Contact: Mr.
Ansel Doll, General Manager. Funds Requested: $190,260. Total Project
Cost: $380,520. To activate a repeater public television station K69HG,
operating on Channel 69, in Fergus Falls, MN providing first signal to
50,714 potential viewers in West Central Minnesota.
File No. 97093CRB Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Red Lake
Tribal Council, Tribal Headquarters Building Red Lake, MN 56671.
Contact: Mr. Bobby Whitefeather, Tribal Chairman. Funds Requested:
$163,675. Total Project Cost: $287,150. To activate a full service
public radio station operating on 94.1 MHZ in Red Lake, MN, providing
the first local service utilizing local originated programming which is
pertinent to the Indian way of life. This proposed station will serve
5,817 people on the Reservation and to 45,007 others in the surrounding
region.
File No. 97131ICTN Asian Media Access Inc., 730 Hennepin Avenue
Room 812 C/o Metropolitan State University Minneapolis, MN 55403.
Contact: Mrs. Ange Hwang, Executive Director. Funds Requested:
$140,708. Total Project Cost: $281,416. The applicant is requesting
funding to acquire broadcast quality production equipment to establish
an Asian American Production Studio at Metropolitan State University in
Minneapolis, MN, to produce educational programs for local and national
PBS stations and through the ITV system at MSU, reaching communities in
greater Minnesota.
File No. 97148CRB Niijii Broadcast Corporation, Route 1 Box 291
Ponsford, MN 56575. Contact: Ms. Pam Ellis, Project Staff. Funds
Requested: $289,167. Total Project Cost: $385,557. To activate a first
signal, full service public radio station operating on 89.1 MHZ for the
White Earth Ojibwe Reservation in Northwest Minnesota, providing
service for 9,400 unserved, potential listeners.
File No. 97156CRB Minnesota Public Radio, 45 E 7th Street St Paul,
MN 55101. Contact: Mr. Ron Hall, Research Assistant. Funds Requested:
$290,005. Total Project Cost: $580,010. To improve the network of
Minnesota Public Radio, in particular KNOW-FM, operating on 91.1 MHZ in
Minneapolis-St. Paul and KSJN-FM, operating on 99.5 MHZ in Minneapolis,
by replacing one audio console, 9 Studer B67 reel-to-reel tape
machines, cart machines and one transmitter for KCCM-FM in Fargo/
Moorhead. Also requested is digital audio library and a spectrum
analyzer, which are upgrades.
File No. 97168ICTN Stephen/Argyle School District, Educational
Television Project 705 Lincoln Avenue P. O. Box 279 Argyle, MN 56713.
Contact: Mr. Mark Kroulik, Principal. Funds Requested: $17,907. Total
Project Cost: $23,876. To establish a production studio for the
Stephen/Argyle School District, Argyle, MN. The programming will be
transmitted over a dedicated educational channel--Channel 16--of the
local cable television system.
Missouri
File No. 97051CTB Public Television 19, Inc., KCPT 125 East 31st
Street Kansas City, MO 64108. Contact: Ms. Brenda Williams, Grant
Coordinator. Funds Requested: $328,475. Total Project Cost: $656,950.
To improve the broadcast signal of public television station KCPT, Ch.
19, Kansas City, MO, by replacing its unreliable transmitter. The
station serves a population base of about 1,600,000.
File No. 97114CRB New Wave Corporation, KOPN 915 East Broadway
Columbia, MO 65201-4857. Contact: Mr. Steve Spencer, General Manager.
Funds Requested: $65,686. Total Project Cost: $131,373. To improve the
operation of public radio station KOPN, 89.5 MHZ, Columbia, MO, by
replacing its unreliable transmitter, STL, and an audio console and by
acquiring a hard-disk, non-linear editing and audio storage system. The
station serves a population base of about 146,865.
File No. 97198CTB St. Louis Regional Ed & PTV Commiss, 6996
Millbrook Boulevard St. Louis, MO 63130. Contact: Mr. Michael
Hardgrove, President & CEO. Funds Requested: $202,470. Total Project
Cost: $404,940. To improve the production and operational facilities of
public television station KETC, Ch. 9, St. Louis, MO, by replacing
worn-out and obsolete items of origination and test equipment,
including a switcher, an audio console,
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a video monitor, loudspeakers, a waveform monitor, and a digital audio
monitor. The items will complement the station's move into a new
building. The station serves a population base of 3,000,000.
File No. 97199CTB St. Louis Regional Ed & PTV Commiss, 6994
Millbrook Boulevard St. Louis, MO 63130. Contact: Mr. Michael
Hardgrove, President & CEO. Funds Requested: $1,681,670. Total Project
Cost: $2,242,228. To extend the signal of public television station
KETC, Ch. 9, St. Louis, MO, by activating a full-power repeater on
channel 36 in Jefferson City, MO. The new station will bring the first
public television signal to about 340,758 persons. KETC presently
serves a population base of about 3,000,000.
File No. 97209CRB Double Helix Corporation, KDHX 3504 Magnolia St.
Louis, MO 63118. Contact: Ms. Marge Reese, Development Director. Funds
Requested: $3,719. Total Project Cost: $7,438. To augment the
operational capacity of public radio station KDHX, 88.1 MHZ, St. Louis,
MO, by acquiring the equipment with which to originate remote
broadcasts. The station serves a population base of 2,500,000.
Montana
File No. 97009CTB Whitehall Low Power TV, Inc., 309 East Legion
Avenue Whitehall, MT 59759-1504. Contact: Mr. Edward Folkwein, Manager.
Funds Requested: $97,988. Total Project Cost: $130,650. To improve the
facilities of Low Power public television station K52CE operating on
Ch. 52 in Whitehall, by purchasing television production studio
equipment to provide locally originated programs. The station serves
3,000 residents of Whitehall and areas of Jefferson and Madison
Counties.
North Carolina
File No. 97110ICTN Central Piedmont Community College, 1201
Elizabeth Ave. P.O. Box 35009 Charlotte, NC 28235. Contact: Ms. Cynthia
Erickson, Dir./Resource Development. Funds Requested: $100,039. Total
Project Cost: $200,077. To install a second video classroom at Central
Piedmont Community College to allow the College to expand its distance
learning programming, which is distributed via a dedicated channel on
the local cable television system.
File No. 97164CTB The University of North Carolina, Center for
Public Television 10 TW Alexander Drive Research Triangle Park, NC
27709. Contact: Mrs. Joyce Ledbetter, Director of Finance. Funds
Requested: $1,574,523. Total Project Cost: $4,890,000. To improve
broadcast operations and extend its coverage area to include
approximately 779,000 potential new viewers in the state's northeast
region, the University of North Carolina Center for Public TV will
replace critical transmission equipment and construct a taller tower at
WUND-TV, Channel 2, in Columbia, NC.
North Dakota
File No. 97019CTB Prairie Public Broadcasting, Inc, 207 North 5th
Street P.O. Box 3240 Fargo, ND 58108-3240. Contact: Mrs. Kathleen
Pavelko, President & CEO. Funds Requested: $66,915. Total Project Cost:
$133,830. To improve public television station KFME-TV, operating on
Channel 13 in Fargo, ND, by replacing two worn-out 14-year-old one inch
tape machines, six \3/4\'' tape machines and two distribution
amplifiers.
Nebraska
File No. 97170ICTN A*DEC Corporation, C218 Animal Science Building
University Of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE 68583. Contact: Dr. Janet Poley,
President/CEO. Funds Requested: $375,000. Total Project Cost: $750,000.
To establish a teleport at Colorado State University, Fort Collins CO,
which will permit expansion of the A*DEC services via multi-channel
compressed digital video.
File No. 97192CTB Nebraska Educational Telecomm., 1800 N. 33rd
Street P.O. Box 83111 Lincoln, NE 68501-3111. Contact: Mr. Rod Bates,
Secretary. Funds Requested: $428,176. Total Project Cost: $856,353. To
improve the Nebraska ETV Network by replacing for the mother station,
KRNE-TV, operating on Channel 12 in Lincoln, NE, the obsolete and
unreliable tape based audio editing system with a disk based digital
audio work station, and the original lighting equipment in the main
production studio. The project also includes replacing the tube-type
VHF transmitter at KRNE-TV in Merriman, NE.
File No. 97193CRB Nebraska Educational Telecomm., 1800 N. 33rd
Street P.O. Box 83111 Lincoln, NE 68501-3111. Contact: Mr. Rod Bates,
Secretary. Funds Requested: $29,500. Total Project Cost: $59,000. To
improve the Nebraska Educational Telecommunication Network of nine
public radio stations; the mother station, KUCV-FM, operating on 90.9
MHZ in Lincoln, NE, has requested replacing the worn-out tape based
audio editing equipment and the old NAB cartridge machines. Also
requested is an upgrade of the telephone system by acquiring the
supplement of its simple, single line telephone coupler.
New Hampshire
File No. 97002CTB University of New Hampshire, New Hampshire Public
Television Route 155A So./Mast Road PO Box 1100 Durham, NH 03824.
Contact: Mr. Robert Ross, Director of Engineering. Funds Requested:
$255,000. Total Project Cost: $510,000. To improve the facilities of
the State network by replacing 13-year-old studio cameras and 10-year-
old field equipment at the network's broadcast center in Durham, New
Hampshire.
New Jersey
File No. 97058IPTN Burlington County College, Pemberton-Browns
Mills Road County Route 530 Pemberton, NJ 08068. Contact: Ms. Lisa
Dichiara-Platt, Exe. Assist. to the President. Funds Requested:
$90,000. Total Project Cost: $120,000. To design a technology plan for
a new telecommunications facility that will connect a consortium of
seven colleges in an interactive network to provide distance learning
and workforce training to an underserved population in four counties of
Southern New Jersey.
File No. 97136CRB Burlington County College, County Route 530
Pemberton-Browns Mills Road Pemberton, NJ 08068. Contact: Mr. Drew
Jacobs, Program/Operations Manager. Funds Requested: $43,478. Total
Project Cost: $57,971. To extend its signal and bring reliable public
radio services to the entire population of Burlington County, non-
commercial radio station WBZC-FM, operating on 88.9 MHZ in Pemberton,
will activate two translators, one in Burlington/Beverly, operating on
95.1 MHZ, and one in Palmyra/Riverton, operating on 107.5 MHZ. These
new translators will serve approximately 276,000 residents of the
western edge of the county.
File No. 97157CRB New Jersey Public Broadcasting Auth, CN 777 25
South Stockton Street Trenton, NJ 08625. Contact: Mr. Robert Prindible,
Deputy Director of Finance & A. Funds Requested: $145,792. Total
Project Cost: $194,390. To extend and improve the State network by
constructing a new transmitting system and STL for WNJM-FM, 88.9 MHZ in
Manahawkin and WNJZ-FM, 90.3 MHZ in Cape May Court House. The new
facilities will provide the first public radio service to over 26,000
residents and additional service to about 81,000 people in southeastern
New Jersey.
New Mexico
File No. 97027CRB Alamo Navajo School Board, Inc., KABR-AM P.O. Box
907 Magdalena, NM 87825. Contact: Ms.
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Lynda Middleton, Administrative Assistant. Funds Requested: $8,250.
Total Project Cost: $11,000. To improve the facilities of noncommercial
public radio station KABR-AM, 1500 kHz, in Magdalena by replacing some
equipment in the on-air control room with an audio storage system. This
will permit the transition to automated broadcasting and permit an
increase in the number of broadcast hours without increasing the staff
size. KABR-AM serves about 11,000 people in west central NM.
File No. 97080ICTN San Juan College, 4601 College Blvd. Farmington,
NM 87402. Contact: Dr. Nelle Moore, Director/Grant Development. Funds
Requested: $340,030. Total Project Cost: $453,374. To install a
digital, single-channel ITFS system for San Juan College, Farmington,
to allow the College to transmit diverse educational programming to
learners throughout the extreme northwest corner of New Mexico. Because
of the proposed system's digital technology, the College will be able
to transmit simultaneously six channels of programming.
File No. 97145CRB Southern New Mexico Radio Foundation, 1505
Crescent Drive Alamogordo, NM 88310. Contact: Mr. Robert Flotte,
President. Funds Requested: $194,941. Total Project Cost: $259,921. To
activate a new noncommercial educational FM radio station on 91.7 MHZ,
in Alamogordo to provide first local origination to approximately
54,700 people. Studios will be located on the Alamorgordo branch campus
of New Mexico State University.
File No. 97166CTN Hispanic Educational Telecomm., University Of New
Mexico Scholes Hall Albuquerque, NM 87203. Contact: Mr. Donald Fischer,
Program Manager. Funds Requested: $840,606. Total Project Cost:
$1,120,808. To expand participation in the Hispanic Educational
Telecommunications System (HETS) project by construction of VSAT
satellite terminals and origination classrooms at eight colleges
serving Hispanic students: Lehman College and John Jay College of
Criminal Justice in New York State; University of Texas-Brownsville;
Kings River Community College in California; Miami Dade Community
College and Florida International University in Florida; Ana G. Mendez
University and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Puerto Rico.
File No. 97207IPTN Gallup-McKinley County Schools, P.O. Box 1318
Gallup, NM 87305. Contact: Mr. Robert Gomez, Superintendent. Funds
Requested: $66,119. Total Project Cost: $87,069. Conduct a study to
determine the feasibility of alternative technologies for an
interactive network among 31 public schools, 17 Bureau of Indian
Affairs schools, and 6 locations of the University of New Mexico for a
distance learning and training service in the 5000-square-mile rural
McKinley County in northwest New Mexico.
Nevada
File No. 97032PRB Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of Duck Valley, Tribal
Headquarters Idaho/Nevada Stateline Highway P.O. Box 219 Owyhee, NV
89832. Contact: Mr. Herman Atkins, Tribal Administrator. Funds
Requested: $75,166. Total Project Cost: $75,166. To conduct planning
activities for the establishment of a non-commercial radio station that
will provide first public radio service to approximately 1,500
residents of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in Owyhee, Nevada.
File No. 97092CTB Clark County School District, KLVX-TV 4210
Channel 10 Drive Las Vegas, NV 89119. Contact: Mr. Tom Axtell, General
Manager. Funds Requested: $423,175. Total Project Cost: $694,100. To
expand and improve the broadcast capabilities of KLVX-TV, Channel 10 in
Las Vegas by activating four translators and a microwave relay system
that will provide first public television service to over 16,000
residents of Southern Nevada. In addition, KLVX will replace six camera
pedestals and heads, the main routing switcher, and the transmitter
waveform monitor and will upgrade its transmitter with a backup visual
and aural exciters to reduce outages.
File No. 97112CRB University of Nevada-Las Vegas, KUNV-FM RADIO
91.5 4505 Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, NV 89154. Contact: Mr. Don
Fuller, Interim General Manager. Funds Requested: $49,912. Total
Project Cost: $99,912. To improve the facilities of KUNV-FM, operating
on 91.5 MHZ in Las Vegas, Nevada by replacing 15-year old equipment
including the on-air and production audio consoles and remote recording
equipment. In addition, KUNV proposes to install a satellite downlink
to provide national and regional programming to the community.
File No. 97206CRB Univ. of Nevada-Reno, KUNR 88.7-FM Public Radio
University of Nevada, Reno Mail Stop 294 Reno, NV 89557. Contact: Ms.
Mary Husemoller, Director of Sponsored Projects. Funds Requested:
$96,787. Total Project Cost: $129,049. To extend the signal of KUNR-FM,
operating on 88.7 MHZ in Reno by establishing a series of satellite-fed
translators in northern Nevada and the California's eastern Sierra.
Translators will be placed in Truckee, CA; Tahoe-Donner, CA; South Lake
Tahoe, CA/NV; Bridgeport, CA; Lee Vining, CA; Mammoth Lakes, CA; Lone
Pine, CA; Fallon, NV; Eureka, NV; Crescent Valley, NV; and Wendover,
UT/NV. The project will provide first public radio service to an
estimated 77,584 people.
New York
File No. 97007CTB Educational Broadcasting Corporation, Thirteen/
WNET 356 West 58th Street New York, NY 10019. Contact: Mr. Kenneth
Devine, Managing Dir. of Fac. Funds Requested: $304,900. Total Project
Cost: $762,250. To improve public television station WNET, operating on
Channel 13 in New York City, NY by replacing the 17 year old, 25 KW
transmitter, which is increasingly unreliable and exceedingly costly to
keep in operation.
File No. 97020CRTB Public Bdcstg Council of Central NY, WCNY 506
Old Liverpool Road P. 0. Box 2400 Syracuse, NY 13220. Contact: Mr. John
Duffy, Chief Engineer. Funds Requested: $98,000. Total Project Cost:
$196,000. To improve the facilities of the public television station
and the three public radio stations the applicant operates (WCNY-TV Ch.
24, WCNY-FM 91.3 MHZ, WUNY-FM and WJNY-FM), by replacing key obsolete
TV and FM broadcasting equipment, including an FM transmitter, two \1/
2\'' digital video recorders, six audio distribution amps and one video
distribution amp.
File No. 97036CTB WSKG Public T/C Council, 601 Gates Road Vestal,
NY 13850. Contact: Mr. Michael J. Ziegler, President & CEO. Funds
Requested: $1,703,250. Total Project Cost: $2,271,000. To activate a
repeater non-commercial TV station on channel 57 in Waverly, NY,
providing first signal to the towns of Waverly, Elmira, Watkins Glen.
Ithaca in New York and Tioga, Mansfield, Sayre and Bradford
Pennsylvania, serving 191,160 unserved potential viewers.
File No. 97039CTB WMHT Educational Telecommunications, WMHT-TV &
WMHO-TV P.O. Box 17 17 Fern Avenue Schenectady, NY 12301-0017. Contact:
Ms. Elizabeth Hood, Station Manager. Funds Requested: $222,925. Total
Project Cost: $445,850. To improve public television station WMHT,
operating on Channel 17, in Schenectady, NY by replacing outdated and
unreliable equipment in its television on-line post production suite.
File No. 97049CRB Research Foundation of SUNY, WBFO-FM Sponsored
Programs Admin. Ub 520 Lee Entrance Amherst, NY 14228. Contact:
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Mr. Bradley Bermudez, Sponsored Programs Assoc. Funds Requested:
$73,280. Total Project Cost: $146,561. To extend and improve public
radio station WBFO-FM, operating on 88.7 MHZ in Amherst, NY, by
increasing the power to the transmitter from 20 KW ERP to 50 KW ERP,
necessitating a new transmitter and antenna and by replacing old, worn-
out and malfunctioning audio, local production and on-air equipment
with digital audio systems.
File No. 97054ICTN Hunter College, CUNY, 695 Park Avenue New York,
NY 10021. Contact: Mr. Robert Buckley, Campus Rep. RF-CUNY. Funds
Requested: $368,512. Total Project Cost: $737,024. To construct a
multiple function distance learning facility which will include a
satellite downlink, production studio, and video conferencing
capability. The facility will utilize ISDN and T-1 interconnections to
link to the City of New York I-NET system and CUNY systems.
File No. 97068CRB WSKG Public T/C Council, 601 Gates Road Vestal,
NY 13850. Contact: Mr. Michael Ziegler, President/CEO. Funds Requested:
$111,960. Total Project Cost: $149,280. To activate a repeater public
radio station on 90.1 MHZ in Ithaca, NY, providing first signal to
Ithaca and the surrounding rural region, which will serve 81,506
unserved potential listeners.
File No. 97079CTB Long Island Educational TV Council, WLIW-21
Channel 21 Drive Plainview, NY 11803. Contact: Mr. Terrel Cass,
President. Funds Requested: $360,000. Total Project Cost: $720,000. To
improve public television station WLIW-TV, operating on Channel 21, in
Plainview, NY, by replacing the 24 year old broadcast antenna,
transmission line and associated testing equipment, and replacing
problematic editing equipment for local and national productions.
File No. 97083CRB Western New York Public Brdcg., WNED-FM 140 Lower
Terrace Buffalo, NY 14202. Contact: Mr. Richard Daly, Sr VP
Broadcasting. Funds Requested: $198,968. Total Project Cost: $397,936.
To improve public radio station WNED-FM, operating on 94.5 MHZ in
Buffalo, NY, by replacing a severely impaired nearly 40 year old tower,
damaged antenna and transmission line, and an inadequate 19 year old
transmitter.
File No. 97090CTB Mountain Lake Public Telecomm., WCFE-TV/Channel
57 One Sesame Street Plattsburgh, NY 12901. Contact: Mr. Howard Lowe,
President & General Mgr. Funds Requested: $56,780. Total Project Cost:
$115,878. To improve public Television station WCFE-TV, operating on
Channel 57 in Plattsburgh, NY, by replacing a worn-out routing switcher
and terminal equipment.
File No. 97103ICTN The Sage Colleges, 45 Ferry Street Troy, NY
12180-4115. Contact: Dr. David Bonner, Dir./Distance Learning & T/Med.
Funds Requested: $417,280. Total Project Cost: $2,327,080. To purchase
diverse distance learning equipment to allow an expansion of the
Adirondack Area Network, a network that embraces extensive telemedicine
and video conferencing activities among numerous health and education
entities throughout that area.
File No. 97111ICTN Ulster County BOCES, 175 County Route 32 North
New Paltz, NY 12561. Contact: Ms. Jane Bullowa, Ass't Supt./Instruct'l
Serv. Funds Requested: $13,961. Total Project Cost: $18,615. To expand
the applicant's satellite capability through the purchase of a digital
C-and Ku-band satellite downlink. The applicant serves 101,617 students
in a three-county region.
File No. 97117CTN Bronx Commun. Cable Progrm'ng Corp., (BRONXNET)
250 Bedford Park Blvd. West Bronx, NY 10468. Contact: Mr. James T.
Carney, Executive Director. Funds Requested: $186,038. Total Project
Cost: $372,076. To upgrade the production facilities of the BRONXNET
community access cable television studios with digital equipment.
BRONXNET transmits its programming over four cable TV channels to
approximately 224,000 homes in the Bronx section of New York City. The
new equipment will allow BRONXNET to produce programming that will
reach new audiences among the traditionally unserved and underserved
populations of that area.
File No. 97120ICTN Research Foundation-CUNY, Lehman College 250
Bedford Park Blvd. West Bronx, NY 10468-1589. Contact: Ms. Barbara
Bralver, Director, Grants & Contracts. Funds Requested: $165,514. Total
Project Cost: $331,028. To establish a digital video studio at Lehman
College, which is located in the Bronx of New York City. The
educational programming that would be produced at the studio would be
distributed via a number of technologies to varied learning audiences.
File No. 97134PRB WJPZ Radio Inc, WJPZ-FM 316 Waverly Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13210. Contact: Ms. Jaime Bell, General Manager. Funds
Requested: $71,013. Total Project Cost: $94,685. Planning activities to
explore a possible equipment configuration and cost to improve the
station.
File No. 97139ICTN State University of New York, Empire State
College One Union Avenue Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. Contact: Mr.
William Ferrero, VP for Administration. Funds Requested: $792,534.
Total Project Cost: $1,056,712. To expand a collegiate level Internet-
based distance learning system to enable underserved students with an
Internet connection--with some videoconferencing applications--in
urban, suburban, and rural locations access to degree programs
regardless of place and time.
File No. 97158PTB The Progressive Tenants Association, 330
Greenwich Street Hempstead, NY 11550. Contact: Ms. Stephanie Morris,
Chief Executive Officer. Funds Requested: $175,000. Total Project Cost:
$225,000. Applicant seeks funding to establish plans to construct a
non-commercial TV station in Hempstead, NY. The goal will include fund
raising, financing, seeking investors, hiring staff and consultants,
and creating training programs to meet the underserved need of the
Black Community in Nassau County.
File No. 97162CRB WXXI Public Broadcasting Council, WXXI-AM 280
State Street Rochester, NY 14614. Contact: Mr. Norm Silverstein,
President & CEO. Funds Requested: $89,295. Total Project Cost:
$178,590. To activate an FM full service station, WXXN, operating on
90.9 MHZ, in Spencerport, NY in order to extend the applicant's news
and public affairs programming to unserved areas between Rochester and
Buffalo numbering approximately 30,000 potential listeners, who receive
no public radio signal.
File No. 97172CTN African American Media Network Ltd, 434 Nassau
Rd. Roosevelt, NY 11575. Contact: Mr. Andre Guilty, Executive Director.
Funds Requested: $80,913. Total Project Cost: $107,885. To establish a
video production studio to originate programming that would be
transmitted over the local cable television system in Roosevelt, NY.
The applicant intends to produce programming that would meet the needs
and interests of the African-American population of Nassau Co., NY.
File No. 97208ICTN Hamilton-Fulton-Montgomery BOCES, P.O. Box 665
212 County Highway 103 Johnstown, NY 12095. Contact: Dr. Geoffrey
Davis, District Superintendent. Funds Requested: $205,852. Total
Project Cost: $274,470. To install video classrooms at seven sites in
the service area of the Hamilton-Fulton-Montgomery Board of Cooperative
Education Services, in central New York State. The equipment will
assist the BOCES in establishing a fiber optics-based, fully
interactive, distance learning network. The
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classrooms will be located at the BOCES site, at sites in each of five
BOCES school districts, and at Fulton-Montgomery Community College.
File No. 97210CRB Long Island University, WPBX--88.3 FM Southampton
College Southampton, NY 11968. Contact: Mr. Tim Bishop, Provost. Funds
Requested: $88,083. Total Project Cost: $176,166. To improve public
radio station WPBX-FM, operating on 88.3 MHZ in Southampton, NY, by
replacing old obsolete and failing origination equipment in its on-air
control room and primary production studio.
File No. 97212CRB Colleges of The Seneca, WEOS (FM) 300 Pulteney
Street Geneva, NY 14456. Contact: Mr. Michael Black, General Manager.
Funds Requested: $30,500. Total Project Cost: $61,000. To improve
public radio station WEOS-FM, operating on 89.7 MHZ in Geneva, NY, by
replacing cart machines and upgrading Master Control by the acquisition
of an audio storage device. Also requested is a digital editing work-
station for upgrading the studio and adding 6 microphones and stands.
File No. 97216ICTN Northport-East Northport U.F.S.D., 110 Elwood
Road Northport, NY 11768. Contact: Mr. Thomas O'Donnell, Director, LRE.
Funds Requested: $72,700. Total Project Cost: $145,400. To establish
three teaching and learning piloting centers--in Albany, Kingston, and
Northport--to provide all 951 public and nonpublic school communities
in New York State with instructional programs intended to advance all
students' achievements in new learning standards established by the New
York State Board of Regents.
Ohio
File No. 97006CRB Miami University, WMUB Williams Hall Second Floor
Spring and Oak Streets Oxford, OH 45056. Contact: Dr. Steven M. DeLue,
Interim General Manager. Funds Requested: $47,636. Total Project Cost:
$95,272. To improve the transmission quality of public radio station
WMUB, 88.5 MHZ, Oxford, OH, by replacing its 20-year-old STL to
complement the recent installation of a new transmitter. In addition,
the project will improve the program origination capacity of the
station by replacing worn-out and obsolete items of studio equipment,
including a console, DAT recorders, CD players, an automation system, a
cassette deck, and microphones and by acquiring a non-linear audio
storage and editing system. The station serves a population base of
about 312,302.
File No. 97017CTB Ohio University, Telecommunications Center WOUB-
TV 9 South College Street Athens, OH 45701. Contact: Mr. Paul
Witkowski, Interim Director. Funds Requested: $274,022. Total Project
Cost: $548,044. To improve the production capability of public station
WOUB-TV, Ch. 20, Athens, OH, by replacing three worn-out and obsolete
camera systems and by acquiring a non-linear hard-disk editing system.
The station serves a population of about 950,000.
File No. 97155CTB Greater Dayton Public Television, WPTD 110 South
Jefferson Street Dayton, OH 45402. Contact: Mr. David M. Fogarty,
President and General Manager. Funds Requested: $104,753. Total Project
Cost: $209,506. To improve the operation of public television station
WPTD, Ch. 16, Dayton, OH, by replacing various items of worn-out and
obsolete equipment, including a routing switcher, a character
generator, and monitors and by acquiring a non-linear editing system.
The station serves a population of about 2,632,738.
File No. 97174CTB ETV Assoc. of Metropolitan Cleveland, WVIZ 4300
Brookpark Road Cleveland, OH 44134. Contact: Mr. Jerry F. Wareham,
President/General Manager. Funds Requested: $177,250. Total Project
Cost: $354,500. To improve the operation of public television station
WVIZ, Ch. 25, Cleveland, OH, by replacing worn-out and obsolete 1'' and
\3/4\'' videotape machines with a robotic digital tape cartridge
storage system and by expanding the capacity of its master control
switcher. The station serves a population of about 3,700,000.
File No. 97185CTB The Ohio State University, WOSU Stations 2400
Olentangy River Road Columbus, OH 43210. Contact: Mr. Tom Lahr, TV
Engineering Manager. Funds Requested: $135,847. Total Project Cost:
$271,694. To improve the operation of public television station WPBO,
Ch. 42, Portsmouth, OH, by replacing the 24-year-old STL connecting it
to its main station, WOSU-TV, Ch. 34, Columbus, and by establishing
remote control of WPBO from WOSU-TV. The stations serve a population of
384,000.
File No. 97186CTBN Greater Cincinnati TV Edu'l Fndn, WCET 1223
Central Parkway Cincinnati, OH 45214. Contact: Mr. W. Wayne Godwin,
President & General Manager. Funds Requested: $108,707. Total Project
Cost: $217,415. To improve the operation of public television station
WCET, Ch. 48, Cincinnati, OH, by acquiring a digital non-linear tape
editing system and a package of production equipment to enable the
station to expand its educational and instructional programs. The
station serves a population of about 1,500,000 in Ohio, Kentucky, and
Indiana.
Oklahoma
File No. 97048IPTN Murray State College, One Murray Campus
Tishomingo, OK 73460. Contact: Mr. Dennis Toews, VP Planning &
Research. Funds Requested: $33,750. Total Project Cost: $45,000. A
consortium that includes Murray State College and seven public school
systems, will develop a plan for a two-way interactive video network to
provide distance learning services in a rural, economically
disadvantaged three-county area of Southeast Oklahoma and the Chickasaw
Nation.
File No. 97059ICTN Oklahoma State University, Educational
Television Services Telecommunications Center Stillwater, OK 74078-
0585. Contact: Dr. Glade Presnal, Senior Project Manager. Funds
Requested: $199,733. Total Project Cost: $399,466. To install a
compressed video classroom and video bridge on the main campus of
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, to transmit instructional
programming statewide. The University plans to use the equipment to
offer courses in the areas of health care management, engineering
management, teacher certification, educational specialist,
telecommunications management, Mvskodke (Creek and Seminole ) language
and culture, and Native American community-based employability skills
training.
Oregon
File No. 97011CRB The KBOO Foundation, 20 S.E. 8th Avenue Portland,
OR 97214. Contact: Ms. Suzanne White, Station Manager. Funds Requested:
$38,950. Total Project Cost: $77,900. To improve the production
facilities of public radio station KBOO-FM, operating on 90.7 MHZ in
Portland, OR by replacing equipment in the on-air control room,
including a mixing console, disk storage and compressor/limiter. The
station serves 1.6 million people in the greater Portland area.
File No. 97099CTB Southern Oregon Public Television, 34 South Fir
Street Medford, OR 97501. Contact: Mr. William Campbell, President/CEO.
Funds Requested: $62,325. Total Project Cost: $83,100. To improve the
production capability of public television station KSYS-TV, operating
on Ch. 8 in Medford, by replacing three inoperable cameras. The
applicant is currently using cameras on loan from a local school. KSYS
serves 160,000 residents of southwest Oregon and northern California.
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File No. 97104CRTB Oregon Public Broadcasting, OPB Administration
7140 SW Macadam Ave. Portland, OR 97219. Contact: Ms. Debbi Hinton, Sr.
Vice President. Funds Requested: $59,853. Total Project Cost: $119,706.
To improve services provided to the visually and aurally handicapped
residents of Oregon. Stereo and SAP equipment will be added to the
applicant's statewide public television system., including stations in
Portland (KOPB-TV), Corvallis (KOAC-TV), Eugene (KEPB-TV), and La
Grande (KTVR-TV). The television stations would distribute the
applicant's Golden Hours Reading Service statewide.
File No. 97105CRB Oregon Public Broadcasting, OPB Administration
7140 SW Macadam Ave Portland, OR 97219. Contact: Ms. Debbi Hinton, Sr.
Vice President. Funds Requested: $89,965. Total Project Cost: $179,930.
To improve the facilities of public radio station KOPB-FM, operating on
91.5 MHZ in Portland and KOAC-AM, operating on 550 KHz in Corvallis.
The project would replace aging analog audio routing systems with
digital systems. The stations provide radio service to 2,712,500
residents of Oregon.
Pennsylvania
File No. 97094CRB The Pennsylvania State University, WPSU 102
Wagner Building University Park, PA 16802-3899. Contact: Mr. Mark D.
Erstling, General Manager. Funds Requested: $40,066. Total Project
Cost: $53,422. To extend the coverage of public radio station WPSU,
91.5 MHZ, University Park, PA, by activating translators at 104.7 MHZ
in Clearfield, at 92.1 MHZ in DuBois, and at 95.1 MHZ in Treasure Lake,
PA, to bring the first public radio signal to about 24,036 persons.
WPSU presently serves a population of about 364,769.
File No. 97100CTB WQED Pittsburgh, WQED-TV 4802 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Contact: Mr. Jeffrey E. Rutkowski, Director,
Administrative Svcs. Funds Requested: $98,828. Total Project Cost:
$197,656. To improve the operation of public station WQED-TV, Ch. 13,
Pittsburgh, PA, by replacing four worn-out and obsolete analog video
tape recorders with composite digital recorders. The station serves a
population of about 3,250,000.
File No. 97109IPTN Titusville Redevelopment Authority, 144 W.
Spring Street 2nd Fl. PO Box 425 Titusville, PA 16354. Contact: Mr.
James Allyn, Executive Director. Funds Requested: $29,600. Total
Project Cost: $29,600. To assess current and future alternative
technological systems and needs that might be feasible for a potential
interconnected network among government agencies, educational
institutions, and business organizations in Titusville, PA and eight
surrounding municipalities.
File No. 97143CRB The Pennsylvania State University, WPSU 102
Wagner Building University Park, PA 16802-3899. Contact: Mr. Mark D.
Erstling, General Manager. Funds Requested: $32,412. Total Project
Cost: $64,825. To improve the operation of public radio station WPSU,
91.5 MHZ, University Park, PA, by replacing items of worn-out and
obsolete production equipment, including an audio console, minidisk
system, DAT recorders, CD players, a telephone hybrid, monitoring
speakers, and microphones and by acquiring a non-linear hard-disk audio
storage and editing system. The station serves a population of about
364,769.
File No. 97167ICTN Crawford County Regional Alliance, R.D. 2 Dunham
Road Meadville, PA 16335. Contact: Mrs. Maryann Martin, Dir. of Grant
Administration. Funds Requested: $74,338. Total Project Cost: $152,250.
To purchase video conferencing equipment to allow for workforce
training and education in Crawford County, which is a rural and
isolated area in northwest Pennsylvania. The equipment would be located
in the William J. Bainbridge Technology Center, in Meadville. The
emphasis would be on the skills training and upgrading for the area's
tool and machine industry workforce. Much of the course work would be
transmitted from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania
State University at Erie.
File No. 97183CRB Pittsburgh Community Bdcstg, Inc., WYEP 2313 East
Carson Street Pittsburgh, PA 15203. Contact: Mr. Lee J. Ferraro,
General Manager. Funds Requested: $104,762. Total Project Cost:
$139,683. To improve the operation of public radio station WYEP, 91.3
MHZ. Pittsburgh, PA, by replacing items of worn-out and obsolete
production equipment, including audio consoles, microphones, patch
bays, and DAT recorders, and by acquiring an 8-track audio tape
recorder, a digital cart system, and a non-linear editing system. The
station serves a population of about 1,300,000.
File No. 97214CRB WQED Pittsburgh, WQED-FM 4802 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Contact: Mr. Jim Cunningham, Station Manager.
Funds Requested: $89,043. Total Project Cost: $118,724. To extend the
signal of public station WQED-FM, 89.3 MHZ, Pittsburgh, PA, by
activating a repeater at 88.3 MHZ in Oil City, PA, to serve about
56,184 persons.
Puerto Rico
File No. 97031CTB Puerto Rico Public Brdcstg Corp., Office of
Planning & Dev. 570 Hostos Avenue Baldrich San Juan, PR 00919. Contact:
Mrs. Alba Rivera, Acting Dir., Dev. & Planning. Funds Requested:
$192,455. Total Project Cost: $384,910. To improve the facilities of
WIPR-TV, operating on Ch. 6 in San Juan, by establishing a translation
and dubbing center to translate educational and instructional
programming into Spanish. The programs will be available to the 3.5
million people served by the applicant as well as educators and public
broadcasters on the mainland serving Hispanic audiences.
South Carolina
File No. 97005ICTN South Carolina ETV Commission, 1101 George
Rogers Boulevard P. 0. Box 11000 Columbia, SC 29201. Contact: Mr.
Ronald Schoenherr, Senior Vice President. Funds Requested: $359,296.
Total Project Cost: $718,592. To construct a locally-programmed, four-
channel ITFS distance learning system to serve Williamsburg County, in
eastern South Carolina. The system will primarily serve the educational
needs of the elementary, middle, secondary and vocational schools in
the county, a total of 15 schools and over 7,000 students. The system
will also offer adult education courses to benefit the entire
population of the county. The proposed system will be part of the South
Carolina Educational Television Commission's expanding statewide
telecommunications network.
File No. 97060ICTN Trident Technical College, P.O. Box 118067
Charleston, SC 29423-8067. Contact: Ms. Cindy Schirle, Grants
Coordinator. Funds Requested: $134,611. Total Project Cost: $420,658.
To expand the applicant's broadcast video capabilities through the
activation of a Ku-band analog uplink and teleconferencing center.
File No. 97217IPTN Coastal Carolina University, 755 Highway 544
Conway, SC 29526. Contact: Dr. Richard Moore, Assistant VP, Grants &
SR. Funds Requested: $92,906. Total Project Cost: $122,495. To develop
a comprehensive telecommunications plan for Georgetown County, SC, that
will incorporate higher education institutions including Coastal
Carolina University's Georgetown campus, government offices, social
service agencies, and businesses in a cooperative distance learning
network to provide educational courses and job-
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South Dakota
File No. 97140CTB S. Dak. Board of Dir. for Education, Cherry &
Dakota Streets Vermillion, SD 57069-5000. Contact: Mr. Don Forseth,
Coord. Tech. Services. Funds Requested: $319,000. Total Project Cost:
$638,000. To improve public television station KQSD-TV, Ch. 11, in
Lowry by replacing a 23-year old television transmitter and associated
equipment. Station serves about 35,000 people.
Tennessee
File No. 97014CRB University of Tennessee, WUTC-FM, Division of
University 104 Cadek Hall 615 McCallie Avenue Chattanooga, TN 37403.
Contact: Dr. John McCormack, Director. Funds Requested: $36,759. Total
Project Cost: $73,519. To improve operations and ensure dependable
coverage, the University of Tennessee's WUTC-FM, operating on 88.1 MHZ
in Chattanooga, will replace its transmitter and modify its antenna.
File No. 97072CRB Cossitt Library, WYPL, Memphis Public Library
1850 Peabody Avenue Memphis, TN 38104. Contact: Mr. Steven Terry,
General Manager. Funds Requested: $217,430. Total Project Cost:
$434,861. To extend the signal of public radio station WYPL-FM,
operating on 89.3 MHZ in Memphis, by relocating the transmitter and
increasing the station's power. This improvement will provide a first
service to three counties in Tennessee, six counties in Arkansas, and
two counties in Mississippi, with a combined population of
approximately 86,000, and will increase the area of the station's Radio
Reading Service to approximately 500,000 additional people in Tennessee
and surrounding states.
File No. 97135CTB Metropolitan Board of Public Educat, WDCN-TV 161
Rains Avenue Nashville, TN 37203. Contact: Mr. Robert Shepherd,
Executive VP & GM. Funds Requested: $95,000. Total Project Cost:
$270,000. To improve the facilities of public television station WDCN-
TV, Channel 8 in Nashville, TN, serving approximately 1,300,000 people,
by replacing the 20-year old studio lighting control and dimmer system.
Texas
File No. 97004CRB The University of Texas at Austin, KUT Radio
Communications Building B 2504 Whitis Street Austin, TX 78712. Contact:
Mr. Dana Whitehair, Technical Operations Mgr. Funds Requested: $75,405.
Total Project Cost: $100,541. To provide the first public radio service
to 145,665 residents of Bosque, Falls and McLennan Counties by
constructing an FM repeater station in Waco operating on 88.9 MHZ. The
station will also provide additional public radio service to 192,777
residents of Bell, Coryell, Falls, McLennan and Milam Counties. The
station will rebroadcast the program service of KUT-FM, 90.5 MHZ. in
Austin and will be fed by satellite delivery.
File No. 97008CTB Alamo Public T/C Council, KLRN 501 Broadway San
Antonio, TX 78215. Contact: Mr. Charles Vaughn, Sr. VP
Telecommunications. Funds Requested: $97,768. Total Project Cost:
$195,536. To improve public television station KLRN-TV, Ch. 9, in San
Antonio by acquiring a standby studio-to-transmitter (STL) microwave
link, additional router switch cards, digital audio recording and
editing equipment and replacing two worn out \3/4\'' videocassette
recorders. KLRN-TV provides a public television service to
approximately 2 million people.
File No. 97015CTB Capital of Texas Public T/C Council, KLRU-TV
2504-B Whitis Street Austin, TX 78705. Contact: Mr. Bill Arhos,
President. Funds Requested: $96,697. Total Project Cost: $193,395. To
improve public television station KLRU-TV, Ch. 18, in Austin by
replacing old, obsolete editing equipment with a non-linear editing
system and related equipment. New equipment will significantly improve
the station's tape editing efficiency. KLRU-TV serves approximately 1.2
million people.
File No. 97043ICTB Laredo Community College, West End Washington
Laredo, TX 78040. Contact: Mr. Blas Casteneda, Exec. Assist. to the
President. Funds Requested: $419,820. Total Project Cost: $559,765. To
activate a public television station, which will operate on ch. 39 and
bring the first public television service to over 130,000 residents of
Laredo, TX, and the surrounding area.
File No. 97050CTB South Texas Public Brdcstg. System, 4455 South
Padre Island Drive Suite 38 Corpus Christi, TX 78411. Contact: Mr. Don
Dunlap, President & General Mgr. Funds Requested: $151,050. Total
Project Cost: $201,400. To improve public television station KEDT-TV,
Ch. 16, in Corpus Christi by replacing old, obsolete dissemination
equipment (spread spectrum data link and monitoring equipment) and
origination equipment (local break insertion equipment, audio
production equipment and a lighting update package). KEDT-TV provides
the only public television service to about 500,000 people in Corpus
Christi plus 12 counties.
File No. 97086CRB Texas Educational Broadcasting Coop, 304 East 5th
Street Austin, TX 78701. Contact: Ms. Jenny Wong, General Manager.
Funds Requested: $13,500. Total Project Cost: $21,500. To improve
public radio station KOOP-FM, 91.7 MHZ, in Austin by replacing old,
obsolete equipment including a modulation monitor, an audio console and
cabinet, 3 cassette recorders, a turntable, 2 headphones and 2
microphones. KOOP-FM provides service to about 500,000 people in Austin
and Travis County.
File No. 97095ICTN Amarillo Junior College District, 2408 S.
Jackson P.O. Box 447 Amarillo, TX 79109. Contact: Ms. Joyce Herring,
General Manager/KACV-TV. Funds Requested: $334,645. Total Project Cost:
$446,194. To assist a consortium of four West Texas post-secondary
academic institutions deploy the first phase of an educational and
instructional videoconferencing network that would serve the Texas
Panhandle. The four schools are: Amarillo College, Amarillo; Clarendon
College, Clarendon; Frank Phillips College, Borger; and West Texas a &
M University, Canyon.
File No. 97098IPTN San Antonio Fight. Back/United Way, 850 E.
Drexel San Antonio, TX 78210. Contact: Ms. Beverly Watts Davis,
Executive Director. Funds Requested: $256,812. Total Project Cost:
$342,416. To plan for the conversion of a general-purpose building in
San Antonio, TX, to a telecommunications center, primarily for the
production and distribution of educational and community service
programming through cable television access channels.
File No. 97106CTB North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc, 3000 Harry
Hines Blvd. Dallas, TX 75201. Contact: Mr. Clyde Miller, Vice Pres. &
Chief Eng. Funds Requested: $45,000. Total Project Cost: $90,000. To
improve public television station KERA-TV, Ch. 13, in Dallas by
replacing a nine-year old semi-automatic video cart machine playback
system with a new video hard drive server. KERA-TV provides public
television service to about 5 million people.
File No. 97128ICTN The Univ. of Texas--Pan American, COSERVE/CEED
1201 W. University Drive Edinburg, TX 78539. Contact: Mr. Roland
Arriola, Executive Director. Funds Requested: $326,415. Total Project
Cost: $435,220. To purchase remote video production equipment to
activate a community access system the programs of which will be
transmitted over dedicated cable
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television channels in the communities of Edinburg, Rio Grande City,
and Mercedes, all located in extreme south Texas.
File No. 97169CRB Texas Tech University, KOHM P.O. Box 43082 102
Mass Communications Building Lubbock, TX 79409. Contact: Dr. Clive
Kinghorn, General Manager. Funds Requested: $10,000. Total Project
Cost: $20,100. To improve public radio station KOHM-FM, 89.1 MHZ, in
Lubbock by replacing a nine-year-old audio console. KOHM-FM provides
the only public radio service to approximately 260,000 people.
File No. 97177CTB University of Houston, KUHT-TV (Houston Public
TV) 4513 Cullen Boulevard Houston, TX 77004. Contact: Mr. Jeff Clarke,
CEO & General Manager. Funds Requested: $511,240. Total Project Cost:
$1,278,099. To improve public television station KUHT-TV, Ch. 8, in
Houston by replacing a 13-year-old transmitter and an outdated on-air
routing switcher. KUH-TV provides the only public TV signal to about
4.2 million people in metropolitan Houston and surrounding communities.
File No. 97181ICTN Alliance for Higher Education, Lb 107 Suite 250
17103 Preston Road Dallas, TX 75248. Contact: Dr. Harvey Stone, Dir.
for Network Programming. Funds Requested: $1,408,591. Total Project
Cost: $2,817,182. To expand the service area of the Alliance
Information Network. The project will purchase digital equipment to
link 23 institutions via T-1 lines to the network. The Alliance
Information Network is constructing a fiber optic network to serve the
higher education, K-12 schools and health care systems in the Dalles-
Fort Worth Metroplex.
File No. 97203ICTN Houston Community College System, 22 Waugh Drive
P.O. Box 7849 Houston, TX 77270-7849. Contact: Dr. Charles Orsak, Dir./
Research & Development. Funds Requested: $711,028. Total Project Cost:
$1,422,056. To purchase head-end, production, and editing equipment
that would activate a cable television access channel and bring diverse
educational and municipal programming to the city of Stafford, TX.
File No. 97219ICTN San Saba Independent School Dist., INFO-NET 607
West Storey St. San Saba, TX 76877. Contact: Mr. Johnny W. Clawson,
Superintendent. Funds Requested: $341,950. Total Project Cost:
$516,950. To extend the INFO-NET distance learning system to four
additional school districts in central Texas. The new INFO-NET members
would be the Evant, Lometa, Richland Springs, and San Saba Independent
School Districts. The INFO-NET system currently consists of eight rural
central Texas school districts. With the additional districts, the
INFO-NET system would serve the following counties: McCulloch, Mills,
San Saba, Coryell, Hamilton, and Lampasas.
Utah
File No. 97034CRB Utah State University of Agriculture, KUSU-FM
8505 University Blvd Logan, UT 84322-8505. Contact: Mr. Bryan Earl,
Development Director. Funds Requested: $9,112. Total Project Cost:
$12,150. To extend the signal of public radio station KUSU-FM, 91.5
MHZ, in Logan, by constructing a new FM translator on 100.1 MHZ in
Roosevelt. The new translator will provide first service to about
10,250 people.
File No. 97069CTB University of Utah, Media Services 101 Wasatch
Drive Eccles Broadcast Center--Room 1 Salt Lake City, UT 84112.
Contact: Mr. Edward Ridges, Associate Director. Funds Requested:
$150,665. Total Project Cost: $286,266. To improve and extend the
facilities of public television stations KUED-TV (Ch. 7) and KULC-TV
(Ch. 9) in Salt Lake City by replacing seven old TV translators: K56AE
(Heber City-Wasatch County); KO7JV (Circleville-Piute County); K21EI
(Beryl/Modena/Newcastle-Iron County); K56AZ (Antimony-Piute County);
K56BP (Hatch-Garfield County); K30DE (Apple Valley-Washington County);
K46DF (Paren.-Iron County). Project will add two new TV translators at
Orderville-Kane County (Ch. 21) and Spencer Bench/Alton-Kane County
(Ch. 54). Project will also connect KULC-TV and KUED-TV translators and
the fiber optic network via microwave in Washington and Iron counties.
In addition, project will replace an unreliable audio and visual
exciter on the KULC-TV transmitter. Stations serve about 1.7 million
people and two new translators will add first service to about 975
people.
Virginia
File No. 97126ICTN SW Virginia Educ. & Training Netwrk, 15856
Porterfield Highway P.O. Box 1987 Abingdon, VA 24212-1987. Contact: Mr.
Bruce Mathews, Executive Director. Funds Requested: $49,644. Total
Project Cost: $99,289. To establish a video classroom for the Southwest
Virginia Education and Training Network. The classroom, which would be
located at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center in Abingdon,
would be one of a network of such video classrooms under development by
the Network. All the classrooms will be interconnected by fiber optic
cable in a broadband, digital, switched service provided by the
telephone companies.
File No. 97187ICTN Old Dominion University, Academic Television
Services Room 228 Education Building Norfolk, VA 23529. Contact: Dr.
J.C. Phillips, Director Academic TV. Funds Requested: $204,760. Total
Project Cost: $409,520. To expand the service to the TELETECHNET
distance learning project to six additional regions of Virginia.
Satellite receive equipment will be placed at educational institutions
in Big Stone Gap, Fredericksburg, Chester County, Hampton, Herndon, and
Suffolk, VA. The project will also purchase equipment to permit
extension of the TELETECHNET, through closed captioning, to the hearing
impaired, ESL (English as a second language) and learning disabled
population of Virginia.
File No. 97213CRB Clinch Valley College/U. of VA, Office of College
Relations 1 College Avenue Wise, VA 24293. Contact: Mr. Scott Pippin,
Director of College Relations. Funds Requested: $155,620. Total Project
Cost: $282,085. To provide first or improved public radio services to
about 35,000 residents of the southwestern corner of the state of
Virginia by constructing a Class a radio station in Wise (VA),
operating on 90.5 MHZ.
Washington
File No. 97025CRB KSER Foundation, KSER Community Radio 14920 Hwy
99 #150 Lynnwood, WA 98037. Contact: Mr. John Thielke, President. Funds
Requested: $10,650. Total Project Cost: $14,200. To improve the
facilities of KSER-FM, 90.7 MHZ in Lynnwood, Washington, by replacing
analog origination equipment with digital equipment, including DAT
recorders, microphones, headphones and a digital audio editing station.
File No. 97056CTB Bates Technical College, KBTC-TV 1101 South
Yakima Avenue Tacoma, WA 98405. Contact: Ms. Debbie Emond, General
Manager. Funds Requested: $437,829. Total Project Cost: $583,773. To
expand and improve the services of KBTC-TV, Channel 28 in Tacoma, by
constructing a repeater station in Bellingham, operating on channel 34
and providing first public television services to approximately 173,000
people .
File No. 97065CTB Washington State University, Educational T/C and
Technology 382 Murrow Center Administration Road Pullman, WA 99164-
2530. Contact: Mr. Dennis Haarsager, Assoc. VP & General Mgr.
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Funds Requested: $123,492. Total Project Cost: $246,984. To improve the
production facilities of KWSU-TV, Channel 10 in Pullman and KTNW-TV,
Channel 31 in Richland, by replacing the 19-year-old studio production
switcher and video effects unit.
File No. 97073CRB Washington State University, Educational
Telecomm. & Technology 382 Murrow Center Administration Road Pullman,
WA 99164-2530. Contact: Mr. Dennis Haarsager, Assoc VP & General Mgr.
Funds Requested: $206,453. Total Project Cost: $275,271. To expand the
public radio network by constructing satellite stations in Chehalis
(88.9 MHZ), Mt. Vernon (91.7 MHZ) and Port Angeles (90.1 MHZ). The
proposed new facilities will provide first public radio services to
about 168,000 rural residents of western Washington.
File No. 97097ICTN Seattle Community College Dist. VI, Department
of Communications 1500 Harvard Avenue Seattle, WA 98122-2400. Contact:
Mr. Ross Davis, Director of Communications. Funds Requested: $54,000.
Total Project Cost: $72,000. To improve the production facilities of
the Seattle Community College District VI video production studio by
purchasing editing and post-production equipment, including a non-
linear editing station. This would allow the College District to extend
its distance learning service to new learners via local cable
television stations and ITFS channels.
File No. 97102IPTN Northwest Indian College, Extension Services
2522 Kwina Road Bellingham, WA 98226. Contact: Mr. Jeff Hamley, Dean,
Extension Services. Funds Requested: $130,353. Total Project Cost:
$164,760. To complete a telecommunications study and action plan to
link Northwest Indian College with the American Indian Higher Education
Council (AIHEC) distance learning network, creating a northwest
subnetwork capable of extending educational services and programs to
more than 45 tribal communities in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
File No. 97220CRB Spokane Public Radio, KPBX 2319 North Monroe
Street Spokane, WA 99205. Contact: Mr. Richard Kunkel, President & GM.
Funds Requested: $166,605. Total Project Cost: $222,140. To improve the
facilities of KPBX-FM, 91.1 in Spokane (WA) by replacing the 19-year-
old transmitter, exciter, modulation monitor system and the building
ventilation system.
Wisconsin
File No. 97160CTB Milwaukee Area Technical College, WMVS/WMVT 1036
North 8th Street Milwaukee, WI 53233. Contact: Mr. Bryce Combs, General
Manager. Funds Requested: $1,299,400. Total Project Cost: $2,598,800.
To improve public television stations WMVS-TV, operating on Channel 10,
and WMVT-TV, operating on Channel 36 in Milwaukee, WI, by replacing
worn-out and obsolete transmission equipment including three
transmitters, two antennas, two transmission lines (all of which are
almost 17 years old), and a tower strengthening study.
File No. 97176CRB Back Porch Radio Broadcasting, Inc., WORT 118
South Bedord Street Madison, WI 53703. Contact: Ms. Cynthia Fesemyer,
Business & Foundation Director. Funds Requested: $20,000. Total Project
Cost: $41,144. To improve public radio station WORT-FM, operating on
89.9 MHZ, in Madison, WI, by replacing its very limited and unstable
STL with a new microwave radio system and adding the necessary one-way
stereo RPU package.
File No. 97194CTB State of Wisconsin, Educational Communications
Board 3319 West Beltline Highway Madison, WI 53713-4296. Contact: Mr.
Thomas L. Fletemeyer, Executive Director. Funds Requested: $200,500.
Total Project Cost: $401,000. To improve the facilities within the
State network through the mother TV station WHA-TV, operating on
Channel 21 in Madison, WI, by replacing worn-out and obsolete master
control equipment at the statewide origination and distribution center.
The items to be replaced are video tape machines and video monitors.
West Virginia
File No. 97047ICTN Bluefield State College, 219 Rock Street
Bluefield, WV 24701. Contact: Ms. Annette Osborne, Dir./Inst. Advancm't
& Plan'g. Funds Requested: $225,000. Total Project Cost: $300,000. To
extend the distance learning network of Bluefield State College, the
main campus of which is in Bluefield, WV. The project would install a
codec and video classroom equipment at the College's Beckley Campus.
The project would also upgrade the College's present receive-only video
classroom at the Greenbrier Community College Center to full
origination capability. In addition, at public television station WSWP-
TV, Beckley, the project would install a digital multipoint control
unit to serve as the distance learning network hub. Also, the project
would construct receive-only video classrooms at Pocahontas County High
School and at the McDowell County Vocational Technical Center, Welsh.
The network sites are interconnected by T-1 service.
Bernadette McGuire-Rivera,
Associate Administrator, Office of Telecommunications and Information
Applications.
[FR Doc. 97-13145 Filed 5-19-97; 8:45 am]
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