Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP)

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

[Docket Number: 960205021-6132-02]

RIN 0660-ZA01

Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP)

AGENCY: National Telecommunications and Information Administration,

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice, funding availability and 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. The

PTFP had not received its final status of funding at that time, and

stated that PTFP would publish a notice when the funding status for

fiscal year 1996 was known. This notice will announce the funding

level, as well as announce the applications which were received in

response to the solicitation.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dennis Connors, Director, Public

Broadcasting Division, 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) or through the

NTIA BBS at (202) 482-1199 (set computer modems for 8 stop bits, 0

polarity).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Funding Availability: By Federal Register

notice dated February 22, 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,

March 28, 1996.1 The Notice of Closing Date provided that

announcement of available funds would be made once Congress

appropriated an amount for the PTFP. On April 26, 1996, Congress

appropriated $15.5 million for the PTFP.2

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\1\ 61 FR 6912 (Feb. 22, 1996).

\2\ Balanced Budget Downpayment Act, II, Pub. L. No. 104-134,

110 Stat. 1321 (1996).

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Except for the notice that funding for the PTFP for FY 1996 is

$15.5 million, all other information announced in the Notice of Closing

Date remains in effect.

For further information on the Public Telecommunications Facilities

Program, please refer to the program's Notice of Closing Date,

published in the Federal Register on February 22, 1996.3

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\3\ 61 FR 6912 (Feb. 22, 1996).

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Applications Received: In all, 251 applications were received from

47 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto

Rico, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana

Islands. The total amount of funds requested by the applications is

$54.9 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. Such comments must contain a certification that a copy of

the comments has been delivered to the applicant. Comments must be sent

to the following address: NTIA/PTFP, Room 4625, 14th Street and

Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20230.

The Agency will incorporate all comments from the public and any

replies from the applicant in the applicant's official file.

AK (Alaska)

File No. 96132 CTB Alaska Public Telecomm., Inc., 3877 University

Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508. Signed By: Ms. Susan Reed, President. Funds

Requested: $663,350. Total Project Cost: $844,479. To replace the 22-

year-old transmitter for public TV station KAKM, which operates on Ch.

7 in Anchorage. The project would also purchase a replacement hot-

standby STL for one of the station's STL hops, SAP generation

equipment, and diverse test equipment items.

File No. 96249 ICTB Bethel Broadcasting, Inc., Pouch 468, Bethel,

AK 99559. Signed By: Mr. John McDonald, General Manager/Station KYUK.

Funds Requested: $543,340. Total Project Cost: $742,510. To purchase

three digital encoders to convert the satellite offerings of the

Distance Delivery Consortium from analog to digital service. The

Distance Delivery Consortium provides instructional programming to 52

villages in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of Western Alaska, the Interior

of Alaska, and Southeast Alaska. The project will also purchase 74

compressed digital receivers to receive the digital satellite service.

AL (Alabama)

File No. 96006 CTB Alabama ETV Commission, 2112 11th Avenue South,

Ste 400, Birmingham, AL 35205-2884. Signed By: Ms. Judy Stone, APT

Executive Director. Funds Requested: $186,878. Total Project Cost:

$373,756. Replace fourteen Alabama Public Television microwave

equipment shelters throughout the state network, add a shelter and

wiring for an emergency generator at WCIQ which experiences AC power

outages, and replace the network's on-line editing system at its only

production facility in Montgomery, Alabama.

File No. 96087 CTB 95055. City of Prichard, 216 East Prichard Lane,

Prichard, AL 36610. Signed By: Hon. Jesse Norwood, Mayor. Funds

Requested: $418,924. Total Project Cost: $668,924. To establish a low-

power noncommercial television station operating on Channel 60 in

Prichard, Alabama, to provide educational and informational services to

the city of Prichard and surrounding areas.

File No. 96107 CRB Gadsden State Community College, 1001 George

Wallace Drive, Gadsden, AL 35902. Signed By: Dr. Victor Ficker,

President. Funds Requested: $49,250. Total Project Cost: $98,500. To

upgrade the power and antenna height of noncommercial radio station,

WSGN-FM, operating on 91.5 MHz from Gadsden State Community College in

Gadsden, Alabama.

File No. 96124 ICTN 95082. Black Warrior Telecom Consortium, 607

Highway 80 West, Demopolis, AL 36732. Signed By: Mr. Marcus Walters,

President. Funds Requested: $193,484. Total Project Cost: $257,978. To

construct a video production studio and purchase related test equipment

for the Black Warrior Telecommunications Consortium, Inc., Demopolis,

Alabama. The studio will allow the Consortium to originate educational

programming to be transmitted over the ITFS systems operated by the

Consortium members. The Consortium is composed of five school systems

(Marengo, Greene, and Sumter Counties and the cities of Demopolis and

Linden City) and the West Alabama Health Services, all located in rural

west Alabama.

File No. 96178 ICTBN University of AL Board of Trustees, Box

870104, G-60 Rose Admin. Bld, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487. Signed By: Dr.

Robert Wells, Ass't Academic VP for Research. Funds Requested:

$138,771. Total Project Cost: $277,542. To convert an analog Ku-band

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uplink to digital compression. The conversion to digital will enable

continued distribution of three weekly instructional series on

Integrated Science to over 150,000 students nationwide in grades 5, 6,

and 7, and will permit the delivery of this program directly to schools

and public television entities.

AR (Arkansas)

File No. 96105 CTB Arkansas ETV Commission, 350 South Donaghey,

Conway, AR 72032. Signed By: Ms. Susan Howarth, Executive Director.

Funds Requested: $242,049. Total Project Cost: $484,099. To improve the

state's public television network by establishing a production and

distance learning studio in Little Rock thus improving the AETN's

ability to produce and broadcast news and information programs from the

state capital. AETN serves approximately 2.35 million people.

File No. 96110 CRB Arkansas State University, 104 Cooley St, P.O.

Drawer 2160, State University, AR 72467. Signed By: Dr. Stanley

Williams, VP for Finance & Admin. Funds Requested: $36,783. Total

Project Cost: $73,567. To improve public radio station KASU-FM, 91.9

MHz, State University, by replacing old, obsolete origination

equipment. KASU-FM will acquire digital workstations, digital audio

boards and editing packages, two audio consoles, monitor amplifiers,

microphones and speakers and related equipment. KASU-FM serves

approximately 250,000 people in AR, MO and TN.

File No. 96235 CTB AR Education TV Commission, 350 South Donaghey,

Conway, AR 72032. Signed By: Ms. Susan Howarth, Executive Director.

Funds Requested: $212,500. Total Project Cost: $425,000. To improve

public television station KETS-TV, Ch. 2, in Little Rock, by

strengthening the commercial tower on which its antenna is mounted.

KETS-TV, the flagship station of the AETN, serves more than 1 million

people.

AS (American Samoa)

File No. 96004 CTB American Samoa Government, Office of Public

Information, Pago Pago, AS 96799. Signed By: Mrs. Vaoita Savali,

Director. Funds Requested: $253,470. Total Project Cost: $253,470. To

improve the production facilities of public television station KVZK-TV,

operating on Ch. 2 in Pago Pago, by purchasing three studio cameras and

related equipment. The project will also provide test equipment to

ensure continued operation of this facility which serves 57,000

residents of American Samoa.

File No. 96250 ICRTN Government of American Samoa, Office of

Governor, Pago Pago, AS 96799. Signed By: Mr. Aifili Lutali, Governor.

Funds Requested: $398,600. Total Project Cost: $398,600. 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.

AZ (Arizona)

File No. 96063 PRB Hopi Foundation, Highway 264 Market 367-9,,

Hotevilla, AZ 86030. Signed By: Ms. Barbara Poley, Executive Director.

Funds Requested: $37,176. Total Project Cost: $41,156. Conduct planning

activities, including engineering and research studies, for the

construction of a public radio facility in Hotevilla, Arizona, serving

the Hopi Indian reservation of northeastern Arizona.

File No. 96075 CTN San Carlos Apache Tribe, San Carlos Avenue,

Bldg. # 13, San Carlos, AZ 85550. Signed By: Mr. Raymond Stanley,

Tribal Chairman. Funds Requested: $12,980. Total Project Cost: $17,309.

To purchase studio production equipment to allow the San Carlos Apache

Tribe to originate programming to be transmitted over the local cable

television system on a community access channel.

File No. 96088 CTB Arizona State University, 10th & Myrtle, Box

871603, KAET, Tempe, AZ 85287-1405. Signed By: Ms. Janice Bennett,

Director, Res. & Creative Act. Funds Requested: $139,600. Total Project

Cost: $279,200. To improve public television station KAET-TV, Ch. 8,

Phoenix (Tempe), by replacing old, unreliable production equipment

including electronic editor, field production camera and video

recorder, remote production switcher, monitors, character generator and

four Beta video recorders. KAET-TV serves approximately 2.8 million

people.

File No. 96111 ICTN Northern Arizona University, Comm. Bldg, Rm

123, Osborne Rd., Flagstaff, AZ 86011. Signed By: Dr. Jeanette Baker,

Contract Officer, NAU. Funds Requested: $1,278,014. Total Project Cost:

$2,556,028. To purchase the interconnection and video classroom

equipment required to expand Northern Arizona University's (NAU) duplex

microwave-based distance learning system--called NAUNet--to six

additional sites: Arizona Western College at San Luis; Central Arizona

College at Apache Junction; Chinle Unified School District; Coconino

Community College at Page; Eastern Arizona College at Payson; and

Northland Pioneer College at Show Low. The project would also install

hub site equipment at NAU/Flagstaff, NAU/Yuma, and at the NAUNet hub

site in Phoenix. All system end-points would include equipment for

interface with host-institution Local Area Networks (LANs) and would

provide students with local dial-up access to e-mail, bulletin boards,

and Internet service.

File No. 96123 CRB Maricopa County Cmty Coll. Dist., 3124 East

Roosevelt, Phoenix, AZ 85008. Signed By: Dr. Alfredo de los Santos,

Vice Chancellor Ed. Dev. Funds Requested: $15,089. Total Project Cost:

$30,178. To acquire 420 SCA radio receivers for use by print-impaired

persons. The special receivers will be distributed to all areas served

by the stations carrying the service. The main studio is in Phoenix,

with satellite facilities in Tucson and Flagstaff. This 24-hour service

provides the only radio reading service in AZ.

File No. 96173 CRB White Mountain Apache Tribe, Tribal Exe Bldg SR

73, PO Box 70, Whiteriver, AZ 85941. Signed By: Mr. Ronnie Lupe,

Chairman. Funds Requested: $68,033. Total Project Cost: $90,711. To

expand the facilities of public radio station KNNB-FM, 88.1 MHz, in

Whiteriver by relocating and increasing the power of the station. KNNB-

FM will acquire a new transmitter, tower, antenna, transmission and

other dissemination equipment.

File No. 96186 CRB Northern Arizona University, Comm. Bldg 16, Rm

229, Osborn Rd, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. Signed By: Dr. Jeanette Baker,

Contract Officer. Funds Requested: $108,351. Total Project Cost:

$144,469. To activate a new FM public radio station on 90.9 MHz, in

Page. Station will repeat the signal of KNAU-FM, Flagstaff, and have

local origination capacity. Project includes sufficient local

production equipment to constitute a full service facility. Studios

will be located on the Coconino Community College campus. New station

will provide first public radio service to approximately 9,448 people

in northern AZ and southern UT.

CA (California)

File No. 96008 CTB California Community TV Network, 559 E. Alisal

Street, #106, Salinas, CA 93905. Signed By: Mr. Wendell Chino,

President. Funds Requested: $324,748. Total Project Cost: $431,330. The

California Community Television Network, KCAH-TV in Salinas, CA.,

operating on Channel 25, seeks a grant to help install a 10 kw

transmitter and antenna system to provide the first public TV signal

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significant portions of Santa Cruz, Monterey, Santa Clara and San

Benito counties, sections of San Mateo, and small areas in Stanislaus,

Merced and Alameda counties, all of which include 198,114 potential

viewers who will receive first signal.

File No. 96016 CRB State of CA--Humboldt State Univ, Humboldt State

University, Arcata, CA 95521. Signed By: Dr. Edward Webb, Vice

President. Funds Requested: $67,860. Total Project Cost: $90,480. KASU-

FM, operating on 90.5 MHz in Arcata, California seeks a grant to

construct a repeater transmitter, operating on 91.9 MHz, at Crescent

City, CA and establish a satellite studio facility in Crescent City

which will provide Del Notre County with its first public radio

origination capability. The project will provide first public radio

service to approximately 13,000 potential listeners.

File No. 96025 PTN Ed T/C Consortium of Central CA, 1101 E.

University, Fresno, CA 93741. Signed By: Dr. Robert Wyman, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $199,865. Total Project Cost: $560,445.

Educational Telecommunications Consortium of Central Valley region of

California, located in Fresno, CA, requests funding for a comprehensive

Planning project to develop a Four County regional area in Central

California, including Fresno, Madera, Tulare and Kings Counties, to

interface existing resources with those needed for the region and for

the purpose of sharing training and technology resources both

instructional and administrative. This would allow professional staff

and some students to utilize new and emerging technology in a regional

Center.

File No. 96028 CTB San Mateo County Comm Coll District, 1700 West

Hillsdale Blvd., San Mateo, CA 94002. Signed By: Dr. Lois Callahan,

Chancellor. Funds Requested: $406,628. Total Project Cost: $813,257.

KCSM-TV, Ch 60, in San Mateo, CA, requests replacement of its aged

production switcher, audio board, cameras, and associated equipment and

to construct a satellite uplink to provide educational courses and

adult learning materials, teleconferences, etc, to colleges in the Bay

Area, cable educational channels and libraries in the communities of

Northern California. This station serves 4,650,000 potential viewers.

File No. 96029 CTB Los Angeles Unified School Dist., 1061 West

Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Signed By: Mr. Sidney Thompson,

Superintendent. Funds Requested: $558,520. Total Project Cost:

$1,117,040. KLCS-TV, Channel 58 in Los Angeles, CA requests replacement

of its 23 year old transmitter and to link, by Digital Duplex, KLCS

with the facilities at the studios of the Educational

Telecommunications Network (ETN). ETN is an FCC licensed Ku-Band

Satellite network owned and operated by the Los Angeles County Office

of Education.

File No. 96044 CTB KQED, Inc., 2601 Mariposa Street, San Francisco,

CA 94110-1400. Signed By: Mrs. Mary G.F. Bitterman, President & CEO.

Funds Requested: $459,285. Total Project Cost: $918,570. To improve

KQED-TV, Channel 9, in San Francisco, CA, by replacing the editing

system, by adding two Digital \1/2\'' VCR's and adding the Sales Tax

and the A-133 Audit. The applicant provides service to 5.5 million

potential viewers in the San Francisco area.

File No. 96050 CTB Valley Public Television, Inc., 1544 Van Ness

Avenue, Fresno, CA 93721. Signed By: Mr. Colin Dougherty, Exec. Dir/

General Manager. Funds Requested: $270,137. Total Project Cost:

$540,274. To improve KVPT-TV, Channel 18, in Fresno, CA, by replacing

its 19 year old transmitter Applicant currently serves a potential TV

audience of 2,300,000.

File No. 96058 CRB KQED, Inc., 2601 Mariposa Street, San Francisco,

CA 94110. Signed By: Mrs. Mary Bitterman, President and CEO. Funds

Requested: $97,010. Total Project Cost: $194,020. KQED-FM, operating at

110kw ERP, on 88.5 MHz, in San Francisco, CA, seeks to replace its 17

year-old transmitter and antenna, both at the end of their useful life.

KQED-FM provides service to 5.3 million potential listeners.

File No. 96062 CRB San Diego Comm College District, 1313 Twelfth

Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101. Signed By: Mr. Augustine Gallego,

Chancellor. Funds Requested: $61,383. Total Project Cost: $122,766. To

improve KSDS-FM, operating on 88.3 MHz, in San Diego, CA, by replacing

a 20 year old transmitter, a 19 year old antenna and transmission line,

increasing its power, and adding circular polarization, to provide the

station's program service to an extended population by increasing

KSDS's power capacity from 831 watts ERP to 19,000 watts ERP.

File No. 96112 CRB Nevada City Community Broadcast Gp, 401 Spring

Street, Nevada City, CA 95959. Signed By: Mr. Brian Terhorst, General

Manager. Funds Requested: $42,907. Total Project Cost: $85,815. To

improve KVMR-FM, operating on 89.5 MHz, in Nevada City, CA, by

replacing the transmitter, antenna, feedlines, tower, STL antenna,

adaptor and wattmeter and adding a satellite downlink to bring first

service of national programming to a majority of the station's 340,000

potential listeners.

File No. 96122 CTB KBSV-TV, P.O. Box 4116, Modesto, CA 95352.

Signed By: Dr. Sargon Dadesho, Director of Mass Media. Funds Requested:

$313,500. Total Project Cost: $418,000. To improve KBSV-TV which will

operate on Channel 23 starting April 16, 1996, by establishing a first

Local Origination Capacity. The main objective of this station is to

provide multicultural and educational programs to the diversified

population in its coverage area. Applicant claims no other station is

serving the functions outlined above. The coverage area includes

370,000 potential viewers.

File No. 96125 CRB Pacifica Foundation, 1929 MLK Jr. Avenue,

Berkeley, CA 94704. Signed By: Ms. Patricia Scott, Executive Director.

Funds Requested: $160,929. Total Project Cost: $214,572. To improve

KPFK-FM, operating on 90.7 MHz, in North Hollywood, CA and KPFT-FM,

operating on 90.1 MHz, in Houston, TX, by replacing a mismatched set of

old tape decks and cart machines with digital technology. The applicant

provides service to approximately 13,840,832 listeners in North

Hollywood and approximately 3,192,000 listeners in Houston.

File No. 96135 IPTN Kern Community College District, 100 East

College Avenue, Porterville, CA 93257. Signed By: Dr. Bonnie Rogers,

President. Funds Requested: $46,185. Total Project Cost: $82,867. To

develop a plan for a telecommunications system that would incorporate

materials from the Kern Educational Telecommunications Consortium and

other sources, in providing a distance learning and job training

service to an underserved, largely Hispanic and American Indian

population in southern Tulare County, California.

File No. 96152 CRB Los Angeles Radio Reading Service, 3580 Wilshire

Blvd. Suite 1660, Los Angeles, CA 90010. Signed By: Mr. Paul J.

Vandeventer, Executive Director. Funds Requested: $19,275. Total

Project Cost: $25,700. The Los Angeles Radio Reading Service has been

granted its subsidiary frequency by KCSN-FM in Los Angeles and now

requests funding for a start-up inventory of 300 SCA receivers and

multi-user site equipment for one convalescent home and two residential

homes for those who are blind. Additionally, the project includes an FM

antenna and a low power transmitter, a transmit coupling, a coaxial

cable and wire cable.

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File No. 96159 CRB San Francisco Unified School Dist., 2576

Harrison Street, San Francisco, CA 94110. Signed By: Ms. Linda Davis,

Deputy Superintendent. Funds Requested: $18,973. Total Project Cost:

$37,945. To improve KALW-FM, operating on 91.7 MHz, in San Francisco,

CA, by replacing its 16 year old satellite dish and 10 year old audio

console and to upgrade its communication system by purchasing a

telephone interface to allow on-air call conferencing. Applicant

currently serves 1,977,000 potential listeners.

File No. 96161 CRB California State Univ, Northridge, 18111

Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330-8312. Signed By: Mr. Mark

Lipschutz, Director, Res. & Spon. Project. Funds Requested: $9,422.

Total Project Cost: $18,844. To improve KCSN-FM, operating on 88.5 MHz,

in Northridge, CA, by adding digital editing equipment which will

optimize the applicant's use of the DAT and mini-disc equipment KCSN

acquired under a '94 grant. The items requested include: the core

system, interface, signal processor, keyboard, hard drive, noise

reduction, software, computer, tape drive and monitor. The station

serves approximately 1.5 million people.

File No. 96181 CRB Bet-Nahrain, Inc., P.O. Box 4116, Modesto, CA

95352. Signed By: Dr. Sargon Dedesho, Director of Mass Media. Funds

Requested: $182,235. Total Project Cost: $242,980. To enable KBES-FM,

operating on 89.5 MHz, located in Ceres, CA, to acquire the necessary

items of equipment to bring the inventory of an already operating

station to the basic level of equipment requirements established by

PTFP. The equipment requested is a 150 to 200 watt transmitter, plus

all the items listed in the Guidelines Booklet for the On-Air Control

Room, Production Control Room, and News Control Room. Approximately

370,000 potential listeners benefit from the KBES-FM Programming.

File No. 96182 CTB Bay Area Multicultural T/C Asso., 1740 Cesar

Chavez Street, San Francisco, CA 94124. Signed By: Mr. Humberto

Cintron, President, Board of Directors. Funds Requested: $263,166.

Total Project Cost: $350,888. To activate a minority public TV station,

operating on Channel 32 in San Francisco, CA, which will provide

programming for the 2.2 million Bay Area residents who are members of 5

minority groups. The applicant has applied to the FCC to be granted the

license for Channel 32 in place of the current license-holder of Ch 32.

File No. 96188 ICTB Kern Educational T/com. Consortium, 1300 17th

Street, City Centre, Bakerfield, CA 93301-4533. Signed By: Dr. Kelly

Blanton, Kern County Superintendent. Funds Requested: $888,116. Total

Project Cost: $1,184,155. To establish a noncommercial television

station in Bakersfield, CA, which will bring a first public TV signal

to approximately 780,000 residents of that area. In addition to some

nationally-distributed public television programming, the station will

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. 96207 ICTN Monterey County Office of Education, 901 Blanco

Court, Salinas, CA 93901. Signed By: Mr. William Barr, Superintendent.

Funds Requested: $338,454. Total Project Cost: $676,908. To add two

ITFS links to the Monterey County Office of Education's existing

distance learning system, and purchase microwave equipment to

interconnect the ITFS system with diverse other transmission outlets

throughout the Office's service area.

File No. 96221 ICTN The National Hispanic University, 14271 Story

Road, San Jose, CA 96127. Signed By: Dr. Roberto Cruz, President. Funds

Requested: $244,043. Total Project Cost: $305,053. To purchase a VSAT

satellite terminal and electronic classroom facilities to permit the

National Hispanic University to become a participating member of the

Hispanic Educational Telecommunications System (HETS).

CO (Colorado)

File No. 96024 CTB University of Southern Colorado, 2200 Bonforte

Boulevard, Pueblo, CO 81001. Signed By: Dr. Robert Shirley, President.

Funds Requested: $534,438. Total Project Cost: $1,068,876. To extend

and improve the facilities of KTSC-TV, Channel 8 in Pueblo by

activating translators in Durango (Ch. 29), Ignacio (Ch. 15) and Towaoc

(Ch. 49) to provide first public television service to approximately

56,000 residents of western Colorado. KTSC will also replace a failing

15-year-old \3/4\ inch videotape system and will upgrade its facilities

to offer stereo broadcast and descriptive video services.

File No. 96091 CRB Boulder Community Broadcasting, 1900 Folsom

Avenue, Suite 100, Boulder, CO 80302. Signed By: Ms. Marty Durlin,

Station Manager. Funds Requested: $8,715. Total Project Cost: $17,430.

To enhance and improve the production facilities of KGNU-FM, operating

on 88.5 in Boulder, Colorado, by purchasing and installing two Digital

Audio Workstations.

File No. 96095 ICTN 95262. National Technological University, 700

Centre Avenue, Ft. Collins, CO 80526. Signed By: Dr. Lionel Baldwin,

President. Funds Requested: $413,576. Total Project Cost: $827,152. To

construct two additional Ku-band satellite uplinks in the National

Technological University system which will increase engineering

programming distributed nationwide. The uplinks will be located at the

University of California, Berekely and the University of Florida,

Gainesville. The project also proposes to add digital compression

equipment for existing Ku-band uplinks at Kansas State University,

Manhattan, KS and the University of Texas at Austin.

File No. 96106 IPTN Regis University, 3333 Regis Blvd., Denver, CO

80221. Signed By: Dr. William Husson, Academic Dean. Funds Requested:

$61,620. Total Project Cost: $140,760. On behalf of the Association of

Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU), Regis University in Denver,

Colorado will manage the development of a plan for the use of

telecommunications facilities in an interconnected system among the 28

AJCU institutions through local technology applications for distance

learning services including the sharing of educational courses.

File No. 96117 CTB Region 10 League for Economic, 300 North

Cascade, Suite 1, Montrose, CO 81401. Signed By: Mrs. Mary Helen

deKoevend, Chairperson. Funds Requested: $57,705. Total Project Cost:

$76,940. To maintain and improve the broadcast services of KTSC-TV,

Channel 8 in Montrose, Colorado, by replacing four translator and one

transmitter serving over 47,000 residents of Montrose, Ouray and Delta

counties.

File No. 96162 IPTN Colorado Community College, 9125 E. 10th Drive,

Aurora, CO 80010. Signed By: Mr. Don Goodwin, Executive Director, HEAT

Ctr. Funds Requested: $318,600. Total Project Cost: $498,600. To

develop the technology master plan toward the design of the Lowry

Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure network in support of

an open learning system for distance learning and training, through the

Higher Education and Advanced Technology (HEAT) Center in the Lowry

Community of Aurora, Colorado.

File No. 96205 ICTN Northern Colorado Board of Coop., 830 South

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Lincoln Street, Longmont, CO 80501. Signed By: Dr. Jack Hale, Executive

Director/NC BOCES. Funds Requested: $328,034. Total Project Cost:

$1,125,148. To establish a two-way, interactive compressed video

distance learning system to serve the diverse academic institutions of

the northeast quadrant of Colorado. For this project, the Northern

Colorado Board of Cooperative Educational Services is acting on behalf

of a partnership of 38 K-12 school districts, three community colleges,

a university, and the State's Division of Telecommunications. The

proposal would interconnect six existing distance education networks

and extend service to five presently-unserved remote sites. The new

network would be known as the Colorado Information Infrastructure.

CT (Connecticut)

File No. 96083 IPTN Norwich Commun. Tech. Learning Ctr., 194

Washington Street, Norwich, CT 06360. Signed By: Mr. William Stanley,

Chairman, Board of Directors. Funds Requested: $85,350. Total Project

Cost: $335,350. To assist the Norwich Communications Technology

Learning Center, Inc. in planning how to put into place the strategies,

community support, and technological structures needed to establish

interactive distance learning systems that would serve the schools and

businesses of Eastern Connecticut.

File No. 96192 CRB University of New Haven, 300 Orange Avenue, West

Haven, CT 06516. Signed By: Dr. James Uebelacker, Provost. Funds

Requested: $17,400. Total Project Cost: $34,800. To improve WNHU-FM,

operating on 88.7 MHz, in West Haven, CT, by replacing a 1970 vintage

Moseley TFL-280BFN Limiter and to replace 2 1974 vintage cart machines

with a digital master control work station and storage facility.

Applicant provides service to approximately 1 million potential

listeners.

DC (District of Columbia)

File No. 96019 CRB American University, Brandywine Building,

Washington, DC 20016-8082. Signed By: Mr. Donald Myers, Vice Pres. of

Fin. & Treasurer. Funds Requested: $47,000. Total Project Cost:

$188,000. To improve the signal of public radio station WAMU, 88.5 MHz,

Washington, DC, by replacing its worn-out and unreliable transmitter.

The station serves a population of about 4,306,989.

File No. 96053 CRB 95155. Univ. of the District of Columbia, 4200

Connecticut Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20008. Signed By: Dr. Martha

Bridgeforth, V.P., Institutional Adv. Funds Requested: $19,386. Total

Project Cost: $38,772. To improve the facilities of public radio

station WDCU-FM, operating on 90.1 MHz, by purchasing a C band

satellite downlink. The downlink will enable the station to broadcast

programming from National Public Radio and other sources distributed by

the Public Radio Satellite System. WDCU-FM serves 3 million people in

the Washington DC metropolitan area.

File No. 96232 IPRTN Soundprint Media Center, Incorp, 4000

Brandywine St. NW, Suite 620, Washington, DC 20016. Signed By: Ms.

Moira Rankin, Executive Producer. Funds Requested: $99,565. Total

Project Cost: $123,803. To develop a plan based on research regarding

the potential use of existing and proposed new technologies at public

television and radio stations nationwide, that would determine the

possible integration of these technologies in a telecommunications

network for distance learning services.

FL (Florida)

File No. 96030 CTB University of Florida, Weimer Hall, Gainesville,

FL 32611. Signed By: Dr. Thomas Walsh, Director of Research. Funds

Requested: $53,940. Total Project Cost: $107,880. To upgrade the

facilities of WUFT-TV, Channel 5 in Gainesville, by replacing worn-out

and obsolete master control equipment with digital video storage

technology.

File No. 96037 CTB South Florida Public Telecom., Inc., 3401 South

Congress Avenue, Boynton Beach, FL 33426. Signed By: Mrs. Mary Souder,

President/CEO. Funds Requested: $166,600. Total Project Cost: $333,200.

To improve the broadcast services of WXEL-TV, Channel 42 in Boyton

Beach and to provide Descriptive Video Services to blind and visually

impaired individuals, by replacing the station's 12-year-old routing

system and the master control switcher with analog/digital equipment.

File No. 96043 CTB Florida State University, 1600 Red Barber Plaza,

Tallahassee, FL 32310. Signed By: Dr. Robert Johnson, VP for Research.

Funds Requested: $133,275. Total Project Cost: $266,550. To ensure a

continued high quality production and programming facility at WFSU and

WFSG by replacing 14-year-old, \3/4\ inch editing equipment.

File No. 96086 CTB University of South Florida, 4202 Fowler Avenue,

WRB 219, Tampa, FL 33620. Signed By: Mr. James Heck, General Manager.

Funds Requested: $41,812. Total Project Cost: $83,624. To upgrade its

broadcast capabilities, WUSF-TV, Channel 16 in Tampa, by replacing its

worn-out and unreliable optical disc units with a video server.

File No. 96089 CTB Florida West Coast Pub. Brdcstg., 1300 North

Boulevard, Tampa, FL 33677-4033. Signed By: Mr. Stephen L. Rogers,

President & CEO. Funds Requested: $217,850. Total Project Cost:

$435,700. To improve the production capacity of WEDU-TV, Channel 3 in

Tampa, by purchasing a switcher, editor and effects equipment so that

the station can continue to produce programming for local, state and

national distribution.

File No. 96090 ICTN School Board of Broward County, 600 Southeast

Third Avenue, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301. Signed By: Dr. Frank

Petruzielo, Superintendent of Schools. Funds Requested: $136,962. Total

Project Cost: $273,924. To establish an Instructional Television Fixed

Service (ITFS) system, with associated video classroom and satellite

receive-only earth station, to bring distance learning to the public

school students of Broward County, Florida.

File No. 96113 CRB Florida Institute of Technology, 150 W.

University Blvd., Melbourne, FL 32901. Signed By: Mr. Robert Merrill,

Director, Sponsored Programs. Funds Requested: $23,126. Total Project

Cost: $30,835. To improve its facilities and provide first public radio

service to approximately 13,000 people, WFIT-FM, operating on 89.5 MHz

in Melbourne, will increase its antenna height from 34 meters to 46

meters and its power from 2,350 Watts to 8,000 Watts.

File No. 96139 ICTBN Coastal Educational Broadcasters, 1200 W.

Intern't Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach, FL 32114. Signed By: Dr. Don

Thigpen, President. Funds Requested: $491,000. Total Project Cost:

$982,000. To improve the transmission, origination, and test equipment

of public TV station WCEU, broadcasting on Ch. 15 from Daytona Beach,

FL. The project would embrace both broadcast and nonbroadcast elements.

The project's transmission equipment would allow the station to add

four educational programming streams to the existing Daytona Beach

Community College ITFS system. The origination equipment would permit

WCEU-TV to produce additional programming for its over-the-air

broadcast audience as well as to integrate its broadcast and

educational services and to move to digital random access and tape

storage. The project also includes equipment for an interactive video

classroom; this would be used to originate instructional classes for

high school students.

File No. 96174 CRB Sylum Education Foundation, 485 N.E. 160

Terrace, North

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Miami Beach, FL 33162. Signed By: Mr. Chris Bain, President. Funds

Requested: $74,895. Total Project Cost: $99,866. To construct a

noncommercial FM station, operating on 88.7 MHz, to provide radio

services targeted to the young people in the City of North Miami Beach

and surrounding areas.

File No. 96198 ICTN Florida International University, NE 151 Street

and Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL 33181. Signed By: Dr Thomas Breslin, Vice

Provost for Research. Funds Requested: $362,190. Total Project Cost:

$848,692. To establish a distance learning system under the auspices of

the South Florida Distance Learning Network, which is composed of

Florida International University and other academic institutions in the

South Florida area. The system will provide diverse instructional

programming to Dade, Broward, and Monroe Counties. The proposed system

will transmit via fiber optics and via the ITFS system of public

television station WLRN, Ch. 17, Miami. Station WLRN-TV is licensed to

the Dade County School Board.

File No. 96217 CRB 95116. University of Florida, 2208 Weimer Hall,

Gainesville, FL 32611. Signed By: Mr. Richard Lehner, General Manager.

Funds Requested: $28,769. Total Project Cost: $57,538. To install

automation equipment at WUFT-FM, operating on 89.1 MHz in Gainesville,

to maintain 24-hour a day programming in a cost-effective manner.

File No. 96218 CTB Florida Gulf Coast University, Channel 30 Drive,

Bonita Springs, FL 33923. Signed By: Dr. Roy McTarnaghan, President.

Funds Requested: $342,114. Total Project Cost: $684,229. To improve the

broadcast operations of WSFP-TV, Channel 30 in Bonita Springs, Florida,

by replacing obsolete, inefficient and trouble-prone origination

equipment and acquiring one LIS mass storage unit.

File No. 96219 CRB Florida Gulf Coast University, 8111 College

Parkway, Fort Myers, FL 33919. Signed By: Dr. Roy McTarnaghan,

President. Funds Requested: $134,061. Total Project Cost: $268,123. To

upgrade and improve its facilities, WSFP-FM, operating 90.1 MHz in Fort

Myers, by replacing worn-out and obsolete local origination equipment.

File No. 96223 CRB Florida Gulf Coast University, 8111 College

Parkway, Fort Myers, FL 33919. Signed By: Dr. Roy McTarnaghan,

President. Funds Requested: $67,850. Total Project Cost: $135,700. To

bring first public radio programming services to approximately 60,000

residents of Collier County, WSFP-FM, operating on 90.1 MHz in Fort

Myers, will activate a repeater transmitter in Marco Island operating

on 91.7 MHz.

File No. 96241 CTB Community Communications, Inc., 11510 East

Colonial Drive, Orlando, FL 32817. Signed By: Mr. Stephen McKenney

Steck, President. Funds Requested: $49,168. Total Project Cost:

$98,336. To improve the post-production capabilities of WMFE-TV,

Channel 24 in Orlando, by purchasing a digital video effects unit and a

font generator to more effectively meet increased demand for the

station's editing facilities.

File No. 96243 CTB WJCT, Inc., 100 Festival Park Avenue,

Jacksonville, FL 32202. Signed By: Mr. William Dresser, President &

General Manager. Funds Requested: $190,000. Total Project Cost:

$380,000. To maintain the high quality of the broadcast services of

WJCT-TV, Channel 7 in Jacksonville, Florida, by replacing three 12-

year-old studio camera systems.

GA (Georgia)

File No. 96076 PTB Albany Technical Institute, 1021 Lowe Road,

Albany, GA 31701. Signed By: Dr. Anthony Parker, President. Funds

Requested: $90,180. Total Project Cost: $90,180. Conduct planning and

research activities for the construction of a broadcast facility that

will provide distance learning services to students in rural, remote

communities of Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Randolph and Terrell counties,

Georgia.

File No. 96079 CRB 95281. GA Public Telecomm. Commission, 1540

Stewart Ave., S.W., Atlanta, GA 30310. Signed By: Mr. Frank Bugg,

Deputy Director. Funds Requested: $27,000. Total Project Cost: $54,000.

Peach State Public Radio will establish a noncommercial FM radio

station operating on 88.3 MHz in Demorest, GA, to provide first service

to a population of over 260,000 people in the Northeast section of

Georgia.

File No. 96082 CTN City of Atlanta, 68 Mitchell St. SW, Ste 1200,

Atlanta, GA 30335. Signed By: Dr. Renee Kemp-Rotan, Act. Dir., Bur. of

Econ. Devel. Funds Requested: $399,100. Total Project Cost: $798,200.

To assist the City of Atlanta in constructing four electronic town

centers and media parks serving the residents of Atlanta's Empowerment

Zone neighborhoods.

File No. 96109 CTB Atlanta Board of Education, 740 Bismark Road,

NE, Atlanta, GA 30324. Signed By: Dr. Benjamin Canada, Superintendent.

Funds Requested: $156,869. Total Project Cost: $313,738. To improve the

production facilities of WPBA-TV, Ch. 30 in Atlanta, GA, by replacing

10 year old 1'' video tape machines with modern video cassette

machines. The project will also replace obsolete test and monitoring

equipment necessary for the station to continue service to 2.5 million

people in the greater Atlanta area.

File No. 96130 IPTN Clark Atlanta University, James Brawley Dr. at

Fair St. SW, Atlanta, GA 30314. Signed By: Dr. Kofi Bota, Vice

President, Rsch/Spons Pgm. Funds Requested: $67,507. Total Project

Cost: $79,347. To develop a plan, managed by Clark Atlanta University,

for a comprehensive telecommunications system among Historically Black

Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Institutions (MIs) that

could potentially incorporate various technologies in a nationwide

interactive distance learning service.

GU (Guam)

File No. 96167 ICRTN University of Guam, House 6 UOG Station,

Mangilao, GU 96923. Signed By: Ms. Carmen Fernandez, Director/CCE-OF.

Funds Requested: $354,200. Total Project Cost: $354,200. To activate a

new service for distance education by purchasing a digital satellite

system to serve Guam. 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.

HI (Hawaii)

File No. 96212 CTB Hawaii Public Broadcasting Auth., 2350 Dole

Street, Honolulu, HI 96822. Signed By: Mr. Sheldon Robbs, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $75,000. Total Project Cost: $150,000. To

improve the transmission facilities of Hawaii Public Broadcasting on

the island of Hawaii by replacing six public television translators and

related equipment serving 57,000 people on the Big Island. Replacement

equipment will be placed at translators located at Honohina, Hilo,

Kilauea Military Camp, Naalehu, South Point and Waimea.

File No. 96251 PTN University of Hawaii, 2540 Maile Way, Spalding

HL. 253, Honolulu, HI 96822. Signed By: Dr. Peter Garrod, Interim

Director of Research. Funds Requested: $98,051. Total Project Cost:

$130,117. To develop a plan for the extension of the Pan-Pacific

Education and Communication Experiments by Satellite (PEACESAT) Network

and its programs and services, beyond the District Centers and into the

outlying, underserved communities in American Samoa, Guam, and the

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

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IA (Iowa)

File No. 96129 ICTN Eastern IA Community College Dist., 306 West

River Drive, Davenport, IA 52801. Signed By: Dr. John Blong,

Chancellor. Funds Requested: $114,971. Total Project Cost: $229,943. To

construct two video classrooms, with associated interconnection

equipment, in the Kahl Educational Center, located in downtown

Davenport. The Center is a campus of Scott Community College, which in

turn is part of the Eastern Iowa Community College District. The video

classrooms will originate and receive instructional programming

transmitted over the Iowa Communications Network. One classroom will

focus on programming of regional interest, the second on classes for

statewide distribution.

File No. 96143 CRB 95238. Iowa State Univ. of Science & Tech,

Pammel Drive, Ames, IA 50011. Signed By: Mr. Richard E. Hasbrook,

Contracts & Grants Officer. Funds Requested: $159,777. Total Project

Cost: $213,037. To extend the signal of public radio station WOI-FM,

90.1 MHz, Ames, IA, by constructing a repeater station to operate on

89.1 MHz in Ottumwa, IA. The new station will provide the first public

radio signal to about 63,295 residents of southeastern Iowa.

File No. 96154 CRB Kirkwood Community College, P.O. Box 2068, Cedar

Rapids, IA 52404. Signed By: Dr. Norm Nielsen, President. Funds

Requested: $51,097. Total Project Cost: $113,549. To improve the signal

quality and production capability of public radio station KCCK, 88.3

MHz, Cedar Rapids, IA, by replacing its 18-year-old transmitter,

antenna, and transmission line, and by replacing worn-out and obsolete

audio recording and playback equipment. The station serves a population

of about 358,382 persons.

File No. 96193 CTB Iowa Public Broadcasting Board, 6450 Corporate

Drive, Johnston, IA 50131. Signed By: Mr. C. David Bolender, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $90,281. Total Project Cost: $180,562. To

improve the signals of two translators operated by Iowa Public

Television, Johnston, IA, by replacing their transmitters and

associated equipment. The translators concerned broadcast on channel 14

in Decorah, IA, and on channel 41 in Lansing, IA. Together they serve

about 35,137 persons. In addition to the translators, Iowa Public

Television operates eight full-power TV stations across the state.

File No. 96215 CRB Western Iowa Tech. Cmty. College, 4647 Stone

Avenue, Sioux City, IA 51106. Signed By: Dr. Robert E. Dunker,

President. Funds Requested: $49,828. Total Project Cost: $99,656. To

improve the signal quality of public radio station KWIT, 90.3 MHz,

Sioux City, IA, by replacing its worn-out 19-year-old transmitter. In

addition, the project will acquire a dummy load and dehydrator and

convert the station's STL from analog to digital operation. KWIT serves

a population of about 360,000.

ID (Idaho)

File No. 96166 CTB Idaho Public Television, 1450 N. Orchard, Boise,

ID 83706. Signed By: Mr. Jerold Garber, General Manager. Funds

Requested: $305,312. Total Project Cost: $407,083. To replace worn out

dissemination equipment with an automated system which will improve the

operations of KAID in Boise, KIPT in Twin Falls, KISU in Pocatello,

KUID in Moscow and KCDT in Coeur D'Alene.

IL (Illinois)

File No. 96033 CTN City of Urbana, 400 South Vine, Urbana, IL

61801. Signed By: Ms. Amy Jordan, Urbana Public TV Coordinator. Funds

Requested: $59,325. Total Project Cost: $118,650. To help the City of

Urbana establish a PEG cable television community access to transmit

City Council meetings and other government-related programming.

File No. 96118 CTB West Central IL Educ Telecom Corp, Shepherd

Road, Bldg. K, Room 64, Springfield, IL 62707. Signed By: Dr. Jerold

Gruebel, President/General Manager. Funds Requested: $155,874. Total

Project Cost: $259,790. To improve the service of the West Central

Illinois Educational Telecommunications Corporation (dba CONVOCOM),

Springfield, IL, by converting its Springfield translator to a full-

power repeater operating on Channel 65 by acquiring a high-gain antenna

system and by establishing a reliable microwave link between

Springfield and CONVOCOM station WSEC (TV), Jacksonville, IL. It is

estimated that some 258,542 persons will receive enhanced public

television service from this project.

File No. 96225 CTB Black Hawk College, 6600 34th Avenue, Moline, IL

61265. Signed By: Dr. Judith A. Redwine, President. Funds Requested:

$944,732. Total Project Cost: $1,259,643. To extend and improve the

signal of public television station WQPT, operating on Ch. 24, Moline,

IL, by relocating its transmitting facilities to Orion, IL, and

increasing its power and antenna height. Benefiting from this project

will be an estimated 204,710 persons who cannot now receive a Grade B

or better public television signal because of terrain, distance from a

station, and other factors affecting reliable reception. The station

now serves an estimated 237,886 persons.

File No. 96228 CRB University of Illinois, 1110 West Main Street,

Urbana, IL 61801. Signed By: Mr. Craig S. Bazzani, Comptroller. Funds

Requested: $9,107. Total Project Cost: $18,214. To improve the signal

coverage of WILL-FM, 90.9 MHz, Champaign-Urbana, IL, by activating a

translator to operate on 101.1 MHz in Urbana to overcome interference

from terrain features and strong stations operating on near-by

frequencies. WILL-FM serves a population of about 119,894 persons.

IN (Indiana)

File No. 96048 CTB Indiana University, P.O. Box 1847, Bloomington,

IN 47402. Signed By: Dr. George Walker, Vice President, Research. Funds

Requested: $52,088. Total Project Cost: $104,176. To improve public

television station WITU, operating on Ch, 30, Bloomington, IN, by

acquiring a new switcher and a hard-disk video file server to replace

worn-out and obsolete master control equipment. The station serves a

population of about 485,800.

File No. 96151 CTB Michiana Public Broadcasting Corp., 2300 Charger

Boulevard, Elkhart, IN 46514. Signed By: Ms. Trina Cutter, President/

General Manager. Funds Requested: $57,038. Total Project Cost:

$114,075. To improve public television station WNIT, operating on Ch.

34, Elkhart, IN, by replacing aging and obsolete video editing and test

equipment. The station serves a population of about 791,000.

File No. 96176 CRB Metro Indianapolis Pub Bdcstg, Inc., 1401 North

Meridian Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202. Signed By: Mr. Lloyd Wright,

President & General Manager. Funds Requested: $55,000. Total Project

Cost: $110,000. To improve public radio station WFYI-FM, 90.1 MHz,

Indianapolis, IN, by replacing its 26-year-old transmitter, which is

worn-out and obsolete. The station serves a population of about 2-

million.

File No. 96230 CTB Tri-State Public Teleplex, Inc., 405 Carpenter

Street, Evansville, IN 47708-1027. Signed By: Mr. David Dial, President

and General Manager. Funds Requested: $84,580. Total Project Cost:

$169,161. To improve the operation of public station WNIN-TV, Ch. 9,

Evansville, IN, by replacing several items of worn-out and obsolete

production equipment, including a character generator, lighting

instruments, and a field camera and by acquiring a hard-disk digital

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editing system. The station serves a population of about 750,000.

File No. 96233 CTB Ball State University, Ball State University,

Muncie, IN 47306-0080. Signed By: Dr. James L. Pyle, Exec Dir, Academic

Research. Funds Requested: $230,738. Total Project Cost: $461,476. To

improve the operation of public television station WIPB, Ch. 49,

Muncie, IN, by replacing obsolete and worn-out cameras and a character

generator. The station serves a population of about 980,000.

KS (Kansas)

File No. 96002 ICTN Western Kansas Cmty Srvcs Consort., 1007 West

Eighth Street, Pratt, KS 67124. Signed By: Ms. Joyce Hartmann,

Executive Director. Funds Requested: $168,883. Total Project Cost:

$356,589. To assist the Consortium's five community colleges to extend

their instructional programming throughout the Consortium's 41-county

educational service area. Colby Community College proposes to

interconnect with two existing distance learning networks. Dodge City

Community College would install four portable ITV classrooms in rural

areas and purchase a satellite receive-only earth station. Garden City

Community College will construct four video classrooms, one at the Lee

Richardson Zoo. Pratt Community College will expand its connectivity to

the existing A-Plus Network. Seward County Community College will equip

a video classroom in the community of Johnson.

File No. 96021 CRB Kanza Society, Inc., 210 North Seventh, Garden

City, KS 67846-5519. Signed By: Ms. Kathleen Holt, Executive Director.

Funds Requested: $91,534. Total Project Cost: $140,821. To improve and

extend the signal of KANZ-FM (91.1 MHz) in Garden City and KZNA-FM

(90.5 MHz) in Hill City, by replacing (including changing existing

frequency), relocating or changing the coverage of the following twelve

FM translators: Ashland, KS (K252AX to 92.9 MHz); Atwood, KS (K237CN);

Colby, KS (K205BR); Dodge City, KS (K242AE to 92.9 MHz); Elkhart, KS

(K252AV to 90.3 MHz); Goodland, KS (K219AJ to 89.7 MHz); Guymon, OK

(K205FP); Lamar, CO (K252BY to 90.7 MHz); Ness City, KS (K252AY to 92.9

MHz); St. Francis, KS (K257DI to 96.3 MHz); Sharon Springs, KS

(K214AU); and Tribune, KS (K252AW to 89.5 MHz). The changes will result

in approximately 35,217 people receiving a first public radio signal.

File No. 96051 CRB Kansas State University, Room 2, Fairchild Hall,

Manhattan, KS 66506-4701. Signed By: Dr. R. W. Trewyn, Assoc. Vice

Provost for Res'ch. Funds Requested: $18,090. Total Project Cost:

$36,180. To improve the facilities of public radio station KKSU-AM, 580

kHZ, in Manhattan, by converting the station to a stereo production

facility, converting to digital record and playback technology, and

expanding the routing and distribution system due to additional

demands. KKSU-AM will also acquire an oscilloscope. Station serves

about 5.4 million people in parts of KS, NE, MO, IA and OK.

File No. 96138 CRB Wichita State University, 3317 East 17th Street,

Wichita, KS 67208. Signed By: Dr. Gerald Loper, Associate Vice

President. Funds Requested: $19,250. Total Project Cost: $38,500. To

improve the facilities of public radio station KMUW-FM, 89.1 MHz, in

Wichita, by installing an uninterruptable power supply system to keep

the station on the air during power outages and replacing 10-to-20 year

old analog production equipment with digital recording and editing

equipment. KMUW-FM serves about 678,000 people in south central KS.

File No. 96140 CTB Kansas Public Telecom. Service, 320 West 21st

St., P.O. Box 288, Wichita, KS 67201. Signed By: Mr. Zoel Parenteau,

President & General Manager. Funds Requested: $14,357. Total Project

Cost: $28,715. To improve the facilities of public television station

KPTS-TV, Ch. 8, in Wichita, by replacing an old, obsolete video tape

recorder, acquiring a new waveform monitor, a new color monitor and an

FCC required EBS encoder decoder. KPTS-TV serves approximately 388,000

people.

File No. 96180 CRB Kansas Public Broadcasting Council, 900 SW

Jackson, Room 751S, Topeka, KS 66612-1275. Signed By: Mr. David M.

Wilson, Chairman. Requested: $41,528. Total Project Cost: $83,056. To

purchase a portable Ku-band satellite uplink as well as six fixed

downlinks to be placed at public radio stations serving the state. The

equipment will be used to share programming gathered from around the

state. Downlinks will be placed at KHCC-FM, Hutchinson, KANZ-FM, Garden

City, KANU-FM, Lawrence, KKSU-AM, Manhattan, KRPS-FM, Pittsburg and

KMUW-FM, Wichita.

File No. 96202 CTB Smoky Hills Public Television, 604 Elm Street,

Bunker Hill, KS 67626. Signed By: Mr. David Wilson, CEO/General

Manager. Funds Requested: $58,000. Total Project Cost: $116,000. To

extend the signal of public television station KOOD-TV, Ch. 9, in

Bunker Hill, by constructing a new repeater station in Dodge City, on

Ch. 21. Project also includes an Electronic Field Production unit

consisting of a portable video camera, recorder and accessories to be

used to provide additional production capacity to better serve the

proposed coverage area. Station will provide a first over-the-air

signal to about 26,000 people.

File No. 96214 CRB Hutchinson Community College, 815 N. Walnut,

Suite 300, Hutchinson, KS 67501. Signed By: Dr. Edward Berger,

President. Funds Requested: $31,150. Total Project Cost: $62,300. To

improve public radio station KHCC-FM, 90.1 MHz, in Hutchinson, by

replacing obsolete equipment with a digital audio storage system and

interfaces, three DAT recorders and four microphones. This station, and

its two repeater stations, serve approximately 925,000 people in

central KS.

File No. 96222 CTB Washburn University of Topeka, 1700 Southwest

College Avenue, Topeka, KS 66621. Signed By: Dr. Hugh Thompson,

President. Funds Requested: $114,547. Total Project Cost: $229,094. To

improve public television station KTWU-TV, Ch. 11, in Topeka by

replacing its 42 year old transmission line, adding a backup studio to

transmitter microwave system, and upgrading its master control

operations by adding a digital video playback system. KTWU-TV serves

approximately 1.26 million people.

KY (Kentucky)

File No. 96098 CRB Murray State University, 15th & Olive Streets,

Murray, KY 42071. Signed By: Dr. James Booth, Provost. Funds Requested:

$37,620. Total Project Cost: $50,160. To improve reception to its

current audience and to reach approximately 54,000 new listeners, WKMS-

FM, operating on 91.3 MHz in Murray, Kentucky, will activate a

translator in Paducah (92.1 MHz) and a repeater in Madisonville (90.1

MHz).

File No. 96171 ICTN Center for Rural Development, 2292 South

Highway 27, Suite 300, Somerset, KY 42501. Signed By: Mrs. Hilda Gay

Legg, Executive Director. Funds Requested: $619,588. Total Project

Cost: $826,117. To establish a production studio for The Center for

Rural Development, Somerset, KY. The studio will allow the Center to

produce instructional programming as part of its mandate to act as a

training and education center for a 40-county service area. The

Center's partners in this telecommunications enterprise are the

University of Kentucky and Kentucky Educational Television.

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File No. 96196 CTB Kentucky Educational Television, 600 Cooper

Drive, Lexington, KY 40502. Signed By: Mrs. Virginia Fox, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $689,076. Total Project Cost: $1,148,460. To

improve the broadcast services of WKMJ-TV, Channel 68 in Louisville,

Kentucky, by replacing the aging transmitter, the transmission line and

the antenna which was damaged by lightning.

File No. 96210 CTB Fifteen Telecommunications, Inc., 4421 Bishop

Lane/PO Box 37380, Louisville, KY 40218. Signed By: Mr. John-Robert

Curtin, President & CEO. Funds Requested: $39,975. Total Project Cost:

$79,950. To improve the broadcast operations of WKPC-TV, Channel 15 in

Louisville, Kentucky by constructing a free standing 195 ft. tower for

the station's STL and ITFS.

LA (Louisiana)

File No. 96045 CTB Educational Broadcasting Fdn., 2929 South

Carrollton Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118. Signed By: Mr. James Kelly,

General Manager. Funds Requested: $94,808. Total Project Cost:

$189,617. To improve the production facilities of public television

station WLAE-TV, operating on Ch. 32 in New Orleans, LA. The project

will replace a 20 year old video production switcher for the production

of local programs. WLAE-TV serves 1.2 million people in the greater New

Orleans area.

File No. 96093 CTB Greater New Orleans ETV Found., 916 Navarre

Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70124. Signed By: Mr. Randall Feldman,

President & General Manager. Funds Requested: $191,500. Total Project

Cost: $383,000. To improve the production facilities of public

television station WYES-TV, operating on Ch. 12 in New Orleans, by

replacing 1'' video tape machines with digital video cassette machines

and replacing four Betacam players with a disc storage system. The

project will also replace a 10 year old DVE system with a dual channel

system and purchase a non-linear editor for the production of local

programs. WYES-TV serves 1.7 million people in the greater New Orleans

area.

File No. 96127 ICTN New Orleans Educ. T/C Consortium, 2929 South

CarrolltonAvenue, New Orleans, LA 70118. Signed By: Dr. Robert Lucas,

Executive Director. Funds Requested: $287,293. Total Project Cost:

$574,586. To purchase T-1 interconnection and video classroom equipment

to allow the New Orleans Educational Telecommunications Consortium to

extend its ITFS-based distance learning service to Lake Ponchartrain's

north shore and to the Stennis Space Center, which is located in

Mississippi.

File No. 96246 ICTN 95147. Northwestern State University, Kyser

Hall, Room 153, Natchitoches, LA 71497. Signed By: Dr. Robert Alost,

President. Funds Requested: $569,528. Total Project Cost: $759,371. To

purchase a Ku-band mobile satellite uplink to expand the distance

learning opportunities to under served areas of Louisiana, Arkansas,

Mississippi and Oklahoma.

MA (Massachusetts)

File No. 96036 CRB 95145. Cape & Islands Commm Public Radio, 78

Gardiner Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543. Signed By: Mr. Jay Allison,

President. Funds Requested: $212,450. Total Project Cost: $283,270. To

provide first public radio service to 70,639 citizens of Woods Hole and

Nantucket, MA by constructing new FM broadcast studios, control rooms,

antennas and transmitters at 90.1 MHz, Woods Hole, MA, and 91.1 MHz,

Nantucket, MA.

File No. 96131 CRB University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003.

Signed By: Ms. Carol Sprague, Acting Assoc. Director. Funds Requested:

$46,827. Total Project Cost: $93,655. To improve WFCR-FM, operating on

88.5 MHz, in Amherst, MA, by replacing the audio console and associated

items, monitor amplifier, monitor speakers, storage system, two

cassette decks, two turntables, microphone processor, telephone hybrid,

routing switcher, cabinets, and test equipment. Applicant provides

service to approximately 1,144,371 potential listeners.

File No. 96158 CRB University of Massachusetts, 100 Morrissey

Blvd., Boston, MA 02125. Signed By: Mr. Paul O'Keefe, Director. Funds

Requested: $67,730. Total Project Cost: $92,730. To improve WFPB-FM,

operating on 91.9 MHz, in Falmouth, MA, by replacing the present

temporary system, using mostly borrowed and rented equipment which

makes this project a middle ground between establishing a new first

service and replacing an existing system. The applicant owns very few

broadcast items, so the equipment requested is basically an activation

package. WFPB-FM will serve approximately 40,000 listeners.

File No. 96208 CTB WGBH Educational Foundational, 125 Western

Avenue, Boston, MA 02134. Signed By: Mr. Andrew Griffiths, VP/Finance

and Administration. Funds Requested: $587,605. Total Project Cost:

$1,175,210. To improve WGBH-TV, operating on Ch 2, in Boston, MA, by

replacing six eighteen-year-old studio cameras. WGBH Educational

Foundation serves approximately 5,430,000 viewers.

File No. 96220 ICTN Douglas Public Schools, 21 Davis Street, East

Douglas, MA 01516. Signed By: Mrs. Concetta Verge, Superintendent.

Funds Requested: $19,323. Total Project Cost: $38,647. To establish a

video conference classroom for the Douglas, Mass., Public Schools to be

used for distance learning purposes. The project would use PicTel

equipment with the signals transmitted via ISDN.

File No. 96244 ICTN Springfield Technical Cmty College, One Armory

Square, Springfield, MA 01105. Signed By: Dr. Andrew Scibelli,

President. Funds Requested: $250,000. Total Project Cost: $500,000. To

help establish a T-1-based, compressed video, interactive distance

learning network that will allow Springfield Technical Community

College (STCC) to provide instructional programming to eight schools

and fifty small businesses in Springfield, MA. The equipment will also

permit STCC to interconnect with the University of Massachusetts and

120 other national universities as well as with a New England-wide

technical training collaborative of eight colleges offering common

curricula. The proposed network will serve a large section of

Springfield that the Federal Government has designated an Enterprise

Zone.

MD (Maryland)

File No. 96073 CRB Univ. of Maryland Eastern Shore, Backbone Road,

Princess Anne, MD 21853. Signed By: Dr. William Hytche, President,

UMES. Funds Requested: $86,647. Total Project Cost: $115,550. To

provide first public radio service to over 70,000 residents of Eastern

Delaware and Northern Maryland, WESM-FM, operating on 91.3 MHz in

Princess Anne, Maryland, will construct a repeater station in Massey,

MD.

File No. 96078 ICTN Salisbury State University, 1101 Camden Avenue,

Salisbury, MD 21801. Signed By: Dr. Nelson Butler, Interim President.

Funds Requested: $151,300. Total Project Cost: $201,762. A consortium

of three State higher education academic institutions would

interconnect their three campuses to form a distance learning system to

serve Maryland's lower eastern shore. The three are Salisbury State

University, the University of Maryland/Eastern Shore, and Wor-Wic

Community College. The project would construct a duplex microwave

system linking the three campuses and an STL system that would

interconnect with an existing ITFS transmission site near Salisbury.

The project would also install

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a video classroom at Wor-Wic Community College and receive sites at

high schools in 12 area communities.

File No. 96189 CTB Maryland Public Broadcasting Comm., 11767 Owings

Mills Boulevard, Owings Mills, MD 21117. Signed By: Dr. Archie

Buffkins, Interim President/CEO. Funds Requested: $1,016,000. Total

Project Cost: $2,032,000. To upgrade the broadcast operations of WMPT-

TV, Channel 22 in Annapolis, Maryland, by replacing the 22-year-old

transmitter and the antenna/transmission line system.

File No. 96201 ICTN Chesapeake Regional Network, Inc., 39 Old

Hilltop Rd., Conowingo, MD 21918. Signed By: Mr. Douglas Donley,

President. Funds Requested: $60,685. Total Project Cost: $84,285. To

establish an Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS) to provide

instructional programming to rural Cecil County, located in Maryland

between Baltimore and Philadelphia, PA.

ME (Maine)

File No. 96014 CTN Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Tribe, P.O. Box

339, Perry, ME 04667. Signed By: Ms. Pamela Francis, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $30,118. Total Project Cost: $46,335. To

extend the cable television community access channel of the

Passamaquoddy Tribe of Pleasant Point to the entire Passamaquoddy

Reservation. At present, the channel is cablecast only to approximately

25% of the Reservation, to an area known as the Old Pleasant Point

Reservation.

File No. 96080 PTB St. John Plantation, RR 3 box 410, Fort Kent, ME

04743. Signed By: Mr. Fernald Jandreau, First Selectman. Funds

Requested: $7,500. Total Project Cost: $7,500. This is an ineligible

application. The applicant is a commercial station, WFKT-TV, channel 4,

in Fort Kent ME. Its basic purpose is to strengthen the broadcast

capability of commercial television station WAGM-TV, channel 8, which

evidently is owned by the applicant and to extend local broadcasting

capability of WFKT-TV to surrounding communities. In the time pressure

we have, there is no point in spending any more time on this ineligible

project.

MI (Michigan)

File No. 96003 ICTN Alpena-Mont.-Alcona Ed. Srvc. Dist., 2118 U.S.

23 South, Alpena, MI 49707. Signed By: Mr. Thomas Lanway,

Superintendent. Funds Requested: $433,750. Total Project Cost:

$870,250. To install cables for voice, video, and data transmission

into every classroom and library in four Michigan counties. The project

would also purchase 40 personal computers in each school building or

library in order to allow those facilities to interconnect with the

Internet. The project is a joint effort between the applicant and the

Iosco Intermediate School District.

File No. 96066 CRB Central Michigan University, 3965 East

Broomfield Road, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859. Signed By: Dr. Leonard E.

Plachta, President. Funds Requested: $321,991. Total Project Cost:

$429,322. To activate a repeater station operating at 95.7 MHz to bring

the first public radio signal to approximately 51,501 residents in and

around Oscoda, MI. The new station will repeat the programming of

public station WCMU-FM, 89.5 MHz, Mt. Pleasant, MI, which presently

serves a population of about 291,577.

File No. 96068 CTB Detroit Educational Television Fndn, 7441 Second

Boulevard, Detroit, MI 48202-2796. Signed By: Mr. Steve Antoniotti,

President and General Manager. Funds Requested: $149,887. Total Project

Cost: $299,775. To improve the operation of public television station

WTVS, Ch. 56, Detroit, MI, by replacing a worn-out and obsolete

switcher and by acquiring an emergency power generator for the

station's transmitter. WTVS serves a population of about 4,500,000.

File No. 96134 IPTN Lansing Community College, 528 N. Capitol,

Lansing, MI 48933. Signed By: Dr. Valerianna Moeller, Executive V.

Pres./Provost. Funds Requested: $75,300. Total Project Cost: $105,750.

To explore the feasibility of various technologies that could be

appropriate for an interactive distance learning system in southeastern

Michigan, among Lansing Community College, and the K-12 schools in the

Livingston County Educational Service District and the Ingham County

Intermediate School District.

File No. 96144 CTB Michigan State University, 84 Wilson Road, East

Lansing, MI 48824-1212. Signed By: Mr. Daniel Evon, Asst Dir, Grants

Admin. Funds Requested: $549,925. Total Project Cost: $1,099,851. To

improve the quality and reliability of the signal of public station

WKAR-TV, Ch. 23, East Lansing, MI, by replacing its failing 18-year-old

transmitter, STL, and the associated control, monitoring. and test

equipment. The station serves a population of about 2,069,000.

File No. 96185 CRB Northwestern Michigan College, 1701 East Front

Street, Traverse City, MI 49684. Signed By: Mr. Timothy Quinn,

President. Funds Requested: $39,055. Total Project Cost: $52,073. To

upgrade non-commercial radio station WNMC, 90.9 MHz, Traverse City, MI,

by increasing its power, moving its antenna, and changing its frequency

to 90.7MHz. The station currently serves a population of about 63,000.

The project will add an estimated 60,400 persons, who have access to

public radio service from another station.

File No. 96224 CRTB Northern Michigan University, Northern Michigan

University, Marquette, MI 49855. Signed By: Dr. Michael J. Roy, VP/

Finance and Administration. Funds Requested: $53,620. Total Project

Cost: $107,240. To improve public station WNMU-TV, Ch. 13, and WNMU-FM,

90.1 MHz, Marquette, MI, by replacing failing audio recording

equipment, upgrading their tower lighting, and acquiring equipment for

descriptive video, closed captioning, and FCC-mandated Emergency Alert

Notification. The stations serve a population of about 200,000.

File No. 96226 CRB Northern Michigan University, Northern Michigan

University, Marquette, MI 49855. Signed By: Dr. Michael J. Roy, VP/

Finance and Administration. Funds Requested: $8,513. Total Project

Cost: $17,026. To extend the signal of WNMU-FM, 90.1 MHz, Marquette,

MI, by activating a translator to operate at 107.3 MHz in Stephenson,

MI, bringing the first public radio signal to about 13,000 residents of

the south-central Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The project will also

enable the re-activation of an existing translator on 91.3 MHz in

Marinette, WI, that had to be shut down when a new full-power station

overroad the signal from WNMU-FM. This translator serves a population

of about 15,518.

File No. 96237 ICTN Hillsdale Co. Intermed School Dist, 3471 Beck

Road, Hillsdale, MI 49242. Signed By: Mr. Gary Moore, Superintendent.

Funds Requested: $847,191. Total Project Cost: $1,129,588. To establish

a fiber optics-based, interactive distance learning system which will

interconnect the eight schools served by the Hillsdale County

Intermediate School District, located in extreme southern Michigan.

File No. 96238 CTB Grand Valley State University, 301 West Fulton

Street, Grand Rapids, MI 49504-6492. Signed By: Ms. Jean Enright,

Secretary, Board of Control. Funds Requested: $104,679. Total Project

Cost: $209,358. To improve the operation of public station WGVU-TV, Ch.

35, Grand Rapids, MI, by replacing obsolete and worn-out video tape

recorders. The project will also benefit WGVK-TV, Ch. 52, which repeats

the programming of WGVU-TV in Kalamazoo, MI. The

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stations serve a population of about 1,274,200.

MN (Minnesota)

File No. 96056 CTB West Central Minnesota ETV CO, 120 West

Schlieman Avenue, Appleton, MN 56208. Signed By: Mr. Ansel Doll,

General Manager. Funds Requested: $176,310. Total Project Cost:

$352,620. To extend the service of KWCM-TV, operating on Ch. 10, in

Appleton, MN, by activating a first signal repeater station, operating

on Ch 69, in Fergus Falls, MN, an area of west central Minnesota not

now served by public TV and containing a population of approximately

50,714 potential viewers.

File No. 96104 CTN Asian Media Access, Inc., 730 Henepin Avenue, #

812, Minneapolis, MN 55403. Signed By: Mr. Virendra Ratnayake,

President of the Board. Funds Requested: $844,380. Total Project Cost:

$1,125,850. To construct the first Asian-American production studio in

the United States that will serve as a media center for Asian American

communities and will produce Asian Lanuguage news, magazine shows,

documentaries and educational programming.

File No. 96137 CRB Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Tribal

Headquarters Building, Red Lake, MN 56671. Signed By: Mr. Bobby

Whitefeather, Tribal Chairman. Funds Requested: $617,725. Total Project

Cost: $823,725. The purpose of this project is to construct a new

public radio station to serve the Red Lake Indian Reservation and

surrounding areas in northern Minnesota, providing the first signal for

approximately 7,000 residents within the coverage area. The station, if

funded, will operate on 91.4 MHz with a power of 100 KW, ERP.

File No. 96206 CRB Minnesota Public Radio, 45 E 7th Street, St.

Paul, MN 55101. Signed By: Mr. Dennis Hamilton, Vice President. Funds

Requested: $206,194. Total Project Cost: $412,389. To improve the

Minnesota Public Radio Network of 16 network stations by replacing an

old C-Band portable uplink with a Ku-band uplink based at St. Paul,

replacing cart machines at the 16 network stations, and also in South

Dakota and Michigan. Additionally, this project requests backup STLs

for MPR stations in Rochester and Duluth, MN. This network serves

approximately 4,547,000 potential listeners.

File No. 96236 CRB White Earth Land Recovery Project, Box 327,

White Earth, MN 56591. Signed By: Ms. Roxanne Struthers, Chairperson.

Funds Requested: $407,528. Total Project Cost: $543,370. The Niijii

Broadcast Corporation, a subsidiary of the White Earth Land Recovery

Project, in White Earth, MN, is requesting funding to activate a first

signal public radio station for the White Earth Ojibwe Indian

reservation in Northern Minnesota. A PTFP Planning grant awarded in

1995 enabled the applicant to conduct a community needs assessment and

site review, and to prepare a FCC construction permit application which

have resulted in the project. The proposed station will provide first

service to approximately 9,200 listeners.

MO (Missouri)

File No. 96010 CRB University of Missouri, 8001 Natural Bridge

Road, St. Louis, MO 63121. Signed By: Mr. Douglas Wartzok, Assoc Vice

Chan. Dean of Grad. Funds Requested: $25,860. Total Project Cost:

$51,720. To improve the production facilities of public radio station

KWMU, 90.7 MHz, St. Louis, MO, by replacing worn-out and unreliable

equipment, including a console, CD players, microphones, and microphone

processors. The station serves a population of about 2,734,900 persons.

File No. 96013 CRB Curators of the Univ. of Missouri, 8001 Natural

Bridge Road, St. Louis, MO 63121. Signed By: Mr. Douglas Wartzok,

Assoc. Vice Chan. Dean of Grad. Funds Requested: $28,675. Total Project

Cost: $57,350. To improve the operational reliability of public radio

station KWMU, 90.7 MHz, St. Louis, MO, by acquiring a back-up power

generator and an Uninterruptable Power Supply. The station serves a

population of about 2,734,900.

File No. 96027 CRB New Wave Corporation, 915 East Broadway,

Columbia, MO 65201. Signed By: Mr. Brian Mann, Interim General Manager.

Funds Requested: $8,125. Total Project Cost: $18,250. To improve the

production capability of public radio station KOPN, 89.5 MHz, Columbia,

MO, by replacing an obsolete, 15-year-old on-air audio console. The

project will also acquire the equipment for the Emergency Alert System,

which the FCC requires all stations to activate. KOPN serves a

population of about 250,000 persons.

File No. 96041 ICTN University of Missouri/St. Louis, 8001 Natural

Bridge Rd., St. Louis, MO 63121-4499. Signed By: Dr. Douglas Wartzok,

Assoc. Vice Chancel./Research. Funds Requested: $775,131. Total Project

Cost: $1,700,275. To construct a two-way, interactive

telecommunications system--to be called St. Louis EdNet--linking

diverse educational and cultural institutions throughout the greater

St. Louis area. This includes locations in Illinois as well as in

Missouri. The proposed system's design is based on interconnecting

three large networks that are already established: the St. Louis

Community College Network; the University of Missouri/St. Louis's

existing network; and the cable TV and ITFS networks associated with

the Cooperating School Districts (the latter consists of 28 K-12 public

school districts in the area).

File No. 96160 ICTN Ozarks Technical Community College, 1417 North

Jefferson, Springfield, MO 65802. Signed By: Dr. Norman Myers,

President. Funds Requested: $184,421. Total Project Cost: $245,895. To

construct an ISDN, telephone-line-based distance learning system to

permit Ozarks Technical Community College to transmit its instructional

programming to schools and the general population throughout its

service area of southwest Arkansas. Specifically, the system will reach

five school districts--i.e., Republic, Strafford, Rogersville, Nixa,

and Reeds Spring--all of which are to be found in a three-county area;

the counties are Greene, Stone, and Christian.

File No. 96187 CTB Public Television 19, Inc., 125 East 31st

Street, Kansas City, MO 64108. Signed By: Mr. William T. Reed,

President & CEO. Funds Requested: $250,835. Total Project Cost:

$501,670. To improve the facilities of public television station KCPT,

Ch. 19, Kansas City, MO, by replacing seven worn-out, obsolete video

tape recorders and test equipment, and by acquiring a second master

control switcher and a video ``cache'' system. KCPT serves a population

of about 1,900,000 persons.

MP (Marianas Protectorate)

File No. 96069 IPRTN Northern Marianas College, P.O. Box 1250,

Saipan, MP 96950. Signed By: Ms. Agnes McPhetres, President. Funds

Requested: $24,275. Total Project Cost: $24,275. To conduct a study and

develop the design for the use of technologies in a distance learning

system to be established as the Pacific Technical Education Network,

between Honolulu, Hawaii and Saipan, Northern Marianas Islands.

MS (Mississippi)

File No. 96172 CRTB Mississippi Authority for ETV, 3825 Ridgewood

Road, Jackson, MS 39211. Signed By: Mr. Larry Miller, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $88,242. Total Project Cost: $176,484.

Replace FM radio modulation monitoring equipment, FM exciters, and the

radio and television high speed RF monitoring system at transmitter

sites throughout the state of

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Mississippi, to improve FM stereo performance, ensure compliance with

power measurement requirements, and protect transmitters from potential

damage.

MT (Montana)

File No. 96034 CRB Montana State University--Billings, 1500 North

30th Street, Billings, MT 59101-0298. Signed By: Dr. Ronald Sexton,

Chancellor. Funds Requested: $42,815. Total Project Cost: $92,815. To

purchase a Ku-band satellite uplink system for KEMC-FM, operating on

91.7 MHz in Billings. The satellite system would place downlinks to

provide programming to six existing facilities operated by KEMC-FM.

Downlinks would be provided at a repeater station serving Bozeman, MT

and translators serving Havre, Helena, and Miles City, MT, as well as

Cody and Sheridan, WY.

File No. 96177 CRB Bd of Regents, MT University System, 330 Strand

Union Building, Bozeman, MT 59717. Signed By: Mr. Philip Charles,

General Manager. Funds Requested: $30,495. Total Project Cost: $52,995.

To improve the facilities of noncommercial radio station KGLT-FM,

operating on 91.9 MHz in Bozeman, MT by purchasing a new FM antenna,

exciter and related equipment. The applicant has lost its lease at its

current transmitter site and the new equipment will ensure continued

service to 47,000 people. The transmitter will be relocated to a higher

elevation and the new antenna will permit a power increase from 2 KW to

68 KW.

NC (North Carolina)

File No. 96032 CRB Wilkes Community College, Collegiate Drive,

Wilkesboro, NC 28697. Signed By: Dr. Gordon Burns, President of WCC.

Funds Requested: $36,999. Total Project Cost: $49,332. To provide first

public radio services to approximately 47,000 residents of northwest

North Carolina by upgrading WSIF-FM, operating on 90.9 MHz in

Wilkesboro, from a Class D station to a Class A radio facility. WSIF-FM

will change frequency to 94.7 MHz, increase power and change the

antenna system.

File No. 96046 CRB 95100. Better Life, Inc., 230-B Roanoke Avenue,

Roanoke Rapids, NC 27870. Signed By: Mr. George Campbell, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $91,500. Total Project Cost: $122,000. To

upgrade its services and extend its coverage to provide first public

radio service and first radio reading services to approximately 46,000

residents of northeast North Carolina and southeast Virginia, WZRU,

operating on 88.5 MHz in Roanoke Rapids, NC, will relocate its antenna

to a higher tower and will install a digital STL system.

File No. 96074 ICTN College of the Albemarle, 1208 North Road St.,

Elizabeth City, NC 27906. Signed By: Dr. Larry R. Donnithorne,

President. Funds Requested: $136,000. Total Project Cost: $181,500. To

construct a two-way distance learning video classroom at the College of

the Albemarle to allow the College to offer and receive instructional

programming via its ITFS channels and the North Carolina Information

Highway.

File No. 96231 CTB Univ. of NC Center for Public TV, 10 T.W.

Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. Signed By: Mr. Tom

Howe, Director & GM. 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 by the replacement of critical transmission

equipment and construction of a taller tower at WUND-TV, Channel 2, in

Columbia, SC.

File No. 96242 CTB Gospel & Deliverance Ministry, Inc., Rt. 1, Box

171-E, Shannon, NC 28386. Signed By: Mr. Gerald Locklear, President.

Funds Requested: $680,000. Total Project Cost: $1,115,000. To construct

a low-power television station on Ch. 47 to serve the educational and

training needs of the community, specifically the Native American

population of Robeson County.

ND (North Dakota)

File No. 96141 CRB Dakota Radio Information Service, Liberty Mem.

Bldg., 604 E. Blvd., Bismarck, ND 58505. Signed By: Ms. Marcella

Schmaltz, President. Funds Requested: $5,156. Total Project Cost:

$6,875. To acquire 125 SCA receivers for use by the print-impaired in

western ND. The radio reading service receivers would be distributed in

areas covered by six new FM radio translator stations which were funded

by PTFP in 1995. Since this is the first time 90.1 MHz has been used in

this area, there is no inventory of receivers available for

distribution. The service provides the only locally originated service

in ND. It broadcasts on the stations licensed to Prairie Public

Broadcasting.

NE (Nebraska)

File No. 96018 CTB University of Nebraska, 60th & Dodge Streets,

Omaha, NE 68182-0022. Signed By: Dr. Delbert Weber, Chancellor. Funds

Requested: $38,000. Total Project Cost: $80,000. To improve public

television station KYNE-TV, Ch. 26, in Omaha, by acquiring two camera

control systems that will allow the use of two PTFP-funded field

cameras in the studio during productions which require more than three

studio cameras. Station provides service to more than 600,000 people.

File No. 96081 ICTN A DEC, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln,

NE 68583. Signed By: Dr. Janet Poley, President/CEO. Funds Requested:

$1,364,587. Total Project Cost: $2,729,175. To purchase five additional

C band uplinks, convert 12 existing uplinks from analog to digital, and

equip 174 existing downlinks with digital reception equipment. Uplinks

will be placed at Delaware State University, Florida A&M University,

the University of Illinois, Kansas State University and West Virginia

University.

File No. 96096 CRB 95148. Sunrise Communications, Inc., 941 ``O''

Street, Suite 1025, Lincoln, NE 68508. Signed By: Mr. Dick Noble,

General Manager. Funds Requested: $84,612. Total Project Cost:

$112,816. To improve the facilities of public radio station KZUM-FM,

89.3 MHz, in Lincoln by acquiring new and replacement equipment for the

on-air control and production control rooms as well as a C-band

satellite downlink. Station serves approximately 214,000 people.

File No. 96142 CTB Nebraska Educ Telecomm Commission, 1800 N. 33rd

Street, Lincoln, NE 68501. Signed By: Mr. Jack McBride, Secretary.

Funds Requested: $152,032. Total Project Cost: $304,065. To improve the

production facilities of the state's public television network by

replacing old, obsolete origination equipment. Items to be acquired

include: a remote unit audio console, 7 mini-disk recorder/players, 7

mini-disk players, a digital audio workstation, color and black/white

monitors as well as waveform monitors and vectorscopes test equipment.

Much of the equipment being replaced is in excess of 20 years old is a

maintenance problem. The network serves about 1.5 million people.

File No. 96147 CRB Nebraska Educ Telecomm Commission, 1800 N. 33rd

Street, PO Box 8311, Lincoln, NE 68501. Signed By: Mr. Jack McBride,

Secretary. Funds Requested: $23,212. Total Project Cost: $46,425. To

improve the facilities of the state's public radio network by acquiring

production equipment to replace old, obsolete equipment that is no

longer operating properly. Requested equipment includes: a digital

audio workstation, a telephone hybrid for on-air call-ins, mini-disk

recorder/player and 4 mini-disk players. The state's public radio

network serves

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approximately 872,000 people in NE and parts of KS and WY.

NH (New Hampshire)

File No. 96031 CRB New Hampshire Public Radio, 207 North Main

Street, Concord, NH 03301-5048. Signed By: Mr. Mark Handley, President.

Funds Requested: $40,422. Total Project Cost: $80,845. To improve WEVO-

FM, operating on 89.1 MHz, in Concord, NH, by upgrading the station's

program origination from tape to digital/audio production and

automation, which will result in upgrading production both in the

studios and in master control.

File No. 96240 CTB University of New Hampshire, Route 155A, Mast

Rd., PO Box 110, Durham, NH 03824. Signed By: Mr. Steven Bernstein, Sr.

Grant & Contract Officer. Funds Requested: $130,000. Total Project

Cost: $260,000. To improve originating station WENH-TV, operating on Ch

11, in Durham, NH, by replacing the studio production control switcher

and field ENG Kit for production of local programming. This state

network originating station serves the entire state of New Hampshire,

totaling 1,109,252 potential viewers.

NJ (New Jersey)

File No. 96070 CTB New Jersey Public Broadcasting Auth, 25 South

Stockton Street, Trenton, NJ 08625. Signed By: Mrs. Elizabeth

Christopherson, Executive Director. Funds Requested: $118,600. Total

Project Cost: $237,200. To improve the network originating station,

WNJT-TV, operating on Ch 52, in Trenton, NJ, by upgrading two \3/4\''

format Analog Videotape Editing systems with two Non-Linear Digital

Systems, and upgrading a 40 unit Video Cart Playback System in Master

Control with a Digital Video Server. This originating station provides

service state-wide to approximately 7,730,188 potential viewers.

NM (New Mexico)

File No. 96001 CTB Univ. of NM & Albuquerque Schools, 1130

University Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87102. Signed By: Mrs. Ann Powell,

Dir.Rsch.-Admin. Univ. of NM. Funds Requested: $400,000. Total Project

Cost: $800,000. To improve public television station KNME-TV, Ch. 5, in

Albuquerque. Project will replace three studio cameras, a still store,

and editing equipment with new non-linear editing equipment. KNME-TV

serves about 1.1 million people.

File No. 96007 CTN Mescalero Apache Tribe, 101 Central Street,

Mescalero, NM 88340. Signed By: Mr. Wendell Chino, President. Funds

Requested: $767,119. Total Project Cost: $1,022,825. To install a

cable-fiber optic interconnection system that will, initially, extend

the Mescalero Apache Reservation's public television signal to an

additional 820 Reservation homes. Over-the-air signal transmission to

these homes is blocked by terrain. Via translators, the Mescalero Tribe

receives the public television service of station KENW-TV, Portales,

NM. The cable will also be connected to the Mescalero hospital, the

Mescalero public schools, and the Tribal and Federal Government

offices.

File No. 96020 CRB Alamo Navajo School Board, Inc., P.O. Box 907,

Magdalena, NM 87825. Signed By: Mr. George Apachito, President. Funds

Requested: $13,781. Total Project Cost: $18,375. To improve the

facilities of public radio station KABR-AM, 1500 kHZ, in Magdalena, by

replacing old equipment in the on-air control room with equipment that

will upgrade its ability to automate part of the broadcast day. This

will permit an increase in broadcast hours without increasing the staff

size. Most of the station's equipment is original and was purchased in

1983 when it went on the air. KABR-AM serves approximately 11,000

people in west central NM.

File No. 96060 CRB Northern NM Radio Foundation, 116 West Buena

Vists, Santa Fe, NM 87501. Signed By: Mr. William Sims, President.

Funds Requested: $88,332. Total Project Cost: $117,777. To activate a

new public radio station on 89.5 MHz, in Las Vegas. Station would be a

Rocky Mountain Alternative Station (RMAS) that would repeat the signal

of KANW-FM, Albuquerque. In addition, local programming would be

provided by the RMAS station staff. Proposed 100-watt station would be

located on the campus of the Luna Vocational-Technical Institute and

would also be used to instruct students in broadcast skills. Station

would provide the first local origination service to about 18,254

people in Las Vegas and surrounding Miguel County, NM.

File No. 96163 CTB Eastern New Mexico University, 15th and Avenue

O, Portales, NM 88130. Signed By: Mr. Duane Ryan, Director of

Broadcasting. Funds Requested: $49,230. Total Project Cost: $98,460. To

improve the facilities of public television station, KENW-TV, Ch. 3, in

Portales, by replacing an obsolete character generator and test/

monitoring equipment including a waveform/vectorscope, a signal test

generator and a modulation monitor. KENW-TV serves about 350,000

residents of eastern NM and west TX.

File No. 96168 CTB Eastern New Mexico University, 15th and Avenue

O, Portales, NM 88130. Signed By: Mr. Duane Ryan, Director of

Broadcasting. Funds Requested: $101,335. Total Project Cost: $202,670.

To improve the facilities of the existing microwave interconnection

system between the three state public television stations: KENW-TV, Ch.

3, in Portales, KNME-TV, Ch. 5, in Albuquerque and KRWG-TV, Ch. 22, in

Las Cruces. The system also connects four public radio stations: KUNM-

FM and KANW-FM in Albuquerque; KRWG-FM, Las Cruces, and KENW-FM,

Portales. Project would replace existing hetrodyne microwave receiver/

transmitter equipment, replace analog audio subcarrier units with

digital equipment and add video synchronizers at microwave endpoints.

System serves about 982,000 people in NM.

File No. 96175 ICTN Hispanic Educ'l Telecom. System, Woodward Hall,

115C, Albuquerque, NM 87131-4016. Signed By: Dr. Richard Peck, Chair of

HETS Board. Funds Requested: $840,606. Total Project Cost: $1,120,808.

To expand participation in the Hispanic Educational Telecommunications

System (HETS) project by constructing VSAT satellite terminals and

origination classrooms at seven colleges serving Hispanic students:

Kings River Community College in California; the John Jay College of

Criminal Justice in New York State; Florida International University

and Miami Dade Community College in Florida; and the University of

Puerto Rico, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Ana Mendez

University System in Puerto Rico. Origination classrooms will also be

constructed at the University of Texas-Brownsville in Texas, and Lehman

College in New York State, which currently have HETS VSAT equipment.

File No. 96179 ICTN No. New Mexico Network for Rural Ed, PO Box

640, Bernalillo, NM 87004. Signed By: Mr. Hank Dominguez, President.

Funds Requested: $445,719. Total Project Cost: $891,438. To establish a

distance education network serving schools and colleges in 14 rural

counties in Northern New Mexico. C-band VSAT satellite uplinks and

origination studios will be placed at Northern New Mexico Community

College in Espanola and New Mexico Highlands University at Las Vegas,

NM. Satellite C-band downlinks will be placed at 10 sites, 15 sites

will receive both a C-band and Ku-band downlink, and 18 existing

downlinks will be upgraded to received compressed digital satellite

signals. The project also includes a mobile VSAT terminal for program

origination throughout the region.

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File No. 96248 CRB Southern New Mexico Radio Fdn., 1505 Crescent

Drive, Alamogordo, NM 88310. Signed By: Mr. Robert Flotte, President.

Funds Requested: $174,039. Total Project Cost: $232,052. To activate a

new FM public radio station on 91.7 MHz, in Alamogordo to provide first

local origination to approximately 55,000 people. Proposed new Rocky

Mountain Alternative Station (RMAS) will repeat the signal of KRWG-FM,

Las Cruces, and will also have local origination capability. Studios

will be located on the Alamogordo Branch campus of New Mexico State

University.

NV (Nevada)

File No. 96234 CTB Clark County School District, 4210 Channel 10

Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89119. Signed By: Mr. Thomas Axtell, General

Manager. Funds Requested: $484,100. Total Project Cost: $818,600. To

extend and improve the services of KLVX-TV, Channel 10 in Las Vegas by

activating 3 new translators to serve approximately 12,000 residents of

Beatty, Goldfield, Mercury, Nevada Test Site, Oasis Valley, Silver Peak

and Tonopah. KLVX-TV will also install a new microwave system and

replace obsolete and worn out origination equipment including the main

routing switcher, two production cameras and test equipment.

NY (New York)

File No. 96009 CRB 95108. State University of NY, Oswego, 14

Lanigan Hall, Oswego, NY 13126. Signed By: Mr. William Shigley, Station

Manager. Total Requested: $62, 293. Total Project Cost: $124,586. To

improve WRVO-FM, operating on 89.9 MHZ, in Oswego, NY by replacing an

old and wornout transmitter and related equipment. This station serves

approximately 549, 000 listeners. This project is a reactivation from

last year.

File No. 96012 ICTN Rochester Institute of Technology, 91 Lomb

Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623. Signed By: Mr. Stanley D.

McKenzie, Provost & VP. Funds Requested: $383,581. Total Project Cost:

$558,937. To establish a distance learning network in collaboration

with Genessee Valley Board of Cooperative Education Services (BOCES)

and five area community colleges located in the Rochester-Syracuse-

Binghamton area of New York State. The project would purchase multi-

point, desk-top video conferencing technology and software to provide

diverse educational services and training opportunities to students who

are, for the most part, located in remote rural sites.

File No. 96022 CRB Colleges of the Seneca, Hobart & William, Smith

Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456. Signed By: Mr. Richard Guarasci, Dean,

Hobart College. Funds Requested: $26,500. Total Project Cost: $53,000.

To improve WEOS-FM, operating on 89.7 MHz,in Geneva, NY, by replacing

the Cart Machine, and upgrading the studio editing system by adding the

Non-Linear editing system, the Audio Hard Disc and the Dat Cassette

Recorder. The station serves approximately 83,000 listeners.

File No. 96039 CRBN WNYC, One Centre Street, New York, NY 10007.

Signed By: Ms. Laura Walker, President. Funds Requested: $6,000. Total

Project Cost: $12,000. To improve WNYC-FM, operating on 93.9 MHz, in

New York City, by upgrading the master control room control station

console due to the addition of new equipment required for satellite

operations. Applicant serves approximately 750,000 potential listeners

and operates WNYC-AM on frequency 820 Khz.

File No. 96047 CRTB 95122. WMHT Educational Telecommunications, 17

Fern Avenue, PO Box 17, Schenectady, NY 12301. Signed By: Ms. Elizabeth

Hood, WMHQ Station. Total Requested: $330,300. Total Project Cost:

$660,600. To improve WMHT-TV, CH 17 and WMHT-FM, 89.1 MHz, in Albany,

NY by replacing the routing systems interconnecting its television and

radio stations, replacing its Master Control Console, Automation

System, and Monitoring equipment, and by replacing the master control

switchers for its two TV stations, WMHT-TV and WMHQ-TV. This project

will help to improve the Public Radio and TV to approximately 2,225,550

people in eastern New York, western Massachusetts, Connecticut, and

Vermont.

File No. 96071 ICTN 95064. WXXI Public Broadcasting Council, 280

State Street, Rochester, NY 14614. Signed By: Mr. Norm Silverstein,

President and CEO. Funds Requested: $97,461. Total Project Cost:

$198,900. To construct a Ku-band satellite uplink to permit public

television station WXXI-TV, operating on Ch. 21 in Rochester, NY, to

distribute programming nationwide. The uplink would permit the timely

distribution of programming such as ``Assignment: The World'' after the

demise of the New York Terrestrial Distribution System, which

interconnected all New York State public television stations with an

uplink in New York City.

File No. 96149 CRTB Pub Bdcstg Council of Central NY, 506 Old

Liverpool Rd., Box 2400, Syracuse, NY 13220-2400. Signed By: Mr.

Richard Russell, President & CEO. Funds Requested: $73,600. Total

Project Cost: $147,200. To improve WCNY-TV, Ch 24 and WCNY-FM, 91.3

MHz, in Syracuse, NY, by replacing Channel 24's STL, the six-foot

microwave transmit antenna and dish, 400 feet of microwave transmission

line, a six-foot microwave receive antenna and dish with 200 feet of

transmission line at the Pompey transmitter; by replacing for WCNY-FM

the STL, and adding 500 receiving units for the applicant's Radio

Reading Service. The applicant, with its 2 TV stations and 2 FM

stations, serves approximately 1,775,000 people, a TV and Radio in

Syracuse and two Radio stations, one in Utica and one in Watertown.

File No. 96157 CRB WSKG Public T/C Council, 601 Gates Road, Vestal,

NY 13850. Signed By: Mr. Michael Ziegler, President & CEO. Funds

Requested: $123,750. Total Project Cost: $165,000. To expand the

coverage of WSKG-FM, operating on 89.3 MHz, in Vestal, NY, by

activating full power repeater transmitter in Hornell, NY, which will

provide first signal to approximately 47,975 listeners.

File No. 96194 IPTN Niagara County Community College, 3111 Saunders

Settlement Road, Sanborn, NY 14132. Signed By: Mr. Gerald Miller,

President. Funds Requested: $78,292. Total Project Cost: $127,221. To

assess the applicable technologies that could potentially be

appropriate to address distance learning needs in Niagara County, New

York and surrounding areas, and develop a telecommunications

implementation plan for distance learning and training services.

File No. 96203 CTB WSKG Public Telecomm Council, 601 Gates Road,

Vestal, NY 13850. Signed By: Mr. Michael Ziegler, President & CEO.

Funds Requested: $824,625. Total Project Cost: $1,099,500. To expand

WSKG-TV, Ch 46, in Vestal, NY, by establishing a full power repeater TV

station in Corning, NY, which will provide first signal to

approximately 250,000 viewers. WSKG-TV now operates a TV translator on

channel 30 at a power of 1 kilowatt in the Elmira, New York area. This

one kilowatt translator is on the same channel as the full power unused

allocation in Corning. The coverage provided by the new Corning

allocation will also encompass the present coverage of the channel 30

translator, which will reduce the total amount of first service.

OH (Ohio)

File No. 96023 CTB Public Bdcstg Fndn of NW Ohio, 136 Huron Street,

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Toledo, OH 43604. Signed By: Ms. Shirley E. Timonere, President &

General Manager. Funds Requested: $561,060. Total Project Cost:

$1,122,120. To improve public station WGTE-TV, Ch. 30, Toledo, OH, by

replacing worn-out and obsolete transmission equipment, including the

transmitter, antenna, transmission line, and remote control system. The

station serves a population of about 3,583,000.

File No. 96057 CTB Bowling Green State University, 245 Troup

Street, Bowling Green, OH 43403. Signed By: Dr. Louis I. Katzner, Assoc

Vice President, Research. Funds Requested: $130,750. Total Project

Cost: $261,500. To improve the operation of public station WBGU-TV, Ch.

27, Bowling Green, OH, by replacing items of worn-out and obsolete

production equipment, including a routing switcher, an editing system,

a lighting control system, and lighting fixtures. The station serves a

population of about 1,300,000.

File No. 96114 CRB The Ohio State University, 2400 Olentangy River

Road, Columbus, OH 43210. Signed By: Mr. Dale K. Ouzts, Dir of Telecomm

& Gen Manager. Funds Requested: $219,225. Total Project Cost: $292,300.

To extend the signal of public station WOSU-FM, 89.7 MHz, Columbus, OH,

by activating a repeater station on 91.1 MHz in Marion, OH. The new

station will provide the first public radio signal to about 19,061

persons, and the first nighttime public radio signal to nearly 130,000

persons. WOSU-FM serves a population of about 1,574,00.

File No. 96128 CRB Ohio University, 9 South College Street, Athens,

OH 45701. Signed By: Dr. Carol Blum, Associate Vice President. Funds

Requested: $138,298. Total Project Cost: $276,596. To improve the

operation of public station WOUB-FM, 91.3 MHz, Athens, OH, by replacing

worn-out and out-dated items of production equipment, including audio

consoles, DAT recorders, CD players, jack panels, distribution

amplifiers, an audio editing system, microphones, and an audio switcher

and by acquiring a hard-disk audio storage system. The station serves a

population of about 853,284.

File No. 96136 CTB The Ohio State University, 2400 Olentangy River

Road, Columbus, OH 43210. Signed By: Mr. Dale K. Ouzts, Dir, Telecomm

Ctr & Gen Mgr. Funds Requested: $257,219. Total Project Cost: $514,438.

To improve the operation of public station WOSU-TV, Ch. 34, Columbus,

OH, by replacing worn-out and obsolete items of production equipment,

including video tape machines, camera pedestals, and a file server, and

items of test equipment. The station serves a population of 1,866,000

in central and southern Ohio.

File No. 96146 CRB Public Bdcstg Fndn of NW Ohio, 136 Huron Street,

Toledo, OH 43604. Signed By: Ms. Shirley E. Timonere, President &

General Manager. Funds Requested: $63,265. Total Project Cost:

$126,530. To improve the operation of public station WGTE-FM, 91.3 MHz,

Toledo, OH, by replacing items of worn-out and obsolete equipment,

including its transmitter, master control console, CD players, and DAT

recorders, and by acquiring a hard-disk audio storage system and

digital audio workstations. The station serves a population of

1,101,300.

File No. 96200 CTB ETV Assn of Metropolitan Cleveland, 4300

Brookpark Road, Cleveland, OH 44134-1191. Signed By: Mr. Jerry Wareham,

President/General Manager. Funds Requested: $405,050. Total Project

Cost: $810,100. To improve public television station WVIZ, Ch. 25,

Cleveland, OH, by replacing worn-out and unreliable video tape machines

with a hard-disk video server and a robotic digital tape storage

system. The station serves a population of about 3,700,000.

File No. 96229 CTB Greater Dayton Public TV, Inc., 110 South

Jefferson Street, Dayton, OH 45402. Signed By: Mr. David M. Fogarty,

President and Gen Manager. Funds Requested: $99,449. Total Project

Cost: $198,898. To improve the operation of public television station

WPTD, Ch. 16, Dayton, OH, by replacing various items of worn-out,

obsolete equipment, including a routing switcher, a character

generator, and monitors, and by acquiring a non-linear tape editing

system and an Emergency Alert System. The station serves a population

of about 2,632,738.

OK (Oklahoma)

File No. 96061 CTB Oklahoma Educational TV Authority, 7403 North

Kelley Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73113. Signed By: Mr. Robert Allen,

Executive Director. Funds Requested: $350,000. Total Project Cost:

$700,000. To improve the facilities of KOET-TV, Channel 3 in Eufaula,

and KWET-TV, Channel 12 in Cheyenne by upgrading the transmitters to

provide stereo broadcast and SAP services to the community. In

addition, the Network's production center in Oklahoma City will replace

17-year-old studio cameras and 16-year-old videotape recorders.

File No. 96115 ICTN Oklahoma St. Univ./Technical Branch, 1801 East

4th Street, Okmulgee, OK 74447. Signed By: Dr. Robert Klabenes,

Provost. Funds Requested: $114,206. Total Project Cost: $228,412. To

install two compressed, interactive video classrooms as well as

associated interconnection equipment to allow Oklahoma State

University/Technical Branch/Okmulgee to provide graduate education to

Okmulgee County and, via the OneNet system, to disseminate technical

education programming throughout the State.

File No. 96195 ICTN Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

74078. Signed By: Dr. Harry Birdwell, VP for Bus. & Ext. Rel. Funds

Requested: $130,901. Total Project Cost: $261,802. To install a

compressed video classroom and video bridge on the main campus of

Oklahoma State University. The classroom will originate instructional

programming to be transmitted statewide. The course work will be in the

areas of Health Care Management, Engineering Management, Teacher

Certification, Educational Specialist, and Telecommunications

Management.

File No. 96211 CRB 95198. University of Central Oklahoma, 100 North

University Drive, Edmond, OK 73034. Signed By: Mr. Carl Reherman,

Director of Outreach. Funds Requested: $118,215. Total Project Cost:

$157,620. To provide first public radio service to over 40,000

residents of Pittsburgh County, KCSC-FM, operating on 90.1 MHz in

Edmond, Oklahoma, will construct a repeater station in McAlester,

operating on 91.9 MHz.

OR (Oregon)

File No. 96216 CTB 95097. Oregon Public Broadcasting, 7140 SW

Macadam Ave, Portland, OR 97219. Signed By: Mr. Maynard Orme,

President/CEO. Funds Requested: $158,875. Total Project Cost: $317,750.

To replace the 30 year old broadcast antenna, transmission line and

tower of public television station KOAC-TV, operating on Ch. 7 in

Corvallis, OR. The project will enable the station to continue service

to 220,000 residents of the Willamette Valley and coastal communities

in western Oregon.

PA (Pennsylvania)

File No. 96052 CRB WQED Pittsburgh, 4802 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh,

PA 15213. Signed By: Mr. H. Melvin Ming, Chief Operating Officer. Funds

Requested: $59,029. Total Project Cost: $118,058. To expand and improve

the service of public radio station WQED-FM, 89.3 MHz, Pittsburgh, PA,

to the Johnstown, PA, area by replacing a translator with a full-power

repeater station. An estimated 168,102 persons in western Pennsylvania

will receive their first public radio signal from the proposed new

transmitter.

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File No. 96067 CTB Public Broadcasting of NW PA, Inc., 8425 Peach

Street, Erie, PA 16509. Signed By: Mr. F. Brady Louis, President and

General Manager. Funds Requested: $54,898. Total Project Cost:

$109,797. To improve the production capability of public television

station WQLN-TV, Ch. 54, Erie, PA, by replacing obsolete and worn-out

cameras. The station serves a population of about 713,000 persons.

File No. 96077 CRB West Philadelphia Ed Bdcst Corp, Inc, 3901

Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104. Signed By: Sis. Atikah Bey,

Executive Director. Funds Requested: $35,000. Total Project Cost:

$70,000. To improve radio station WPEB, 88.1 MHz, Philadelphia, PA, by

replacing unspecified items of studio equipment.

File No. 96094 CTB Lehigh Valley Pub. T/C Corp., 123 Sesame Street,

Bethlehem, PA 18015. Signed By: Mr. James Baum, President & General

Manager. Funds Requested: $164,240. Total Project Cost: $328,480. To

improve the production capability of public television station WLVT,

Ch. 39, Bethlehem, PA, by replacing its worn-out and obsolete

production switcher and acquiring a local insertion server. The station

serves a population of about 4,500,000 persons.

File No. 96121 IPTN Philadelphia Enterprise Center, 4601 Market

Street, Suite 4000, Philadelphia, PA 19139. Signed By: Mrs. Della

Clark, President. Funds Requested: $57,150. Total Project Cost:

$114,300. To develop a plan for the use of appropriate technologies

that would be feasible to establish a telecommunications center,

Project M.A.N. (Minority Alliance Network) that would provide a

distance learning and training service to an underserved, low-income,

minority population in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

File No. 96145 CRB Pennsylvania State University, 202 Wagner

Building, University Park, PA 16802-3899. Signed By: Mr. Robert

Killoren, Director of Sponsored Programs. Funds Requested: $30,447.

Total Project Cost: $60,895. To improve the operation of public radio

station WPSU, 91.5 MHz, University Park, PA, by acquiring equipment

necessary to permit unattended overnight operation. The project will

also acquire the Emergency Alert System equipment necessary to replace

the old Emergency Broadcast System, as required by the FCC. WPSU serves

a population of about 366,196 persons.

File No. 96156 CTB WQED Pittsburgh, 4802 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh,

PA 15213. Signed By: Mr. George Miles, Jr., President & CEO. Funds

Requested: $30,912. Total Project Cost: $61,913. To improve the service

of public television station WQED-TV, Ch. 13, Pittsburgh, PA, by

acquiring the necessary equipment to implement descriptive video for an

estimated 65,000 sight-impaired persons in the station's coverage area,

which included approximately 3,250,000 people.

File No. 96164 CTB Pennsylvania State University, 202 Wagner

Building, University Park, PA 16802-3899. Signed By: Mr. Robert

Killoren, Director of Sponsored Programs. Funds Requested: $28,533.

Total Project Cost: $57,066. To improve the service of public

television station WPSX, Ch. 3, University Park, PA, by acquiring the

necessary equipment to implement descriptive video service for sight-

impaired persons in the station's coverage area, which has a population

of about 1,365,627 persons.

File No. 96190 CTB Pennsylvania State University, 202 Wagner

Building, University Park, PA 16802-3899. Signed By: Mr. Robert

Killoren, Director of Sponsored Programs. Funds Requested: $60,576.

Total Project Cost: $121,152. To improve the production capability of

public television station WPSX, Ch. 3, University Park, PA, by

replacing its outmoded and worn-out off-line video editing stations

with a non-linear editing system. The station serves an area with a

population of about 1,365,627 persons.

File No. 96239 ICTN Lancaster Co. Area Vo-Tech Schools, 1730 Hans

Herr Drive, Willow Street, PA 17584. Signed By: Dr. Richard Burley,

Executive Director. Funds Requested: $318,881. Total Project Cost:

$637,762. To purchase the equipment for three electronic classrooms and

one video production studio--as well as the associated mixing routing,

and switching equipment--all to be part of a private, fiber optics-

based distance learning system in Lancaster and Lebanon Counties in

south central Pennsylvania. The system will interconnect 22 school

districts, four area vocational schools, one intermediate unit, four

colleges, the public library system, a local hospital, and area

businesses/industries.

PR (Puerto Rico)

File No. 96038 CRB University of Puerto Rico, Ponce de Leon Ave. &

Pastrana St, Rio Piedras, PR 00931. Signed By: Dr. Efrain Gonzalez-

Tejera, Chancellor. Funds Requested: $56,849. Total Project Cost:

$113,698. To improve WRTU-FM, operating on 89.7 MHz, Rio Piedras, PR,

by upgrading and replacing production equipment for 2 of its 3 studios.

The items include two stereo consoles, 22 stereo line inputs, 4

cardioid microphones, stereo cassette deck, 4 CD cart machines, direct

drive turntable, console furniture, 2 stereo record/play cart machines,

4 reel to reel record machines, 2 multi effects processors, 4 studio

monitor speakers, 2 digital work stations, and 4 Dat record/play

machines. WRTU-FM currently serves approximately 2,400,000 listeners.

File No. 96065 CRB University of Puerto Rico, Ponce de Leon Ave. &

Pastrana S, Rio Piedras, PR 00931. Signed By: Dr. Efrain Gonzalez-

Tejera, Chancellor. Funds Requested: $167,623. Total Project Cost:

$335,246. To provide first public radio service to approximately

475,000 residents of the west coast of Puerto Rico by constructing a

new FM station in Mayaguez, operating on 88.3 MHz.

SC (South Carolina)

File No. 96092 CRB 95295. South Carolina State University, 300

College Street, Orangeburg, SC 29117-0001. Signed By: Dr. Leroy Davis,

Interim President. Funds Requested: $123,020. Total Project Cost:

$164,030. To improve and upgrade the facilities of non-commercial radio

station WSSB, 90.3 MHz, Orangeburg, SC, by replacing analog control

room and production equipment with digital and by acquiring a satellite

downlink to gain access to nationally distributed public radio

programming. The station serves a population of 114,730.

File No. 96155 ICTN South Carolina ETV Commission, 1101 George

Rogers Boulevard, Columbia, SC 29201. Signed By: 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, however, 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. 96245 ICTN Horry-Georgetown Technical College, P.O. Box

1966, Conway, SC 29526. Signed By: Dr. D. Kent Sharples, President.

Funds Requested: $85,600. Total Project Cost: $269,855. To assist

Horry-Georgetown Technical College in interconnecting its three

campuses with a T-1-based distance learning system. The project would

purchase the basic multi-point interconnection equipment for the

College's whole system and a video

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classroom for the Myrtle Beach campus. The College's other two campuses

are in Conway--the main campus--and in Georgetown. The equipment would

help the College participate in the South Carolina Technical College

Distance Learning Network, which will permit the exchange of course

work among the 16 technical colleges statewide.

SD (South Dakota)

File No. 96119 CRB Dakota Nation Broadcasting Corp., BIA, Rd. 7

Tekakwitha Complex, Sisseton, SD 57262. Signed By: Mr. Mike LaBelle,

Station Manager. Funds Requested: $42,788. Total Project Cost: $61,725.

To upgrade and improve the broadcast operations of KSWS-FM, 89.3 MHz in

Sesseton, South Dakota, by replacing the worn-out and obsolete

transmitter, constructing a new 197 ft. tower in a new location and

purchasing audio storage equipment.

TN (Tennessee)

File No. 96049 CTB 95069. Mid-South Public Com. Foundation, 900

Getwell Street, Memphis, TN 38111-1880. Signed By: Mr. Michael LaBonia,

President & CEO. Funds Requested: $83,100. Total Project Cost:

$166,200. To upgrade the facilities of WKNO-TV, Channel 12 in Memphis,

by replacing worn-out and out-dated 3/4 inch video tape machines used

daily in production, editing and on-air operations.

File No. 96084 CTB Metropolitan Board of Public Educ, 161 Rains

Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203. Signed By: Dr. Richard Benjamin, Director

of Schools. Funds Requested: $200,000. Total Project Cost: $533,200. To

upgrade the facilities of WDCN-TV, Channel 8 in Nashville, by replacing

20-year old field cameras, monitoring and related equipment.

File No. 96120 CRB Cossitt Library, 1850 Peabody Avenue, Memphis,

TN 38104. Signed By: Ms. Judith Drescher, Director of Libraries. Funds

Requested: $231,361. Total Project Cost: $308,481. To extend the signal

of WYPL-FM, operating on 89.3 MHz in Memphis, to provide Radio Reading

Services to an additional population of approximately 600,000 residents

of Tennessee and surrounding communities in neighboring states.

File No. 96170 ICTN The University of Tennessee, 615 McCallie Ave.,

Chattanooga, TN 37403. Signed By: Dr. Frederick Obear, Chancellor.

Funds Requested: $96,537. Total Project Cost: $193,074. To extend the

compressed video distance learning systems of the University of

Tennessee/Chattanooga to Marion and Rhea Counties by constructing video

classrooms in strategically-located sites in each of those counties. It

is hoped that the project would eventually serve residents of Hamilton,

Bledsoe, Sequatchie, and Grundy Counties as well. The project would be

accomplished as a partnership with The Southeast Tennessee Private

Industry Council, an employment and training agency established to

deliver education and job training to a six-county area of southeast

Tennessee. The project's distance learning classrooms would be part of

the Council's planned One-Stop Career Centers in Rhea and Marion

Counties.

File No. 96197 CTB East Tennessee Pub. Comm. Corp., 1611 E.

Magnolia Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917. Signed By: Mr. Richard

Meschendorf, Chair-Board of Trustees. Funds Requested: $190,302. Total

Project Cost: $380,604. To upgrade the facilities of WSJK-TV in

Sneedville and WKOP-TV in Knoxville by replacing obsolete Master

Control equipment and adding other non-existent equipment to meet

current broadcast standards.

File No. 96227 CRB University of Tennessee, 615 McCallie Avenue,

Chattanooga, TN 37403. Signed By: Dr. Frederick Obear, Chancellor.

Funds Requested: $36,759. Total Project Cost: $73,519. To improve

broadcast operations and ensure dependable coverage, WUTC-FM, operating

on 88.1 MHz in Chattanooga, will relocate its antenna and replace the

transmitter.

TX (Texas)

File No. 96017 CTB El Paso Public TV Foundation, Education Bldg.

Room #105, El Paso, TX 79902. Signed By: Mr. Robert Munoz, President &

General Manager. Funds Requested: $412,275. Total Project Cost:

$549,701. To improve the facilities of public television station KCOS-

TV, Ch. 13, in El Paso, by replacing its old 18-year old RCA

transmitter and related equipment. The replacement equipment will

permit KCOS-TV to broadcast in stereo and have SAP capabilities. KCOS-

TV serves approximately 650,000 people, 65% of which are Hispanic.

File No. 96059 CTB University of Houston, 1600 Smith Street, Suite

3400, Houston, TX 77004. Signed By: Mr. James Crowther, General

Counsel. Funds Requested: $333,954. Total Project Cost: $742,120. To

improve public television station KUHT-TV, Ch. 8, in Houston, by

replacing its aging and outdated on-air routing switcher and on-air

videotape machines with digital equipment. In addition, KUHT-TV will

acquire test equipment to allow it to maintain its digital broadcast

equipment. KUHT-TV serves approximately 4.2 million people.

File No. 96099 CTB North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc, 3000 Harry

Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75201. Signed By: Mr. Donald Boswell, Acting

President. Funds Requested: $25,000. Total Project Cost: $54,000. To

improve the facilities of KERA-TV, Ch. 13, Dallas and KDTN-TV, Ch. 2,

Denton, by replacing an 11-year old master control still store. This

piece of equipment is essential to both stations since they share

origination facilities, personnel and studios. The stations provide

service to approximately 4.6 million people.

File No. 96108 CTB Central Texas College, 6200 W. Central Texas

Expressway, Killeen, TX 76542. Signed By: Dr. James Anderson,

Chancellor. Funds Requested: $27,000. Total Project Cost: $54,000. To

improve public television station KNCT-TV, Ch. 46, in Killeen by

replacing aging industrial grade on-air U-Matic videotape machines with

a digital hard-disk storage retrieval system. KNCT-TV serves

approximately 460,000 people.

File No. 96133 CTB Alamo Public T/C Council, 501 Broadway, San

Antonio, TX 78215. Signed By: Ms. Joanne Winik, President & General

Manager. Funds Requested: $82,526. Total Project Cost: $165,052. To

improve public television station KLRN-TV, Ch. 9, in San Antonio by

acquiring off-line editing facilities, multi-channel digital audio

recording and editing capability. KLRN-TV would also replace two 10-

year-old, worn out \3/4\'' videocassette recorders. Market is 55.6%

Hispanic. New equipment will facilitate second language versions of

programming. KLRN-TV serves approximately 2 million people by over-the-

air broadcasts and cable.

File No. 96165 ICTN Texas State Technical College, 300 College

Drive, Sweetwater, TX 79556. Signed By: Dr. Clay Johnson, President.

Funds Requested: $125,751. Total Project Cost: $251,502. To assist in

the establishment of a distance learning network interconnecting the

main campus of the Texas State Technical College at Sweetwater with its

three extension campuses at Abilene, Breckenridge, and Brownwood. The

project would equip a sophisticated lecture video classroom at the main

campus; this classroom would have complementary tape production and

editing capabilities. The project would also install video classrooms

at the three extension campuses. The system will use V-Tel equipment to

allow the College's network to interconnect with the V-Tel-based Texas

VIDNET system and the network of the Southwest Center for Advanced

Technological Education (SCATE). The

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College's system will use T-1 telephone interconnection.

File No. 96184 CTB Capital of Texas Public T/C Council, 2504-B

Whitis Street, Austin, TX 78705. Signed By: Mr. Bill Arhos, President.

Funds Requested: $89,034. Total Project Cost: $178,068. To improve

public television station KLRU-TV, Ch. 18, in Austin by acquiring a

Local Insertion System (LIS) and the accompanying digital audio and

videotape support systems. The LIS will eliminate the need to create a

daily dub reel in order to make quality station breaks. This process

will permit a more efficient use of station equipment and personnel.

KLRU-TV serves in excess of 1 million people and is a producer of

nationally distributed programming.

File No. 96209 ICTN INFO-NET, PO Box 838, Star, TX 76880. Signed

By: Mr. James Ethridge, Superintendent. Funds Requested: $394,330.

Total Project Cost: $569,330. To extend the INFO-NET distance learning

system to four additional schools 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 schools districts: Brady,

Cherokee, Goldthwaite, Lohn, Mullin, Priddy, Rochelle, and Star. With

the additional districts, the INFO-NET systems would serve the

following counties: McCulloch, Mills, San Saba, Coryell, Hamilton, and

Lampasas.

UT (Utah)

File No. 96011 CRB Utah State University, 745 N 1200 E, Logan, UT

84322. Signed By: Mr. M.K. Jeppesen, Director, Contracts & Grants.

Funds Requested: $14,160. Total Project Cost: $18,880. To extend the

signal of public radio station KUSU-FM, 91.5 MHz, in Logan by

establishing three FM translators at the following locations:

Huntington (Green River/Rural Emery County), on 90.9 MHz; Panquitch, on

88.7 MHz; and Price, on 91.5 MHz. The translators will provide a first

public radio service to about 2,400 people and will strengthen and

improve the signal to others.

File No. 96183 CTB University of Utah, Media Svcs, 101 Wasatch, Rm

193, Salt Lake City, UT 84112. Signed By: Mr. Ted Capener, VP for

University Relations. Funds Requested: $148,424. Total Project Cost:

$260,352. To improve and extend the signals of KUED-TV, Ch. 7, Salt

Lake City and KULC-TV, Ch. 9, in Ogden, by replacing the following 8

television translators: K38CJ, Teasdale/Bicknell; K30CW, Maryvale/Piute

Co.; K40AH, Torrey/Teasdale; K63BY, Milford/Rural Beaver Co.; K62BR,

Virgin/Hurricane Mesa; K47AK Rural Washington Co.; K42AJ Richfield/

Monroe; K60BU, Orangeville/Rural Emery Co. Project also includes a

microwave tv relay system connecting Ford Ridge to Tabby Mountain and

the replacement of an aging video tape recorder for KUED-TV. Project

would permit approximately 21,300 people to receive a first or improved

public television signal.

File No. 96213 ICTN Utah State University, Eccles Conference Ctr.,

Rm. 102C, Logan, UT 84322-5035. Signed By: Mr. M. K. Jeppesen,

Director, Contracts & Grants. Funds Requested: $608,345. Total Project

Cost: $1,240,848. To establish a video compression-based distance

learning network that will interconnect 47 sites of the Utah State

University system. The network will feature ten origination sites. It

will use full-motion video with extension computer networking.

VA (Virginia)

File No. 96015 CRB James Madison University, PO Box 1292,

Harrisonburg, VA 22801. Signed By: Mr. Henry Schiefer, Assistant VP for

Finance. Funds Requested: $10,400. Total Project Cost: $20,800. To

upgrade the production facilities of WMRA-FM, operating on 90.7 MHz in

Harrisonburg, Virginia, by establishing a digital editing studio.

File No. 96035 ICTN Southside VA Community College, 109 Campus

Drive, Alberta, VA 23821. Signed By: Dr. John Cavan, President. Funds

Requested: $200,000. Total Project Cost: $300,000. To purchase the

equipment for a hub site, with associated connectivity equipment, that

will allow the Southside Virginia Telecommunications Network to extend

its distance learning systems to eight public high schools, one

community college, and one four-year senior institution. The system

will feature an integrated voice, video, and data network.

File No. 96042 IPRTN Public Service T/C Corporation, 5203 Leesburg

Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041. Signed By: Dr. Louis Bransford, Chief

Executive Officer. Funds Requested: $95,660. Total Project Cost:

$95,660. To explore and determine the available time and potential

capacity that may exist at satellite uplink facilities in the

Washington, D.C. area and possibly other areas in the United States, so

that national educational organizations and associations may be able to

consider more cost-effective and efficient ways of sharing these

resources for distance learning and training services.

File No. 96085 ICTN Old Dominion University, Education Building,

Room 228, Norfolk, VA 23529-0526. Signed By: Dr. Robert Ash, Vice

President/Research. Funds Requested: $867,138. Total Project Cost:

$1,734,277. To purchase varied equipment that would allow Old Dominion

University to expand its distance learning service to the hearing-

impaired. The project would also obtain electronic field production

equipment and state-of-the-art editing equipment so that the University

might incorporate pre-produced on-location programming segments into

televised courses. In addition, other equipment purchased by the

project would permit the University's faculty to use voice, data, and

video programming in their on-campus courses.

File No. 96097 PRB Clinch Valley College, 1 College Avenue, Wise,

VA 24293. Signed By: Dr. L. Jay Lemons, Chancellor. Funds Requested:

$10,430. Total Project Cost: $26,865. To conduct planning activities

for the establishment of a local public radio station that will serve

the programming needs of approximately 35,000 residents of the City of

Norton, Virginia, and of rural communities in Wise, Russell, Scott and

Dickenson Counties.

File No. 96100 PTB Greater Washington Educ. T/C Assoc., 3620 South

27th Street, Arlington, VA 22206. Signed By: Mr. Joseph Widoff, Sr.

V.P., Operations & Admin. Funds Requested: $275,065. Total Project

Cost: $550,130. To help public television station WETA plan for the

development of the first fully digital Advanced Television (ATV) site

in the United States. The project would prepare an HDTV/ATV

implementation model to assist both public and commercial television

broadcasters in making the transition to ATV. WETA-TV operates on Ch.

26 throughout the greater Washington, D.C. area.

File No. 96126 ICTB Hampton University, 607 Orchard Road, Hampton,

VA 23668. Signed By: Dr. William Harvey, President. Funds Requested:

$1,116,496. Total Project Cost: $1,488,663. To construct a

noncommercial educational television station on the campus of Hampton

University to operate on Ch. 55. The objective of the new station would

be to broadcast telecourses to the communities of Hampton, Norfolk,

Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Newport News,

Williamsburg, Yorktown and the lower eastern shore of Virginia.

File No. 96169 ICTN Amer. Indian Higher Ed Consortium, 121 Oronoco

Street, Alexandria, VA 22314. Signed By: Ms. Margarette Perez,

President, AIHEC. Funds Requested: $300,000. Total Project Cost:

$400,000. To

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establish satellite distance learning facilities at four additional

tribal colleges which are members of the American Indian Higher

Education Consortium. VSAT terminals and instructional classrooms will

be placed at Cheyenne River Community College, Eable Butte, SD, College

of the Menominee Nation, Keshena, WI, Fort Berthold Community College,

New Town, ND and United Tribes Technical College, Bismarch, ND.

VT (Vermont)

File No. 96148 ICTN 95257. The University of Vermont, 322 South

Prospect Street, Burlington, VT 05401-3505. Signed By: Ms. Regina

White, Director, Sponsored Programs. Funds Requested: $558,074. Total

Project Cost: $1,116,147. To provide a Ku-band satellite uplink, master

control and classroom production equipment for the University of

Vermont. The project will provide for the satellite distribution of

advanced placement and college degree programs to sites throughout the

state.

WA (Washington)

File No. 96026 CTB Bates Technical College, 1101 S Yakima Avenue,

Tacoma, WA 98405. Signed By: Mr. William Mohler, President. Funds

Requested: $437,829. Total Project Cost: $583,773. To provide first

public television programming services to approximately 175,000

residents of the north Puget Sound region of Washington State, KBTC-TV,

Channel 28 in Tacoma, will activate a repeater station (Ch. 34) with a

transmitter to be located on Mt. Constitution in Orcas Island.

File No. 96040 CRB 95290. Spokane Public Radio, 2319 N. Monroe

Street, Spokane, WA 99205. Signed By: Mr. Richard Kunkel, General

Manager. Funds Requested: $18,480. Total Project Cost: $24,640. To

provide first public radio service to about 9,100 residents of Boundary

County, Idaho, KPBX-FM, operating on 91.1 MHz in Spokane, Washington,

will activate a repeater station in Bonners Ferry, ID, operating on

92.1 MHz.

File No. 96101 CRB Spokane Public Radio, 2319 N. Monroe Street,

Spokane, WA 99205. Signed By: Mr. Richard Kunkel, General Manager.

Funds Requested: $115,710. Total Project Cost: $154,280. To improve and

upgrade its broadcast facilities, KPBX-FM, operating on 91.1 MHz in

Spokane, Washington, by replacing worn-out and unreliable equipment,

including a 16-year-old transmitter, a 7-year-old STL system, two main

control boards and a DAT machine.

File No. 96102 CTN City of Tacoma, 747 Market Street, Tacoma, WA

98402. Signed By: Mr. Ray E. Corpuz, Jr., City Manager. Funds

Requested: $308,822. Total Project Cost: $411,763. To purchase the

equipment for a remote video production studio, to be placed in a van,

that would improve the capabilities of the City of Takoma, WA, to

provide coverage of significant community events for transmission over

the City's government access cable television channel.

File No. 96116 CRB Washington State University, Administration

Road, Pullman, WA 99164-2530. Signed By: Ms. Carol Zuiches, Dir., Off

of Grant & Rsch Dev. Funds Requested: $233,149. Total Project Cost:

$310,866. To bring public radio service to approximately 120,000 rural

residents of western and north central Washington State plus about

180,000 residents of southern British Columbia, WSU will activate

repeater stations in Omak (90.1 MHz.), Chehalis (88.9 MHz.) and Port

Angeles (90.1 MHz).

File No. 96153 CTB KCTS Television, 401 Mercer Street, Seattle, WA

98109. Signed By: Mr. Burnill Clark, President & CEO. Funds Requested:

$507,905. Total Project Cost: $677,207. To provide first public

television service to over 237,000 residents of northwest Washington,

KCTS-TV, Channel 9 in Seattle, will construct a repeater station in

Bellingham, Washington, operating on Channel 34.

File No. 96204 CTB KCTS Television, 401 Mercer Street, Seattle, WA

98109. Signed By: Mr. Burnill Clark, President & CEO. Funds Requested:

$193,571. Total Project Cost: $297,802. To improve and upgrade the

broadcast facilities of KYVE-TV, Channel 47 in Yakima, Washington, by

replacing the antenna, which was damaged by lightning, and adding

stereo processing, transmission and monitoring equipment.

File No. 96247 ICTB Northwest Indian College, 2522 Kwina Road,

Bellingham, WA 98226. Signed By: Dr. Robert Lorence, President. Funds

Requested: $210,726. Total Project Cost: $280,968. To purchase 12

satellite downlink terminals which will extend the applicant's distance

learning offerings to additional sites in Washington State, Oregon and

Alaska. Northwest Indian College currently provides service to 4 tribal

communities via satellite and participates in the American Indian

Higher Education Consortium's satellite distance learning project.

WI (Wisconsin)

File No. 96005 CRB White Pine Community Bdcstg, Inc, 303 W.

Prospect Street, Rhinelander, WI 54501. Signed By: Mr. Robert Fiocchi,

President. Funds Requested: $14,719. Total Project Cost: $29,437. To

improve WXPR-FM, operating on 91.MHz, in Rhinelander, WI, by adding 4

tape recorders, 2 cart emulators, 4 SCSI audio drives, the main CPU,

the system peripheral interface, and the Radio Systems DDS. WXPR-FM

currently serves approximately 66,000 listeners.

File No. 96054 CTB State of Wisconsin, 3319 West Beltline Highway,

Madison, WI 53713-4296. Signed By: Mr. Thomas L. Fletemeyer, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $421,020. Total Project Cost: $935,600. The

originating and distribution station of the Wisconsin 6 station TV

network, WHA-TV, operating on channel 21, is requesting replacement of

the worn-out, obsolete master control equipment. This will replace two

electromechanical program origination devices with an all-electronic

multichannel video library system incorporating file servers and

videotape machines. The network provides full service for approximately

5,160,000 viewers.

File No. 96064 IPTN Cooperative Educ. Service Agency 7, 595 Baeten

Rd, Green Bay, WI 54304. Signed By: Dr. James Coles, Administrator.

Funds Requested: $154,849. Total Project Cost: $520,238. To design an

interactive regional telecommunications network for distance learning

and training, through the North and East Wisconsin Alliance for

Distance Education (NEWADE) which includes four technical colleges, two

University of Wisconsin system colleges, a museum, environmental

center, library system, and 27 K-12 school districts in the Cooperative

Educational Service Agency 7 in a seven-county area surrounding Green

Bay, Wisconsin.

File No. 96072 ICTN Western Wisconsin Technical College, 304 North

Sixth Street, La Crosse, WI 54602-0908. Signed By: Dr. Lee Rasch,

President. Funds Requested: $31,750. Total Project Cost: $63,500. To

construct a video conferencing system that will extend nursing

educational and instructional programming to the Western Wisconsin

Technical College campuses in Independence, Black River Falls, Mauston,

and Viroqua.

File No. 96103 IPTN Project Bootstrap Inc., 210 South Brooks

Street, Madison, WI 53715-1562. Signed By: Mrs. Joanne Griffin,

Executive Director. Funds Requested: $10,475. Total Project Cost:

$17,915. To plan for methods of enabling At-Risk high school and middle

school students in disadvantaged areas of Dane County and particularly

Madison, Wisconsin,

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participate in distance learning opportunities through the use of

various technologies in an interconnected classroom system.

File No. 96150 CRB Back Porch Radio Brdcstg, Inc., 118 South

Bedford Street, Madison, WI 53703. Signed By: Mr. Terry O'Laughlin,

President, Board of Directors. Funds Requested: $21,000. Total Project

Cost: $42,687. To improve WORT-FM, operating on 89.9 MHz, in Madison,

WI, by replacing the transmitter and accessories and adding a dial-up

remote control unit. The 16 year old transmitter is in constant need of

repair. The station provides service to approximately 390,000

listeners.

File No. 96199 CTB University of Wisconsin, 2420 Nicolet Drive,

Green Bay, WI 54311. Signed By: Ms. Cheryl Gest, Administrative

Officer. Funds Requested: $85,000. Total Project Cost: $170,000. To

improve one of the 7 Wisconsin Public Television Network stations,

WPNE, Ch 38 in Green Bay, by replacing 3 digital VTRs, an Editing

Controller and 3 Waveform Monitors. WPNE-TV serves approximately

488,000 viewers in its coverage area.

WV (West Virginia)

File No. 96055 CRB WV Educational Brdstg Authority, 600 Capitol

Street, Charleston, WV 25301. Signed By: Ms. Rita Ray, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $7,499. Total Project Cost: $9,999. To

provide first public radio service to about 17,000 people in the rural

communities of Logan and Bluefield, WVPN-FM, operating on 88.5 MHz in

Charleston, West Virginia, will install a translator in Logan,

operating on 91.9 MHz., and all necessary satellite equipment.

File No. 96191 PRB U.N.I.T.Y. Communications, Inc., 1560 Jackson

St., P.O. Box 5605, Charleston, WV 25361. Signed By: Mr. Charles

Blackmon, President. Funds Requested: $989,789. Total Project Cost:

$989,789. To conduct a needs assessment and to develop a plan for the

establishment of a public radio station that will serve the Afro-

American community of Charleston, West Virginia, by providing

educational programming and training facilities in the field of radio

broadcasting.

Bernadette McGuire-Rivera,

Associate Administrator, Office of Telecommunications and Information

Applications.

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