Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP)
Federal RegisterApr 23, 1999
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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). This notice
announces the list of applications received and notifies any interested
party that it may file comments with the Agency supporting or opposing
an application.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William Cooperman, Acting Director,
Public Telecommunications Facilities Program, telephone: (202) 482-
5802; fax: (202) 482-2156. Information about the PTFP can also be
obtained electronically via Internet (send inquiries to http://
www.ntia.doc.gov).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: By Federal Register notice dated November 6,
1998, the NTIA, within the Department of Commerce, announced that it
was soliciting grant applications for the Public Telecommunications
Facilities Program (PTFP). NTIA announced that the closing date for
receipt of PTFP applications was 8 p.m. EST, January 14, 1999.
In all, the PTFP received 252 applications from 48 states and
territories. The total amount of funds requested by the applicants is
$74.8 million.
Notice is hereby given that the PTFP received applications from the
following organizations. The list includes all applications received.
Identification of any application only indicates its receipt. It does
not indicate that it has been accepted for review, has been determined
to be eligible for funding, or that an application will receive an
award.
Any interested party may file comments with the Agency supporting
or opposing an application and setting forth the grounds for support or
opposition. PTFP will forward a copy of any opposing comments to the
applicant. Comments must be sent to PTFP at the following address:
NTIA/PTFP, Room 4625, 1401 Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.
20230.
The Agency will incorporate all comments from the public and any
replies from the applicant in the applicant's official file.
Alaska
File No. 99069CRB, Rainbird Community Broadcasting Corporation, 123
Stedman Street, Ketchikan, AK 99901. Contact: Ms. Mary White, General
Manager, (907) 225-9655. Funds Requested: $42,494. Total Project Cost:
$56,659. To replace the obsolete 23-year-old transmitter at public
radio station KRBD(FM), which operates on 105.9 MHz in Ketchikan, AK.
File No. 99070CRB, Wrangell Radio Group, Inc., 202 St. Michael St.,
Wrangell, AK 99929. Contact: Ms. Elizabeth Peterman, General Manager,
(907) 874-2345. Funds Requested: $38,969. Total Project Cost: $51,959.
To replace an obsolete and worn-out 20-year-old transmitter at public
radio station KSTK(FM), which operates on 101.7 MHz in Wrangell, AK.
File No. 99086CRB, University of Alaska/Fairbanks, 201 Theatre
Building, Fairbanks, AK 997755620. Contact: Mr. Jerry Brigham, General
Manager, (907) 474-7508. Funds Requested: $25,951. Total Project Cost:
$51,903. To replace worn-out and obsolete studio production equipment
at public radio station KUAC(FM), which operates on 89.9 MHz in
Fairbanks, AK, and which is licensed to the University of Alaska. The
project would purchase a hard disk record/playback system, two digital,
dual-line, auto-nulling telephone hybrids, and six computerized audio
editing systems.
File No. 99097CRB, CoastAlaska, Inc., 360 Egan Drive, Juneau, AK
99801. Contact: Mr. James Waste, Executive Director, (907) 463-6420.
Funds Requested: $61,320. Total Project Cost: $81,760. To replace
inadequate, obsolete and aging automation systems at two public radio
stations in southeast Alaska: KFSK(FM), Petersburg, and KTOO(FM),
Juneau. The project would purchase new digital storage and automation
systems for the two stations. The new systems would allow KFSK(FM) and
KTOO(FM) to participate fully in their regional network, which is part
of Alaska's Satellite Interconnection Project (SIP). CoastAlaska, Inc.
is a consortial effort of the five public radio stations in Southeast
Alaska. CoastAlaska, Inc. provides centralized administrative,
development, membership, engineering, and news programming support
services to its member-stations. The three other stations in the
consortium are: KCAW(FM), Sitka; KRBD(FM), Ketchikan; and KSTK(FM),
Wrangell.
File No. 99098CRB, Raven Radio Foundation, Inc., 2B Lincoln St.,
Sitka, AK 99835. Contact: Ms. Lisa Herwald, Chief Operating Officer,
(907) 747-5877. Funds Requested: $32,744. Total Project Cost: $43,659.
To replace an obsolete, failing 18-year-old transmitter at public radio
station KCAW(FM), which operates on 104.7 MHz in Sitka, AK.
File No. 99129CRB, Koahnic Broadcast Corporation, 818 E 9th Avenue,
Anchorage, AK 99501. Contact: Ms. Jaclyn Sallee, President & CEO, (907)
258-8880. Funds Requested: $103,555. Total Project Cost: $138,073. To
improve the studio production capabilities of public radio station
KNBA(FM), which operates on 90.3 MHz in Anchorage. KNBA(FM) is a
Native-owned station that targets its programming for Native people not
only in Anchorage but also, via satellite distribution, throughout
Alaska and nationwide. The project would purchase four additional
workstations, upgrade the station's storage capacity, ensure Y2K
compliance of its current Dalet automation system, upgrade the
production equipment in the station's existing studios, and create a
new production/recording room to provide production facilities that
must now be rented.
File No. 99130PRB, Koahnic Broadcast Corporation, 818 East 9th
Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501. Contact: Ms. Jaclyn Sallee, President &
CEO, (907) 258-8880. Funds Requested: $38,670. Total Project Cost:
$94,858. To assist the Koahnic Broadcast Corporation to plan how best
to relocate the studios of its public radio station, KNBA(FM), which
operates on 90.3 MHz in Anchorage, AK. The Koahnic Broadcast
Corporation is a Native-owned entity. KNBA(FM) offers programming
targeted to Native people not only in Anchorage but also, via satellite
distribution, throughout Alaska and nationwide.
File No. 99151CRB, Unalakleet Broadcasting, Inc., P.O. Box 178,
Unalakleet, AK 99684. Contact: Mr. Henry Ivanoff, General Manager,
(907) 624-3745. Funds Requested: $85,302. Total Project Cost: $113,737.
To improve the transmission and interconnection facilities at public
radio station KNSA(AM), in Unalakleet, AK. The project would replace
KNSA(AM)'s 17-year-old transmitter and would help the station purchase
a satellite receive-only earth station. The latter would allow the
station to have access to statewide and nationally-distributed
programming.
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File No. 99170CRB, Alaska Public Radio Network, 810 East 9th
Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501. Contact: Ms. Tammy Gilstrap, Business
Manager, (907) 277-2776. Funds Requested: $54,225. Total Project Cost:
$72,300. To improve the studio production facilities of the Alaska
Public Radio Network (APRN). The APRN is a nonprofit organization that,
from its Anchorage studios, provides programming, representation, and
satellite distribution to its 29 public radio member-stations
statewide. The project would upgrade APRN's digital audio processing
system to make it Y2K compliant and purchase an ISDN transmitter/
receiver, a telephone hybrid, eight minidisc portable recorders, and
six minidisc studio recorders.
File No. 99179CRB, Kuskokwim Public Broadcasting Corporation, Mile
389 Iditarod Trail, McGrath, AK 99627. Contact: Ms. Amie Hind, General
Manager, (907) 561-9234. Funds Requested: $34,305. Total Project Cost:
$75,741. To improve the studio production and interconnection
facilities of public radio station KSKO(AM), which brings the sole such
signal to the 6,000 residents of McGrath, AK. The project would replace
a 20-year-old satellite receive-only earth station, a power generator
at the station's transmission site, and diverse items of studio
equipment.
File No. 99244PRTBN, Tanana Chiefs Conference, Inc., 122 First
Avenue, Fairbanks, AK 99701. Contact: Mr. Alfred Ketzler, Chief
Administrative Officer, (907) 452-8251. Funds Requested: $59,066. Total
Project Cost: $67,866. To help the Tanana Chiefs Conference, Inc.,
Fairbanks, AK, plan for possible activation of tribally-owned public
radio, public television, and distance learning facilities to serve the
needs of the 14,000 Alaskan Natives who reside in the State's vast
Interior Region. The Tanana Chiefs Conference, Inc. is a consortium of
42 tribal villages that are located throughout an area of 235,000
square miles, which represents approximately 39% of the entire State of
Alaska.
Alabama
File No. 99085CTB, Alabama Educational Television Commission, 2112
11th Avenue, South Birmingham, AL 352052884. Contact: Mr. Philip
Hutcheson, Deputy Director/CFO, (205) 328-8756. Funds Requested:
$810,667. Total Project Cost: $1,621,334. To improve the statewide
microwave system operated by the applicant which interconnects the
state's nine public television stations. The project will replace 60 FM
analog modulators and 59 FM analog demodulators with digital encoders
and decoders and add MPEG II equipment. The project will ensure
continued public television service to 4.2 million residents of Alabama
and will assist in the state's conversion to digital technologies.
Arkansas
File No. 99055CTB, Arkansas Educational Television Commission, 350
S. Donaghey, Conway, AR 72032. Contact: Ms. Susan Howarth, Executive
Director, (501) 682-2386. Funds Requested: $178,842. Total Project
Cost: $357,685. To improve the state's public TV network by replacing
old, obsolete origination equipment. New equipment includes prompters,
lighting system, camera pedestals and an audio mixer. Network serves
about 2.35 million people.
File No. 99248CRB, Arkansas Broadcasting Foundation, 2101 S. Main
Street, Little Rock, AR 72206. Contact: Ms. Valerie Coffin, Station
Manager, (501) 372-6119. Funds Requested: $68,925. Total Project Cost:
$93,925. To improve public radio station KABF-FM, 88.3 MHz, in Little
Rock by replacing old, worn out dissemination and origination equipment
including remote control, studio-to-transmitter link, coax cable,
consoles, speakers, microphones and similar equipment. KABF-FM serves
about 623,000 people. The Little Rock area is also served by several
other public radio stations.
Arizona
File No. 99008CTB, Arizona Board of Regents in behalf of Arizona
State University, Box 871405, Tempe, AZ 852874505. Contact: Mr. Larry
Fallis, Sponsored Projects Officer, (602) 965-1415. Funds Requested:
$1,395,000. Total Project Cost: $2,790,000. To assist in the digital
conversion for KAET-DT, Ch. 29, Phoenix, by purchasing a DTV
transmitter, antenna, transmission line, digital microwave, digital
master control, test and monitoring equipment. KAET-TV, Ch. 8, Phoenix,
currently serves about 3.5 million people.
File No. 99056ICTN, Arizona Board of Regents for and on Behalf of
Northern Arizona University, Old Main, Bldg 10, Room 209 Flagstaff, AZ
86011. Contact: Mr. Edward Groenhout, VP for Strategic Initiatives,
(520) 523-1805. Funds Requested: $1,403,838. Total Project Cost:
$1,871,784. To expand the interactive instructional television network
(NAUNet) of Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, from existing hubs
to three remote locations on Indian Reservations in Arizona. The
receive sites would be placed at the Tsaile Campus of Dine' College on
the Navajo Indian Reservation, the Tohono O'odham Nation Indian
Reservation, at Sells, and the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation.
The addition of these sites would require expansion of NAUNet network
routing equipment at the system's Flagstaff and Phoenix hubs.
File No. 99087CRB, Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of
Northern Arizona University, Building 83, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. Contact:
Mr. John Stark, General Manager, (520) 523-5628. Funds Requested:
$86,762. Total Project Cost: $115,683. To activate a 3 KW repeater/
satellite public radio station on 90.3 MHz, in Grand Canyon Village.
Station will repeat the signal of KNAU-FM, Flagstaff, and will provide
a first public radio service to about 4,257 people.
File No. 99128PRB, Tohono O'odham Nation, P.O. Box 835, Sells, AZ
85634. Contact: Mr. Alex Ritchie, Executive Assistant, (520) 383-2028.
Funds Requested: $29,526. Total Project Cost: $80,710. To plan for a
new public radio station to serve about 20,000 people on the 2.8
million acres of the Tohono O'Odham Nation in Sells, Arizona.
File No. 99132CTB, Arizona Board of Regents for Benefit of
University of Arizona, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721.
Contact: Mr. Ronald Stewart, Associate Director, (520) 621-5828. Funds
Requested: $251,298. Total Project Cost: $502,596. To improve public
television station KUAT-TV, Ch. 6, in Tucson by replacing field
acquisiton cameras, video cassette recorders (VCR's) and the master
control VCR with a video server. The new digital equipment will allow
KUAT-TV and its satellite station KUAS-TV, to provide quality local
programming to approximatley 690,000 people.
California
File No. 99006CTB, Valley Public Television, Inc., 1544 Van Ness
Avenue, Fresno, CA 93721. Contact: Mr. Colin Dougherty, General
Manager/Exec. Dir., (559) 266-1800. Funds Requested: $181,765. Total
Project Cost: $363,531. To improve public television station KVPT-TV,
Channel 18 in Fresno, CA, by replacing obsolete master control
equipment with digital capable units, including a video server, a non-
linear editing system and a routing switcher. The station serves a
population of over 2.2 million people in the San Joaquin Valley.
File No. 99027CRB, San Bernardino Community College District, 701
S. Mt. Vernon Avenue, San Bernardino, CA 92410. Contact: Mr. Lew
Warren, General Manager, (909) 888-6511. Funds Requested: $77,445.
Total Project Cost: $154,890. To improve public radio
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station KVCR-FM, operating on 91.9 MHz in San Bernardino, CA, by
increasing power and replacing its antenna, transmitter and associated
test equipment. The station serves a population of over 2.5 million
people in the Riverside/San Bernardino market.
File No. 99031CTB, Board of Trustees, Coast Community College
District, 15751 Gothard Sreet, Huntington Beach, CA 92647. Contact: Mr.
Mel Rogers, President, (714) 895-5623. Funds Requested: $142,779. Total
Project Cost: $285,558. To improve public television station KOCE-TV,
Channel 50 in Huntington Beach, CA, by replacing obsolete and
unreliable \3/4\-inch U-matic videotape machines with ten state-of-the-
art Panasonic DVC Pro digital VTRs. The station serves a population of
8.2 million people.
File No. 99043CTB, KVIE, Inc., P.O. Box 6, Sacramento, CA 95833.
Contact: Mr. Michael Wall, Director of Engineering, (916) 923-7474.
Funds Requested: $1,600,842. Total Project Cost: $3,201,684. To convert
public station KVIE-TV, Channel 6 in Sacramento, CA, to digital
broadcasting on DTV Channel 53 by purchasing digital equipment
including antenna, transmission line, digital transmitter, STL digital
microwave, digital test equipment and upconverters. The station serves
a population of over 4.3 million people in North Central California.
File No. 99057CRB, Santa Monica Community College District, 1900
Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405. Contact: Ms. Ruth Seymour, General
Manager, (310) 450-5183. Funds Requested: $135,990. Total Project Cost:
$181,320. To expand the broadcast services of KCRW-FM, operating on
89.9 MHz in Santa Monica, by constructing a full power, repeater
station in Mojave, California. The new station, KCRI-FM will operate on
88.1 MHz and will provide first public radio services to over 32,000
residents of the Antelope Valley.
File No. 99062ICTN, Monterey County Office of Education, 901 Blanco
Circle, Salinas, CA 93901. Contact: Mr. Michael Mellon, Director,
Instruct. Resources, (831) 755-0383. Funds Requested: $408,982. Total
Project Cost: $968,842. To extend the ITFS-based distance learning
system of the Monterey County Office of Education, Salinas, CA, to San
Benito and San Luis Obispo Counties and to expand the already-existing
system in Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties to presently-unserved
audiences.
File No. 99081CRB, KPFK Pacifica Radio, 3729 Cahuenga Boulevard
West, North Hollywood, CA 91604. Contact: Mr. Mark Schubb, General
Manager, (818) 985-2711. Funds Requested: $247,704. Total Project Cost:
$495,408. To improve public radio station KPFK-FM, operating on 90.7
MHz in North Hollywood, CA, by replacing the obsolete and failing
transmission chain and worn out origination equipment, including two
23-year-old transmitters, a 40-year-old tower and antenna, control room
mixing boards, recorders, CD players and microphones. The station
serves a population of over 13.8 million people in Greater Los Angeles.
File No. 99082CTB, KTEH-TV Foundation, 1585 Schallenberger Road,
San Jose, CA 95131. Contact: Mr. Gary Martinez, Grants Associate, (408)
795-5412. Funds Requested: $674,191. Total Project Cost: $898,922. To
extend the signal and broadcast services of KTEH-TV, Channel 54 in San
Jose, CA, by reactivating KCAH-TV, Channel 25 in Watsonville. The
station is expected to serve approximately 1.2 million residents of
Salinas, Monterey and Santa Cruz. The project will aquire DTV-capable
equipment to replace KCAH's transmitter, antenna, STL and transmission
line. KTEH serves a population of over 6.2 million people in 14
northern California counties.
File No. 99088CTB, KTEH-TV Foundation, 1585 Schallenberger Road,
San Jose, CA 95131. Contact: Mr. Gary Martinez, Grants Associate, (408)
795-5412. Funds Requested: $558,310. Total Project Cost: $1,116,620. To
improve public television station KTEH-TV, Channel 54 in San Jose, CA,
by replacing the 25-year-old transmitter, antenna, STL and transmission
line with DTV-ready equipment. The station serves a population of over
6.2 million in Northern California.
File No. 99122CRB, Radio Bilingue, Inc., 5005 E. Belmont, Fresno,
CA 93727. Contact: Mr. Hugo Morales, Executive Director, (204) 455-
5757. Funds Requested: $133,541. Total Project Cost: $178,055. To
improve public radio station KSJV-FM, 91.5 MHz in Fresno, and KMPO-FM,
88.7 MHz in Modesto, CA, by replacing both transmitters and associated
equipment. In addition, the KSJV studio facility will be upgraded by
replacing analog equipment with digital equipment, including an audio
console, CD players and recorders/playback units. The stations serve a
Spanish-speaking population of over 100,000 people.
File No. 99133CTB, Community Television of Southern California,
4401 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Contact: Mr. Donald
Youpa, Exec. VP & COO, (323) 953-5210. Funds Requested: $1,440,685.
Total Project Cost: $1,920,914. To convert public station KCET-TV,
Channel 28 in Los Angeles, CA, to digital broadcasting on Channel 59 by
purchasing a transmitter, antenna, transmission line, STL, encoder and
test equipment. The station serves a population of over 18 million
people.
File No. 99140CTB, Los Angeles Unified School District, 1061 West
Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Contact: Mr. Tom Mossman, Station
Manager, (213) 625-6958. Funds Requested: $156,391. Total Project Cost:
$312,781. To improve public television station KLCS-TV, Channel 58 in
Los Angeles, CA, by replacing obsolete and failing master control
equipment with digital units, including videotape machines, a video
server, a still storer and a character generator. The station serves a
population of over 12 million people.
File No. 99142CRB, Fresno Free College Foundation, 1449 N. Wishon
Avenue, Fresno, CA 93728. Contact: Mr. Victor Bedoian, Executive
Director, (559) 233-2221. Funds Requested: $5,315. Total Project Cost:
$10,630. To improve public radio station KFCF-FM, operating on 88.1 MHz
in Fresno, CA, by replacing the 38-year-old transmitter. The station
serves a population of over 600,000 people.
File No. 99161CRB, Humboldt State University, Humboldt State
University, Arcata, CA 95521. Contact: Terry Green, Assistant Manager/
Chief Engine, (707) 826-3979. Funds Requested: $13,175. Total Project
Cost: $26,350. To improve public radio station KHSU-FM, operating on
90.5 MHz in Arcata, CA, by replacing failing analog two-track recorders
and the production console with a digital audio workstation and a
digital, 8 channel audio console unit. The station serves a population
of over 135,000 people.
File No. 99164CRB, KQED, Inc., 2601 Mariposa Street, San Francisco,
CA 94110. Contact: Ms. Jo Anne Wallace, Vice Pres. & General Mgr.,
(415) 553-2296. Funds Requested: $253,152. Total Project Cost:
$506,304. To improve public radio station KQED-FM, operating on 88.5
MHz in San Francisco, CA, by replacing analog recording and playback
equipment and related production hardware with an a Audiovault digital
storage and delivery system. The station serves a population of over 6
million people.
File No. 99165CRB, University of Southern California, 3716 South
Hope Street, Suite 26, Los Angeles, CA 90007. Contact: Ms. Brenda
Pennell, General Manager, (213) 514-1450. Funds Requested: $84,200.
Total Project Cost: $168,400. To improve public radio station KUSC-FM,
91.5 MHz in Los
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Angeles, CA, by upgrading the master control and the production studios
to digital technology, including consoles, production/storage
workstations, CD players and miniDisc player/recorders. The station
serves a population of approximately 12 million people.
File No. 99168CRB, University of Southern California, 3716 South
Hope Street, Suite 26, Los Angeles, CA 90007. Contact: Ms. Brenda
Pennell, General Manager, (213) 514-1450. Funds Requested: $270,424.
Total Project Cost: $360,565. To expand the coverage area and improve
the signal of KUSC-FM, operating on 91.5 MHz in Los Angeles, CA, by
upgrading the transmission system and doubling the station's broadcast
power. The project includes replacement of the transmitter, antenna,
transmission line and STL. The station currently serves about 12
million people and will add over 700,000 as a result of the power
increase.
File No. 99172CTB, Rural California Broadcasting Corporation, 5850
LaBath Avenue, Rohnert Park, CA 94928. Contact: Ms. Nancy Dobbs,
President and CEO, (707) 585-8522. Funds Requested: $110,357. Total
Project Cost: $147,143. To improve public television station KRCB-TV,
Channel 22 in Rohnert Park, CA, by replacing ten 15-year-old \3/4\''
videotape machines in master control, production control and editing
rooms with digital units. The station serves a population of over 2.8
million people.
File No. 99182PRB, Radio Bilingue, Inc., 5005 E. Belmont Fresno, CA
93727. Contact: Mr. Hugo Morales, Executive Director, (559) 455-5757.
Funds Requested: $52,580. Total Project Cost: $83,440. To plan for the
distribution of Radio Bilingue's 24-hour satellite programming service
to the top 10 Latino markets in the U.S. using subcarrier (SCA)
technology.
File No. 99183CTN, City of San Leandro, 835 E.14th Street San
Leandro, CA 94577. Contact: Mr. Greg Park, Interim IS Manager, (510)
577-3393. Funds Requested: $41,000. Total Project Cost: $54,668. To
assist the City of San Leandro, which is in California's Bay Area, to
activate a government access channel on the local cable television
system.
File No. 99198CRB, California State University-Northridge, 18111
Nordhoff Street Northridge, CA 91330-8312. Contact: Ms. Dolly Salazar,
Dir. of Development KCSN, (818) 677-3090. Funds Requested: $31,545.
Total Project Cost: $63,090. To improve public radio station KCSN-FM,
operating on 88.9 MHz in Northridge, CA, by replacing analog reel-to-
reel and cartridge tape machines with two digital audio workstations
and four digital audio edit systems. The station serves a population of
over 1.5 million people.
File No. 99206CTB, KQED, Inc., 2601 Mariposa Street San Francisco,
CA 94110. Contact: Ms. Jayme Burke, Development Associate, (415) 553-
2174. Funds Requested: $398,086. Total Project Cost: $796,173. To
continue the conversion to digital broadcasting of KQED-DTV, operating
on Digital Channel 30 in San Francisco, by purchasing a digital video
server system to store and play multiple program streams for digital
television multicasting. The station serves a population of 5.5 million
people.
File No. 99214CRB, Redwood Community Radio, Inc., 1144 Redway Dr
Redway, CA 95560. Contact: Mr. Simon Frech, Station Manager, (707) 923-
2513. Funds Requested: $92,062. Total Project Cost: $122,750. To extend
and improve the signal of KMUD-FM, 91.1 MHz in Redway, CA, by replacing
the transmitter and the antenna system and installing a microwave STL.
The station will also increase its broadcast power providing first
public radio service to over 14,000 residents of Humboldt, northern
Mendocino and western Trinity counties. In addition to the people
receiving first service, KMUD currently serves almost 9,000 people and
will add another 9,000 as a result of the increased coverage area.
File No. 99219CTB, San Diego State University Foundation, 5200
Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182. Contact: Ms. Susan Holloway,
Director Admin. Services, (619) 594-2491. Funds Requested: $660,926.
Total Project Cost: $1,321,852. To convert public station KPBS-TV,
Channel 15 in San Diego, CA, to digital broadcasting on Channel 30 by
purchasing a digital transmitter, digital microwave STL, digital
encoding system, HDTV recorders, HDTV master control switcher processor
and other essential master control equipment. The station serves a
population of over 2.5 million people.
File No. 99230CTB, San Mateo County Community College District,
1700 W. Hillside Blvd. San Mateo, CA 94402. Contact: Ms. Marilyn
Lawrence, General Manager, (650) 524-6905. Funds Requested: $1,223,325.
Total Project Cost: $2,446,650. To convert public station KCSM-TV,
Channel 60 in San Mateo, CA, to digital broadcast on Channel 59 by
purchasing a digital transmitter, transmission line, antenna, STL and
other equipment including a video file server and a compression/
decompression system. The station serves a population of over 6.3
million people.
File No. 99232CRB, University of Southern California, 3716 South
Hope Street Suite 26 Los Angeles, CA 90007. Contact: Ms. Brenda
Pennell, General Manager, (213) 514-1450. Funds Requested: $267,144.
Total Project Cost: $534,288. To improve public radio station KUSC-FM,
operating on 91.5 MHz in Los Angeles, CA, by replacing the aging
transmission systems of its repeater stations at KPSC-FM (88.5 MHz) in
Palm Springs, KFAC-FM (88.7 MHz) in Santa Barbara, and KCPB-FM (91.1)
in Thousand Oaks. The network of transmitters that re-broadcast the
signal of KUSC in Los Angeles, serve nearly 1.9 million residents of
Southern California.
Colorado
File No. 99036ICTN, National Technological University, 700 Centre
Avenue Ft. Collins, CO 80526. Contact: Dr. Lionel Baldwin, President,
(970) 495-6411. Funds Requested: $966,000. Total Project Cost:
$4,578,000. To expand the distance learning service provided by
National Technological University by converting 41 universities with
MPEG-2 digital encoding equipment at their satellite uplinks.
Conversion of the NTU system to MPEG-2 digital equipment will permit
NTU to provide distance learning directly to small business and home
viewers through the use of 90 cm antennas and standard digital
equipment.
File No. 99046ICTN, Centennial Board of Cooperative Educational
Services, 830 South Lincoln Street Longmont, CO 80501. Contact: Mr.
David Biekert, Director of Technology Service, (303) 772-4420. Funds
Requested: $323,783. Total Project Cost: $794,849. To extend the T-1-
based distance learning system of the Centennial Board of Cooperative
Educational Services (Centennial BOCES), Longmont, CO, to a number of
school districts in Colorado's northeast quadrant. Project equipment
would be located in the following high schools in the affected area:
Longmont, Ft. Morgan, Frederick, Lyons, Erie, Berthoud, Estes Park,
Johnstown, Briggsdale, Akron, Weldona, and Merino. The Centennial BOCES
was formed by merging the former Northern Colorado BOCES and Weld
BOCES.
File No. 99108CRB, Colorado State Board of Agriculture, 1000 Rim
Drive Durango, CO 81301. Contact: Ms. Wynn Harris, Station Manager,
(970) 247-7261. Funds Requested: $31,160. Total Project Cost: $47,035.
To improve noncommerical FM radio station KDUR-FM, 91.9MHz, in Durango,
by replacing its old, worn-out transmission
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system including transmitter, processor, antenna and transmission line.
Station will also replace a production console, cart machines, DAT
machines, below standard mini-disc players and test equipment. KDUR-FM
serves about 20,000 people.
File No. 99229CRB, Equal Representation of Media Advocacy, 528 9th
Street Alamosa, CO 81101. Contact: Ms. Annajo (Aj) Sanchez, General
Manager, (719) 589-9057. Funds Requested: $27,295. Total Project Cost:
$36,394. To extend and improve public radio station KRZA-FM, 88.1 MHz,
Alamosa, by repositioning the antenna, activating a translator and
acquiring field production equipment. KRZA-FM serves about 75,000
people.
File No. 99246CTB, Rocky Mountain Public Broadcasting, 1089 Bannock
Street Denver, CO 80204. Contact: Mr. James Morgese, Pres. & General
Mgr., (303) 620-5662. Funds Requested: $1,371,738. Total Project Cost:
$2,743,477. To convert public television station KRMA-TV, Ch. 6, Denver
to digital broadcasting on Ch. 18, by purchasing a transmitter,
antenna, transmission line, microwave interconnection equipment, test
equipment and other associated equipment. KRMA-TV serves about 3.9
million people.
Connecticut
File No. 99063CTB, Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc., 240 New
Britain Avenue Hartford, CT 06106. Contact: Mr. James Whitsett, VP,
Operations and Engineering, (860) 278-5310. Funds Requested: $743,434.
Total Project Cost: $1,486,868. To convert public station WEDH-TV,
Channel 24 in Hartford, CT, to digital broadcating on Channel 32 by
purchasing a transmitter, antenna, transmission line, microwave STL,
test and monitoring equipment. The station serves a population of more
than 3 million people.
District of Columbia
File No. 99102ICTN, Association of Jesuit Colleges & Universities,
1 DuPont Circle, Suite 405 Washington, DC 200361110. Contact: Dr.
William Husson, Dean of Professional Studies, (303) 458-1844. Funds
Requested: $503,500. Total Project Cost: $1,263,500. To help the
Association of Jesuit Colleges & Universities interconnect 19 of its
member-institutions to form the Jesuit Distance Education Network
(JDEN). The proposed network would consist of a video interconnection
relying on Internet Protocol technologies to unite the merits of
videoconferencing with the advantages of Internet-based learning.
Internet Protocol video would enable the delivery of video over the
Internet connectivity in a cost-effective manner.
File No. 99226CRB, Pacifica Foundation, 2390 Champlain Street NW
Washington, DC 20009. Contact: Ms. Bessie Wash, General Manager, (202)
598-0999. Funds Requested: $45,732. Total Project Cost: $91,465. To
improve the operation of public radio station WPFW, 89.3 MHz,
Washington, DC, by replacing its transmitter.
File No. 99235CRN, Self Reliance Foundation, 518 C Street NE
Washington, DC 20002. Contact: Mr. Sebastian Puente, Chief of Staff,
(202) 547-7447. Funds Requested: $159,720. Total Project Cost:
$319,440. To provide satellite downlink equipment to twenty non-
commercial radio stations affiliated with the Self Reliance Foundation
that wish to broadcast the Foundation's Hispanic-language programing.
File No. 99236PRN, Self Reliance Foundation, 518 C Street NE
Washington, DC 20002. Contact: Mr. Sebastian Puente, Chief of Staff,
(202) 547-7447. Funds Requested: $40,710. Total Project Cost: $81,420.
To plan for the extension of the applicant's Spanish language radio
programming to the ten U.S. cities with the largest concentration of
Hispanics: Los Angeles, New York, Miami, San Francisco/San Jose,
Chicago, Houston, San Antonio, Brownsville, Dallas, and San Diego.
Florida
File No. 99021CRB, University of Florida, 2208 Weimer Hall
Gainesville, FL 32611. Contact: Mr. Henri Pensis, Station Manager,
(352) 392-5200. Funds Requested: $25,591. Total Project Cost: $51,182.
To replace an obsolete 17-year-old production studio console for public
radio station WUFT(FM), which operates on 89.1 MHz in Gainesville, FL,
and is licensed to the University of Florida.
File No. 99038CTB, University of Florida, 202 Weimer Hall
Gainesville, FL 326118405. Contact: Mr. Richard Lehner, General
Manager, (352) 392-5551. Funds Requested: $77,445. Total Project Cost:
$154,890. To purchase a digital switcher, a digital router, and digital
test equipment for public television station WUFT(TV), which operates
on Ch. 5 in Gainesville, FL, and which is licensed to the University of
Florida. The requested equipment would complete the modernization and
digital conversion of WUFT(TV)'s master control area. The project would
thus assist the station's effort to convert to digital technologies in
a timely way.
File No. 99054CTB, The Board of Regents of Florida acting on behalf
of the Florida State University, 1600 Red Barber Plaza Tallahassee, FL
32310. Contact: Mrs. Donna Landrum, Business Manager, (850) 487-3170.
Funds Requested: $80,560. Total Project Cost: $161,120. To purchase
seven digital tape machines to improve the master control and
production operations of public television station WFSE(TV), which
operates on Ch. 11 in Tallahasee and which is licensed to Florida State
University. Three of the new tape machines would replace analog
equivalents in WFSU(TV)'s editing suites. The remaining four digital
machines would replace analog machines used for program playback and
network delay in the master control on-air configuration. The requested
equipment would substantially complete the station's digital conversion
plans for its master control, production, and postproduction
operations.
File No. 99058CTN, Sarasota County Board of County Commissioners,
1660 Ringling Boulevard Sarasota, FL 34236. Contact: Ms. Melissa
Fritsch, Administrative Asst., (941) 951-5294. Funds Requested:
$644,385. Total Project Cost: $859,180. To assist the Sarasota (FL)
County Board of County Commissioners in activating the first government
access channel on the County's cable television system. The project
would purchase the equipment for a production studio, in addition to
some test equipment. Eventually, the studio in question would be used
to produce programming for a community access channel as well; the
community access channel is also to be administered by the Board.
File No. 99083CTB, Community Communications, Inc., 11510 East
Colonial Drive Orlando, FL 32817. Contact: Mr. Jose Fajardo, Vice
President for Programming, (407) 273-2300. Funds Requested: $883,172.
Total Project Cost: $1,766,345. To replace the 26-year-old transmitter,
antenna, and transmission line at public television station WMFE(TV),
which operates on Ch. 24 in Orlando, FL. The project would also
purchase a nonlinear editing system for the station.
File No. 99099CTB, District Board of Trustees, Pensacola Junior
College, 1000 College Boulevard Pensacola, FL 32504. Contact: Mr. Allan
Pizzato, General Manager, (850) 484-1213. Funds Requested: $798,109.
Total Project Cost: $3,246,218. To assist public television station
WSRE(TV), Pensacola, FL, complete its conversion to digital
transmission. Station WSRE(TV) operates on Ch. 23 for its analog
transmission and will operate on Ch. 31 for its digital service. The
station is licensed to Pensacola Junior College. The project would
purchase diverse
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digital transmission equipment; e.g., a transmitter, an antenna, a
transmission line, an STL, and varied test equipment items. Station
WSRE(TV) must move its tower site in order to broadcast in digital. The
project thus also includes a one-time, $1 million lease payment for
antenna space on a new, 2,000' commercial tower. The lease would extend
for a minimum of 40 years. The tower will be located approximately five
miles from the station's present tower site.
File No. 99137PTB, Myth Slayer, Inc., 1015 NW 21st Avenue, #46
Gainesville, FL 32609. Contact: Ms. Gloria Rozier, President, (352)
337-9111. Funds Requested: $172,384. Total Project Cost: $208,144. To
assist Myth Slayer, Inc. plan for the activation of a nonprofit low
power television station that would serve the needs of minority groups,
women, and children in Gainesville, FL.
File No. 99149CTB, State Board of Regents acting on behalf of the
University of South Florida, 4202 Fowler Avenue SVC 0001 Tampa, FL
336620. Contact: Mr. William Buxton, Station Manager, (813) 974-4000.
Funds Requested: $12,037. Total Project Cost: $24,074. To replace the
transmitter remote control system of public television station
WUSF(TV), which operates on Ch. 16 in Tampa, FL, and which is licensed
to the University of South Florida. The present remote control system
will be noncompliant with Year 2000 program language.
File No. 99171CTB, Florida Gulf Coast University acting for and in
behalf of the State Board of Reg, 10501 FGCU BLVD Fort Myers, FL 33965.
Contact: Mr. Kirk Lehtomaa, Station Manager, (941) 590-2300. Funds
Requested: $654,999. Total Project Cost: $1,310,000. To replace a 17-
year-old, obsolete transmitter for public television station WGCU(TV),
which operates on Ch. 30 in Fort Myers, FL, and which is licensed to
Florida Gulf Coast University. The project would also replace the
station's antenna and transmission line.
File No. 99187CTB, Florida West Coast Public Broadcasting, Inc.,
1300 North Boulevard Tampa, FL 33607. Contact: Ms. Elsie Garner, Sr.
Vice Pres. & COO, (813) 254-9338. Funds Requested: $465,742. Total
Project Cost: $931,485. To improve the program production capability of
public television station WEDU(TV), which operates on Ch. 3 in the St.
Petersburg/Tampa region of Florida. The project would purchase a high
definition video production switcher, a high definition digital effects
unit, high definition color monitors, and an edit controller system.
The new switcher and effects unit would replace outdated items. The
project would permit WEDU(TV) to make significant progress in
converting its production capabilities to digital technology.
File No. 99195CRB, Board of Regents of Florida Acting for and on
behalf of Florida State University, 1600 Red Barber Plaza Tallahassee,
FL 32310. Contact: Mr. Andrew Hanus, Chief Engineer, (850) 487-3086.
Funds Requested: $15,343. Total Project Cost: $30,686. To replace the
master control and production control consoles at public radio stations
WFSU(FM) and WFSQ(FM), Tallahassee, FL. Station WFSU(FM) is a news and
information station and operates on 88.9 MHz. Station WFSQ(FM), a fine
arts station, operates on 91.5 MHz. Both stations are licensed to
Florida State University. The two stations share studio facilities and,
together, provide the sole public radio service to over 580,000
listeners in greater Tallahasee.
File No. 99197CTB, Barry Telecommunications, Inc., 3401 South
Congress Avenue Boynton Beach, FL 33426. Contact: Mr. Philip DiComo, VP
of Development, (561) 737-8000. Funds Requested: $255,936. Total
Project Cost: $511,872. To replace worn-out or obsolete studio
equipment at public television station WXEL(TV), which operates on Ch.
42 in Boynton Beach, FL. The project would purchase video tape
machines, a video server system, a nonlinear editor system, and diverse
other associated items.
File No. 99209CRB, Florida Board of Regents for and on Behalf of
the University of South Florida, University of South Florida Tampa, FL
33620. Contact: Dr. James Heck, General Manager, (813) 974-8665. Funds
Requested: $32,912. Total Project Cost: $65,824. To improve the
transmission and studio production capabilities of public radio station
WUSF(FM), which operates on 89.7 MHz in Tampa, FL, and which is
licensed to the University of South Florida. The project would purchase
a digital exciter, a hot-standby studio-to-transmitter link, digital
audio work stations, an ISDN codec, and portable minidisc recorders.
File No. 99210CTB, Barry Telecommunications, Inc., 3401 South
Congress Avenue Boynton Beach, FL 33426. Contact: Mr. Philip DiComo, VP
of Development, (561) 737-8000. Funds Requested: $262,099. Total
Project Cost: $524,198. To replace three obsolete, worn-out, tube-type
studio cameras with modern ``chip `` cameras at public television
station WXEL(TV), which operates on Ch. 42 in Tampa, FL. The new
cameras would be 16:9/4:3 switchable, standard definition digital-
compatible and would thus advance WXEL(TV)'s digital conversion effort.
File No. 99212CRB, Barry Telecommunications, Inc., 3401 South
Congress Avenue Boynton Beach, FL 33426. Contact: Mr. Philip DiComo, VP
of Development, (561) 737-8000. Funds Requested: $83,407. Total Project
Cost: $166,814. To extend the service area and improve the studio
production facilities of public radio station WXEL(FM), which operates
on 90.7 MHz in Tampa, FL. The project would modify the station's
antenna, purchase an antenna line, and reinforce the present tower;
this would allow the station's signal to reach an estimated 50,000
additional listeners in the rural areas of Palm Beach and Hendry
Counties. This would represent the first public radio service to these
listeners. In addition, the project would purchase replacement DAT
recorders, a cart system, CD players, and microphones.
File No. 99218CTB, WJCT, Inc., 100 Festival Park Avenue
Jacksonville, FL 32202. Contact: Mr. Rick Johnson, Sr Vice Pres.
Broadcasting, (904) 358-6394. Funds Requested: $473,692. Total Project
Cost: $947,385. To replace worn-out transmission equipment at public
television station WJCT(TV), which operates on Ch. 7 in Jacksonville,
FL. The project would purchase a new transmitter, microwave Studio-to-
Transmitter Link, and diverse associated test equipment items. WJCT(TV)
intends to retrofit this transmitter to digital when its analog
operations must cease as of May 1, 2006. The purchase would thus
provide WJCT(TV) with a reliable analog signal during the next few
years and at the same time position the station for its eventual
conversion to all-digital transmission.
File No. 99241CRB, University of Central Florida, Communications
Building Room 13 Orlando, FL 32816. Contact: Ms. Kayonne Riley, Station
Manager, (407) 823-5162. Funds Requested: $139,980. Total Project Cost:
$279,960. To construct a new tower and install a new antenna system at
public radio station WUCF(FM), which operates on 89.9 MHz in Orlando,
FL, and which is licensed to the University of Central Florida. These
improvements would alleviate radio frequency interference and permit
WUCF(FM) to comply with nonionizing radiation standards required by the
FCC and the ANSI.
File No. 99242CTB, School Board of Miami-Dade County Florida, 172
N.E. 15th Street Miami, FL 33132. Contact: Mrs. Laurel Long, Director
of Finance Admin., (305) 995-2240. Funds Requested: $857,534. Total
Project Cost: $1,715,068. To purchase a complete
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digital transmission system for public television station WLRN(TV),
which is licensed to The School Board of Miami-Dade County, FL, and
thus allow the station to begin immediate digital operations. WLRN(TV)
operates on Ch. 17 for its analog service and will operate on Ch. 18
for its digital broadcasting.
Georgia
File No. 99233CRB, Progressive United Communications, Inc., 316 N.
River St. Claxton, GA 30417. Contact: Mrs. Paschell Mix, CEO/Owner,
(912) 739-9252. Funds Requested: $86,250. Total Project Cost: $115,000.
To improve the production facilities of WCLA-AM, 1470 KHz and WCLA-FM,
107.3 MHZ in Claxton, GA by purchasing an audio vault storage, audio
console and related production equipment. WCLA serves 160,000 people in
southeast Georgia.
Iowa
File No. 99010CRB, University of Northern Iowa, 324 Communication
Arts Center Cedar Falls, IA 50614. Contact: Ms. Barbara Reid,
Administrative Assistant, (319) 273-6325. Funds Requested: $906,984.
Total Project Cost: $1,813,968. To improve the transmission reliability
of public radio station KUNI, 90.9 MHz, Cedar Rapids, IA, by
constructing a transmitter tower to replace one the station may have to
vacate because the owner may need the tower capacity for converting
itself to DTV. KUNI serves a population of about 1,213,130 through its
primary transmission and through four translators that relay its signal
in Des Moines, Dubuque, Davenport, and Eldridge, all in Iowa.
File No. 99011CRB, University of Northern Iowa, 324 Communications
Arts Center Cedar Falls, IA 50614. Contact: Ms. Barbara Reid,
Administrative Assistant, (319) 273-6325. Funds Requested: $10,711.
Total Project Cost: $21,423. To improve the signal of public station
KRNI(AM), 1010 KHz, Mason City, IA, by replacing its worn out and
obsolete transmitter. The station repeats the programing of KUNI, 90.9
MHz, Cedar Falls, IA, and serves a population of about 95,000.
File No. 99015CRB, Iowa Radio Reading Information Service for the
Blind and Print Handicapped, Inc., 100 East Euclid Ave. Des Moines, IA
50313. Contact: Ms. Sally Vander Linden, Executive Director, (515) 243-
6833. Funds Requested: $25,272. Total Project Cost: $50,544. To extend
the service area of Iowa Radio Reading Information Service, Des Moines.
IA, by acquiring the necessary satellite up- and down-link equipment to
enable IRIS to provide its service to Iowa City, Cedar Falls, and Sioux
City, all Iowa. The project will also acquire a supply of the special
receivers needed for the visually handicapped in those communities to
utilize the service. About 1,000 visually handicapped persons will
receive service in the added communities.
File No. 99020CRB, University of Northern Iowa, 324 Communication
Arts Center Cedar Falls, IA 50614. Contact: Ms. Barbara Reid,
Administrative Assistant, (319) 273-6325. Funds Requested: $20,008.
Total Project Cost: $40,017. To extend the signal of public station
KUNI, 90.9 MHz, Cedar Falls, IA, by constructing a repeater station on
channel 208 (89.5 MHz) in Oskaloosa, IA. The new station will bring the
first full-time public radio service to a population of about 14,979.
It will repeat the programing of KUNI.
File No. 99039CTB, Iowa Public Broadcasting Board, 6450 Corporate
Drive Johnston, IA 50131. Contact: Mr. Dennis Malloy, Dir. of Com.
Relations & Dev., (515) 242-3106. Funds Requested: $223,922. Total
Project Cost: $447,845. To improve the production capacity of Iowa
Public Television, Johnston , IA, by replacing items of worn out and
obsolete equipment, including tape recorders, a switcher, and
associated equipment. Iowa PTV serves a statewide population of about
3,600,000. The equipment acquired will be digital compatible and assist
in the ultimate conversion of Iowa PTV to digital television
broadcasting.
File No. 99091CRB, University of Northern Iowa, 324 Communication
Arts Center Cedar Falls, IA 50614. Contact: Ms. Barbara Reid,
Administrative Assistant, (319) 273-6325. Funds Requested: $22,757.
Total Project Cost: $45,514. To improve the signal reliability of
public station KHKE, 89.5 MHz, Cedar Falls, IA, by replacing its worn
out and obsolete 24-year-old transmitter. The station serves a
population of about 191,207.
Idaho
File No. 99092CRB, Idaho State University, 921 South 8th Street
Pocatello, ID 83209. Contact: Mr. Ernest Naftzger, Dean of Student
Affairs, (208) 236-2688. Funds Requested: $33,771. Total Project Cost:
$45,028. To complete public station KISU, Pocatello, ID, by acquiring
satellite downlink equipment. The station provides the only public
radio signal to about 13,678 persons.
File No. 99189CRB, Boise State University Foundation, Inc., 1910
University Drive Boise, ID 83725. Contact: Dr. James Paluzzi, General
Manager, BSU Radio, (208) 426-3663. Funds Requested: $371,041. Total
Project Cost: $742,082. To construct a new transmission tower for
public stations KBSU-FM, 90.3 MHz, and KBSX, 91.5 MHz, both Boise, ID,
in order to meet FCC mandates regarding public health and safety.
File No. 99202CRB, Idaho State Board of Education (Boise State
University), BSU Radio/SMITC #213 Boise, ID 83725. Contact: Dr. James
Paluzzi, General Manager, (208) 426-3663. Funds Requested: $268,750.
Total Project Cost: $358,333. To extend the service of the Boise State
University Radio Network, Boise, ID, by constructing a repeater station
at 91.3 MHz in Jackpot, NV, to serve Elko County, NV, and Twin Falls,
Cassia and Owyhee Counties, ID. The new station will bring the first
public radio signal to about 1,534 persons. It will repeat the
programing of station KBSX, Boise, ID, but will also carry programing
intended just for its own listeners.
Illinois
File No. 99077CTB, Black Hawk College, 6600 34th Avenue Moline, IL
61265. Contact: Mr. Rick Best, General Manager, (309) 796-2424. Funds
Requested: $164,790. Total Project Cost: $219,720. To improve the
operation of public station WQPT, ch. 24, Moline, IL, by replacing its
obsolete and worn out master control system, including a server and a
digital routing switcher. The station serves a population of about
550,000.
File No. 99079CTB, Window to the World Communications, Inc., 5400
North St. Louis Avenue Chicago, IL 60625. Contact: Mr. Martin
McLaughlin, Vice President Corporate Affa, (773) 509-5433. Funds
Requested: $1,057,312. Total Project Cost: $2,114,624. To convert
public station WTTW, ch. 11, Chicago, IL, to digital transmission on
channel 47 by purchasing a transmitter and ancillary equipment, an
antenna, STL, and test equipment. Tower modification is also included
in the project. The station serves a population of about 10.5 million
persons.
File No. 99084ICTN, Chicago Housing Authority, 4859 S. Wabash
Avenue Chicago, IL 606151008. Contact: Ms. Zenobia Johnson-Black, Exec.
Dir., Hayes FIC, (773) 285-0200. Funds Requested: $187,500. Total
Project Cost: $250,000. To establish a video distance learning system
that would interconnect The Chicago Housing Authority's Hayes Family
Investment Center with three public housing developments and allow the
Authority to transmit diverse instructional programming to their
residents. The three participating developments would be Altgeld
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Gardens, Cabrini-Green, and Henry Horner Homes. The programming would,
in part, be targeted to assist the City's welfare-to-work effort and
would emphasize pre-employment and job readiness skills training. More
generally, the programming would also strive to increase the literacy
levels and improve the information technology capabilities of the
developments' residents. The project would build upon the Authority's
experience with its computer learning effort.
File No. 99114CRB, Board of Trustees University of Illinois, 801
South Wright Street, 109 Cob Urbana, IL 61820. Contact: Mr. J.J.
Kamerer, Director, Grants & Contract Ad, (217) 333-2187. Funds
Requested: $45,000. Total Project Cost: $90,000. To improve the
operation of WILL-AM, 580 KHz, and WILL-FM, 90.9 MHz, Champaign, IL, by
replacing reel-to-reel and cartridge tape machine with a networked
digital audio storage and delivery system. The stations serve a
population of about 1,048,698.
File No. 99251CRB, Illinois State University, Old Union Building,
Room 310, S Normal, IL 61790. Contact: Mr. Bruce Bergethon, General
Manager, (309) 438-2393. Funds Requested: $40,000. Total Project Cost:
$80,000. To improve the operation of public station WGLT, 89.1 MHz,
Normal, IL, by replacing worn out and obsolete tape recording equipment
with digital audio server system. The station serves a population of
about 300,000.
Indiana
File No. 99061CTB, Michiana Public Broadcasting Corporation, 2300
Charger Blvd Elkhart, IN 46514. Contact: Ms. Trina Cutter, President/
General Mgr., (219) 674-5961. Funds Requested: $362,370. Total Project
Cost: $724,740. To improve the operation of public station WNIT, ch.
34, Elkhart, IN, by replacing obsolete and worn out cameras. The
project will help the station's eventual transition to all-digital
operation. WNIT serves a population of about 1,709,000.
File No. 99096CRN, City of Hobart Police Department, 200 Main
Street Hobart, IN 46342. Contact: Mr. Ronald Taylor, Police Chief,
(219) 942-1126. Funds Requested: $331,095. Total Project Cost:
$438,289. To improve the public safety telecommunications system of the
Hobart Police Department
File No. 99117CTB, Trustee of Indiana University, P.O. Box 1847
Bloomington, IN 47402. Contact: Mr. Barrie Zimmerman, Director,
Operations & Engineer, (812) 855-2898. Funds Requested: $114,110. Total
Project Cost: $228,220. To improve the operation of public station
WTIU, ch. 30, Bloomington, IN, by replacing its worn out and obsolete
video production switcher, an effects system, and video monitors. The
project will help the station's eventual transition to all-digital
operation. The station serves a population of about 490,000.
File No. 99180CRTB, Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Broadcasting,
Inc., 1401 North Meridian Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202. Contact: Mr.
Lloyd Wright, President & General Manager, (317) 636-2020. Funds
Requested: $205,000. Total Project Cost: $410,000. To improve the
signal reliability of public stations WFYI-TV, ch. 20, and WFYI-FM,
90.1 MHz, Indianapolis, IN, by replacing their failing, 20-year-old STL
with a digital fiber-optic link. The stations serve a population of
about 2 million.
Kansas
File No. 99009CTB, Smoky Hills Public Television Corp., 604 Elm
Street Bunker Hill, KS 676260009. Contact: Mr. Lloyd Mintzmyer,
Director of Engineering, (785) 483-6990. Funds Requested: $386,500.
Total Project Cost: $773,000. To improve the facilites of three public
TV stations, the main station (KOOD-TV, Ch. 9, in Bunker Hill), two
repeater/satellite stations (KDCK-TV, Ch. 21, Dodge City, and KSWK-TV,
Ch. 3, Lakin) and translators in western KS. Project would lease fiber
optic to replace the failing analog microwave studio to multi-
transmitter system. Project will also acquire ``last mile'' microwave
equipment and associated satellite interconnection equipment. Stations
currently serve about 365,000 people.
File No. 99022CTB, Kansas Public Telecommunications Service, Inc.,
320 West 21st Street North Wichita, KS 67203. Contact: Mr. David
McClintock, Director of Engineering, (316) 838-3090. Funds Requested:
$118,735. Total Project Cost: $237,470. To improve public television
station KPTS-TV, Ch. 8, in Wichita, by replacing station's old Umatic
video recorders and analog studio-to-transmitter link. Project would
acquire 5 digital tape recorders, a 10-year lease of fiber optic, 2
fiber optic encoders and decoders. Station serves about 588,000 people.
File No. 99024CRB, Hutchinson Community College, 815 N Walnut Suite
300 Hutchinson, KS 67501. Contact: Mr. David Horning, General Manager,
(316) 665-3555. Funds Requested: $43,563. Total Project Cost: $87,126.
To improve public radio station KHCC-FM, 90.1 MHz, in Hutchinson, by
replacing the on-air console and main production console. Both units
have been plagued with increasing outages and repair problems. KHCC-FM
and its two repeater/satellite stations serve about 925,000 people.
File No. 99051CTB, Washburn University of Topeka, 1700 SW College
Avenue Topeka, KS 66621. Contact: Mr. Robert Fidler, Director of
Operations, (785) 231-1111. Funds Requested: $125,000. Total Project
Cost: $250,000. To improve public television station KTWU-TV, Ch. 11,
Topeka, by replacing its 45-year-old VHF antenna with a new antenna.
Initially new antenna will be used as its NTSC antenna but will
eventually become its DTV antenna. KTWU-TV serves about 1.26 million
people.
File No. 99066CRB, Kanza Society, Inc., 210 N 7th St. Garden City,
KS 67846. Contact: Mr. Brian Gibbons, Executive Director, (316) 275-
7444. Funds Requested: $309,705. Total Project Cost: $412,940. To
activate a new public radio satellite/repeater station on 89.5 MHz in
Perryton-Spearman, TX. New 100 kilowatt station will repeat the signal
of KANZ-FM, 91.1 MHz, Garden City, KS. Signal will be provided via a
satellite downlink. New station will provide a first public radio
signal to about 68,000 people in TX and OK.
File No. 99067CRB, Kanza Society, Inc., 210 N 7th Street Garden
City, KS 67846. Contact: Mr. Brian Gibbons, Executive Director, (316)
275-7444. Funds Requested: $16,656. Total Project Cost: $33,312. To
improve and upgrade the facilities of public radio FM translator,
K242AL, 96.3 MHz, Hays, by relocating, replacing and upgrading the
station to a Class A station (1,250 watts). Upgraded repeater/satellite
station will broadcast on 91.7 MHz.
File No. 99089CRB, Wichita State University, 3317 E. 17th Street
Wichita, KS 67208. Contact: Mr. Mark McCain, General Manager, (316)
978-6789. Funds Requested: $44,772. Total Project Cost: $89,544. To
improve public radio station KMUW-FM, 89.1 MHz, Wichita, by replacing a
20-year-old satellite receive-only antenna and analog test equipment.
Project will also replace and upgrade equipment in KMUW-FM's news
production facility. KMUW-FM serves about 516,700 people.
Kentucky
File No. 99002CTB, Kentucky Authority for Educational Television,
600 Cooper Drive Lexington, KY 40502. Contact: Mrs. Virginia Fox,
Executive Director, (606) 258-7000. Funds Requested: $699,371. Total
Project Cost: $1,398,742. To improve the reliability of the signals of
two public television stations in the Kentucky Educational Television
system--WKSO, ch. 29,
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Somerset, KY, and WKMR, ch. 38, Morehead, KY, by replacing 30 year old
transmitters.
File No. 99053CTB, Western Kentucky University, 1 Big Red Way
Bowling Green, KY 42101. Contact: Mr. Jerry Barnaby, Assistant
Director, (502) 745-2400. Funds Requested: $86,544. Total Project Cost:
$173,089. To improve the operation of public station WKYU-TV, ch. 24,
Bowling Green, KY, by replacing origination equipment, including
digital tape decks and cameras. The project will assist the station in
its planned conversion to DTV. The station serves a population of about
250,000.
File No. 99064CRB, Eastern Kentucky University, 102 Perkins
Building Richmond, KY 40475. Contact: Dr. Fred Kolloff, Director Media
Resources, (606) 622-2474. Funds Requested: $139,928. Total Project
Cost: $186,571. To extend the signal of public radio station WEKU, 88.9
MHz, Richmond, KY, by constructing a repeater station in Mt. Victory,
KY, to bring the first public radio service to about 106,212 residents
of central and southeastern Kentucky and northern Tennessee.
File No. 99184CRB, Kentucky Public Radio, 301 York Street
Louisville, KY 40203. Contact: Ms. Kathi Ellis, Development Specialist,
(502) 574-1848. Funds Requested: $253,085. Total Project Cost:
$506,170. To augment the operational capability of Kentucky Public
Radio, which operates WFPL 89.3 MHz, WUOL 90.5 MHz, and WFPK 91.8 MHz,
in Louisville, KY, by acquiring various items of equipment for its new
building, including fiber optic interfaces, a routing switcher,
consoles, limiters, audio processors, speakers, headphones,
microphones, microphone stands and mounts, digital audio editors, CD
players, CD recorder, and digital audio work stations. The three
stations serve a population of about 3,057,566.
File No. 99191CRB, Appalshop, Inc., 91 Madison Avenue, Whitesburg,
KY 41858. Contact: Mr. Timothy Marema, Dir. of Devel.& Admin., (606)
633-0108. Funds Requested: $69,010. Total Project Cost: $93,010. To
improve the operation of public station WMMT, 88.7 Mhz, Whitesburg, KY,
by replacing worn out and obsolete items of production equipment,
including audio consoles, cassette and DAT recorders, microphones, CD
players, CD recorder, a telephone interface, and turntables plus its
STL and a package of test equipment. The station serves a population of
about 299,162.
Louisiana
File No. 99167CTB, Greater New Orleans Educational Television
Foundation, 916 Navarre Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70124. Contact: Mr.
Randall Feldman, President & General Manager, (504) 486-5511. Funds
Requested: $265,000. Total Project Cost: $530,000. To improve public
television station WYES-TV, Ch. 11, New Orleans, by replacing its
transmission line, and acquiring a digital video effects machine and
waveform monitors. In addition to making its current service more
reliable, the new equipment will assist in the eventual conversion to
digital television. Station serves about 1.8 million people. The area
is also served by WLAE-TV, Ch. 32.
File No. 99186CTB, Educational Broadcasting Foundation, Inc., 2929
S. Carrollton Ave., New Orleans, LA 70118. Contact: Mr. John Pela,
Station Manager, (504) 830-3709. Funds Requested: $49,150. Total
Project Cost: $98,300. To improve public television station WLAE-TV,
Ch. 32., in New Orleans by replacing obsolete master control
origination equipment. New equipment includes 6 videotape machines and
3 digital waveform monitors. WLAE-TV serves about 1,163,000 people. The
area is also served by WYES-TV.
File No. 99223ICTN, New Orleans Educational Telecommunications
Consortium, 2 Canal St., New Orleans, LA 70130. Contact: Dr. Robert
Lucas, Executive Director, (504) 524-0350. Funds Requested: $62,319.
Total Project Cost: $124,638. To assist the New Orleans Educational
Telecommunications Consortium (``NOETC, Inc'') to extend its
instructional services to the Stennis Space Center, located in nearby
Mississippi. The project would also establish a video classroom at
Nunez Community College and connect that studio via microwave to NOETC,
Inc.'s ITFS system. NOETC, Inc. is a consortium of eight post-secondary
institutions located in New Orleans. The instructional programming to
be transmitted to the Stennis Space Center would originate at The
University of New Orleans, a consortium partner. The Nunez Community
College equipment would allow course work emphasizing basic literacy
and math skills to be transmitted to a presently unserved population in
Plaquemine Parish.
File No. 99247CTB, Louisiana Educational Television Authority, 7733
Perkins, Baton Rouge, LA 70810. Contact: Mrs. Cynthia Rougeou, CAO,
(225) 767-5660. Funds Requested: $225,000. Total Project Cost:
$450,000. To improve the state's public television network by replacing
17-year-old video tape equipment in its telecommunications center in
Baton Rouge. New equipment consists of 5 digital video tape recorders
with monitoring, a digital video server and digital test equipment.
Public television network serves about 1,082,000 people.
Massachusetts
File No. 99113CTB, WGBH Educational Foundation, 44 Hampden St.,
Springfield, MA 01103. Contact: Ms. Deborah Onslow, General Manager,
(413) 781-2801. Funds Requested: $201,300. Total Project Cost:
$402,600. To convert public station WGBY-TV, Channel 57 in Springfield,
MA, to digital broadcasting on Channel 58 by purchasing and installing
a digital transmitter, antenna, transmission line, STL and a small
digital satellite receiver. The station serves a population of nearly
2.5 million residents of western Massachusetts and northern
Connecticut.
File No. 99211CRB, Trustees of Boston University, 890 Commonwealth
Avenue, Boston, MA 02215. Contact: Mr. Stephen Elman, Assistant General
Manager, (617) 353-0909. Funds Requested: $223,256. Total Project Cost:
$446,512. To improve public radio station WRNI-AM, 1290 KHz in
Providence, RI, by replacing the obsolete and failing transmission
system, increase power and build a local production studio. WRNI is
part of Boston University's WBUR Group and its broadcast originates at
WBUR-FM in Boston. WRNI-AM serves a population of over 250,000
residents of Rhode Island.
File No. 99216ICTN, Mount Wachusett Community College, 444 Green
Street Gardner, MA 01440. Contact: Mr. Anthony Cherubini, Professor,
(978) 632-6600. Funds Requested: $562,882. Total Project Cost:
$750,509. To activate a Ku-band satellite project at the applicant's
Telecommunications and Distance Learning Center. The applicant is
partnering with the Wood Products Manufacturers Association to upgrade
skills of the industries employees. Another partner in the project is
Rural Housing Improvement, which assists low income clients to become
self sufficient.
Maryland
File No. 99018CRB, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Backbone
Road Princess Anne, MD 21853. Contact: Mr. Anthony Hunt, General
Manager, (410) 651-8001. Funds Requested: $70,743. Total Project Cost:
$141,486. To
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improve public radio station WESM-FM, operating on 91.3 MHz in Princess
Anne, MD, by replacing a damaged transmitter, adding electrical
protection and redundancy, upgrading the main production room, and
acquiring remote recording equipment. The station serves a population
of more than 142,000 residents of the southeast corner of Maryland,
southern Delaware and northeastern Virginia.
File No. 99065CTB, Maryland Public Broadcasting Commission, 11767
Owings Mills Boulevard Owings Mills, MD 21117. Contact: Mr. Robert
Sestili, Senior Vice President/CEO, (410) 581-4297. Funds Requested:
$449,400. Total Project Cost: $898,800. To convert public station WMPT-
TV, Channel 22 in Annapolis, MD, to digital broadcasting on Channel 42
by purchasing a transmitter, antenna, transmission line, monitoring and
test equipment. The station serves a population of over 6.8 million
people in the cities of Baltimore and Annapolis, and in North, Central
and Southern Maryland.
File No. 99104CRB, Metropolitan Washington Ear, Inc., 35 University
Boulevard East Silver Spring, MD 20901. Contact: Mrs. Nancy Knauss,
Administrative Dir., (301) 681-6636. Funds Requested: $23,719. Total
Project Cost: $31,625. To improve the services of the Washington Ear,
the radio reading service in the Wahington DC metropolitan area, by
replacing control room equipment including tape machines, PC-based
automation equipment, mini-disc units and headsets. In addition, the
project will purchase 50 closed-circuit radio receivers to lend to
listeners free of charge. The Washington Ear serves a population of
over 1,900 blind and visually impaired residents of Washington DC,
Maryland and Virginia.
Maine
File No. 99158CTB, Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation, 65 Texas
Avenue Bangor, ME 04401. Contact: Mr. Alexander Maxwell, Chief
Technology Officer, (207) 941-1010. Funds Requested: $324,000. Total
Project Cost: $648,000. To improve public television stations WMEM-TV,
Channel 10 in Presque Isle and WMEB-TV, Channel 12 in Orono, Maine, by
replacing failing and obsolete transmitters with digital-capable units.
Maine Public Broadcasting serves a population of over 1.2 million
people.
File No. 99173IPTN, Washington County Consortium for School
Improvement, 10 Torrey Hall Machias, ME 04654. Contact: Ms. Gloria
Jenkins, Director, (207) 255-1219. Funds Requested: $50,000. Total
Project Cost: $118,625. To help the Washington County Consortium for
School Improvement, Machias, Maine, plan the development of a distance
learning system. The Consortium is composed of the 11 school districts
in the County. Cooperating in the project would be the following: the
University of Maine/Machias; Washington County Technical College;
Coastal Washington County Institute of Technology; the Regional Medical
Center at Lubec; St. Croix Regional Technical School; three American
Indian elementary schools; a private middle/high school that provides
educational services to a number of school districts; schools that
serve the unorganized territories within the County; and the Maine
State Department of Education.
Michigan
File No. 99048CTB, Board of Trustees of Michigan State University,
283 Communication Arts Building East Lansing, MI 48824. Contact: Mr.
Steven Meuche, Director & General Manager, (517) 432-3120. Funds
Requested: $330,325. Total Project Cost: $660,650. To improve the
operation of public station WKAR-TV, ch. 23, East Lansing, MI, by
replacing worn out and obsolete video tape recorders, video production
switchers, and audio consoles. All new equipment will be digital-
capable and aid the station's eventual conversion to digital
broadcasting. The station serves a population of about 2,633,010.
File No. 99059CTB, Grand Valley State University, 301 W. Fulton
Street Grand Rapids, MI 49504. Contact: Mr. Robert Lumbert, Director of
Engineering, (616) 771-6739. Funds Requested: $417,425. Total Project
Cost: $834,850. To complete the conversion of public station WGVU-TV,
ch. 35, Grand Rapids, MI, to digital broadcasting on channel 11, by
purchasing a transmitter, transmission line, remote control, an
encoder, and test equipment. The station serves a population of about
1,060,425.
File No. 99123CTB, Detroit Educational Television Foundation, 7441
Second Avenue Detroit, MI 48202. Contact: Mr. Daniel Alpert, Senior VP
& Station Manager, (313) 876-8102. Funds Requested: $579,402. Total
Project Cost: $1,158,804. To convert public station WTVS, ch. 56,
Detroit, MI, to digital broadcasting on channel 43, bringing the first
DTV public broadcasting to about 4.6 million people. The project
includes acquisition of DTV transmitter, STL, satellite demod for DTV
feeds, encoder, a multiplexer, and related monitoring and test
equipment.
File No. 99221CTB, Delta College, 1961 Delta Road University
Center, MI 48710. Contact: Mr. Barry Baker, Dir. of Broadcasting/G.M.,
(517) 686-9346. Funds Requested: $114,940. Total Project Cost:
$229,881. To improve the operation of public station WDCQ-TV, ch. 19,
University Center, MI, by replacing worn out and obsolete cameras and
video tape recorders. The new equipment will be digital-capable and aid
the station's eventual conversion to digital broadcasting. The station
serves a population of about 866,000.
File No. 99227CTB, Board of Control of Northern Michigan
University, 1401 Presque Isle Avenue Marquette, MI 49855. Contact: Mr.
Scott Seaman, General Manager, (906) 227-1300. Funds Requested:
$135,000. Total Project Cost: $270,000. To improve the production
capability of public station WNMU-TV, ch. 13, Marquette, MI, by
replacing worn out and obsolete field and studio cameras. The new
equipment will be digital-capable and aid the station's eventual
conversion to digital broadcasting. The station serves a population of
about 250,000.
Minnesota
File No. 99001CTB, Duluth-Superior Area Educational Television
Corporation, 1202 East University Circle Duluth, MN 55811. Contact: Mr.
Allen Harmon, President, (218) 724-8567. Funds Requested: $122,812.
Total Project Cost: $163,750. This is a request for emergency funding
to construct a tower in Grand Marais, MN, for the translator of public
television station WDSE, Ch. 8, Duluth, MN. The new tower would replace
the tower on which WDSE(TV) presently leases space for the translator.
The present tower is in imminent danger of collapse. The project also
seeks to replace the 18-year-old translator transmitter and its 31-
year-old antenna. The new transmitter would increase the translator's
power from 100 watts to 500 watts and the new antenna would be
omnidirectional. The changes would result in an increase in the
population served from 1,000 to 3,000.
File No. 99016CTB, Northern Minnesota Public Television., Inc., BSU
Box 9 Bemidji, MN 56601. Contact: Mr. Bill Sanford, Director of
Engineering, (218) 751-3407. Funds Requested: $195,840. Total Project
Cost: $261,120. To improve the operation of public station KAWE, ch. 9,
Bemidji, MN, by replacing worn out and obsolete video tape recorders
and a character generator. The new equipment will be digital-capable
and aid the station's eventual conversion to digital broadcasting. The
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station's programing is repeated by KAWB, ch. 22, Brainerd, MN.
Together the two stations serve a population of about 300,000.
File No. 99017CTB, Northern Minnesota Public Television, BSU Box 9
Bemidji, MN 56601. Contact: Mr. Bill Sanford, Director of Engineering,
(218) 751-3407. Funds Requested: $54,600. Total Project Cost: $72,800.
To improve the signal quality of public station KAWB, ch. 22, Brainerd,
MN, by replacing its worn out and obsolete antenna. The station repeats
the programing of station KAWE, ch. 9, Bemidji, MN. The new equipment
will be digital-capable and aid the station's eventual conversion to
digital broadcasting. The two stations serve a population of about
300,000.
File No. 99101CTB, West Central Minnesota Education Television Co.,
Inc., 120 West Schlieman Appleton, MN 56208. Contact: Mr. Ansel Doll,
General Manager, (320) 289-2622. Funds Requested: $251,100. Total
Project Cost: $334,800. To improve the operation of public station
KWCM, ch. 10, Appleton, MN, by replacing worn out and obsolete video
recorders and acquiring a video server. The new equipment will be
digital-capable and aid the station's eventual conversion to digital
broadcasting. The station serves a population of about 600,000.
File No. 99177CTB, Austin Independent School District No. 492, 2000
8th Avenue NW Austin, MN 55912. Contact: Mr. Richard Sailors, General
Manager, (507) 433-0671. Funds Requested: $720,250. Total Project Cost:
$1,263,596. To extend the signal of public station KSMQ, ch. 15,
Austin, MN, and establish the first local origination facility by
constructing a new station on channel 35 in Winona, MN. The new station
will operate as a ``pass-through'' service of KSMQ programing except
when originating local-interest programs. The new station will serve an
estimated 152,000 people, providing about 12,000 of them with their
first public television signal. All equipment at the new station will
be digital-capable.
File No. 99200CRB, Fresh Air, Inc., 1808 Riverside Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55454. Contact: Ms. Denise Mayotte, General Manager,
(612) 341-3144. Funds Requested: $53,120. Total Project Cost: $106,240.
To improve the production capability of public station KFAI, 90.3 MHz,
Minneapolis, MN, by replacing worn out and obsolete equipment,
including audio consoles, distribution amplifiers, CD players, cassette
decks, turntables, and an audio processor. The station serves a
population of about 900,000.
File No. 99238CTB, Twin Cities Public Television, Inc., 172 East
4th Street, St. Paul, MN 55101. Contact: Mr. Bruce Jacobs, Chief
Technologist, (651) 222-1717. Funds Requested: $997,998. Total Project
Cost: $1,995,996. To convert public station KTCI, ch. 17, St. Paul, MN,
to digital broadcasting on channel 16 by purchasing a transmitter,
antenna, transmission line, a video server, satellite demod, format
converter, channel automation, DTV multiplexer, encoders, and monitors
plus ancillary items and test equipment. The station serves a
population of about 3,125,000.
File No. 99252CRB, Minnesota Public Radio, 45 East 7th Street, St.
Paul, MN 55101. Contact: Mr. Ron Hall, Development Assistant, (651)
290-1163. Funds Requested: $121,209. Total Project Cost: $242,418. To
extend the coverage of Minnesota Public Radio, St. Paul, MN, by
constructing two new public stations on 88.7 MHz and 89.7MHz in Grand
Marais, MN. One of the two stations will carry Minnesota Public Radio's
news service; the other, MPR's classical music service. The new
stations will provide service to about 4,166.
Missouri
File No. 99044CTB, St. Louis Regional Educational and Public
Television Commission, 3655 Olive Street, St. Louis, MO 63108. Contact:
Mrs. Wilma Matta, VP & CFO, (314) 512-9000. Funds Requested:
$1,237,214. Total Project Cost: $2,474,428. To convert public station
KETC, ch. 9, St. Louis, MO, to digital broadcasting on channel 39, by
purchasing a transmitter, antenna, encoder, satellite demod. up-
converter, bit splicer, PSIP generator, spooler, and STL. The station
serves a population of more than 3 million.
File No. 99112CTB, Ozarks Public Telecommunications, Inc., 821
North Washington, Springfield, MO 65802. Contact: Mr. Brent Moore,
Director of Engineering, (417) 865-2100. Funds Requested: $58,000.
Total Project Cost: $116,000. To improve the operations of public
station KOZK, ch, 21, Springfield, MO, by acquiring equipment to
automate its master control to allow for overnight delivery of college
courses and additional general programing. The station serves a
population of about 1.5 million.
File No. 99169CTB, Public Television 19, Inc., 125 East 31st
Street, Kansas City, MO 64108. Contact: Ms. Brenda Williams, Grant
Coordinator, (816) 756-3580. Funds Requested: $352,075. Total Project
Cost: $704,150. To further the conversion of public television station
KCPT(TV), Ch. 19, Kansas City, MO, to digital broadcasting on Ch. 18 by
purchasing a dual-channel antenna, Studio-Transmitter Link, SD encoder,
PSIP generator, off-air monitoring equipment, interconnection
equipment, and test equipment. The station serves a population of about
1.8 million.
File No. 99228CRB, Curators of the University of Missouri for the
University of Missouri-St. Louis, 8001 Natural Bridge Road, St. Louis,
MO 63121. Contact: Ms. Patricia Bennett, Director & General Manager,
(314) 516-5968. Funds Requested: $18,576. Total Project Cost: $37,153.
To improve the production capability of public station KWMU, 90.7 MHz,
St. Louis, MO, by replacing two worn out and obsolete audio consoles
and acquiring added audio server capacity, DAT recorders, and a
telephone hybrid. The station serves a population of about 2,442,200.
Montana
File No. 99116CRB, Board of Regents Montana University System, 330
Strand Union Building, Bozeman, MT 59717. Contact: Mr. Philip Charles,
General Manager, (406) 994-6484. Funds Requested: $39,630. Total
Project Cost: $62,130. To improve the transmission facilities of public
radio station KGLT-FM, operating on 91.9 MHZ in Bozeman, by replacing
the station's 24 year old antenna, transmission and STL system. The
project would ensure continued service to 70,000 people and permit a
future power increase to provide first public radio service to an
additional 15,000 people.
North Carolina
File No. 99100ICTN, North Carolina School of Science and
Mathematics, P.O. Box 2418, Durham, NC 27715. Contact: Ms. Peggy
Manring, Head of Distance Learning, (919) 286-3366. Funds Requested:
$397,935. Total Project Cost: $649,620. To develop a state-of-the-art
multimedia distance learning classroom for the North Carolina School of
Science and Mathematics, Durham. The project would permit the School to
expand its current distance learning system by using a variety of
technologies and delivery systems such as wireless networking, H.320,
webcasting, video streaming, and time-delay satellite broadcasts. The
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics is a residential,
statewide magnet school that provides 11th- and 12th-grade students
with a comprehensive, free education focused on science, mathematics
and technology.
File No. 99125CTB, University of North Carolina Center for Public
Television, 10 TW Alexander Drive
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Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. Contact: Ms. Meg Lu, Director of
Admin., (919) 549-7154. Funds Requested: $307,455. Total Project Cost:
$614,910. To improve the state's public television network by replacing
seven 100-watt translators (Brevard, Burnsville, Hayesville, Lake Lure,
Sparta, Spruce Pine and Murphy) and a 1-kilowatt translator at Canton.
Project will also replace 1960's vintage microwave repeater equipment
at Cane Mountain, Tarboro, Statesville, and Cowee, plus a digital ready
hot standby will be installed at Joanna Bald. Project will replace 8
transmission equipment shelters. Network serves the entire state.
File No. 99126CRB, Board of Trustees of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB #0915, Chapel Hill, NC 275990915. Contact:
Mr. Thomas Davis, General Manager, (919) 966-5454. Funds Requested:
$245,685. Total Project Cost: $327,580. To extend the service of public
radio station WUNC(FM), Chapel Hill, NC, by constructing a repeater
station operating on 88.9 MHz in Manteo. The station will have a small
studio for local origination and will receive programming form WUNC via
satellite interconnection. The repeater station will provide first
public radio service to 74,073 people and additional service to 49,166
residents of eastern North Carolina and the Outer Banks.
File No. 99162CTB, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Broadcasting
Authority, 3242 Commonwealth Avenue, Charlotte, NC 28205. Contact: Mr.
Harold Bouton, President & CEO, (704) 372-2442. Funds Requested:
$52,846. Total Project Cost: $105,692. To improve public television
station WTVI-TV, Ch. 42, in Charlotte, by purchasing a digital video
server to replace the labor and maintenance intensive videotapte
machines. New equipment will be easily converted to digital television
service when needed. WTVI-TV serves about 1.08 million people.
North Dakota
File No. 99157CTB, Prairie Public Broadcasting, Inc., 207 North 5th
Street, Fargo, ND 58102. Contact: Mrs. Kathleen Pavelko, President &
CEO, (701) 241-6900. Funds Requested: $1,188,258. Total Project Cost:
$1,584,344. To convert public television station KBME-TV, Ch. 3, in
Bismarck, to digital broadcasting on Ch. 22 by purchasing a full
complement of digital dissemination, origination, interconnection,
reception and test equipment. KBME-DT will also be used to demonstrate
the use of digital broadband capacity for distance learning. KBME-DT
will provide a first digital TV service to about 115,000 people.
File No. 99194CRTB, Prairie Public Broadcasting, Inc., 207 North
5th Street Fargo, ND 58102. Contact: Mrs. Kathleen Pavelko, President &
CEO, (701) 241-6900. Funds Requested: $1,325,901. Total Project Cost:
$1,767,868. To improve the state's public radio and television system
by replacing its obsolete, worn-out, six-hop, 21-year-old, Fargo-to-
Bismarck, ND analog microwave system. This replacement is part of the
long-term digital transition plan for ND. Network currently serves
about 790,300 people.
Nebraska
File No. 99004CTB, Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska,
6001 Dodge Street Omaha, NE 68182. Contact: Ms. Debra Aliano, General
Manager, (402) 554-2516. Funds Requested: $69,816. Total Project Cost:
$145,450. To improve public television station KYNE-TV, Ch. 26, in
Omaha, by acquiring a digital video file server. The equipment will
replace the current playback system which does not produce a fully
broadcast quality signal. KYNE-TV serves about 696,000 people.
File No. 99007CRB, Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska,
6001 Dodge Street Omaha, NE 68182. Contact: Ms. Debra Aliano, General
Manager, (402) 559-5866. Funds Requested: $23,664. Total Project Cost:
$49,300. To improve public radio station KVNO-FM, 90.7 MHz, in Omaha by
acquiring 2 digital audio consoles, a digital 8-track tape recorder,
microphones and associated equipment. Current consoles are obsolete and
worn-out. KVNO-FM serves about 607,000 people.
File No. 99094ICTN, Educational Service Unit 7, 2657 44th Avenue
Columbus, NE 68601. Contact: Ms. Phyllis Brunken, Media/Technology
Director, (402) 564-5753. Funds Requested: $563,076. Total Project
Cost: $750,769. To establish a video distance learning system for the
Educational Service Unit 7 (``ESU 7''), Columbus, Nebraska. The system
would interconnect 11 school districts in a five-county area of eastern
Nebraska. The counties are Butler, Colfax, Merrick, Platte and Polk.
The system would also encompass Central Community College, which is in
Columbus, and ESU 7 itself. The proposed system would be digital fiber-
optic based, with the signal transmitted via T-1 telephone lines. Each
participating school would receive either or both of two types of
distance learning equipment: a dedicated two-way video classroom or
desktop conferencing equipment.
File No. 99109ICTN, ADEC Corporation, C218 Animal Science Building
Lincoln, NE 68583. Contact: Dr. Janet Poley, President/CEO, (402) 472-
7000. Funds Requested: $454,180. Total Project Cost: $908,360. To
extend the distance learning services of ADEC by purchasing a digital
satellite uplink which will distribute 6 MCPC channel of programming.
The uplink will aggregate programming from ADEC member universities and
extend programming to previously unserved audiences. ADEC is a
consortium of 55 land-grant institutions providing distance learning
nationwide.
File No. 99156CRB, Nebraska Educational Telecommunications
Commission, 1800 N 33 Street Lincoln, NE 68501. Contact: Mr. Rod Bates,
Secretary, (402) 472-3611. Funds Requested: $81,300. Total Project
Cost: $162,600. To improve and expand the coverage of public radio
station KUCV-FM, 90.9 MHz, Lincoln by replacing the station's 20-year-
old transmitter and antenna system. Project will change frequency to
91.1 MHz and increase station's power from 16.0 to 20.14 kilowatts.
KUCV-FM currently serves about 268,544 people.
File No. 99190CTB, Nebraska Educational Telecommunications
Commission, 1800 N 33 Street Lincoln, NE 685013111. Contact: Mr. Rod
Bates, Secretary, (402) 472-3611. Funds Requested: $878,497. Total
Project Cost: $1,756,994. To improve the state public television
network by replacing worn-out and obsolete dissemination and
origination equipment with digital or digital-compatible equipment.
Network will acquire a non-linear edit system, studio/remote cameras,
hard disk server system, and a remote control switcher. Equipment will
be used in partnership with Central Educational Network (CEN). Network
serves about 1.65 million people in Nebraska.
File No. 99201CRB, Nebraska Educational Telecommunications
Commission, 1800 N 33 Street Lincoln, NE 685013111. Contact: Mr. Rod
Bates, Secretary, (402) 472-3611. Funds Requested: $120,500. Total
Project Cost: $241,000. To replace the antenna systems of four stations
of the state's public radio network. New antennas will be installed at:
KRNE-FM, 91.5 MHz, Merriman; KCNE-FM, 91.9 MHz, Chadron; KPNE-FM, 91.7
MHz, North Platte and KMNE-FM, 90.3 MHz, Bassett. Antennas have
experienced longitudinal cracks and one of the stations (KRNE-FM) has
already reduced power 40% to avoid permanent damage. The four stations
serve about \1/3\ of the state.
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New Hampshire
File No. 99003CTB, University of New Hampshire, 268 Mast Road
Durham, NH 03824. Contact: Mr. Robert Ross, Director of Engineering,
(603) 868-7552. Funds Requested: $1,305,000. Total Project Cost:
$2,610,000. To convert public station WENH-TV, Channel 11 in Durham,
NH, to digital broadcasting on Channel 57 by purchasing and installing
a transmitter, antenna transmission line, STL, encoder and test
equipment. In addition, the project will acquire digital studio
equipment, including a video server, router, still store, DVE and ENG
kit. The station serves a population of over 1.1 million people.
File No. 99215CRB, New Hampshire Public Radio, Inc., 207 North Main
Street Concord, NH 03301. Contact: Mr. Andrew Morrell, Program
Director, (603) 228-8910. Funds Requested: $50,225. Total Project Cost:
$100,450. To improve the broadcast quality of the state network by
replacing the obsolete and failing transmitter at repeater station
WEVH-FM, 91.3 MHz in Hanover, NH. The project will also replace
recording and playback equipment at WEVO-FM, 89.1 MHz in Concord,
including minidisc players and the audio Vault. New Hampshire Public
Radio serves a population of over 900,000 people.
New Jersey
File No. 99052ICTN, Burlington County College, Pemberton-Browns
Mills Rd. Pemberton, NJ 08068. Contact: Dr. Bernard Solomon, Director,
Distance Learning at, (609) 894-9311. Funds Requested: $197,160. Total
Project Cost: $394,320. To equip a new Telecommunications Center on the
Mt. Laurel Campus of Burlington County College, Pemberton, NJ. The
equipment would allow the College to interconnect with a consortium of
academic institutions and thus expand distance learning to a large
underserved population throughout southern New Jersey. In addition to
Burlington County College, the consortium participants include the New
Jersey Institute of Technology, The University of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey, Cumberland Community College, Ocean County
College, Salem Community College, and Georgian Court College.
File No. 99110CTB, New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority, 23
South Stockton Street Trenton, NJ 08625. Contact: Mr. William
Schnorbus, Acting Director of Engineering, (609) 777-5162. Funds
Requested: $796,750. Total Project Cost: $1,593,500. To convert public
station WNJT-TV, Channel 52 in Trenton, NJ, to digital broadcast on
Channel 43 by the purchase and installation of a digital transmitter,
antenna, STL, combiner, encoder, video server and monitoring equipment.
The station serves a population of over 9.8 million people.
File No. 99124CRB, New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority, 25
South Stockton Street Trenton, NJ 08625. Contact: Mr. William
Schnorbus, Acting Director of Engineering, (609) 777-5162. Funds
Requested: $71,657. Total Project Cost: $95,543. To expand the state
public radio network by constructing a new Class A station, WNJZ-FM in
Cape May Courthouse, operating on 90.3 MHz, that will provide first
public radio services to over 52,000 residents of Cape May County in
southeastern New Jersey.
New Mexico
File No. 99019CTB, Regents of the University of New Mexico and
Board of Education of the City of Al, 1130 University Blvd NE
Albuquerque, NM 87102. Contact: Mr. Jon Cooper, General Manager, (505)
277-2121. Funds Requested: $202,428. Total Project Cost: $404,856. To
improve KNME-TV, Ch. 5, Albuquerque by replacing analog studio routing
switcher and analog video tape recorders with digital equipment. KNME-
TV will also acquire satellite reception equipment which will allow the
reception and display of PBS ATSC satellite transmissions. This
equipment will assist in the digital conversion of the station which
serves about 1,130,922 people.
File No. 99026CTB, Regents or the University of New Mexico and the
Board of Education of the City of, 1130 University Blvd. N.E.,
Albuquerque, NM 87102. Contact: Mr. Jon Cooper, General Manager, (505)
277-2121. Funds Requested: $104,205. Total Project Cost: $208,410. To
improve the translator facilities of public television station KNME-TV,
Ch. 5, Albuquerque, by replacing and modifying translators at 12 sites.
The frequencies of these translators must be ``displaced'' to lower
frequency channels in order to comply with FCC mandates regarding the
implementation of digital television. Sites affected are: Cimarron
(K60AA), Gallup (K60BD), Grants (K67CR), Roy (K69CG), Las Vegas
(K65BQ), Eagle Tail/Raton (K20CV), Red River (K03CZ), Mora (K31EO),
Santa Rosa (K74BBO), Sheridan (K69CI), Wagon Mound (K68BO), and Chama
(K69CH). Translators currently serve about 167,000 people.
File No. 99028CTB, Eastern New Mexico University, Station 52,
Portales, NM 88130. Contact: Mr. Duane Ryan, Director of Broadcasting,
(505) 562-2112. Funds Requested: $38,545. Total Project Cost: $77,090.
To improve public television station KENW-TV, Ch. 3, Portales, by
replacing three old UHF translators with solid state units and retuning
an existing translator to a new channel. New translators will be in
Carlsbad (K49ES), Forrest/McAlister (K34EZ) and Tucumcari (Ch. 32). The
retuned translator is Ruidoso (K49EW). These changes are in compliance
with FCC mandated channel displacement for all UHF translators
operating on Ch. 60-69.
File No. 99029CTB, Eastern New Mexico University, Station 52,
Portales, NM 88130. Contact: Mr. Duane Ryan, Director of Broadcasting,
(505) 562-2112. Funds Requested: $272,450. Total Project Cost:
$544,900. To improve public television station KENW-TV, Ch. 3,
Portales, by replacing old camera systems and aquiring a video file
server to replace one-inch video tape recorders. KENW-TV serves about
350,000 people.
File No. 99035CRB, Eastern New Mexico University, Station 52,
Portales, NM 88130. Contact: Mr. Duane Ryan, Director of Broadcasting,
(505) 562-2112. Funds Requested: $27,860. Total Project Cost: $40,480.
To expand and improve the facilities of public radio station KENW-FM,
89.5 MHz, in Portales, by constructing new translators at Fort Sumner
(K219DP--91.7 MHz) and Conchas Lake (K202CX--88.3 MHz). KNEW-FM will
also replace its 1978 vintage audio processor. New translators will add
a first public radio service to about 2,500 people.
File No. 99072CTB, Mescalero Apache Tribe, 101 Central (P.O. Box
176), Mescalero, NM 88340. Contact: Mr. Ferris Palmer, Administrator,
(505) 671-4494. Funds Requested: $74,993. Total Project Cost: $99,990.
To improve the facilities of public television translators KO2KR and
KO2KQ, in Mescalero by acquiring a studio-to-transmitter link to
interconnect both translators to efficiently present local programs. In
addition, project will acquire basic origination equipment to
facilitate the production of local programming beyond the minimum level
previously available to the tribe. Stations serve about 3,000 people.
File No. 99080ICTN, Crownpoint Institute of Technology, Lower Point
Road, Crownpoint, NM 87313. Contact: Mr. James Tutt, President, (505)
786-4102. Funds Requested: $522,545. Total Project Cost: $696,727. To
bring Northern Arizona University's interactive television distance
learning system--called NAUNet--to Crownpoint Institute of Technology,
Crownpoint, New Mexico, which is
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located in northwest NM at the extreme southeast of the Main
Reservation of the Navajo Nation. Crownpoint Institute of Technology is
a tribally-controlled two-year vocational and technical institution.
File No. 99093CRB, Regents of New Mexico State University, McFie
Circle, Las Cruces, NM 88003. Contact: Mr. Colin Gromatzky, General
Manager, (505) 646-4525. Funds Requested: $17,445. Total Project Cost:
$34,890. To improve public radio station KRWG-FM, 90.7 MHz, Las Cruces,
by replacing old, worn-out studio-to-transmitter link (STL) and audio
processor with a digital STL and compatible digital processor. KRWG-FM
serves about 263,000 people.
File No. 99111CRB, Santa Fe Community College, 6401 Richards Ave.,
Santa Fe, NM 87505. Contact: Mr. Barton Bond, Station Manager, (505)
428-1319. Funds Requested: $56,697. Total Project Cost: $113,394. To
improve public radio station KSFR-FM, 90.7 MHz, Santa Fe, by acquiring
a new antenna, studio-to-transmitter link converter, digital processor,
monitor and exciter as well as a variety of digital origination
equipment. In addition, KSFR-FM will acquire its first satellite
downlink equipment. KSFR-FM serves about 100,000 people.
File No. 99207CRB, Board of Education of the City of Albuquerque,
2020 Coal SE Albuquerque, NM 87106. Contact: Mr. Michael Brasher,
General Manager, (505) 242-7163. Funds Requested: $69,291. Total
Project Cost: $92,388. To expand public radio station KANW-FM, 89.1
MHz, Albuquerque by replacing translators with protected repeater/
satellite stations at the following sites: Espanola (K212AN--replaced
by 91.1 MHz repeater), Grants (K216AN-- replaced by 88.1 MHz repeater)
and Santa Rosa (K220BH--replaced by 91.9 MHz repeater). Translator
stations currently serve about 26,975 and new protected facilities will
add first service to an additional 1,000 people.
Nevada
File No. 99134CTB, Clark County School District, 4210 Channel 10
Drive Las Vegas, NV 89119. Contact: Mr. Tom Axtell, General Manager,
(702) 799-1010. Funds Requested: $340,857. Total Project Cost:
$524,395. To improve public television station KLVX-TV, Ch. 10, in Las
Vegas, by replacing origination equipment to improve the capabilities
of the station. Main routing switcher, color monitors, pedestals and
camera mounts, prompter mounts, video servers, and related origination
equipment plus a small complement of test equipment will replace worn-
out and obsolete equipment. KLVX-TV provides an educational and public
television service to about 1.2 million people.
File No. 99136ICTN, Clark County School District, 4210 Channel 10
Drive Las Vegas, NV 89119. Contact: Mr. Tom Axtell, General Manager,
(702) 799-1010. Funds Requested: $101,400. Total Project Cost:
$156,000. To purchase equipment that will be part of the operation of
four new channels of Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS)
licensed to the Clark County School District and administered by
Station KLVX(TV), which operates over-the-air on Ch. 10 in Las Vegas,
NV. The project would purchase one Flexicart and eight logo generator/
inserters.
File No. 99139CRB, Board of Regents/UCCSN/University of Nevada Las
Vegas, P.O. Box 452010 Las Veqas, NV 891542010. Contact: Mr. Donald
Fuller, Gen. Mgr., (702) 895-3877. Funds Requested: $88,825. Total
Project Cost: $118,434. To improve public radio station KUNV-FM, 91.5
MHz, Las Vegas, by replacing its 20-year-old transmitter, antenna, and
transmission line. Station serves about 1.3 million people.
File No. 99250CRB, Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley
Reservation, P.O. Box 219 Owyhee, NV 89832. Contact: Mr. Herman Atkins,
Tribal Administrator, (775) 757-3211. Funds Requested: $233,723. Total
Project Cost: $311,631. To activate a new noncommercial FM radio
station on 88.5 MHz, in Owyhee. New station will carry the signal of
KNBA-FM, Anchorage, Alaska and programming from the American Indian
Radio on Satellite (AIROS) network . These programs will be delivered
via satellite. Initially the station will have 4 hours/day of local
programming. New station will provide a first noncommercial FM service
to about 1,550 Native Americans.
New York
File No. 99005CTB, Public Broadcasting Council of Central New York,
Inc., 506 Old Liverpool Road Syracuse, NY 13220. Contact: Mr. John
Duffy, Chief Engineer, (315) 453-2424. Funds Requested: $75,000. Total
Project Cost: $150,000. To improve public television station WCNY-TV,
Channel 24 in Syracuse, NY, by replacing the master control video
server. The station serves a population of over 1.7 million residents
of central New York State.
File No. 99023CTB, St. Lawrence Valley Educational Television
Council, Inc., 1056 Arsenal Street Watertown, NY 13601. Contact: Mr.
Thomas Hanley, President/General Manager, (315) 782-3142. Funds
Requested: $61,925. Total Project Cost: $123,850. To improve public
television stations WPBS/WNPI-TV, Channels 16 and 18 in Watertown, NY,
by replacing four obsolete one-inch videotape players with digital-
based VTRs. The stations serve a population of over 1 million people.
File No. 99042CTB, Western New York Public Broadcasting
Association, 140 Lower Terrace Buffalo, NY 14202. Contact: Mr. Richard
Daly, Senior VP Broadcasting, (716) 845-7002. Funds Requested:
$490,333. Total Project Cost: $980,667. To improve public television
station WNED-TV, Channel 17 in Buffalo, NY, by upgrading to a digital
router and replacing 14 one-inch and two \3/4\'' videotape machines,
the production switcher and the linear editing switcher with digital
units. The station serves a population of 1.6 million people.
File No. 99068CRB, Long Island University, Southampton College
Southampton, NY 11968. Contact: Dr. Wallace Smith, General Manager,
(516) 287-8295. Funds Requested: $153,682. Total Project Cost:
$307,365. To improve public radio station WPBX-FM, 88.3 MHz in
Southampton, NY, by replacing the damaged and unreliable transmitter
and antenna. The station is relocating its transmission facilities to a
new site. WPBX serves a population of 3.5 million residents of Long
Island, and the southern region of Connecticut and Rhode Island.
File No. 99076CTB, Mountain Lake Public Telecommunications Council,
One Sesame Street Plattsburgh, NY 12901. Contact: Mr. Howard Lowe,
President and General Manager, (518) 563-9770. Funds Requested:
$157,440. Total Project Cost: $209,920. To improve public television
station WCFE-TV, Channel 57 in Plattsburgh, NY, by replacing the 12-
year-old analog master control switcher with a digital switcher. The
station serves a population of 341,000 people.
File No. 99105ICTN, Board of Cooperative Educational Services for
the Sole Supervisory District of O, 179 County Route 64 Mexico, NY
13114. Contact: Mr. Frank House, Executive Director, (315) 963-4248.
Funds Requested: $544,191. Total Project Cost: $725,588. To purchase
equipment that would allow the Oswego County BOCES, Mexico, NY, to
establish a distance learning network interconnecting 12 sites located
throughout Oswego and Fulton Counties. The project would install video
classrooms in nine public school districts, a BOCES site, the State
University of New York College at
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Oswego, and an outreach center of the Cornell Cooperative Extension.
The interconnection will be achieved via dedicated T-1 high speed data
lines interconnected with a fiber optic network.
File No. 99138CTB, Long Island Educational TV Council, Inc.,
Channel 21 Drive Plainview, NY 11803. Contact: Mr. Terrel Cass,
President & General Manager, (516) 367-2100. Funds Requested: $493,303.
Total Project Cost: $986,607. To improve public television station
WLIW-TV, Channel 21 in Plainview, New York, by replacing the 21-year-
old transmitter with a digital-ready transmitter and purchasing analog
test equipment. The station serves approximately 5.1 million people in
New York City, Westchester and Rockland counties, Long Island, New
Jersey and Connecticut.
File No. 99174CTB, WXXI Public Broadcasting Council, 280 State
Street Rochester, NY 14614. Contact: Mr. Norm Silverstein, President
and CEO, (716) 325-7500. Funds Requested: $300,000. Total Project Cost:
$600,000. To improve public television station WXXI-TV, Channel 21 in
Rochester, NY, by replacing obsolete and unreliable master control and
production equipment, including master control and production
switchers, one-inch and \3/4\'' videotape machines, color monitors and
test equipment. The station serves a population of 1.2 million people.
File No. 99213CRB, St. Lawrence University, St. Lawrence University
Canton, NY 13617. Contact: Ms. Ellen Rocco, Station Manager, (315) 229-
5356. Funds Requested: $71,912. Total Project Cost: $108,250. To expand
the coverage area of WSLU-FM, 89.5 MHz in Canton, NY, by installing two
transmitters and one translator to serve the communities of Morristown,
Chateaugay and Old Forge. The new service will provide first public
radio programming to about 30,000 residents of these communities. The
project also includes the urgent replacement of two generators and
obsolete recording equipment. WSLU currently serves a population of
450,000 people.
Ohio
File No. 99013CTB, Educational Television Association of
Metropolitan Cleveland, 4300 Brookpark Road Cleveland, OH 44134.
Contact: Mr. Jerrold Wareham, President & CEO, (216) 739-3850. Funds
Requested: $47,750. Total Project Cost: $95,500. To replace the
translator in Thompson, OH, of public television station WVIZ(TV); the
latter broadcasts on Ch. 25 in Cleveland, OH. The present Thompson
translator has been operating on Ch. 67; the new translator would
operate on Ch. 63. The Federal Communications Commission recently
required the Ch. 67 translator to shut down operations because the
translator interfered with the signal of a full-power station that had
moved its transmitter and increased its power. This situation makes the
present proposal an emergency application. The project would restore
public television service to nearly 47,000 residents of the
translators' service area immediately to the east of Cleveland.
File No. 99014CTB, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701. Contact: Mr.
Paul Witkowski, Associate Director, (740) 593-4784. Funds Requested:
$734,167. Total Project Cost: $1,468,335. To improve the transmission
facilities of public television station WOUB-TV, operating on Ch. 20 in
Athens, OH, by replacing an 18 year old transmitter with a digital
compatible unit. The project would also purchase a wideband antenna and
tower to enable future conversion of the station to digital
broadcasting. The project will ensure continued service to
approximately 700,000 people in eastern Ohio and adjoining areas of
West Virginia.
File No. 99120CTB, Greater Dayton Public Television, Inc., 110
South Jefferson Street Dayton, OH 45402. Contact: Mr. David Fogarty,
President & General Manager, (937) 220-1611. Funds Requested: $299,848.
Total Project Cost: $599,696. To improve the facilities of public
television station WPTD, operating on Ch. 16 in Dayton, by replacing
three 12 year old studio cameras and a 15 year old routing switcher.
The new equipment will be digital compatible and will assist the
station in converting to digital broadcasting. The applicant serves 2.6
million people in southwest/west-central Ohio and adjacent areas in
Indiana and Kentucky.
File No. 99152CRB, Kent State University, 1613 East Summit Street
Kent, OH 44242. Contact: Dr. John Perry, Executive Director and
General, (330) 672-3114. Funds Requested: $161,266. Total Project Cost:
$215,022. To extend the service of public radio station WKSU(FM), Kent,
Ohio by constructing an FM repeater station operating on 90.7 MHz in
Norwalk, OH. The new station will provide first public radio service to
52,947 people in Erie, Lorian and Huron counties and additional service
to 37,149 in northeast Ohio.
File No. 99153CRB, Kent State University, 1613 East Summit Street
Kent, OH 44242. Contact: Mr. John Perry, Executive Director and
General, (330) 672-3114. Funds Requested: $94,589. Total Project Cost:
$155,635. To improve the program service of public radio station WKSU-
FM, operating on 89.7 MHZ in Kent, Ohio, and is repeater stations in
northeast Ohio by constructing a satellite interconnection system. The
satellite interconnection system will deliver WKSU-FM programming to
new stations proposed for Norwalk and Sandusky, which are the subject
of PTFP applications 99152 and 99154. The interconnection will also
improve reliability of program delivery to existing repeater stations
WKSV, Thompson; WKRJ, New Philadelphia; and WKRW, Wooster and will
permit the broadcast of programming tailored to each station's coverage
area.
File No. 99154CRB, Kent State University, 1613 East Summit Street
Kent, OH 44242. Contact: Dr. John Perry, Executive Director & General
M, (330) 672-3114. Funds Requested: $225,546. Total Project Cost:
$300,728. To extend the service of public radio station WKSU(FM), Kent,
Ohio by constructing an FM repeater station operating on 88.5 MHz in
Sandusky. The proposed repeater station will provide first public radio
service to an estimated 112,000 people in Erie, Ottawa, Sandusky, Huron
and Seneca counties in Northeast Ohio.
File No. 99155CRB, The WOSU Stations of The Ohio State University,
2400 Olentangy River Road Columbus, OH 43210. Contact: Mr. Sam Eiler,
Radio Station Manager, (614) 292-9678. Funds Requested: $56,330. Total
Project Cost: $112,660. To improve the production facilities of the
WOSU public radio stations by purchasing an audio vault system. The
audio vault will replace audio cart machines and will permit the
introduction of local programming on the applicant's radio stations.
WOSU serves 1.5 million people in central Ohio through broadcasts on
public radio stations WOSU-FM, 89.7 MHz in Columbus; WOSB-FM, 91.1 MHz
in Marion; WOSV-FM, 91.7 MHz in Mansfield; WOSE-FM, 91.1 MHz in
Coshocton; and WOSP-FM, 91.5 MHz in Portsmouth.
File No. 99185CTB, Public Broadcasting Foundation of Northwest
Ohio, 136 Huron Street Toledo, OH 43604. Contact: Mr. Daniel
Niedzwiecki, Director of Engineering, (419) 243-3091. Funds Requested:
$279,500. Total Project Cost: $559,000. To improve the facilities of
public television station WGTE, operating on Ch. 30 in Toledo, by
replacing three 12 year old studio cameras and a 12 year old production
switcher. The new equipment will be
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digital compatible and will assist the station in converting to digital
broadcasting. The applicant serves 1.6 million people in northwest Ohio
and adjacent areas in Michigan.
File No. 99192CTB, Educational Television Association of
Metropolitan Cleveland, 4300 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, OH 44134.
Contact: Mr. Jerrold Wareham, President & CEO, (216) 739-3850. Funds
Requested: $47,750. Total Project Cost: $95,500. To improve the
facilities of television translator station W64AK, operating on Ch. 64
in Ashtabula. The translator rebroadcasts public television station
WVIZ, Cleveland. The project will replace a 25 year old antenna and
transmitter with modern equipment which can be tuned to another
frequency. (As a result of the FCC's digital television plan, Ch. 64
will eventually be assigned by the FCC for non-television uses.) The
project will ensure continued public television service to 110,000
residents of Ashtabula and Lake Counties in northeast Ohio.
File No. 99199CRB, Public Broadcasting Foundation of Northwest
Ohio, 136 Huron Street, Toledo, OH 43604. Contact: Mr. Daniel
Niedzwiecki, Director of Engineering, (419) 243-3091. Funds Requested:
$62,150. Total Project Cost: $124,300. To improve the facilities of
public radio station WGTE-FM, operating on 91.3 MHZ in Toledo, OH, by
purchasing digital production equipment including an audio console,
audio server, CD, and DAT machines. The applicant provides public radio
service to 1.2 million residents of northwest Ohio and adjacent areas
of Michigan.
File No. 99203CTB, Ohio State University, 2400 Olentangy River
Road, Columbus, OH 43210. Contact: Mr. Thomas Lahr, Engineering
Manager, (614) 292-9678. Funds Requested: $83,875. Total Project Cost:
$167,750. To improve the facilities of public television station WOSU-
TV, operating on Ch. 34 in Columbus, by purchasing digital routing and
audio switching equipment. The project will enable WOSU to continue its
service to 1.6 residents of central Ohio and will assist in the
station's conversion to digital broadcasting as required by the FCC.
File No. 99239ICTN, Columbus State Community College, 550 East
Spring Street, Columbus, OH 43215. Contact: Dr. Kevin May, Admin.
Distance Educ., (614) 287-2589. Funds Requested: $64,532. Total Project
Cost: $94,532. To allow Columbus State Community College, Columbus, OH,
to extend its video conferencing distance learning system to the rural
and underserved populations in Union and Madison Counties. The project
would have two primary educational objectives. First, it would increase
the access of the Post Secondary Enrollment Option students and the
adult re-entry students in these counties to diverse instructional
programs, college courses, and continuing education. Second, the
efforts of the College's Community Education Services/Workforce
Development Division in support of entrepreneurial businesses would be
made available there.
File No. 99243CRB, Cincinnati Classical Public Radio, Inc., 1223
Central Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45214. Contact: Ms. Cathy Beltz-
Williams, Business Manager, (513) 241-8282. Funds Requested: $47,356.
Total Project Cost: $94,712. To improve the facilities of public radio
station WGUC(FM), operating on 90.9 MHz in Cincinnati, OH by replacing
a 16 year old transmitter. The project also will purchase a digital 950
MHz studio to transmitter link to replace a fiber optic
interconnection. WGUC(FM) serves 1.7 million people in the Cincinnati
metropolitan area in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.
File No. 99245CTB, Greater Cincinnati Television Education
Foundation, 1223 Central Parkway Cincinnati, OH 45214. Contact: Mr. W.
Wayne Godwin, President & General Mgr., (513) 381-4033. Funds
Requested: $129,832. Total Project Cost: $324,581. To improve the
production facilities of public television station WCET-TV, operating
on Ch. 48 in Cincinnati, OH by replacing 11'' and \3/4\'' videotape
recorders and audio cart machines with digital videorecorders and a
digital audio server. The equipment will assist in the station's
conversion to digital broadcasting and ensure continued service to 1.5
million people in the Cincinnati metropolitan area.
Oklahoma
File No. 99146CTB, Oklahoma Educational Television Authority, 7403
North Kelley Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73113. Contact: Mr. Malcolm
Wall, Executive Director, (405) 848-8501. Funds Requested: $361,662.
Total Project Cost: $723,324. To improve the state public television
network's Tulsa news bureau/studio by replacing origination, test and
other associated equipment. The 1982 studio provides local production
from northeast Oklahoma. Productions are fed to the network for
dissemination throughout the state system which serves about 2.96
million people.
Oregon
File No. 99074CTB, Oregon Public Broadcasting, 7140 SW Macadam
Avenue Portland, OR 97219. Contact: Ms. Deborah Hinton, Sr. Vice
President, (503) 293-4008. Funds Requested: $504,157. Total Project
Cost: $1,008,314. To improve the facilities of KOPB-TV, operating on
Ch. 10 in Portland, OR by purchasing a video server, digital routing
switcher, 4 channel SDTV encoder and automation system. The project
will assist in the conversion to digital television broadcasting by the
applicant and will ensure continued public television service to 3
million residents of northwest Oregon and southern Washington State.
File No. 99141IPTN, School District No. 1 Multnomah County Oregon,
P.O. Box 3107 Portland, OR 97208. Contact: Ms. Christine Poole-Jones,
Administrator, (503) 916-3382. Funds Requested: $166,760. Total Project
Cost: $208,622. To assist School District No. 1, Multnomah County, OR--
popularly known as the Portland Public Schools--prepare a
comprehensive, strategic long-range telecommunications plan. The
project would allow the Portland Public Schools to analyze its existing
telecommunications and distance learning technologies and, with this
analysis as a base, to achieve the following: (a) outline strategies
for consolidating existing technologies into a coordinated
infrastructure; (b) provide a detailed blueprint for future technology
acquisition and use; and (c) describe management, resource,
implementation, and training requirements.
File No. 99217ICTN, North Clackamas School District, 14211 SE
Johnson Road Milwaukie, OR 97267. Contact: Dr. Ronald Dexter, Director,
Professional Tech., (503) 653-3813. Funds Requested: $658,000. Total
Project Cost: $1,337,000. To improve the production facilities of the
distance learning facility of the Owen Sabin Skills Center by
constructing a new video studio. The applicant reaches over 300,000
people in Claxton County via cable access channel and serves additional
viewers by satellite distribution.
Pennsylvania
File No. 99032CTB, Pennsylvania State University, 102 Wagner
Building University Park, PA 168023899. Contact: Mr. William Speakman,
Acting General Manager, (814) 865-3333. Funds Requested: $104,350.
Total Project Cost: $208,700. To augment the digital production
capability of public station WPSX, ch. 3, University Park, PA, by
constructing a Fibre Channel
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network to facilitate the production of interactive and enhanced
program content. The station serves a population of about 1,365,677.
File No. 99033CRB, Pennsylvania State University, 102 Wagner
Building University Park, PA 168023899. Contact: Mr. William Speakman,
Acting General Manager, (814) 865-3333. Funds Requested: $15,744. Total
Project Cost: $20,992. To extend the coverage of public radio station
WPSU, 91.5 MHz, University Park, PA, by activating an FM translator at
102.5 MHz in Huntingdon, PA, to bring the first public radio signal to
about 17,333 residents.
File No. 99060CRB, Northeastern Pennsylvania Educational Television
Association, 70 Old Boston Road Pittston, PA 18640. Contact: Mr. A.
William Kelly, President/CEO, (570) 601-1120. Funds Requested: $98,266.
Total Project Cost: $196,532. To improve the signal of public station
WVIA-FM, 89.9 MHz, Pittston, PA, by replacing its worn out and obsolete
antenna and underpowered transmitter. The project will also activate an
FM repeater at 89.7 MHz in Williamsport, PA. The new repeater will use
the current transmitter from WVIA-FM in a situation in which its power
will be adequate. The repeater will bring the first public radio signal
to about 63,533 persons. WVIA-FM presently serves a population of more
than one million.
File No. 99071CTB, Northeastern Pennsylvania Educational Television
Association, 70 Old Boston Road Pittston, PA 18640. Contact: Mr. A.
William Kelly, President/CEO, (570) 602-1120. Funds Requested:
$226,745. Total Project Cost: $453,490. To improve the operation of
public station WVIA-TV. ch. 44, Pittston, PA, by acquiring a digital
file server and automation system. The station serves a population of
more than one million.
File No. 99075CTB, Independence Public Media of Philadelphia, Inc.,
6070 Ridqe Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19128. Contact: Ms. Sherri Culver,
General Manager, (215) 483-3900. Funds Requested: $262,353. Total
Project Cost: $349,805. To improve the operation of public station
WYBE, ch. 35, Philadelphia, PA, by acquiring a digital file server and
additional video tape recorders, and by replacing obsolete satellite
downlink and studio demod. The station serves a population of
5,500,000.
File No. 99090CTB, WQED Pittsburgh, 4802 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh,
PA 15213. Contact: Mr. Jeffrey Rutkowski, Director, Administration,
(412) 622-1312. Funds Requested: $969,915. Total Project Cost:
$1,939,831. To improve the operation of public station WQED-TV, ch. 12,
Pittsburgh, PA, by replacing worn out and obsolete items of equipment,
including switcher, cart decks, editor, and ENG packages. All new
equipment will be digitally compatible. The station serves a population
of 3.25 million.
File No. 99143CTB, WHYY, Inc., 150 North Sixth Street Philadelphia,
PA 19106. Contact: Mr. John Doran, Chief Engineer, (215) 351-1271.
Funds Requested: $502,354. Total Project Cost: $1,004,708. To improve
the operation of public station WHYY-TV, ch. 12, Philadelphia, PA, by
replacing worn out and obsolete production equipment, including master
control switcher, routing switcher, video server, encoder, monitoring,
and test gear. All equipment will be digital-capable. The station
serves a population of about 7,280,200.
File No. 99188CRB, WQED Pittsburgh, 4802 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh,
PA 15213. Contact: Mr. James Cunninqham, Station Manager, (412) 622-
1541. Funds Requested: $68,951. Total Project Cost: $137,902. To
improve the signal of public station WQED-FM, 89.3 MHz, Pittsburgh, PA,
by replacing its worn out and obsolete antenna. The station serves a
population of about 1,283,557.
File No. 99193IPTN, Crawford County Regional Alliance, 18257
Industrial Drive Meadville, PA 16335. Contact: Mrs. Maryann Martin,
Chief Executive Officer, (814) 337-8200. Funds Requested: $75,000.
Total Project Cost: $155,000. To assist the Crawford County Regional
Alliance, Meadville, PA, to plan for the incorporation of distance
learning and information technologies into its future Regional Training
& Conference Center. The Alliance is an element of the Crawford County
Development Corporation.
File No. 99224CRB, Public Broadcasting of Northwest Pennsylvania,
Inc., 8425 Peach Street Erie, PA 16509. Contact: Ms. Thomas McLaren,
Director of Radio, (814) 864-3001. Funds Requested: $14,253. Total
Project Cost: $28,506. To improve the operation of public station WQLN-
FM, 91.3 MHz, Erie, PA, by replacing worn out and obsolete logging and
automation equipment. The station serves a population of about 427,300.
File No. 99225CTB, WITF, Inc., 1982 Locust Lane Harrisburg, PA
17105. Contact: Mr. Greg Poland, Senior VP & COO, (717) 236-6000. Funds
Requested: $400,000. Total Project Cost: $2,225,000. To purchase the
equipment required to allow public television station WITF(TV),
Harrisburg, PA, to initiate digital television transmission. WITF(TV)
broadcasts its analog signal on Ch. 33 and will transmit its digital
service on Ch. 36.
File No. 99249CRB, Golden Triangle Radio Information Center, Inc.,
2100 Wharton Street Pittsburgh, PA 15203. Contact: Mr. David Noble,
General Manager, (412) 488-3944. Funds Requested: $37,931. Total
Project Cost: $50,575. To improve the facilities of the Radio
Information Service, a radio reading service in Southwestern
Pennsylvania, by replacing the STL, the SCA Generator and an equalizer.
The project will also purchase 350 SCA receivers to be donated to
potential listeners. The Radio Information Service currently has 6,500
daily listeners.
Puerto Rico
File No. 99103CTB, Ana G. Mendez University System, State Road 176
KM 0.3 Cupey San Juan, PR 00928. Contact: Mr. Ariel Diaz, Chief
Engineer, (787) 766-2600. Funds Requested: $346,125. Total Project
Cost: $461,500. To replace the microwave system that interconnects
public television station WMTJ(TV), which operates on Ch. 40 in San
Juan, PR, to its satellite station, WQTO(TV), which operates on Ch. 26
in Ponce. Both stations are licensed to the Ana G. Mendez University
System (AGMUS). The previous microwave system was irreparably damaged
on September 21, 1998 by Hurricane Georges. For this reason, the
proposal is considered to be an emergency application. Since the
hurricane devasted the microwave, the interconnection has been
accomplished by using the AGMUS Instructional Television Fixed Service
equipment. This has resulted in a lower-quality public television
signal in Ponce and a severe diminishing of the number of hours of
instructional programming the University System is able to offer its
learners in Ponce.
File No. 99121ICTN, Hispanic Educational Telecommunications System,
Highway 1 Experimental Station Rio Piedras, PR 00927. Contact: Dr.
Nitza Hernandez, Executive Director, (787) 250-0000. Funds Requested:
$412,562. Total Project Cost: $825,125. To extend the distance learning
services of the Hispanic Educational Telecommunications System (HETS)
by constructing satellite facilities at the John Jay College of
Criminal Justice in New York City, Miami Dade Community College in
Miami, and Inter American University and the University of Scared Heart
in San Juan, Puerto Rico. HETS is a consortium of nine colleges
throughout the United States which link Hispanic college students.
File No. 99145ICTN, Ponce School of Medicine, P.O. Box 7004 Ponce,
PR 00732. Contact: Mr. Ramon Torres-
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Morales, VP of Business Affairs, (787) 848-4254. Funds Requested:
$350,000. Total Project Cost: $580,229. To allow the Ponce School of
Medicine, Ponce, PR, to extend medical education and training course
work to three remote health care sites via video teleconferencing.
South Carolina
File No. 99040CTB, South Carolina Educational Television
Commission, 1101 George Rogers Boulevard Columbia, SC 29201. Contact:
Mr. Leslie Griffin, Vice President-Engineering, (803) 737-3486. Funds
Requested: $364,036. Total Project Cost: $728,073. To improve the state
public television network's telecommunications center by replacing
worn-out and obsolete equipment. Equipment being acquired includes
master control scheduling system, automation system, digital file
server system, non-linear editing system and associated test equipment.
Public TV network serves about 3.6 million people.
File No. 99150CRB, South Carolina Educational Television
Commission, 1101 George Rogers Boulevard Columbia, SC 29201. Contact:
Mr. Thomas Fowler, Vice President, Radio, (803) 737-3404. Funds
Requested: $102,570. Total Project Cost: $213,080. To improve the
facilities of the South Carolina Educational Radio network by
constructing a C-band satellite system to interconnect the eight
stations in the network. The satellite system will improve delivery of
programing to the stations and will permit broadcast of programming
directed at each station's local service area. The eight stations in
the project are WEPR-FM, 90.1 MHz, Greenville; WNSC-FM, 88.9 MHz, Rock
Hill; WLTR-FM, 91.3 MHz, Columbia; WRJA-FM, 88.1 MHz, Sumter; WHMC-MF,
90.1 MHz, Conway; WLJK-FM, 89.1 MHz, Aiken; WJWJ-MF, 89.9 MHz,
Beaufort; and WSCI-FM, 89.3 MHz, Columbia. The applicant provides
public radio service to 4.8 million people in South Carolina and
adjacent areas of Georgia and North Carolina.
File No. 99159IPTN, South Carolina State Board for Technical and
Comprehensive Education, 111 Executive Center Drive Columbia, SC 29210.
Contact: Dr. Candace Gosnell, Associate Exec. Director, (803) 737-9321.
Funds Requested: $49,363. Total Project Cost: $70,518. To assist the
South Carolina State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education
(``the State Board''), Columbia, to plan how best to extend its present
distance learning activities so as to reach learners who are presently
inhibited by diverse barriers from full participation in higher
education. The State Board administers a system of 16 State technical
colleges, whose main campuses are interconnected by a T-1 based
distance learning system featuring interactive compressed video. The
project would develop a distance education implementation and
management plan to guide the expansion of the State Board's
telecommunication infrastructure to ensure that learners, wherever they
may live in the State, would have access to high quality and affordable
technical education.
File No. 99196ICTN, Tri-County Technical College, 7900 Highway 76
Pendleton, SC 29670. Contact: Ms. Tabatha Thompson, Director of Grants,
(864) 646-8361. Funds Requested: $374,170. Total Project Cost:
$498,893. To assist Tri-County Technical College, Pendleton, SC, to
establish a distance learning network that would interconnect the
College with six high schools in the College's service area. The
College serves Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens Counties in northwestern
South Carolina. The project, which would encompass two high schools in
each of those counties, would have two objectives: (1) to deliver dual-
credit instruction to high school juniors and seniors from College
instructors; and (2) to permit the high schools to share courses among
themselves.
South Dakota
File No. 99160CTB, South Dakota Board of Directors for Educational
Telecommunications, Cherry & Dakota Streets Vermillion, SD 57069.
Contact: Mr. Donald Forseth, Tech. Services Coordinator, (605) 677-
5861. Funds Requested: $200,000. Total Project Cost: $400,000. To
improve KUSD-TV, Ch. 3, in Vermillion, by replacing obsolete, worn-out
audio/video router and videotape machines. The new equipment will
support the eventual digital conversion of the state's public
television system which serves about 800,000 people.
Tennessee
File No. 99037CRB, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, DEPT
1151 Chattanooga, TN 37403. Contact: Dr. John McCormack, Director,
(423) 755-4756. Funds Requested: $32,203. Total Project Cost: $64,407.
To improve the facilities of public radio station WUTC-FM, operating on
88.1 MHz in Chattanooga, by purchasing digital audio origination/
production equipment and a studio site auxiliary power generator. The
project will purchase a Digital Audio Delivery System as part of the
station's conversion to digital technology. WUTC-FM serves 1 million
residents in the states of Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia and
Alabama.
File No. 99045CTB, East Tennessee Public Communications
Corporation, 1611 E. Magnolia Avenue Knoxville, TN 37917. Contact: Mr.
Jim Tindell, President/General Manager, (423) 595-0220. Funds
Requested: $137,929. Total Project Cost: $275,858. To improve the
facilities of public television stations WKOP, operating on Ch. 15 in
Knoxville, TN and WSJK, operating on Ch. 2 in Sneedville, TN. The
project will purchase three new digital studio/field cameras to replace
13 year old equipment used by both stations. The project will also
replace a 16 year old transmitter remote control system required for
the continued operation of WSJK. The applicant's stations serve 2
million people in East Tennessee and surrounding areas of North
Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky.
File No. 99127CTB, Greater Chattanooga Public Television
Corporation, 4411 Amnicola Hwy Chattanooga, TN 37406. Contact: Mr.
Victor Hogstrom, President/General Manager, (423) 629-0045. Funds
Requested: $107,165. Total Project Cost: $214,330. To improve the
production facilities of public television stations WTCI, operating on
Ch. 45 in Chattanooga, TN by replacing obsolete studio production
equipment. The project would purchase digital videotape recorders, a
portable digital camera, a non-linear editing system and lighting
equipment for the station' studio. The project will help ensure
continued program service to 800,000 residents of Tennessee, Georgia
and Alabama and will assist in the station's conversion to digital
broadcasting.
File No. 99208ICTN, Board of Education of the Memphis City Schools,
2597 Avery Avenue Memphis, TN 38112. Contact: Ms. Mary Korff, Interim
Grant Writer, (901) 325-5791. Funds Requested: $477,475. Total Project
Cost: $954,951. To extend the distance learning network recently
established by the Memphis City Schools to an additional 55 schools in
the system. The network is based on Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
transmission. The project would purchase the ATM equipment for each of
the schools. It would also assist the school system to buy a Ku-Band
satellite uplink. The proposal would represent one element of a multi-
phase project the intent of which is to equip all the City's schools
for distance learning. The goals are to extend the benefits of the
City's educational offerings on a more equal basis to all the City's
students and to provide easily accessible professional
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development for the teachers. The uplink would allow the teachers to
interact with national leaders in education and the school system's
administrators to ``meet'' with specialists across the country to help
resolve system problems.
File No. 99237CTB, Mid-South Public Communications Foundation, 900
Getwell Road Memphis, TN 38111. Contact: Mr. Michael LaBonia, President
& CEO, (901) 458-2521. Funds Requested: $60,600. Total Project Cost:
$121,200. To improve the production facilities of public television
station WKNO-TV, operating on Ch. 10 in Memphis, TN, by replacing four
1'' videotape machines with digital units. The videotape machines will
be used in the station's Master Control and will assist in the
station's conversion to digital broadcasting. WKNO-TV provides service
to 1.7 million people in west Tennessee and adjacent areas of
Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri.
Texas
File No. 99025CTB, Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications
Council, 2504-B Whitis Austin, TX 78705. Contact: Ms. Mary Beth Rogers,
CEO & President, (512) 471-5561. Funds Requested: $279,097. Total
Project Cost: $558,195. To improve public television station KLRU-TV,
Ch. 18, in Austin by replacing old origination equipment with 3 CCD
studio-type camera systems, a digital video recorder and a component
measurement set. KLRU-TV serves about 1.23 million people
File No. 99034CTB, South Texas Public Broadcasting System, Inc.,
4455 South Padre Island Drive Corpus Christi, TX 78411. Contact: Mr.
Don Dunlap, President & General Mgr., (512) 855-2213. Funds Requested:
$422,963. Total Project Cost: $563,950. To improve public television
station KEDT-TV, Ch. 16, in Corpus Christi by replacing and upgrading
worn-out origination, interconnection and test equipment to begin
digital conversion. Equipment includes a digital STL, digital monitors,
non-linear digital editor, still store, digital router and various
digital interface equipment, camera pedestals and heads, plus wireless
transmitters and beltpacks. KEDT-TV also seeks a steerable 3.8 meter
satellite dish to obtain educational programming. KEDT-TV serves about
560,000 people.
File No. 99047CTB, University of Houston, 4513 Cullen Boulevard
Houston, TX 77004. Contact: Mr. Jeff Clarke, CEO & General Manager,
(713) 749-8202. Funds Requested: $574,546. Total Project Cost:
$1,436,365. To improve public television station KUHT-TV, Ch. 8, in
Houston by making transmitter upgrades in conjunction with the
conversion to DTV and adding digital test equipment. Project will also
acquire studio cameras with lens and pedestals, studio lighting system,
and an audio console. Equipment will be used in the digital conversion
of the station and the move to a new telecommunications center. KUHT-TV
serves about 4.5 million people.
File No. 99049CTB, Alamo Public Telecommunications Council, 501
Broadway San Antonio, TX 78215. Contact: Mr. Charles Vaughn, Sr. VP
Telecommunications, (210) 270-9000. Funds Requested: $196,335. Total
Project Cost: $392,670. To improve public television station KLRN-TV,
Ch. 9, in San Antonio, by augmenting the station's facilities by
acquiring digital routing equipment. Equipment will be used in its
current NTSC broadcasts and eventually will be used in the Digital TV
conversion. KLRN-TV serves about 2 million people.
File No. 99115ICTN, Dallas County Community College District,
LeCroy Ctr. for Educ. Telecom. Dallas, TX 75243. Contact: Mrs. Pamela
Quinn, Asst. Chancellor, Ed. Telecom, (972) 669-6550. Funds Requested:
$317,498. Total Project Cost: $634,996. To provide two-way digital
video distribution of instructional video to nine sites throughout
Dallas County. Seven of these sites would be member-schools of the
Dallas County Community College District: El Centro College (Dallas);
Brookhaven College (Farmers Branch); Richland College (Dallas);
Eastfield College (Mesquite); Cedar Valley College (Lancaster);
Mountain View College (Dallas); and North Lake College (Irving). The
remaining sites would be the Bill J. Priest Institute for Economic
Development and the R. Jan LeCroy Center for Educational
Telecommunications. The system would expand the applicant's current
video capacity to over 700 classrooms and would allow for multi-site
origination of video programming for distance education.
File No. 99131CTB, Brazos Valley Public Broadcasting Foundation,
500 Speight P.S. 7296 Waco, TX 76703. Contact: Mr. Kliff Kuehl, General
Manager, (254) 710-3874. Funds Requested: $670,080. Total Project Cost:
$893,442. To improve and extend the signal of public television station
KCTF-TV, Ch. 34, in Waco, by replacing its faulty and highly unreliable
analog transmitter with a dual-cavity transmitter, improved antenna and
studio-to-transmitter (STL) link. Modifications will provide improved
service plus provide first public television service to about 12,000
people. KCTF-TV currently serves about 201,000 people.
File No. 99147CRB, North Texas Public Broadcasting, Inc., 3000
Harry Hines Boulevard Dallas, TX 75201. Contact: Mr. Jeffrey
Luchsinger, Station Manager, (214) 871-1390. Funds Requested: $64,000.
Total Project Cost: $128,000. To improve public radio station KERA-FM,
90.1 MHz, in Dallas, by replacing its outdated and malfunctioning
analog audio record/play equipment with a digital storage and
automation system. KERA-FM serves about 3.9 million people.
File No. 99148ICTN, United Star Distance Learning Consortium, Inc.,
3305 North 3rd Suite 307 Abilene, TX 79603. Contact: Ms. Glenda Mathis,
Executive Director, (915) 672-9499. Funds Requested: $735,376. Total
Project Cost: $1,470,752. To purchase equipment to support the
expansion of the StarNet distance learning network. Digital satellite
downlinks will be purchased for 700 schools in over 40 states.
Equipment requested also includes a satellite uplink to be placed at
Education Service Center Region 20 in San Antonio, TX, and digital
encoders to be placed at Western Illinois University in Macomb, IL, and
at the Agency for Public Telecommunications in Raleigh, NC.
File No. 99166CTB, North Texas Public Broadcasting, Inc., 3000
Harry Hines Boulevard Dallas, TX 75201. Contact: Ms. Cheryl Craigie,
President & CEO, (214) 740-9210. Funds Requested: $830,400. Total
Project Cost: $1,660,800. To convert public station KERA-TV, Ch. 13, in
Dallas, to digital broadcasting on Ch. 14 by purchasing DTV
transmitter, encoder, test equipment and start-up production equipment.
Equipment will be used with existing DTV antenna system funded in 1998.
Station serves about 5.2 million people.
File No. 99176ICTN, Texas State Technical College, 3801 Campus Dr.
Waco, TX 76705. Contact: Ms. Greta Hecker, Coordin. Video Productions,
(254) 867-3300. Funds Requested: $867,134. Total Project Cost:
$867,134. To improve the video production capabilities of Texas State
Technical College, Waco. The College transmits instructional
programming via a dedicated educational access channel of the local
cable television system.
File No. 99204CTB, El Paso Public Television Foundation, Inc., UTEP
Campus Education Building El Paso, TX 79902. Contact: Mr. Craig Brush,
President and G.M., (915) 747-6500. Funds Requested: $62,100. Total
Project Cost: $82,800. To improve public television station KCOS-TV,
Ch. 13, in
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El Paso, by replacing its obsolete \3/4\'' umatic tape machine system
with a digital video file server and related equipment. KCOS-TV serves
about 700,000 people.
File No. 99222ICTN, Alamo Public Telecommunications Council, 501
Broadway San Antonio, TX 78215. Contact: Mr. Charles Vaughn, Sr. VP
Telecommunications, (210) 270-9000. Funds Requested: $371,650. Total
Project Cost: $743,300. To purchase diverse digital archiving and
server equipment that would permit public television station KLRN
(TV)--which operates on Ch. 9 in San Antonio, TX--and Education Service
Center Region 20 (``ESC Region 20'')--also based in San Antonio--to
activate an educational content delivery system. The materials
disseminated by the proposed system would be transmitted over the T-1-
based STARTNet system administered by ESC Region 20. Project equipment,
especially the digital servers, would be located at both KLRN (TV) and
ESC Region 20, as well as at the eight participating school districts
located throughout their service area. The eight participating
districts would be Floresville, Kerrville, Cotulla, Eagle Pass,
Pleasanton, North East, Southside, and Judson Independent. Once
implemented, the system would allow teachers to enjoy immediate access
to reference works and other digital media stored on CD-ROM and DVD
technologies. In addition, hundreds of hours of classroom programming
would be accessible from the two main servers at KLRN (TV) and ESC
Region 20. These two central participants would facilitate timely
program delivery to teachers by making some of the educational
materials available on demand at any time, and others readily available
by appointment over the Wide Area Network which would be part of the
system.
Utah
File No. 99073CTB, University of Utah, Office of Sponsored Projects
Salt Lake City, UT 84102. Contact: Ms. Lynne Chronister, Director of
Sponsored Projects, (801) 581-3008. Funds Requested: $461,460. Total
Project Cost: $922,920. To improve public television stations KUED-TV,
Ch. 7, Salt Lake City and KULC-TV, Ch. 9, Ogden/Salt Lake City, by
replacing obsolete, DTV-incompatible equipment with digital equipment.
New equipment includes automation equipment, digital file server and
router which will be installed in the broadcast center. In addition, a
new repeater station will be activated on Ch. 19 in Richfield to
provide channel protection. Channel will initially broadcast in NTSC
but will be converted to DTV at a later time. All equipment is part of
a phased DTV conversion plan. Stations serve about 2,059,148 people.
File No. 99181CRB, Listeners Community Radio of Utah, Inc., 230
South 500 West Suite 105 Salt Lake City, UT 84101. Contact: Mr. John
Bortel, Pres. and General Manager, (801) 363-1818. Funds Requested:
$94,958. Total Project Cost: $189,916. To improve and extend the signal
of noncommercial radio station KRCL-FM, 90.9 MHz, Salt Lake City, by
replacing its 17-year-old transmitter, studio-to-transmitter link, a
variety of old, obsolete origination equipment and acquiring a new
satellite dish and spectrum analyzer. KRCL-FM serves about 1.4 million
people.
Virginia
File No. 99106CTB, Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications
Association Incorporated, 5200 Hampton Boulevard Norfolk, VA 23508.
Contact: Ms. Roberta Baker, Corporate Secretary, (757) 889-9400. Funds
Requested: $600,554. Total Project Cost: $1,201,108. To convert public
Station WHRO-TV, Channel 15 in Norfolk, VA, to digital broadcasting on
Channel 16 by purchasing and installing a digital transmitter, antenna,
transmission line, microwave STL and test equipment. The station serves
a population of 1.5 million people.
File No. 99107CTB, Shenandoah Valley Educational Television
Corporation, 298 Port Republic Road Harrisonburg, VA 22801. Contact:
Mr. Maurice Bresnahan, President/General Manager, (540) 434-5391. Funds
Requested: $227,417. Total Project Cost: $454,835. To improve public
television station WVPT-TV, Channel 51 in Harrisonburg, VA, and to
begin the station's conversion to digital broadcast, by replacing old
and obsolete equipment with state-of-the-art digital equipment,
including the routing switcher, master control switcher, sync
generator, character generator and test equipment. The station serves a
population of more than 475,000 people.
File No. 99163IPTN, Old Dominion University, Room 145 Norfolk, VA
23529. Contact: Dr. Anne Savage, Asso VP for Academic Affairs, (757)
683-5314. Funds Requested: $100,575. Total Project Cost: $134,100. To
help Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, and Florida A&M University,
Tallahassee, FL, to develop a cooperative plan to extend their
respective distance learning networks to several Historically Black
Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). (Florida A&M Univerity is an HBCU.)
If implemented, the extended networks would serve a number of purposes:
strengthen existing degree programs at the several participating
institutions; expand the number of their degree programs; engage in
workforce development in the regions of the recipient schools; and
improve the technological capabilities of the participating
institutions.
File No. 99175CTB, Greater Washington Educational
Telecommunications Association, Inc., 2775 S. Quincy Street Arlinton,
VA 22206. Contact: Mr. Lewis Zager, Vice President Tech., (703) 998-
2637. Funds Requested: $1,219,565. Total Project Cost: $1,626,087. To
continue the conversion to digital broadcasting of WETA-DTV, operating
on Digital Channel 34 in Arlington, VA, by purchansing a high
definition television camera, digital high definition editing equipment
and digital test and measurement equipment. The station serves a
population of more than 2.7 million people.
File No. 99231IPTN, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State
University, 1700 Pratt Drive Blacksburg, VA 24061. Contact: Dr. Andrea
Kavanaugh, Director of Research, (540) 231-5488. Funds Requested:
$101,916. Total Project Cost: $154,337. To help Virginia Polytechnic
Institute & State University (``Virginia Tech''), Blacksburg, plan how
to establish distance learning interconnections in rural Smyth and
Floyd Counties, both in southwest Virginia. The new system would
deliver diverse programing: high school courses (including Graduate
Equivalency Degree programs) and health care education and training.
Virgin Islands
File No. 99095CTB, Virgin Islands Public Television System, P.O.
Box 7879 Charlotte Amalie, VI 00801. Contact: Ms. Lori Elskoe, General
Manager, (340) 774-3226. Funds Requested: $175,163. Total Project Cost:
$233,550. To purchase portable production equipment to allow public
television station WTJX (TV), Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands, to
establish an electronic news gathering system. WTJX (TV) operates on
Ch. 12 and brings the sole public television service to the American
Virgin Islands. The project would permit WTJX (TV) to offer its first
local news service to its viewers.
Vermont
File No. 99078CTN, Lyndon State College, 1001 College Road
Lyndonville, VT 05851. Contact: Ms. Cynthia Baldwin, Professor CAS,
(802) 626-
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6256. Funds Requested: $213,705. Total Project Cost: $284,940. To
replace and enhance studio equipment at the cable television access
production studio at Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT. The College
has been transmitting its programming over a dedicated channel of the
local cable television system since 1980.
File No. 99240CTB, Vermont ETV Inc, 88 Ethan Allen Ave Colchester,
VT 05446. Contact: Mr. Wayne Rosberg, Vice President, (802) 655-5276.
Funds Requested: $623,675. Total Project Cost: $1,247,350. To convert
public station WVTA-TV, Channel 41 in Colchester, VT, to digital
broadcasting on Channel 24 by purchasing and installing a digital
transmitter, antenna, transmission line, microwave STL, encoder and
test equipment. The station serves a population of 750,000 people.
Washington
File No. 99012CTB, Spokane School District #81, 3911 S. Regal
Street Spokane, WA 99223. Contact: Mr. Claude Kistler, General Manager,
(509) 353-5777. Funds Requested: $144,847. Total Project Cost:
$289,694. To improve public television station KSPS-TV, Channel 7 in
Spokane, WA, by replacing one-inch and 3/4'' videotape machines with a
digital video server and purchasing digital test equipment. The station
serves a population of 1.3 million people.
File No. 99041CRB, Evergreen State College, College Activities
Building 301 Olympia, WA 98505. Contact: Mr. Michael Huntsberger,
General Manager, (360) 866-6000. Funds Requested: $77,576. Total
Project Cost: $129,294. To expand and improve the facilities of KAOS-
FM, operating on 89.3 MHz in Olympia, WA, by relocating and replacing
the transmitter, the antenna, STL and related equipment. The station
will also increase power providing first public radio services to over
36,000 people, for a total of about 62,000 additional listeners. KAOS-
FM currently serves 80,000 people.
File No. 99050CRB, Washington State University, 382 Murrow Center
Pullman, WA 99164. Contact: Mr. Dennis Haarsager, Associate VP &
General Manager, (509) 335-6511. Funds Requested: $74,205. Total
Project Cost: $98,940. To extend the services of the Northwest Public
Radio Network by constructing a repeater station in Chehalis, operating
on 88.9 MHz, serving rural western Washington and providing first
public radio programming to over 62,000 residents of the area.
File No. 99119CTB, KCTS Television, 401 Mercer Street Seattle, WA
98109. Contact: Mr. Burnill Clark, President & CEO, (206) 443-6706.
Funds Requested: $381,500. Total Project Cost: $763,000. To continue
the conversion to digital broadcasting of KCTS-DTV, operating on
Digital Channel 41 in Seattle, WA, by purchasing a digital routing
switcher and a digital multichannel master control switcher. The
station serves a population of over 3.4 million people.
File No. 99234CTB, Bates Technical College, 1101 Yakima Avenue
South Tacoma, WA 98405. Contact: Ms. Debbie Emond, General Manager,
(253) 596-1528. Funds Requested: $398,493. Total Project Cost:
$531,324. To extend the broadcast signal of KBTC-TV, Channel 28 in
Tacoma, WA, by activating a repeater station in Bellingham, operating
on Channel 34, that will provide first public broadcasting television
programming to over 175,000 residents of the north Puget Sound region
of Washington State.
Wisconsin
File No. 99030IPTN, La Crosse Medical Health Science Consortium,
Inc., 105 Graff Main Hall La Crosse, WI 54601. Contact: Dr. Martin
Venneman, Executive Director, (608) 785-8218. Funds Requested:
$125,400. Total Project Cost: $167,200. To help the La Crosse Medical
Health Science Consortium, Inc. (LMHSC), La Crosse, WI, plan for the
activation of a distance learning network. In this proposal, the LMHSC
would develop detailed plans for the first phase of a two-stage, long-
range plan to establish a regional telecommunications network of
``virtual'' Population Health Centers throughout the LMHSC's service
area. The service area encompasses 22 counties in southwestern
Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota and Iowa. The long-range plan's first
phase would center on three Wisconsin communities: Black River Falls
(Jackson Co.); Mauston (Juneau Co.); and Prairie du Chien (Crawford
Co.). The LMHSC is a collaborative body comprising the University of
Wisconsin/La Crosse, Western Wisconsin Technical College, Viterbo
College, Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center, and Franciscan Skemp
Healthcare.
File No. 99118CTB, Milwaukee Area Technical College District Board,
1036 North 8th Street Milwaukee, WI 53233. Contact: Mr. Bryce Combs,
General Manager, (414) 297-7661. Funds Requested: $690,611. Total
Project Cost: $1,381,223. To improve the transmission facilities of
public television station WMVT-TV, operating on Ch. 36 in Milwaukee, by
replacing the transmitter, antenna and transmission line. The project
will ensure continued service to 2 million people and assist in the
station's conversion to digital broadcasting.
File No. 99144CRB, Wisconsin Educational Communications Board, 3319
West Beltline Highway Madison, WI 537134296. Contact: Mr. Thomas
Fletemeyer, Executive Director, (608) 264-9676. Funds Requested:
$112,825. Total Project Cost: $225,650. To improve the broadcast
facilities of Wisconsin Public Radio by replacing unreliable
transmitters at WHLA-FM, 90.3 MHz in La Crosse and WPNE-FM, 89.3 MHz in
Green Bay, Wisconsin. The state network serves a population of 1.6
million people.
File No. 99178CRB, Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Public Broadcasting
Corporation, 13386 W. Trepania Road Hayward, WI 54843. Contact: Ms.
Camille Lacapa, Program Director, (715) 634-2100. Funds Requested:
$99,881. Total Project Cost: $199,762. To improve public radio station
WOJB-FM, 88.9 MHz in Hayward, WI, by replacing the damaged 16-year-old
transmitter and purchasing test equipment. The project will also
replace studio equipment with new DAT machines, CD players, a stereo
generator, microphones, amplifiers and speakers. The station serves a
population of 129,000 people.
File No. 99205CTB, Wisconsin Educational Communications Board, 3319
West Beltline Highway Madison, WI 537134296. Contact: Mr. Thomas
Fletemeyer, Executive Director, (608) 264-9676. Funds Requested:
$901,240. Total Project Cost: $1,802,480. To convert public station
WHRM-TV, Channel 20 in Wausau, WI, to digital broadcasting on Digital
Channel 24 by purchasing and installing a digital transmitter, antenna
and transmission line, STL, encoder and test equipment. The station
serves a population of 478,450.
West Virginia
File No. 99135PRB, Educated Communications Unlimited, 109 Glenwood
Avenue Charleston, WV 25312. Contact: Ms. Lisa Miller, Director, (304)
345-7594. Funds Requested: $75,000. Total Project Cost: $75,000. To
plan for the establishment of a public radio station serving the
residents of Charleston, Huntington and Beckley, West Virginia.
File No. 99220CTB, West Virginia Educational Broadcasting
Authority, 600 Capitol Street Charleston, WV 25301. Contact: Mr. Bill
Acker, General Manager, (304) 558-3400. Funds Requested: $760,567.
Total Project Cost: $1,521,134. To improve and upgrade the production
capability of the State
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Network by replacing the router switcher, a 30-year-old lighting
system, the character generator and the editing system at the Network's
news and public affairs production studio in Charleston, WV. In
addition, the project will replace the current analog microwave
interconnection system with a fiber-optic ATM system and purchase and
install new character generators at the Huntington and Morgantown
stations. The Network serves a population of over 1.8 million residents
of West Virginia.
Bernadette McGuire-Rivera,
Associate Administrator, Office of Telecommunications and Information
Applications.
[FR Doc. 99-9950 Filed 4-22-99; 8:45 am]
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