File no: 00035, Pribilof School District, Station KUHB-FM, 930 Tolstoi Boulevard, ,Saint Paul Island, AK  99660. Contact person: Mr. James Carden, phone: (907) 546-2222, e_mail: jim_carden@pribilfs.k12.us.  Funds requested: $33,678. Total project cost: $44,904.  Project summary: To improve the transmission capabilities of noncommercial radio station KUHB-FM, which is licensed to the Pribiloff School District and operates on 91.9 MHz on the island of St. Paul, in the Pribilof Islands, AK.   The project would replace the station's worn-out transmitter and antenna and erect a new tower for the antenna.  Station KUHB-FM offers the only public radio service to approximately 3,000 residents of St. Paul and St. George Islands.
File no: 00116, Kuskokwim Public Broadcasting Corp., Station KSKO-AM, P. O. Box 70, 870 Airport Drive,McGrath, AK  99627. Contact person: Mrs. Tasha Rine, phone: (907) 524-3001, e_mail: RadioAK@aol.com.  Funds requested: $60,000. Total project cost: $80,000.  Project summary: To improve the transmission capabilities of public radio station KSKO-AM, McGrath, AK.  The project would replace the station's 16-year-old ground radial system.   The radial system has been weakened over time by earth  "heaving" and was further damaged by a recent environmental cleansing of the area.  The project would also purchase an AM tuning unit.  Station KSKO-AM brings the sole public radio signal to approximately 6,000 persons in central Alaska.
File no: 00136, Talkeetna Community Radio, Inc., Station KTNA -FM, P.O. Box  300, ,Talkeetna, AK  99676. Contact person: Ms. Julianne McGuinness, phone: (907) 733-1700, e_mail: ktnamgr@matnet.com.  Funds requested: $79,856. Total project cost: $106,475.  Project summary: To improve the studio production, on-air, and satellite interconnection capabilities of public radio station KTNA-FM, Talkeetna, Alaska.  The project would result in the installation of the station's first production studio.   Since station KTNA-FM went on-air, it has relied to a great degree on signals received via satellite.  The station has been able to produce only a minimal amount of local programming through use of its on-air equipment when the latter could be made available.  The equipment in this proposal would permit the station to assume the role of a true full-service station.  The project would also replace the station's earth station, which is inadequate for use with the present Galaxy 6 satellite "footprint".  The community of Talkeetna is located approximately 120 miles north of Anchorage.  Station KTNA-FM brings the sole public radio service to the 5300 residents of the northern half of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, an extremely rural area that encompasses 12,250 square miles.
File no: 00186, Alaska Public Radio Network, , 801 East 9th Avenue, ,Anchorage, AK  99501. Contact person: Ms. Gena Evans, phone: (907) 277-2776, e_mail: business@aprn.org.  Funds requested: $91,254. Total project cost: $121,673.  Project summary: To improve the program production capabilities of the Alaska Public Radio Network (APRN), Anchorage.  The APRN is a production center that originates daily news and information programming that is transmitted via satellite to 26 public radio stations located throughout Alaska.  Through this statewide network of stations, APRN programming is disseminated to approximately 97% of Alaska's population.  The project would upgrade APRN's outdated Dalet audio editing system.  It would also replace obsolete analog portable cassette decks and in-house cassette recording devices with seven digital portable and eight digital in-studio recording devices.  Finally, the project would replace APRN's telephone hybrid with a POTS codec.  This latter equipment would be used to transmit vital Alaska Statewide Weather reports to 330 Alaskan communities.
File no: 00262, Alaska Public Telecommunications, Station KAKM-TV, 3877 University Drive, ,Anchorage, AK  99508. Contact person: Ms. Susan Reed, phone: (907) 563-7070, e_mail: susanr@kakm.org.  Funds requested: $732,878. Total project cost: $1,093,848.  Project summary: A single-phase project that would result in the digital conversion of public TV station KAKM,  Anchorage, AK.  Station KAKM-TV operates on ch. 7 for its analog signal and will operate on ch. 24 for its digital signal.   The estimated total project cost is $1,093,848, with a 67% Federal award request of $732,878.   The proposal calls for the purchase of a DTV transmitter, a multichannel antenna, a transmission line, an ATSC encoder, a 13 GHz digital "twin stream" microwave system, and diverse other equipment.  Station KAKM-TV serves an estimated 303,100 residents of greater Anchorage.
File no: 00084, Troy State University, Department of Radio & Television, Wallace Hall, ,Troy, AL  36082. Contact person: Mr. James Clower, phone: (334) 670-3555, e_mail: jclower@trojan.troyst.edu.  Funds requested: $99,461. Total project cost: $132,615.  Project summary: To improve the operation of public radio station WTSU, 89.9 MHz, Troy, AL, by replacing its deteriorating 495-foot transmission tower.  If the tower collapses, it will take an adjoining 270-foot communications tower with it and both will fall on the building housing transmission equipment   Both service to the general public and a radio reading service for the print handicapped will be lost.  WTSU serves a population of about 356,857.
File no: 00165, Alabama ETV Commission, , 2112 11th Avenue South, Suite 400,Birmingham, AL  35205-2884. Contact person: Mr. Philip Hutcheson, phone: (205) 328-8756, e_mail: phutches@aptv.org.  Funds requested: $4,678,160. Total project cost: $11,695,400.  Project summary: A four-phase application for the digital conversion of the nine stations of the Alabama Public Television network.  The  estimated total project cost is $11,695,400 with a 40% Federal request of $4,678,160.  For FY 2000, the applicant requests $870,800 to purchase digital transmitters, antennas, and test equipment for WHIQ, Huntsville, and WAIQ, Montgomery, plus a satellite demodulator for the Network Operations Center in Birmingham to enable it to receive digital program feeds.  For FY 2001, the applicant requests $1,072,000 to purchase digital transmitters, antennas, and test equipment for WBIQ, Birmingham, and WEIQ, Mobile, plus a routing switcher, analog/digital converters, encoders, and test equipment for the Network Operations Center.  For FY 2002, the applicant requests $1,829,360 to purchase digital transmitters, antennas, and test equipment for WDIQ, Dozier, WFIQ, Florence, and WCIQ, Mt. Cheaha, plus a tower for WDIQ.  For FY 2003, the applicant requests $906,000 to purchase digital transmitters, antennas, and test equipment for WGIQ, Louisville/Texasville, and WIIQ, Demopolis.  The network serves a population of about 4.2 million.
File no: 00123, Arkansas Educational TV Commission, , 350 South Donaghey, ,Conway, AR  72032. Contact person: Ms. Susan Howarth, phone: (501) 682-2386, e_mail: showarth@aetn.org.  Funds requested: $9,148,044. Total project cost: $22,870,114.  Project summary: A four-year application for the digital conversion of the five existing public television stations in the Arkansas Educational Television Network (AETN) plus a proposed new station in El Dorado.  The total estimated project cost is $22,870,114  with a 40% Federal request of $9,148,044.   For FY 2000, the applicant requests $2,425,600 to purchase microwave, tower analysis and strengthening, the KETS (Little Rock) antenna and a routing switcher.  For FY 2001, the applicant requests $1,536,207 to purchase the KETS transmitter, antennas for KETG (Arkadelphia) and KAFT (Fayetteville) , digital master control equipment and digital test equipment.  For FY 2002, request is for $1,197,451 for transmitters for KETG and KAFT, antennas for KEMV (Mountain View) and KTEJ (Jonesboro) and digital test equipment.  For FY 2003, AETN requests $3,988,786 for transmitters for KEMV, KTEJ and a transmitter for the new station on Ch. 30 in El Dorado, digital production studio equipment, non-linear editing systems, microwave for the proposed El Dorado station and digital test equipment.
File no: 00214, KVZK, American Samoa Government, KVZK, American Samoa Government, ,Pago Pago, AS  96799. Contact person: Ms. Vaoita Savali, phone: (684) 633-4191, e_mail: KVZK-TV@samoatelco.com.  Funds requested: $391,961. Total project cost: $391,961.  Project summary: To improve the production facilities of KVZK-TV by replacing Umatic VCR's  with digital equipment, including DVC PRO videotape, cameras, monitors and an edit station.
File no: 00026, Northern Arizona University, KNAU-FM, Building 83, ,Flagstaff, AZ  86011. Contact person: Mr. John Stark, phone: (520) 523-5628, e_mail: John.Stark@nau.edu.  Funds requested: $78,117. Total project cost: $104,156.  Project summary: To extend the signal of public radio station KNAU-FM, 88.7 MHz, in Flagstaff, AZ by constructing a new 10 KW repeater station on 89.5 MHz in Fredonia, AZ.   Satellite station will provide a first public radio service to about 5,500 people including those on the Kaibab Paiute Reservation.
File no: 00128, Arizona State University, Station KAET-TV, 1711 South Rural Road, P. O. Box 871405,Tempe, AZ  85287. Contact person: Ms. Susan Broussard, phone: (480) 965-1415, e_mail: susan.broussard@asu.edu.  Funds requested: $156,000. Total project cost: $390,000.  Project summary: To purchase essential DTV equipment to begin multicasting educational services over KAET-DT, Ch. 29, in Tempe (Phoenix).  KAET-DT will purchase multi-channel videofile server, SD DTV encoders, analog to digital converters, noise reducers and video ID generators for broadcast of multiple educational programs.
File no: 00149, University of Arizona, KUAS-TV/KUAT Commun. Group, University of Arizona, ,Tucson, AZ  85721. Contact person: Mr. Ronald Stewart, phone: (520) 621-7635, e_mail: rstewart@kuat.arizona.edu.  Funds requested: $343,147. Total project cost: $857,869.  Project summary: To activate  KUAS-DT on Ch. 28 in Tucson.   Project will acquire a new transmitter, antenna, transmission line, studio-to-transmitter link, combiner, remote control, monitoring equipment and transmitter air conditioning.   Station will serve about 530,000 people.
File no: 00150, University of Arizona, KUAT Communications Group, University of Arizona, ,Tucson, AZ  85721. Contact person: Mr. Ronald Stewart, phone: (520) 621-7635, e_mail: rstewart@kuat.arizona.edu.  Funds requested: $937,205. Total project cost: $2,343,014.  Project summary: To activate DTV station KUAT-DT, Ch. 30, in Tucson.   Project includes transmitter, antenna/line, tower modifications, STL, transmitter air conditioning, monitoring, origination (router, master control switcher, video server and related equipment) and test equipment.  Station serves about 2.4 million people.
File no: 00254, Tohono O'odham Nation, , P. O. Box 835, Main Street, Building 49,Sells, AZ  85634. Contact person: Mr. Alex Ritchie, phone: (520) 383-2028, e_mail: aritchie@mailexe.toua.net.  Funds requested: $459,813. Total project cost: $613,084.  Project summary: To activate a new public radio station on 91.9 MHz, in Sells, AZ.   Station, in addition to having local origination capability, will carry the AIROS programming service and programming from KNBA-FM, Anchorage, Alaska.   New station will provide a first public radio service to about 20,000 people on 2.8 million acres of the Tohono O'odham Nation reservation.  The application is the result of a 1999 PTFP radio planning grant.
File no: 00014, San Mateo County Community College, Station KCSM-TV, 1700 West Hillside Blvd, ,San Mateo, CA  94402. Contact person: Ms. Marilyn Lawrence, phone: (650) 524-6905, e_mail: marilyn_lawrence@kcsn.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $960,250. Total project cost: $1,920,500.  Project summary: A single-phase application project for the digital conversion of public television station KCSM, San Mateo, CA.   The station operates on ch. 60 for its analog signal and will operate on ch. 59 for its digital signal.  The proposal would purchase a DTV transmitter, antenna, STL, video file server, compression/decompression system, and other associated equipment.  Station KCSM-TV's signal reaches a total of 6,390,000 residents of  the San Francisco Metropolitan Market.
File no: 00031, KTEH-TV Foundation, , 1585 Schallenberger, ,San Jose, CA  95131. Contact person: Mr. Gary Martinez, phone: (408) 795-5412, e_mail: gmartinez@kteh.org.  Funds requested: $446,875. Total project cost: $893,751.  Project summary: To extend the service area of public television station KTEH, San Jose, CA, by assisting it to reactivate the signal of noncommercial station KCAH-TV.  The latter station -- the license of which has been reassigned to the applicant from its previous licensee, California Community Television -- is to operate on ch. 25 from the community of Watsonville, CA.  Its signal is expected to reach approximately 1.2 million residents of Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito Counties in Northern California and, for most of these viewers, it will represent the sole reliable public TV received over the air.  The project would replace station KCAH-TV's obsolete and worn-out transmitter, transmission line, and antenna.  The new transmitter would be digital compatible.  The project would also purchase a 5 kw DTV transmitter, SAP channel equipment and an EAS encoder/decoder for KCAH-TV.  Station KTEH-TV itself operates on ch. 54 in the greater San Jose area.
File no: 00039, Valley Public Television, , 15440 Van Ness Avenue, ,Fresno, CA  93721. Contact person: Mr. Colin Dougherty, phone: (559) 266-1800, e_mail: cdougherty@kvpt.org.  Funds requested: $160,446. Total project cost: $401,115.  Project summary: A single-phase project that would assist public television station KVPT, Fresno, CA, complete the second phase of its five-phase digital conversion plan.  Station KVPT-TV operates on ch. 18 for its analog signal and will operate on ch. 40 for its digital signal.  The project would purchase a digital STL for the station, replacing its obsolete 23-year-old unit.  It would also purchase the station a video server and routing switcher, both required for full digital conversion.  Station KVPT-TV brings the sole public TV signal to approximately 2.2 million people in and around Fresno.
File no: 00040, KVIE, Inc., , P.O. Box 6, 2595 Capitol Oaks Drive,Sacramento, CA  95833. Contact person: Mr. Michael Wall, phone: (916) 923-7474, e_mail: mwall@kvie.org.  Funds requested: $1,600,842. Total project cost: $3,201,684.  Project summary: A single-phase project that would result in the digital conversion of public television station KVIE , Sacramento, CA.    Station KVIE-TV operates on ch. 6 for its analog signal and will operate on ch. 53 for its digital signal.  The project would purchase a DTV transmitter, antenna and transmission line as well as a digital microwave STL, a four-channel digital encoder, digital test equipment, and digital upconverters.   Station KVIE-TV's signal reaches over four million people and brings the sole public television signal to the residents of the greater Sacramento area.
File no: 00052, Los Angeles Unified School District, Station KLCS-TV, 1061 West Temple Street, ,Los Angeles, CA  90012. Contact person: Ms. Janalyn Glymph, phone: (213) 625-6958, e_mail: .  Funds requested: $156,391. Total project cost: $312,781.  Project summary: To improve the operations of public television station KLCS, Los Angeles, by replacing obsolete and failing master control equipment.  Station KLCS-TV operates on ch. 58 and serves approximately 12 million residents of the greater Los Angeles area.   The project would purchase a new character generator, a still-store, a video server, six video tape machines, a 14" monitor, and a waveform/vectorscope.
File no: 00068, Humboldt State University, Station KHSU-FM, Humboldt State University, ,Arcata, CA  95521. Contact person: Mr. Terry Green, phone: (707) 826-3979, e_mail: greent@humboldt.edu.  Funds requested: $35,397. Total project cost: $70,794.  Project summary: To improve the operations of public radio station KHSU-FM, which is licensed to Humboldt State University and which operates on 90.5 Mhz in Arcata, CA.  The project would replace outdated analog reel-to-reel audio tape recorders with a digital audio recording, storage, and playback system.  Once implemented, the project would substantially complete a six-year phased conversion of KHSU-FM's studio facility from analog to digital technology.  Station KHSU-FM provides the only public radio service with local origination to over 135,000 residents of northwestern California.
File no: 00088, Univ. of California/Santa Cruz, Station KZSC-FM, Student Music East, Univ. of California/Santa Cruz,Santa Cruz, CA  95064. Contact person: Mrs. Marlene Olson, phone: (831) 459-5360, e_mail: molson@cats.ucsc..edu.  Funds requested: $136,067. Total project cost: $272,134.  Project summary: To improve the transmission and studio production capabilities of public radio station KZSC-FM, which operates on 88.1 Mhz in Santa Cruz, CA, and which is licensed to the University of California/Santa Cruz.  The project would replace the station's obsolete and failing 25-year-old transmitter as well as its antenna and transmission line.  The project would also purchase diverse equipment for the station's on-air control room, production studio, and news room.
File no: 00090, Radio Bilingue, Inc,, Station KSJV-FM, 5005 East Belmont Avenue, ,Fresno, CA  93727. Contact person: Mr. Hugo Morales, phone: (559) 455-5757, e_mail: hugom@pacbell.net.  Funds requested: $82,683. Total project cost: $110,245.  Project summary: To improve the transmission capabilities of public radio station KUBO-FM, which operates on 88.7 Mhz in the El Centro-Calexico region of southern California, on the Mexican border.  Station KUBO-FM is part of  Radio Bilingue, Inc., which is a network of five Spanish-language public radio stations in California.  Radio Bilingue's headquarters is in Fresno, at station KSJV-FM.   KUBO-FM's proposal to PTFP is part of a major move of the station's studio facilities from its present unsatisfactory location near its transmitter site to a location in El Centro.  The project would replace the station's worn-out and unreliable transmitter.  It would also purchase two microwave STL/TSL systems to replace the hard-wired STLs the station now uses, and which cannot be used with the new studios.  (One STL/TSL would connect the new studios to the transmitter; the second would connect the new studio to the satellite downlink.)  It would construct a 25' tower and purchase other items related to the dissemination system.  Station KUBO-FM provides the sole public radio signal to over 140,000 residents in its service area.
File no: 00093, Radio Bilingue, Inc., Station KSJV-FM, 5005 E. Belmont Avenue, ,Fresno, CA  93727. Contact person: Mr. Hugo Morales, phone: (559) 455-5757, e_mail: hugom@pacbell.net.  Funds requested: $96,314. Total project cost: $128,419.  Project summary: To replace the 19-year-old transmitter at public radio station KHDC-FM, which operates on 90.9 Mhz with an ERP of 3 kw in Salinas, CA.  The project would also purchase diverse other transmission and studio equipment:  a digital audio vault storage system, an STL system, modulation monitors, a stereo monitor, a remote control system, a stereo generator, and an audio console.  Station KHDC-FM is part of the Radio Bilingue network that targets its programming for Spanish-speaking listeners.  The station's signal reaches approximately 160,000 residents of the Salinas area.
File no: 00095, San Diego Community College Dist., Station KSDS-FM, 1313 Twelfth Avenue, ,San Diego, CA  92190-1. Contact person: Ms. Mary Woodworth, phone: (619) 230-2037, e_mail: mwoodwor@sdccd.cc.ca.us.  Funds requested: $50,556. Total project cost: $101,112.  Project summary: To improve the transmission capabilities of public radio station KSDS-FM, which is licensed to the San Diego Community College District, San Diego, CA.   The station operates on 88.3 Mhz.  The project would replace the station's 24-year-old transmitter and its 23-year-old vertically polarized antenna.  The change would mean a major power increase and a circularly polarized antenna.   At present, broadcasting at 830w, the station's service reaches up to 33,000 potential listeners.  The change in transmission characteristics, which would allow the station to broadcast at 22,000w,  would add approximately 150,000 potential listeners to this number.
File no: 00108, The National Hispanic University, , 14271 Story Road, ,San Jose, CA  95127. Contact person: Dr. B. Roberto Cruz, phone: (408) 273-2683, e_mail: rcruz@nhu.edu.  Funds requested: $170,744. Total project cost: $227,659.  Project summary: To assist The National Hispanic University, San Jose, CA,  to establish a distance learning system that would allow the University to disseminate specialized instructional programming designed to meet the needs of the Hispanic community.  Specifically, the University hopes to transmit course work pertaining to the certification and training of teachers in the methodology of teaching limited-English proficient learners.  The University would also emphasize its translation and interpretation studies certification program.  The project would be implemented in cooperation with the Santa Clara Office of Education and San Jose State University.
File no: 00125, Santa Monica Community College Dist, Station KCRW-FM, 1900 Pico Boulevard, ,Santa Monica, CA  90405. Contact person: Ms. Ruth Seymour, phone: (310) 450-5183, e_mail: will.lewis@kcrw.org.  Funds requested: $78,169. Total project cost: $156,338.  Project summary: To improve the transmission and interconnection capabilities of public radio station KCRW-FM, Santa Monica, CA.  Station KCRW-FM is licensed to the Santa Monica Community College District and operates on 89.9 Mhz.  The project would replace the station's transmitter, antenna, transmission line, STL system, and elements of its satellite downlink.   It would also purchase a modulation monitor.  With its two repeater stations and six translators, station KCRW-FM reaches over 11 million potential listeners.
File no: 00131, California State Univ./Sacramento, Capital Public Radio, Inc., 3416 American River Dr/Suite B, ,Sacramento, CA  95864. Contact person: Mr. Michael Lazar, phone: (916) 480-5901, e_mail: mlazar@csus.edu.  Funds requested: $69,981. Total project cost: $93,308.  Project summary: To expand the service area of the Capital Public Radio, Inc. station group, which is licensed to California State University, Sacramento.  Capital Public Radio, Inc. comprises four public radio stations.  Its two major stations are KXPR-FM (classical music) and KXJZ-FM (news/jazz),  both in Sacramento.  Capital Public Radio hopes to expand its service to Yuba City, which is approximately 70 miles north of Sacramento.  This would bring the first public radio service to 115,000 persons.  To accomplish this, Capital Public Radio would purchase the present Yuba City commercial AM station KOBO, which operates on 1450 Khz.  The project would purchase transmission equipment necessary to upgrade the present station's signal, microwave to transmit the signal from Sacramento to Yuba City, and a digital automation system.  The latter item would allow Capital Public Radio to produce "customized" weather, news, and public service programming for the Yuba City listening audience.
File no: 00135, California State Univ./Stanislaus, , 801 West Monte Vista Avenue, ,Turlock, CA  95382. Contact person: Dr. Samuel Oppenheim, phone: (209) 667-3319, e_mail: openheim_sam@macmail.csustan.edu.  Funds requested: $49,781. Total project cost: $101,738.  Project summary: To assist California State University at Stanislaus to plan how best to serve the educational needs of its service area through instructional programming transmitted via cable television.  The planning would also involve negotiating with local cable television companies for channels to be dedicated to such instructional purposes.  The University serves a six-county rural region encompassing over 10,000 square miles in California's Central Valley.
File no: 00137, California State Univ./Sacramento, Capital Public Radio, Inc., 3416 American River Dr/ Suite B, ,Sacramento, CA  95864. Contact person: Mr. Michael Lazar, phone: (916) 480-5901, e_mail: mlazar@csus.edu.  Funds requested: $89,309. Total project cost: $119,079.  Project summary: To expand the service area of the Capital Public Radio, Inc. station group, which is licensed to California State University, Sacramento.  Capital Public Radio comprises four stations.  Its two major stations are KXPR-FM (classical music) and KXJZ-FM (news/jazz), both in Sacramento.  Capital Public Radio hopes to extend its signal to Quincy, CA, and thus bring the first public radio service to over 5,600 persons.  It would accomplish this by constructing an FM repeater station in Quincy, to operate on 88.1 Mhz.  The project would purchase the basic transmission equipment for the repeater station, the microwave required to interconnect the new station with the applicant's studios in Sacramento, and a digital automation system that would permit Capital Public Radio to transmit "customized" programming to the Quincy area.
File no: 00146, Coast Community College District, Station KOCE-TV, 15751 Gothard Street, ,Huntington Beach, CA  92647. Contact person: Mr. Mel Rogers, phone: (714) 895-5623, e_mail: mrogers@koce.cccd.edu.  Funds requested: $676,252. Total project cost: $1,690,632.  Project summary: A single-phase project that would result in the digital conversion of public television station KOCE, Huntington Beach, CA.  KOCE operates on ch. 50 for its analog signal and will operate on ch. 48 for its digital signal.   The project would purchase a digital transmitter, antenna, and transmission line as well as diverse associated equipment.  Station KOCE-TV, which is licensed to the Coast Community College District, transmits its service to over eight million residents of greater Los Angeles.
File no: 00152, CSPP Research and Service Fdn, , 6160 Cornerstone Court East, ,San Diego, CA  92121. Contact person: Dr. Raymond Trybus, phone: (858) 623-2777, e_mail: rtrybus@cspp.edu.  Funds requested: $372,645. Total project cost: $496,861.  Project summary: To assist the CSPP Research and Service Foundation ("the Foundation") to expand the capabilities of its videoconferencing system.  The Foundation operates four primary campuses at San Diego, Los Angeles (Alhambra), Fresno, and the San Francisco Bay area (Alameda).   All but the San Diego campus have videoconferencing equipment and this project would purchase such equipment for that campus.  In addition, the proposal calls for the installation of an origination video classroom at the San Diego campus that would be used to transmit courses from the Foundation's recently established School of Education.
File no: 00170, San Diego State University Fdn., Station KPBS-TV, 5200 Campanile Drive, ,San Diego, CA  92182. Contact person: Ms. Susan Holloway, phone: (619) 594-2491, e_mail: shollowa@mail.sdsu.edu.  Funds requested: $405,772. Total project cost: $1,014,430.  Project summary: To replace the 16-year-old transmitter and antenna of public television station KPBS, which operates on ch. 15 and brings the only public TV signal to over 2.8 million residents of San Diego, CA.
File no: 00181, University of Southern California, Station KUSC-FM, Suite 262, 3716 South Hope Street,Los Angeles, CA  90007. Contact person: Ms. Brenda Pennell, phone: (213) 514-1450, e_mail: bpennell@kusc.org.  Funds requested: $314,315. Total project cost: $628,630.  Project summary: To improve the signal reliability of three repeater stations that retransmit the programming of host public radio station KUSC-FM, which operates on 91.5 Mhz in Los Angeles.   The three repeater stations are:  KPSC-FM (88.5 MHz), Palm Springs; KFAC-FM (88.7 MHz), Santa Barbara; and KCPB-FM (91.1 MHz), Thousand Oaks.   The project would replace the repeaters' transmission systems.  The three repeater transmitters in question bring KUSC-FM's service to nearly 1.9 million residents in the communities of Santa Barbara, Oxnard, Montecito, Ventura, Palm Springs, Indian Wells, Palm Desert, Thousand Oaks, and Ojai.
File no: 00187, South Orange Co. Community College, Station KSBR-FM, 28000 Maguerite Parkway, ,Mission Viejo, CA  92692. Contact person: Mr. Terry Wedel, phone: (949) 582-4714, e_mail: twedel@saddleback.cc.ca.us.  Funds requested: $77,450. Total project cost: $154,900.  Project summary: To improve the signal transmission of public radio station KSBR-FM, which is licensed to the South Orange County Community College District and which operates on 88.5 Mhz in Mission Viejo.  The project would replace the station's 20-year-old transmitter, as well as its antenna, tower, and transmission line.   Station KSBR-FM's service reaches over 400,000 residents of Orange County.  The project would increase the station's coverage by over 7,000 potential listeners.
File no: 00189, CSU/Northridge Foundation, Station KCSN-FM, 18111 Nordhoff Street, ,Northridge, CA  91330-8312. Contact person: Ms. Dolly Salazar, phone: (818) 677-3090, e_mail: dolly.salazar@csun.edu.  Funds requested: $31,545. Total project cost: $63,090.  Project summary: To improve the program origination capabilities of public radio station KCSN-FM, which operates on 88.5 Mhz in Northridge, CA.  The project would replace obsolescent analog reel-to-reel tape recorders and cartridge tape machines with two digital audio workstations and four digital audio edit systems.  Station KCSN-FM serves a population of over 1.5 million people.
File no: 00195, Rural California Broadcasting Corp., Station KRCB-FM, 5850 Labath Avenue, ,Rohnert Park, CA  94928. Contact person: Mr. Bruce Robinson, phone: (707) 585-8522, e_mail: bruce_robinson@krcb.org.  Funds requested: $64,998. Total project cost: $86,665.  Project summary: To improve the transmission and program production capabilities of public radio station KRCB-FM, which operates on 91.1 Mhz in Rohnert Park, CA.  The project would replace the station's obsolescent and failing transmitter, antenna,  and STL.  The project would also install a 60' tower, which is being donated to the station; the station's present tower is a 30' telephone pole.  In addition, the project would purchase the equipment for a remote program production unit.  Station KRCB-FM provides the sole public radio service to over 22,000 residents of northern Sonoma County.  An additional 198,000 other potential listeners also receive its service.
File no: 00218, Rural California Broadcasting Corp, Station KRCB-TV, 5850 Labath Avenue, ,Rohnert Park, CA  94928. Contact person: Ms. Nancy Dobbs, phone: (707) 585-8522, e_mail: nancy_dobbs@krcb.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $51,619. Total project cost: $68,826.  Project summary: To improve the master control and studio production capabilities of public television station KRCB, which operates on ch. 22 in Rohnert Park, CA.  The project would replace obsolete and failing video tape machines and a worn-out frame synchronizer and purchase a video server.  Station KRCB-TV's signal reaches a potential viewing audience of over 2.8 million residents of the San Francisco Bay Area.  The station provides the sole over-the-air public TV service for 100,000 residents of the coastal mountains and valleys north of the Bay.
File no: 00223, Rural California Broadcasting Corp., Station KRCB-FM, 5850 LaBath Avenue, ,Rohnert Park, CA  94928. Contact person: Mr. Bruce Robinson, phone: (707) 585-8522, e_mail: Bruce_Robinson@krcb.org.  Funds requested: $6,161. Total project cost: $8,215.  Project summary: To activate an FM translator that would operate on 90.9 Mhz and extend the service of public radio station KRCB-FM to areas of Rohnert Park and Cotati that the station's signal, because of terrain shielding, cannot now reach in a reliable way.  The translator would expand KRCB-FM's service by over 46,000 potential listeners.  KRCB-FM operates on 91.1 Mhz from a transmission site in Santa Rosa.
File no: 00229, San Bernardino Community College, Station KVCR-TV, 701 South Mount Vernon Avenue, ,San Bernardino, CA  92410. Contact person: Mr. Lew Warren, phone: (909) 888-6511, e_mail: lew_warren@kvcr.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $2,754,567. Total project cost: $6,886,417.  Project summary: A four-phase application that would result in the digital conversion of public television station KVCR, San Bernardino, CA.  Station KVCR-TV, which is licensed to the San Bernardino Community College District, operates on ch. 24 for its analog signal and will operate on ch. 26 for its digital signal.  The total estimated  project cost would be $6,886,417 with a 40% Federal request of $2,754,567.   For FY 2000, the applicant requests $218,818 to purchase a tower extension package, a digital antenna, a transmission line, and a digital STL.  For FY 2001, the applicant requests $447,497 to purchase a digital transmitter, digital encoding equipment, and an ATSC monitoring package.   For FY 2002, the applicant requests $891,252 to purchase the first half of its ATSC master control package and three digital TV translators.  For FY 2003, the applicant requests $1,197,000 to purchase the second half of the master control package as well as studio lighting and production equipment.   Station KVCR-TV's service reaches 8.6 million persons.  To over 808,000 of these persons, the station transmits the sole over-the-air public television signal.
File no: 00261, Peralta Community College District, Peralta College Television Ntwk, 333 East Eighth Street, ,Oakland, CA  94606. Contact person: Mr. Jeffrey Heyman, phone: (510) 466-7369, e_mail: jheyman@pralta.cc.ca.us.  Funds requested: $575,000. Total project cost: $575,000.  Project summary: To replace obsolete equipment at the production studio for the educational access channel operated by Peralta Community College District, Oakland, CA.
File no: 00018, Grand Valley Public Radio Co, Inc., , 2512 W. Independent Ave., #3, ,Grand Junction, CO  81505. Contact person: Mr. Peter Trosclair, phone: (670) 241-8801, e_mail: peter@kafmradio.org.  Funds requested: $53,153. Total project cost: $70,871.  Project summary: To improve noncommercial radio station KAFM-FM, 88.1 MHz, in Grand Junction by acquiring local origination equipment and a satellite downlink.  New equipment includes an audio console, cassette recorder, DAT recorder, minidisc recorder,  CD player and recorder, turntable, microphones and a variety of origination equipment that will be used to create a production studio for the station which currently operates using a single on-air studio.
File no: 00027, Front Range Educational Media Corp., KBDI-TV, 2900 Welton Street, First Floor,Denver, CO  80205. Contact person: Dr. Willard Rowland, phone: (303) 296-1212, e_mail: Willard_Rowland@kbdi.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $357,643. Total project cost: $715,287.  Project summary: This single-phase application will continue the digital conversion of KBDI-TV, Ch. 12, in Denver.  In FY 2000, KBDI-TV seeks a federal share of $357,643, which is 50% of the total project cost of $715,287.  The funds will be used to purchase a switcher, control panel, character generator, monitors, digital switcher, digital VTRs, converters and a wide variety of origination and interconnection equipment that will be used with the joint master control equipment that was funded in 1998 to benefit both KBDI-TV and the other Denver public television station, KRMA-TV, Ch. 6.
File no: 00083, San Miguel Educational Fund, KOTO, P.O. Box 1069, ,Telluride, CO  81435. Contact person: Mr. Ben Kerr, phone: (970) 728-4334, e_mail: ben_kerr@infozone.org.  Funds requested: $39,806. Total project cost: $53,075.  Project summary: To extend the coverage of public radio station KOTO-FM, 91.7 MHz, in Telluride by relocating the transmitter and adjusting its coverage so as to increase power to 500 watts ERP.  Relocation will provide protected coverage to areas previously covered by at-risk translators.  KOTO-FM will acquire a new antenna, feedline, transmitter, remote control, studio-to-transmitter link and associated dissemination equipment.
File no: 00101, KUTE Incorporated, KSUT-FM, 123 Capote, P. O. Box 737,Ignacio, CO  81137. Contact person: Ms. Beth Warren, phone: (970) 563-0255, e_mail: beth@ksut.org.  Funds requested: $35,062. Total project cost: $70,124.  Project summary: To upgrade three radio translators of public radio station KSUT-FM, 91.3 MHz, in Ignacio, by increasing their power to meet FCC Class A levels.  The translators are located in Durango (proposed on 89.3 MHz),  Pagosa Springs (proposed on 88.3 MHz) and Farmington, NM (proposed on 89.7 MHz).  This effort is designed to protect the coverage currently provided by the translators as they are challenged by non-translator applicants.
File no: 00109, Boulder Community Broadcast Assoc., KGNU, 1900 Folsom, Suite 100,Boulder, CO  80302. Contact person: Ms. Marty Durlin, phone: (303) 449-4885, e_mail: marty@kgnu.org.  Funds requested: $15,530. Total project cost: $31,060.  Project summary: To improve public radio station KGNU-FM, 88.5 MHz, in Boulder by replacing a 22-year-old stereo generator, a broadcast telephone system, digital workstation, edit/mix software, DAT recorders and minidisc recorders.  KGNU-FM serves about 400,000 people in Boulder and Lamar counties.
File no: 00169, Colorado State Board of Agriculture, KDUR-FM, 1000 Rim Drive, ,Durango, CO  81301. Contact person: Ms. Nancy Stoffer, phone: (970) 247-7261, e_mail: stoffer_n@fortlewis.edu.  Funds requested: $21,341. Total project cost: $32,335.  Project summary: To improve noncommerical FM radio station KDUR-FM, 91.9 MHz, in Durango, by replacing its old, worn-out transmission system including stereo processor, antenna and transmission line.  Station will also replace a production console, cart machines, DAT machines, and associated equipment.  KDUR-FM serves about 20,000 people.
File no: 00194, Denver Educational Broadcasting, , P. O. Box 11111, ,Denver, CO  80211. Contact person: Ms. Florence Hernandez-Ramos, phone: (303) 480-9272, e_mail: info@kuvo.org.  Funds requested: $35,592. Total project cost: $71,185.  Project summary: To improve public radio station KUVO-FM, 89.3 MHz, in Denver by replacing its 15-year-old antenna which it  diplexes with another Denver public radio station, KCFR-FM.  Antenna must be replaced  because it exceeds the RF levels prescribed by the Federal Communications Commission.  Currently, the transmission area is fenced and power levels are reduced to 85% however, this is only a temporary measure.  Replacement of the antenna will allow both stations to return to full power.
File no: 00208, Connecticut Public Broadcasting, WEDH-DTV, 240 New Britain Avenue, ,Hartford, CT  06106. Contact person: Mr. James Whitsett, phone: (860) 278-5310, e_mail: jay_whitsett@wedh.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $1,935,150. Total project cost: $4,837,879.  Project summary: A four-phase project for the digital conversion of four stations in the Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network. The total estimated project cost is $4,837,879 and the 40% Federal request is $1,935,150.  The FY 2000 request of $760,755 will cover purchase and installation of the transmitter, the antenna and test equipment for WEDH/Hartford.  For FY 2001, the applicant is requesting $331,438 to purchase and install transmission equipment at WEDW/Bridgeport.  The request of $481,408 for FY 2002 will fund the transmission system of WEDN/Norwich.  In FY 2003, the $361,549 request will support transmission facilites for WEDY/New Haven.  The project will also include a microwave system for the Network.  It is anticipated that the new digital service will increase coverage by almost 36% to over 4.7 million people.  The increased coverage will provide first service to about 19,000 residents of eight town in the northwest corner of Connecticut.
File no: 00211, American University, WAMU, Brandywine Building, ,Washington, DC  20016-8082. Contact person: Ms. Kathy Merritt, phone: (202) 885-2862, e_mail: kmerritt@wamu.org.  Funds requested: $133,945. Total project cost: $267,891.  Project summary: To improve the operation of public radio station WAMU, 88.5 MHz, Washington, DC, by acquiring a diplex antenna, transmission line, combiner, and related equipment.  In the new confirguration, the signals of WAMU and public station WPFW, 89.3 MHz, Washington, will be diplexed through a single antenna.  This will allow WPFW to remain on the air during an extensive hazardous materials lead abatement program on the WAMU tower.  The stations serve a population of about 4.5 million people.
File no: 00272, Howard University, WHUT-TV, 2222 Fourth Street, NW, ,Washington, DC  20059. Contact person: Ms. Jennifer Harris, phone: (202) 806-3200, e_mail: jharris@whut.howard.edu.  Funds requested: $209,826. Total project cost: $419,652.  Project summary: To improve the operation of public television station WHUT, Ch. 32, Washington, DC, by replacing worn out and obsolete items of equipment, including an audio console, a video switcher, a video effects generator, video recorders, and editing.  The station serves a population of about 5.5 million people.
File no: 00273, Howard University, , 2222 Fourth Street, NW, ,Washington, DC  20059. Contact person: Ms. Jennifer Harris, phone: (202) 806-3200, e_mail: jharris@whut.howard.edu.  Funds requested: $37,913. Total project cost: $75,826.  Project summary: 
File no: 00028, University of Florida, WUFT-FM, 2208 Weimer Hall, University of Florida,Gainesville, FL  32611. Contact person: Mr. Henri Pensis, phone: (352) 392-5200, e_mail: hpensis@wuft.org.  Funds requested: $25,591. Total project cost: $51,182.  Project summary: To replace an 18 year old production console at WUFT-FM, 89.1 MHz in Gainesville.  The station serves a population of over 1.7 million people.
File no: 00046, Florida Gulf Coast University, WGCU-TV, 10501 FGCU Boulevard, ,Fort Myers, FL  33965. Contact person: Dr. Kathleen Davey, phone: (941) 590-7072, e_mail: kdavey@fgcu.edu.  Funds requested: $1,080,000. Total project cost: $2,700,000.  Project summary: A three-phase project for the conversion of WGCU-TV in Fort Myers.  The total project cost is $2,700,000 and the 40% Federal request equals $1,080,000.  For FY 2000, the applicant is requesting $354,800 for the DTV antenna, transmitter and STL, and to start the digital conversion of the master control facility including routing switcher, converters, digital microwave system, and test equipment.  During FY 2001, the request of $394,000 will support the continuation of the master control with the master control switcher, automation system, DTV server and test equipment.  The FY 2002 request of $331,200 is for the purchase and installation of a multi-channel server and HDTV equipment.
File no: 00053, Florida Gulf Coast University, WGCU-FM, 10501 FGCU Boulevard, ,Fort Myers, FL  33965. Contact person: Mr. Gene Craven, phone: (941) 590-2500, e_mail: gcraven@fgcu.edu.  Funds requested: $57,399. Total project cost: $114,799.  Project summary: The project will replace a failing, 17-year-old Harris transmitter, improve its remote control system and purchase test equipment for WGCU-FM, 90.1 MHz in Fort Myers and its repeater WMKO-FM in the Marco Island/Naples area.  The stations serve a population of over one million residents in eight counties.  WGCU and WMKO also provide Radio Reading Services for the visually-impaired individuals throughout the coverage area.
File no: 00054, WJCT, Inc., , 100 Festival Park Avenue, ,Jacksonville, FL  32202. Contact person: Mr. Rick Johnson, phone: (904) 358-6394, e_mail: Rick_Johnson@wjct.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $579,695. Total project cost: $1,159,390.  Project summary: To maintain its analog service, WJCT-TV, Ch. 7 in Jacksonville, will replace its current aging and obsolete studio to transmitter link and the failing 15-year-old Harris transmitter. The station provides public television programming to over 1.6 million people in 15 counties in Northeast Florida and southeast Georgia.
File no: 00059, University of South Florida, WUSF Radio Reading Service, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, WRB 209,Tampa, FL  33620. Contact person: Mr. James Heck, phone: (813) 974-8665, e_mail: james_heck@wusf.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $5,182. Total project cost: $10,364.  Project summary: The WUSF Radio Reading Service will replace an old and failing automated broadcast system with an Audio VAULT/AV Air system.  The Service reaches more than 10,000 blind and physically handicapped listeners in West-Central Florida.
File no: 00064, Barry Telecommunications, Inc., WXEL-TV, 3401 South Congress Avenue, ,Boynton  Beach, FL  33426. Contact person: Mr. Philip DiComo, phone: (561) 737-8000, e_mail: pmd@wxel.org.  Funds requested: $772,115. Total project cost: $1,930,287.  Project summary: Application for the initial phase of the conversion to digital broadcast of WXEL, Boynton Beach.  The total cost of the project is estimated at $1,930,287 with a 40% Federal request of $772,115.  The applicant will purchase and install digital transmission equipment including the transmitter, antenna, STL, combiner and encoder.  The station serves a population of approximately 4.5 million people.
File no: 00066, Community Communications, Inc., WMFE-TV, 11510 East Colonia Drive, ,Orlando, FL  32817. Contact person: Mr. Jose Fajardo, phone: (407) 273-2300, e_mail: jose_a_fajardo@wmfe.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $711,494. Total project cost: $1,422,988.  Project summary: To replace a 27-year-old analog transmitter, antenna and transmission line for WMFE-TV in Orlando.  The proposed new transmitter will be convertible to digital and the antenna and transmission line will be used for both the analog and the digital service.  The station serves a population of over 1.5 million people.
File no: 00067, Barry Telecommunications, Inc., WXEL-TV, 3401 South Congress Avenue, ,Boynton Beach, FL  33423. Contact person: Mr. Philip DiComo, phone: (561) 737-8000, e_mail: pmd@wxel.org.  Funds requested: $138,616. Total project cost: $277,233.  Project summary: To replace worn out and obsolete production and studio equipament including still storer, character generator and monitors, and to upgrade satellite dissemination equipment for WXEL-TV in Boynton Beach.  The station serves a population of over 4.4 million people.
File no: 00078, Florida State University, WFSU-TV/WFSG-TV, 1600 Red Barber Plaza, ,Tallahassee, FL  32310. Contact person: Miss Donna Landrum, phone: (850) 487-3170, e_mail: dlandrum@mailer.fsu.edu.  Funds requested: $651,918. Total project cost: $1,629,796.  Project summary: Applicant is requesting transmission equipment for the digital conversion of WFSG in Panama City.  The total estimated project cost is $1,629,796 and the 40 % Federal request is $651,918.  WFSG is the satellite station of WFSU, Talahassee.  The project includes the transmitter, antenna, line, test and monitoring equipment for WFSG and an encoder and a master control switcher for WFSU.  The stations serve a population of  over 600,000 people.
File no: 00096, Sarasota County Government, Access Sarasota, Channel 52, 1660 Ringling Boulevard, ,Sarasota, FL  34236. Contact person: Mrs. Melissa Fritsch, phone: (941) 364-4391, e_mail: mfritsch@co.sarasota.fl.us.  Funds requested: $75,000. Total project cost: $231,280.  Project summary: To assist the Sarasota (FL) County Board of County Commissioners activate the first government access channel on the County's cable television system.  The project would purchase four cameras and a switcher.
File no: 00102, School Board of Miami-Dade County, , 172 N.E  15th Street, ,Miami, FL  33132. Contact person: Mrs. Winifred Jones, phone: (305) 995-2240, e_mail: .  Funds requested: $857,534. Total project cost: $1,715,068.  Project summary: Application for the conversion to digital broadcast of WLRN-TV in Miami.  The total cost of the project is estimated to be $1,715,068.  The 50% Federal request is $857,534.  The project consists of the purchase and installation of digital transmission equipment including transmitter, antenna, transmission line, STL, microwave and transmitter remote control system.  It will also purchase an encoder and test equipment.  WLRN provides public broadcasting programming to over 4 million residents of South Florida.
File no: 00112, Florida West Coast Public Bdcstg, Station WEDU-TV, 1300 North Boulevard, ,Tampa, FL  33607. Contact person: Ms. Elsie Garner, phone: (813) 254-9338, e_mail: elsie_garner@wedu.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $784,535. Total project cost: $1,961,338.  Project summary: Application to convert to digital braodcast the facilities of WEDU in Tampa Florida.  The total estimated cost of the project is $1,961,338.  The 40% Federal request will fund the transmitter, antenna, transmission line, combiner, encoder and monitoring equipment.  WEDU is collaborating with WUSF to provide the first digital public television service to Tampa.  WEDU-TV serves a population of approximately 3.4 million people.
File no: 00117, Florida State University, , 1600 Red Barber Plaza, ,Tallahassee, FL  32310. Contact person: Mr. Andrew Hanus, phone: (850) 487-3086, e_mail: ahanus@mailer.fsu.edu.  Funds requested: $14,895. Total project cost: $19,860.  Project summary: To extend the signal of WFSU-FM, 91.5 in Tallahassee, Florida, by construction of an FM translator in Port St. Joe that will provide first public radio service to about 5,000 residents of Gulf County, Florida.
File no: 00118, Florida State University, , 1600 Red Barber Plaza, ,Tallahassee, FL  32310. Contact person: Mr. Andrew Hanus, phone: (850) 487-3086, e_mail: ahanus@mailer.fsu.edu.  Funds requested: $38,242. Total project cost: $76,484.  Project summary: To improve the facilities of WFSW-FM, 89.1 in Panama City, by replacing the worn out and failing 25-year-old transmitter.  The station serves a population of over 190,000 people.
File no: 00119, Florida State University, , 1600 Red Barber Plaza, ,Tallahassee, FL  32310. Contact person: Mr. Andrew Hanus, phone: (850) 487-3086, e_mail: ahanus@mailer.fsu.edu.  Funds requested: $21,310. Total project cost: $42,620.  Project summary: To replace the master control and the audio console at WFSU-FM (88.9 MHz) and WFSQ-FM (91.5 MHz) in Tallahassee.  The stations serve a population of about 600,000 people.
File no: 00134, City of Cape Coral, , 815 Nicholas Parkway, ,Cape Coral, FL  33990. Contact person: Ms. Judy Pierce, phone: (941) 574-0427, e_mail: ccfin@capecoral.net.  Funds requested: $75,000. Total project cost: $150,000.  Project summary: To assist the City of Cape Coral, FL, to activate a government access channel that will be transmitted on ch. 14 of the local cable television system.  The project would purchase the equipment for a production studio.
File no: 00151, University of Florida, WUFT-TV, 1200 Weimer Hall, University of Florida,Gainesville, FL  32611. Contact person: Mr. Richard Lehner, phone: (352) 392-5551, e_mail: rlehner@wuft.org.  Funds requested: $181,058. Total project cost: $452,643.  Project summary: To replace the 20-year-old transmitter at WUFT-TV, Channel 5 in Gainesville, Florida.  The station serves a population of more than 1.3 million people.
File no: 00178, WJCT-FM, , 100 Festival Park Avenue, ,Jacksonville, FL  32202. Contact person: Mr. David Anderson, phone: (904) 358-6388, e_mail: david_anderson@wjct.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $14,625. Total project cost: $29,250.  Project summary: To replace a 20-year-old audio processor and to expand the digital workstations at WJCT-FM in Jacksonville, Florida.  The station serves a population of more than 1.6 million people.
File no: 00184, School Board of Miami-Dade County, WLRN Public Radio, 172 Northeast 15th Street, ,Miami, FL  33132. Contact person: Mr. Theodore Eldridge, phone: (305) 995-2206, e_mail: teldridge@wlrn.org.  Funds requested: $170,960. Total project cost: $341,920.  Project summary: To expand the signal of WLRN-FM, Miami, by construction of a full power repeater station in Big Pine Key (91.5 MHz), Florida, which will provide first public radio service to about 45,000 residents of the Marathon/Key West area.
File no: 00192, University of Florida, WUFT-TV, 1200 Weimner Hall, ,Gainesville, FL  32611. Contact person: Mr. Richard Lehner, phone: (352) 392-5551, e_mail: rlehner@wuft.org.  Funds requested: $783,506. Total project cost: $1,958,765.  Project summary: A three-phase application for the digital conversion of WUFT in Gainesville.  The total cost of the project is estimated at $1,958,765 and the 40% Federal request is $783,506.  For FY 2000  the request of $194,591 will fund master control equipment including the routing system, master control switcher and a video server.  In FY 2001, the applicant requests $188,340 to purchase and install the antenna and the STL system.  For FY 2002, the request of $400,574 will cover the transmitter and test equipment.  The station serves a population of more than 1.3 million people over a 21-county area of North Central Florida.
File no: 00202, University of South Florida, , 4202 Fowler Avenue, SVC 0001,Tampa, FL  33620. Contact person: Mr. William Buxton, phone: (813) 974-4000, e_mail: wbuxton@wusf.usf.edu.  Funds requested: $736,670. Total project cost: $1,841,676.  Project summary: A two-phase application for the digital conversion of WUSF, Tampa.  Applicant is collaborating with WEDU, the other public broadcasting station in Tampa, to provide the first digital public broadcasting signal to the community.  The total estimated cost of the project is $1,841,676 and the 40% Federal request is $736,670.  In FY 2000, the $297,384 request will fund WUSF's portion of a joint transmission line, combiner and antenna.  Also in FY 2000, the applicant will purchase and install equipment for a master control facility including the routing system, video server, switcher, monitoring and test equipment.  For FY 2001, the applicant requests $439,286 for the transmitter and the STL system.  Currently, WUSF serves a population of over 2.3 million people.  It is anticipated that Digital WUSF will reach over 3.2 million people.
File no: 00242, Barry Telecommunications, Inc., WXEL-FM, 3401 South Congress Avenue, ,Boynton Beach, FL  33426. Contact person: Mr. Philip DiComo, phone: (561) 737-8000, e_mail: pmd@wxel.org.  Funds requested: $107,095. Total project cost: $214,191.  Project summary: To replace the antenna and the antenna line at WXEL-FM, 90.7 MHz in Boynton Beach, Florida.  The new antenna will expand the coverage area of the station to rural areas in western Palm Beach County and southern Martin County and will provide the first public radio service to about 76,000 rural residents of the state.
File no: 00251, Cmmty TV Fdn of South Florida, , 14901 NE 20th Avenue, ,Miami, FL  33181. Contact person: Mr. George Dooley, phone: (305) 949-8321, e_mail: george_dooley@wpbt.org.  Funds requested: $623,885. Total project cost: $1,559,714.  Project summary: To replace failing and obsolete studio cameras at WPBT-TV, Channel 2 in Miami.  The station serves a population of over 4.7 million people.
File no: 00063, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Georgia Public Television, 260 14th Street, NW, ,Atlanta, GA  30318. Contact person: Mr. Claude Vickers, phone: (404) 685-2410, e_mail: cvickers@gpb.org.  Funds requested: $4,029,850. Total project cost: $18,344,400.  Project summary: The application proposes a four-phase project to convert  the applicant's public television facilities to digital broadcasting.  The application proposes 25% Federal funding for a project with a total cost of $18,344,400.  The total Federal request is $4,029,850.  For FY 2000, the applicant requests $222,500 to  purchase digital encoders and related equipment at the Network's headquarters in Atlanta.  For FY 2001, the applicant requests $1,085,250 for  a transmitter, antenna and tower modification at WGTV, Atlanta; antenna installation at WCLP, Chatsworth; and a transmitter and antenna at WDCO, Cochran.   For FY 2002, the applicant requests $1,878,740 for a transmitter and antenna at WCES, Wren; a transmitter, antenna and tower modifications at WJSP, Warm Springs; a transmitter, antenna  and tower modification at WVAN, Pembroke; a transmitter, antenna  and tower modification at WXGA, Waycross.  For FY 2003, the applicant requests $843,350 for a transmitter, antenna and tower modification at WABW, Pelham; and a transmitter, antenna and tower modification for WACS, Dawson.  The applicant provides public television services to the entire state of Georgia.
File no: 00191, Valdosta State University, , 1500 North Patterson Street, ,Valdosta, GA  31698. Contact person: Mr. Mike Savoie, phone: (912) 333-5820, e_mail: mpsavoie@valdost.edu.  Funds requested: $535,575. Total project cost: $923,915.  Project summary: To improve the equipment inventory of the community access cable television studio of Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA.  The project would include a video server that would allow the University to extend the University's instructional programming via web-casting to learning audiences it cannot now reach.
File no: 00225, West Georgia Telecommunications, , 201 Tanner Street, ,Carrollton, GA  30117. Contact person: Dr. Joseph Huff, phone: (770) 834-8611, e_mail: josephhuff@aol.com.  Funds requested: $494,577. Total project cost: $1,109,956.  Project summary: To extend the videoconferencing and Internet distance learning system of the West Georgia Telecommunications Alliance, Inc., Carrollton, GA , to presently unserved learning audiences in Haralson and Carroll Counties.
File no: 00226, Clark Atlanta University, Division of Communications Arts, 111 James P. Brawley Drive, SW, ,Atlanta, GA  30314. Contact person: Dr. Gloria James, phone: (404) 880-8302, e_mail: gjames@cau.edu.  Funds requested: $120,214. Total project cost: $240,425.  Project summary: To improve the transmission and production facilities of WCLK(FM), operating on 91.9 MHz in Atlanta, by replacing an obsolete 18 year old antenna and transmitter.  A new directional antenna and more powerful transmitter would permit an increase in power to cover an additional 700,000 people.   The application also requests replacement of an audio console and other production equipment.  The applicant currently serves 1.2 million people in the Atlanta area.
File no: 00258, Fort Valley State University, , 1005 State University Drive, ,Fort Valley, GA  31030. Contact person: Dr. Linda Hall, phone: (912) 825-6369, e_mail: HallL@mail.fvsu.edu.  Funds requested: $276,679. Total project cost: $368,905.  Project summary: To expand the Webcasting capabilities of noncommercial station WFVS, a carrier current station broadcasting on 530 KHz in Fort Valley, by purchasing RealServer software and related computer equipment.  The application also requests funding for equipment to extend the carrier current signal of the station throughout the college campus.
File no: 00147, University of Guam, Center for Continuing Education, UOG Station, ,Mangilao, GU  96923. Contact person: Ms. Maria Pangelinan, phone: (671) 735-2620, e_mail: mpane@uog9.uog.edu.  Funds requested: $301,729. Total project cost: $301,729.  Project summary: To help the University of Guam establish a video-based distance learning system that would interconnect numerous academic and health-related institutions on Guam with each other and with other Pacific Islands.  The proposal would be implemented by the Guam Education NETwork (GENET), which embraces the University, the Guam Department of Education, Guam Community College, the Guam Memorial Hospital Authority, the Pan-Pacific Education and Communication Experiements by Satellite (PEACESAT) program, and the Pacific Resources for Education and Learning.
File no: 00279, University of Hawaii, Social Science Res. Institute, 2530 Dole St., Sakamaki Hall D-200,Honolulu, HI  96822. Contact person: Dr. Norman Okamura, phone: (808) 956-2909, e_mail: .  Funds requested: $449,865. Total project cost: $525,343.  Project summary: 
File no: 00008, University of Northern Iowa, KUNI, 324 Communication Arts Center, ,Cedar Falls, IA  50614. Contact person: Ms. Barbara Reid, phone: (319) 273-6325, e_mail: barbara.reid@uni.edu.  Funds requested: $45,155. Total project cost: $90,310.  Project summary: To improve the operation of public radio station KUNI, 90.9 MHz, Cedar Falls, IA, and its two full-power repeaters and five medium-power translators by replacing the remote control system that ties them all together.  The project would also replace an audio production console.  This system serves a population of about 1,213,130.
File no: 00010, University of Northern Iowa, KUNI, 324 Communication Arts Center, ,Cedar Falls, IA  50614. Contact person: Ms. Barbara Reid, phone: (319) 273-6325, e_mail: barbara.reid@uni.edu.  Funds requested: $19,142. Total project cost: $38,285.  Project summary: To extend the signal of public radio station KUNI, 90.9 MHz, Cedar Falls, IA, by activating a repeater at 89.5 MHz in Oskaloosa, IA, to bring the first public radio signal to a population of about 14,979.
File no: 00113, Iowa Public Television, , 6450 Corporate Drive, ,Johnston, IA  50131. Contact person: Mr. Dennis Malloy, phone: (515) 242-3106, e_mail: dennis@iptv.org.  Funds requested: $126,106. Total project cost: $504,423.  Project summary: To improve the production capability of Iowa Public Television, Johnston, IA, by replacing its post-production analog editing equipment with digital equipment.  The Iowa state network serves a population of about 3.6 million people.
File no: 00114, Iowa Public Television, , 6450 Corporate Drive, ,Johnston, IA  50131. Contact person: Mr. Dennis Malloy, phone: (515) 242-3106, e_mail: dennis@iptv.org.  Funds requested: $199,075. Total project cost: $796,303.  Project summary: To improve the signal of public television station KDIN, ch. 11, Des Moines, IA, by replacing its worn out and obsolete transmitter.  The station serves a population of about 933,000 people and is part of Iowa Public Television.
File no: 00203, Iowa State University, WOI-AM/FM, 2022 Communications Building, ,Ames, IA  50011. Contact person: Mr. William McGinley, phone: (515) 294-9478, e_mail: mcginley@iastate.edu.  Funds requested: $142,254. Total project cost: $189,673.  Project summary: To extend the service area of public radio station WOI-FM, 90.1 MHz, Ames, IA, by constructing a repeater in Carroll, IA, to bring the first public radio signal to about 21,533 people.  WOI-FM presently serves a population of about 185,000 people.
File no: 00204, Iowa State University, WOI-FM, 2022 Communications Building, ,Ames, IA  50011. Contact person: Mr. William McGinley, phone: (515) 294-9478, e_mail: mcginley@iastate.edu.  Funds requested: $193,505. Total project cost: $258,007.  Project summary: To extend the service area of public radio station WOI-FM, 90.1 MHz, Ames, IA, by constructing a repeater in Lake Okoboji IA, to bring the first public radio signal to about 17,226 people.  WOI-FM presently serves a population of about 185,000 people.
File no: 00227, Iowa Public Television, KRIN-DT, 6450 Corporate Drive, ,Johnston, IA  50131. Contact person: Mr. Dennis Malloy, phone: (515) 242-3106, e_mail: dennis@iptv.org.  Funds requested: $392,548. Total project cost: $1,570,191.  Project summary: To convert public television station KRIN, Waterloo, IA, to digital broadcasting.  The estimated total project cost is $1,570,191 with a 25% Federal request of $392,548 to purchase a digital transmitter, antenna, and transmission line.  KRIN serves a population of about 751,000 people.
File no: 00271, Iowa State University, WOI-AM/FM, 2022 Communications Building, ,Ames, IA  50011. Contact person: Mr. William McGinley, phone: (515) 294-9478, e_mail: mcginley@iastate.edu.  Funds requested: $197,924. Total project cost: $395,849.  Project summary: To improve the operation of public radio stations WOI-AM/FM, Ames, IA, by replacing worn out and obsolete origination equipment, including audio consoles, DAT players, a routing switcher, and a hard disk storage system.  The stations serve a population of about 1,094,443 people.
File no: 00158, Idaho Public Television, Station KAID-TV, 1455 North Orchard, ,Boise, ID  83706. Contact person: Mr. Phillip Kottraba, phone: (208) 373-7220, e_mail: phillip_kottraba@idptv.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $727,140. Total project cost: $2,908,561.  Project summary: To convert the Boise public television station, KAID, of Idaho Public Television to digital transmission.  The estimated total project cost is $2,908,561 with a 25% Federal request of $727,140 to purchase a digital transmitter, antenna, STL, tower, a video server, a routing switcher, encoders, data multiplexer, a satellite receiver, an automation system, and test equipment.  The station serves a population of about 395,000 people.
File no: 00263, Boise State University Fndn, KBSU/KBSX, 1910 University Drive, ,Boise, ID  83725. Contact person: Dr. James Paluzzi, phone: (208) 426-3663, e_mail: jpaluzzi@boisestate.edu.  Funds requested: $252,323. Total project cost: $504,647.  Project summary: 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.  Project will be carried out in association with the commercial television station with which the stations must be co-located because of  channel 6 protection issues, plus three other broadcasters.  The stations serve a population of about 400,000,  KBSU-FM is the flagship station of the BSU Radio Network, feeding programing to other stations, and it is also a relay station for the Emergency Alert System.
File no: 00033, Black Hawk College, WQPT, 6600 34th Avenue, ,Moline, IL  61265. Contact person: Mr. Rick Best, phone: (309) 796-2424, e_mail: best@bhcl.bhc.edu.  Funds requested: $109,860. Total project cost: $219,720.  Project summary: 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: 00034, Black Hawk College, , 6600 34th Street, ,Moline, IL  61265. Contact person: Mr. Rick Best, phone: (309) 796-2424, e_mail: bestr@bhcl.bhc.edu.  Funds requested: $38,813. Total project cost: $51,750.  Project summary: To continue the translator service to Sterling, IL, by public television station WQPT, ch. 24, Moline, IL, by switching it from channel 61 to channel 38 in compliance with FCC requirements.  The translator serves a population of about 104,000 people.
File no: 00038, Window to the World Communications, Station WTTW, 5400 North St. Louis Avenue, ,Chicago, IL  60625. Contact person: Mr. Martin McLaughlin, phone: (773) 509-5433, e_mail: .  Funds requested: $918,699. Total project cost: $1,837,398.  Project summary: To convert public television station WTTW, Chicago, IL, to digital broadcasting.  The estimated total project cost is $1,837,398 with a 50% Federal request of $918,699 to purchase a digital transmitter and antenna, transmission line, tower modification, STL, a server, a switcher, an encoder, and test and monitoring equipment.  The station serves a population of about 10.5 million people.
File no: 00069, Southern Illinois University, WSIU, Communications Building, Room 1048-6602,Carbondale, IL  62901. Contact person: Mr. Tom Godell, phone: (618) 453-6179, e_mail: tgodell@siu.edu.  Funds requested: $123,562. Total project cost: $173,750.  Project summary: To extend the coverage of public radio station WSIU, 91.9 MHz, Carbondale, IL, by activating a repeater at 88.9 MHz in Mt. Vernon, IL.  The new station will bring the first public radio signal to about 56,000 people.  The application will also replace three production mixers at WSIU.  The Carbondale station presently serves a population of about 275,000 pesons.
File no: 00144, Loyola University Chicago, , 820 North Michigan Avenue, ,Chicago, IL  60611. Contact person: Ms. Shawn Campbell, phone: (312) 915-6834, e_mail: scampb5@luc.edu.  Funds requested: $45,667. Total project cost: $91,335.  Project summary: To improve the operation of public radio station WLUW, 88.7 MHz, Chicago, IL, by replacing its STL and various items of production equipment, including digital editing, minidisc players, DAT recorders, and cart machines.  The station serves an estimated population of 3 million people.
File no: 00175, University of Illinois, WILL-AM/FM, 801 South Wright, 109 Coble Hall,Champaign, IL  61820. Contact person: Mr. J.J. Kamerer, phone: (217) 333-2187, e_mail: jkamerer@uius.edu.  Funds requested: $15,309. Total project cost: $30,618.  Project summary: To improve the operational reliability of WILL-AM, 580 KHz, Champaign, IL, by replacing the remote control system for its transmitter.  The station serves a population of about 469,000 people.
File no: 00233, LPE Foundation, , 1919 Prairie Square  -- #113, ,Schaumburg, IL  60173. Contact person: Mr. Wilfred Flowers, phone: (847) 925-1058, e_mail: lpeorg@flash.net.  Funds requested: $1,952,270. Total project cost: $0.  Project summary: To activate three additional public radio stations to serve about 130,000 persons in the Bloomington/Normal, IL, area.
File no: 00241, University of Illinois, WILL-TV, 801 South Wright, 109 Coble Hall,Champaign, IL  61820. Contact person: Mr. J. J. Kamerer, phone: (217) 333-2187, e_mail: jkamerer@uiuc.edu.  Funds requested: $669,579. Total project cost: $2,678,319.  Project summary: A two-phase project for the digital conversion of public station WILL-TV, Urbana, IL.  The estimated total project cost is $2,678,319 with a 25% Federal request of $669,579.  For FY 2000, the application seeks $502,223 to purchase a digital transmitter, antenna, STL, tower modifications, and test equipment.  For FY 2001, the application seeks $167,366 to purchase an encoder, server, and an analog/digitial converter.  The station serves a population of about 1.5 million people.
File no: 00259, West Central Illinois Ed. T/C Corp., , c/o U of Illinois at Springfield, 4900 Shepherd Rd, Bldg K, Rm 64,Springfield, IL  62703. Contact person: Dr. Jerold Gruebel, phone: (217) 206-6647, e_mail: Jerry_Gruebel.wmec.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $7,574,118. Total project cost: $11,304,655.  Project summary: A two-phase application for the digital conversion of the public television stations of the West Central Illinois Educational Telecommunications Corporation, Springfield, IL.  The estimated total project cost is $11,304,655 with a 67% Federal request of $7,574,118.  For FY 2000, the application requests $2,980,736 to purchase for WSEC, Springfield, a digital transmitter, an analog antenna, a tower, transmission line,  encoders, a server, STL, microwave tower, equipment shelter, and test equipment.  For FY 2001, the application requests $4,593,382 to purchase for WQEC, Quincy, and WMEC, Macomb, digital transmitters, digital and analog antennas, transmission line, equipment shelters, encoders and decoders, tower modification, servers, microwave towers, STLs, and test equipment.
File no: 00260, Illinois Valley Public T/C Corp., , 1501 West Bradley Avenue, ,Peoria, IL  61625. Contact person: Mr. Chester Tomczyk, phone: (309) 677-4747, e_mail: chet_tomczyk@wtvp.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $866,204. Total project cost: $2,165,511.  Project summary: To convert public television station WTVP, Peoria, IL, to digital broadcasting.  The estimated total project cost is $2,165,511 with a 40% Federal request of $866,204 to purchase a digital transmitter, a combiner, an encoder, a router, a server, an STL with antenna, and test equipment.  The station serves a population of about 763,400 people.
File no: 00055, Michiana Public Broadcasting Corp., , 2300 Charger Boulevard, ,Elkhart, IN  46514. Contact person: Ms. Trina Cutter, phone: (219) 675-9648, e_mail: Trina_Cutter@WNIT.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $1,204,787. Total project cost: $3,650,753.  Project summary: A three-phase application for the digital conversion of public television station WNIT, Elkhart, IN.  The estimated total project cost is $3,650,753 with a 33% Federal request of $1,204,787.  For FY 2000, the application requests $549,914 to purchase switchers, analog/digital converter, frame synchronizers, and digital recorders.  For FY 2001, the application requests $78,450 to purchase a digital transmitter, an antenna, a tower, transmission line, an encoder, and monitoring.  For FY 2002, the application requests $576,423 to purchase a switcher, and master control SD expansion.  The station serves a population of 994,329.
File no: 00130, Tri-State Public Teleplex, Inc., , 405 Carpenter Street, ,Evansville, IN  47630. Contact person: Mr. David Dial, phone: (812) 423-2973, e_mail: dldial@ wnin.org.  Funds requested: $732,000. Total project cost: $1,464,000.  Project summary: To begin the digital conversion of public station WNIN-TV, Evansville, IN.  The estimated total project cost is $1,464,000 with a 50% Federal request of $732,000 to purchase a new tower and transmission line.  The station serves a population of about 750,000 people.
File no: 00143, Indiana University, Radio & Television Services, P. O. Box 1847, 107 S. Indiana Avenue, Room 001,Bloomington, IN  47402. Contact person: Mr. Barrie Zimmerman, phone: (812) 855-2898, e_mail: blzimmer@indiana.edu.  Funds requested: $96,480. Total project cost: $241,200.  Project summary: To continue the digital conversion of public television station WTIU, Bloomington, IN, by acquiring items of master control equipment, including video and audio routers, analog/digital-digital/analog converters, a video server, and monitors.  The estimated total project cost is $241,200 with a 40% Federal request of $96,480.  WTIU serves a population of about 490,000.
File no: 00244, Metro Indianapolis Public Bdcstng, , 1401 North Meridian Street, ,Indianapolis, IN  46202. Contact person: Mr. Lloyd Wright, phone: (317) 636-2020, e_mail: lwright@wfyi.org.  Funds requested: $13,750. Total project cost: $27,500.  Project summary: To improve the program origination capability of public station WFYI-FM, 90.1 MHz, Indianapolis, IN, by replacing a faulty 16-channel audio console.  The station serves a population of about 2 million people.
File no: 00247, Metro Indianapolis Public Bdcstng, WFYI-TV, 1401 North Meridian Street, ,Indianapolis, IN  46202. Contact person: Mr. Lloyd Wright, phone: (317) 636-2020, e_mail: lwright@wfyi.org.  Funds requested: $184,000. Total project cost: $460,000.  Project summary: To assist the digital conversion of public station WFYI-TV, Indianapolis, IN.  The estimated total project cost is $460,000 with a 40% Federal request of $184,000 to purchase an antenna system.  The new antenna will ultimately also be used by public television station WTBU, Indianapolis, when it converts to digital broadcasting.  WFYI-TV serves a population of about 2 million people.
File no: 00248, Fort Wayne Public Television, Inc., PBS-39, 3632 Butler Road, P. O. Box 39,Fort Wayne, IN  46808. Contact person: Mr. Roger Rhodes, phone: (219) 484-8839, e_mail: roger_rhodes@wfwa.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $98,297. Total project cost: $196,594.  Project summary: To improve the operation of public television station WFWA, ch. 39, Fort Wayne, IN, by replacing its obsolete routing switcher.  The station serves a population of about 300,000 people.
File no: 00274, Ball State University, WIPB-TV, Edmund F. Ball Building, 2000 University Avenue,Muncie, IN  47306. Contact person: Mr. Robert Smith, phone: (765) 285-1779, e_mail: bsmith@teleplex.bsu.edu.  Funds requested: $518,650. Total project cost: $1,296,625.  Project summary: To convert public television station WIPB, Muncie, IN, to digital broadcasting.  The estimated total project cost is $1,296,625 with a 40% Federal request of $518,650 to purchase a digital transmitter, antenna, STL, transmission line, and an ATSC encoder.  The station serves a population of about 875,000 people.
File no: 00016, Kansas Public Telecommun. Service, Station KPTS-TV, 320 West 21st Street North, ,Wichita, KS  67203. Contact person: Mrs. Vera Aikman, phone: (316) 838-3090, e_mail: vaikman@mail.kpts.org.  Funds requested: $131,960. Total project cost: $263,920.  Project summary: To improve public television station KPTS-TV, Ch. 8, in Wichita, by replacing the 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, 3 fiber optic encoders and decoders.  Station serves about 588,000  people.
File no: 00087, Washburn University of Topeka, , 1700 College Avenue, ,Topeka, KS  66621-1100. Contact person: Mr. Eugene Williams, phone: (785) 231-1111, e_mail: zzewill@ktwu.washburn.edu.  Funds requested: $3,703,389. Total project cost: $5,527,447.  Project summary: A three-year application for the digital conversion of KTWU-TV in Topeka.  The total estimated project cost is $5,527,447 with a 67% Federal request of $3,703,389.    For FY 2000, the applicant requests $1,600,909 for equipment including a new tower, foundation, transmission line, diplexer and installation costs.   For FY 2001, the applicant seeks $1,113,962 for transmitter, antenna microwave, fibre optic STL, related dissemination items, satellite interconnection equipment and test equipment.  For FY 2002, the applicant seeks $988,518  for HDTV satellite receiver, master control system, VTR's, encoders, up and down converters, associated equipment and test/monitoring equipment.
File no: 00177, Kanza Society, Inc., , 210 North 7th Street, ,Garden City, KS  67846. Contact person: Mr. Brian Gibbons, phone: (318) 275-7444, e_mail: hpprexec@pld.com.  Funds requested: $556,574. Total project cost: $742,099.  Project summary: To activate a new public radio satellite/repeater station on 89.5 MHz in 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: 00089, Eastern Kentucky University, WEKU-FM, 102 Perkins Building, ,Richmond, KY  40475. Contact person: Dr. Fred Kolloff, phone: (606) 622-2474, e_mail: kmrkollf@acs.eku.edu.  Funds requested: $115,341. Total project cost: $153,788.  Project summary: 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: 00176, City of Sparta Police & Fire Dept., , Highway 465, Box 40, ,Sparta, KY  41086. Contact person: Mr. William Ping, phone: (606) 643-4000, e_mail: spartacops@aol.com.  Funds requested: $75,749. Total project cost: $104,024.  Project summary: 
File no: 00185, Kentucky Authority for ETV, , 600 Cooper Drive, ,Lexington, KY  40502. Contact person: Mrs. Virginia Fox, phone: (606) 258-7000, e_mail: gfox@ket.org.  Funds requested: $4,481,053. Total project cost: $17,924,214.  Project summary: To convert the Kentucky Educational Television system to digital broadcasting.  The project requests $4,481,053, which is 25% of the total project cost of $17,924,214.  The applicant will replace analog transmitters at WKMA, Madisonville; WKZT, Elizabethtown; WKOH, Owensboro; and  WKPD, Paducah.  The applicant also requestings funding for a digital transmitter, antenna, encoders and satelliite interconnect at each of its stations--- WKAS, Ashland; WKGB,Bowling Green; WCVN, Covington; WKZT, Elizabethtown; WKHA, Hazard; WKLE, Lexington/Richmond; WKMA, Madinsonville; WKMR, Morehead; WKMU,  Murray/Mayfield; WKOH, Owensboro/Henderson; WKON, Owenton;  WKMJ, Lousiville; WKPD, Paducah; WKPI, Pikeville and WKSO,Somerset.  The applicant provides public television service to the entire state of Kentucky.
File no: 00250, Morehead State University, , 124 Henry Ward Place, ,Morehead, KY  40351. Contact person: Mr. Dan Conti, phone: (606) 783-2333, e_mail: d.conti@morehead-st.edu.  Funds requested: $18,986. Total project cost: $37,972.  Project summary: To improve public radio station WMKY(FM), operating on 90.3 MHZ in Morehead, KY by replacing a 16 year old audio console and purchasing digital workstations, DAT recorders and a server to improve the station's news and public affairs programming.  WMKY provides public radio service to 155,000 people in eastern Kentucky, and adjacent areas of West Virginia and Ohio.
File no: 00007, Louisiana Public Broadcasting, , 7733 Perkins Road, ,Baton Rouge, LA  70810. Contact person: Ms. Cindy Rougeou, phone: (225) 767-4452, e_mail: crougeou@lpb.org.  Funds requested: $2,016,630. Total project cost: $8,066,520.  Project summary: A three-phase application to convert the six stations of the Louisiana Educational Television Authority to digital broadcasting.  The applicant requests $2,016,630 which is 25% of the total project cost of $8,066,520.  The first phase of the application requests $820,230 for FY 2000 to purchase master control equipment at the network's headquarters in Baton Rouge, as well as a tower modification for WLPB Baton Rouge and a transmitter, antenna and tower modification for KLTS Shreveport.  For FY 2001, the application requests $623,200 for a transmitter, antenna and tower modification at KLTL Lake Charles and a transmitter and antenna at KLPB, Lafayette.  For 2002, the project includes a transmitter at WLPB, Baton Rouge, a transmitter and antenna at KLTM Monroe and a transmitter, antenna and tower modification at KLPA, Alexandria.
File no: 00171, Educational Broadcasting Foundation, Station WLAE-TV, 3330 North Causeway Boulevard, ,Metairie, LA  70002. Contact person: Mr. John Pela, phone: (504) 830-3709, e_mail: jpela@wlae.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $1,784,200. Total project cost: $4,460,500.  Project summary: This is a three-phase digital television conversion cooperative application by WLAE and WYES in New Orleans.  WLAE, the lead applicant, seeks a 40% Federal  request, $1,784,200, of the estimated total project cost of $4,460,500.   For FY 2000, WLAE seeks $41,800 for tower structural analysis, repair and study, while WYES requests $34,400 for a transmission line.  For FY 2001, WLAE seeks $429,800 for transmitter, antenna, antenna line and associated items,  while WYES requests $335,800 for transmitter, combiner, demod, analyzer and associated items.  In FY 2002, WLAE and WYES together will obtain servers, routers, a switcher,  encoders and similar items which will be housed in a new facility that will be occupied by both entities.
File no: 00103, Boston University, WBUR Group, 890 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston University,Boston, MA  02215. Contact person: Mr. Stephen Elman, phone: (617) 353-0909, e_mail: selman@wbur.bu.edu.  Funds requested: $253,521. Total project cost: $507,043.  Project summary: To maintain and upgrade the program service of WRNI-AM, 1290 kHz in Providence, Rhode Island, by replacing a failing antenna system and building a production studio for local origination.  WRNI provides the only public broadcasting signal to about 94,000 people and the first local origination programming to more than 700,000 residents of Rhode Island.
File no: 00110, Technology Broadcasting Corporation, WMBR, 3 Ames Street, ,Cambridge, MA  02142. Contact person: Mr. Generoso Fierro, phone: (781) 648-1159, e_mail: bvoineska@hotmail.com.  Funds requested: $12,156. Total project cost: $16,208.  Project summary: To replace a malfunctioning stereo generator and to increase the bandwith for the Internet stream by purchasing newer computer hardware and software for WMBR-FM, 88.1 MHz in Cambridge, MA.  The station serves a population of over 5 million people.
File no: 00115, University of Massachusetts/Boston, , 100 Morrissey Boulevard, ,Boston, MA  02125. Contact person: Ms. Patricia Monteith, phone: (617) 287-6905, e_mail: pat.monteith@umb.edu.  Funds requested: $31,526. Total project cost: $63,053.  Project summary: To improve the facilities of WUMB-FM, 91.9 MHz in Boston, by replacing old and failing production equipment including the console, cart machines, editing system, CD players, mini-disc decks, speakers and a work station.  The station serves a population of over 1.5 million people.
File no: 00126, WGBH Educational Foundation, Production Service Division, 125 Western Avenue, ,Boston, MA  02134. Contact person: Mr. Andrew Griffiths, phone: (617) 300-2407, e_mail: andrew_griffiths@wgbh.org.  Funds requested: $122,500. Total project cost: $490,000.  Project summary: To replace a 22-year-old analog transmitter at WGBH-TV, Channel 2 in Boston.  The station serves a population of over 5.5 million people.
File no: 00127, WGBH Educational Foundation, Production Service Division, 125 Western Avenue, ,Boston, MA  02134. Contact person: Mr. Andrew Griffiths, phone: (617) 300-2407, e_mail: andrew_griffiths@wgbh.org.  Funds requested: $628,768. Total project cost: $2,515,070.  Project summary: A three-phase application for partial support of the digital conversion of WGBH/WGBX in Boston and WGBY in Springfield.  The total estimated cost of the proposed project is $2,515,070 with a 25% Federal request of $628,768.  For FY 2000, the request of $245,250 will cover digital routing systems, video servers, converters and monitors for the master control facilities of WGBH and WGBY.  In FY 2001 the applicant's request of $83,517 will be used to complete the master control requirements.  The $300,000 requested in FY 2002 will support the WGBX digital transmitter.  The stations serve a population of over 5.5 million people.
File no: 00166, University of Massachusetts, Boston, WUMB-FM, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, ,Boston, MA  02125. Contact person: Ms. Patricia Monteith, phone: (617) 287-6905, e_mail: pat.monteith@umb.edu.  Funds requested: $60,025. Total project cost: $80,034.  Project summary: Construction of a new radio station in Newburyport, Massachusetts (91.7 MHz), which will provide first public radio service to more than 54,000 residents of northeastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire.  The station will repeat the signal of WUMB, Boston.
File no: 00085, Maryland Public Television, WMPT/WMPB TV, 11767 Owings Mills Boulevard, ,Owings Mills, MD  21117. Contact person: Mr. Robert Sestili, phone: (410) 581-4297, e_mail: rsestili@mpt.org.  Funds requested: $4,026,750. Total project cost: $16,107,000.  Project summary: A three-phase project for the digital conversion of the six stations of the Maryland Public Television Network.  The total estimated project cost is $16,107,000 and the 25% Federal request is $4,026,750.  For FY 2000, the request of $1,841,250 covers construction of a tower and purchase and installation of the antenna, line, STL, encoders, test and monitoring equipment for WMPT in Annapolis.  Also in FY 2000, the applicant will construct a tower for WMPB in Baltimore and install the antenna, transmitter, line, STL, encoders and test equipment.  For FY 2001, the request of $1,298,000 will fund a tower for WFPT in Frederick and strengthen the tower of WWPB in Hagerstown.  It will also purchase and install antennas, transmitters, lines, STLs, encoders and test equipment for the Frederick and Hagerstown stations.  In FY 2002, the applicant requested $887,500 to convert WGPT in Oakland and WCPB in Salisbury.  The Network serves a population of over 6.8 million residents of Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
File no: 00139, Univ. of Maryland Eastern Shore, WESM-FM, Backbone Road, ,Princess Anne, MD  21853. Contact person: Mr. Anthony Hunt, phone: (410) 651-8001, e_mail: ajhunt@mail.umes.edu.  Funds requested: $39,210. Total project cost: $78,420.  Project summary: To improve the facilities of WESM-FM, 91.3 MHz in Princess Anne, MD, by replacing the automation system and the audio processor.  The station serves a population of more than 142,000 people.
File no: 00013, Maine Public Broadcasting Corp., , 65 Texas Avenue, ,Bangor, ME  04401. Contact person: Mr. Alexander Maxwell, phone: (207) 941-1010, e_mail: gmaxwell@mpbc.org.  Funds requested: $266,475. Total project cost: $532,950.  Project summary: Maine Public Broadcasting will construct a repeater station in the Camden/Rockport area (WMEP-FM) and a second repeater station in Skowhegan (WHQO-FM) at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.  The two repeater stations will provide first public radio programming to over 61,000 people and additional public radio services to about 78,000 residents of the state of Maine.
File no: 00029, Maine Public Broadcasting Corp., , 65 Texas Avenue, ,Bangor, ME  04401. Contact person: Mr. Alexander Maxwell, phone: (207) 941-1010, e_mail: gmaxwell@mpbc.org.  Funds requested: $1,737,375. Total project cost: $6,949,500.  Project summary: A three-phase project for the digital conversion of the entire state network including four transmitters, 10 STL microwave links, master control, and a remote control system.  The total estimated project cost is $6,949,500 and the Federal request is $1,737,375, which represents 25% of the total cost.  The FY2000 request of $452,500 will cover the towers, antennas and lines for WMEB-TV (Bangor), WMEA-TV (Biddeford) and WMEM-TV (Presque Isle).  In FY2001, the applicant is requesting $553,875 for the network microwave and master control, and for the tower, antenna and line at WMED-TV (Calais).  The FY2002 request of $731,000 will cover the purchase and installation of the DTV transmitters for the entire network.
File no: 00012, Northern Michigan University, WNMU, 1401 Presque Isle Ave., ,Marquette, MI  49855. Contact person: Mr. Scott Seaman, phone: (906) 277-1300, e_mail: sseaman@nmu.edu.  Funds requested: $135,000. Total project cost: $270,000.  Project summary: To improve the production facilities of WNMU-TV, operating on Ch. 13 in Marquette, by replacing  14-17 year old studio and EFP cameras with digital equipment.  The applicant provides public television services to 250,000 people in the Northern Peninsula of Michigan and adjoining areas of Wisconsin.
File no: 00024, University of Michigan, , Mott Memmorial Building, 1321 East Court Street,Flint, MI  48503. Contact person: Mr. Leon Collins, phone: (810) 762-3028, e_mail: leonc@umich.edu.  Funds requested: $1,147,794. Total project cost: $2,869,486.  Project summary: The application is a two phase project to convert WFUM(TV) Flint to digital broadcasting.  The applicant is requesting total Federal funds of $1,147,794, which is 40% of the total project cost of $2,869,486.  For FY 2000, the applicant requests $743,398 for purchase of an analog transmitter which would double its power, a broadband antenna for analog and digital use and a STL.  For FY 2001, the applicant requests $404,396  for purchase of a digital transmitter and encoding equipment.  WFUM serves  2.6 million people in the area surrounding Flint.
File no: 00076, Northern Michigan University, WNMU-TV, 1401 Presque Isle Avenue, ,Marquette, MI  49855. Contact person: Mr. Scott Seaman, phone: (906) 227-1300, e_mail: sseaman@nmu.edu.  Funds requested: $1,210,601. Total project cost: $1,806,868.  Project summary: The project will convert WNMU-TV to digital broadcasting.  The applicant requests $1,21,601, which is 67% of the total project cost of $1,806,868.  The project will purchase a digital transmitter, antenna, tower modification, STL, switcher, server and encoder.   WNMU serves 250,000 people in Northern Michigan.
File no: 00120, Central Michigan University, CMU Public Broadcasting, Public Broadcasting Center, 1999 East Campus Drive,Mt. Pleasant, MI  48859. Contact person: Mr. Thomas Hunt, phone: (517) 774-3105, e_mail: huntltm@mail.cmich.edu.  Funds requested: $71,366. Total project cost: $142,732.  Project summary: To improve the transmission facilities of public radio station WCMU(FM), operating on 89.5 MHz in Mt. Pleasant by replacing the station's 28 year old antenna and transmitter.  The station provides public radio service to 422,000 people.
File no: 00140, Central Michigan University, CMU Public Broadcasting, 1999 East Campus Drive, ,Mt. Pleasant, MI  48859. Contact person: Dr. Edward Grant, phone: (517) 774-3105, e_mail: grantleb@mail.cmich.edu.  Funds requested: $9,353,003. Total project cost: $13,959,705.  Project summary: The application proposes a  three-phase project to convert four public television stations to digital broadcasting.  The applicant requests Federal funding of $9,353,003, which is 67% of the total project cost of $13,959,705.  For FY 2000, the applicant requests $4,013,534 for the purchase of a 1,000 ft. tower and an antenna at four sites: WCMU, Mt. Pleasant; WCML, Alpena;  WCMW, Manistee; and WCMV, Cadillac.   For FY 2001, the applicant requests $ 4,106,669 for the purchase of transmitters at each of the four locations and  a six hop microwave interconnection system.  For FY 2002, the applicant requests $1,232,800 for the purchase of a routing switcher, video server, and digital encoders.   The applicant provides public television service to 1.2 million people throughout the central and northern portion of the lower peninsula of Michigan.
File no: 00161, Grand Valley State University, , 301 West Fulton, Room 820,Grand Rapids, MI  49504. Contact person: Mr. Michael Walenta, phone: (616) 771-6666, e_mail: walentam@gvsu.edu.  Funds requested: $1,381,622. Total project cost: $3,454,055.  Project summary: This application is a two-phase project to convert to digital broadcasting.  The Federal request of $1,381,622 is 40% of the total project cost of $3,454,055.  In FY 2000, the applicant requests $823,600 for purchase of a transmitter, antenna, tower upgrade, STL, server, and encoder at WGVU, Grand Rapids.  For FY 2001, the applicant requests  $558,022 for purchase of a  transmitter, antenna, tower upgrade and STL for WGVK, Kalamazoo.  The applicant provides public television services to 1 million people.
File no: 00224, Wayne State University, Detroit Radio Information Srvc, WDET, 4600 Cass Avenue,Detroit, MI  48201. Contact person: Ms. Kimberly Walsh, phone: (313) 577-7684, e_mail: kwalsh@wdetfm.org.  Funds requested: $9,617. Total project cost: $19,234.  Project summary: To improve the facilities of the Detroit Radio Information Service (DRIS) broadcast on the SCA channel of WDET(FM), 101.9 MHz, Detroit.  The application will replace an audio record/playback and automation system with a digital audio hard disk storage system.
File no: 00228, Delta College, WDCQ/WDCP-TV, 1961 Delta Road, ,University Center, MI  48710. Contact person: Mr. Barry Baker, phone: (517) 686-9346, e_mail: bgbaker@alpha.delta.edu.  Funds requested: $3,873,273. Total project cost: $5,781,004.  Project summary: The applicant proposes a three-phase project to convert two public television stations to digital broadcasting.  The applicant requests $3,873,273  in Federal funds, which is 67% of the total project cost of $5,781,004.  For FY 2000, the application requests $636,500 to purchase a 1,000 ft. tower for WDCP, Saginaw.  For FY 2001, the application requests  $813,561 for a switcher, encoders , and a server at the headquarters in University center.  For FY 2002, the application requests $2,423,212 for a transmitter, antenna  for WDCP, Saginaw and for a transmitter, antenna, 500 ft. tower and microwave for WDCQ, University Center.
File no: 00015, Twin Cities Public Television, Inc., , 172 East 4th Street, ,Saint Paul, MN  55101. Contact person: Mr. Bruce Jacobs, phone: (651) 222-1717, e_mail: bjacobs@KTCA.org.  Funds requested: $331,076. Total project cost: $827,690.  Project summary: To improve the production capability of the applicant's two public television stations, KTCA and KTCI, by replacing three 13 year old tube cameras with high definition digital equipment.  Twin Cities Public Television serves 3.3 million people in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area.
File no: 00023, Twin Cities Public Television,Inc, , 172 East 4th Street, ,Saint Paul, MN  55101. Contact person: Mr. Bruce Jacobs, phone: (651) 222-1717, e_mail: bjacobs@KTCA.org.  Funds requested: $546,087. Total project cost: $1,365,219.  Project summary: The project will convert public television station KTCA to digital broadcasting.  The applicant requests $546,087, which is 40% of the total project cost of $1,365,219.  The project will  purchase a transmitter and STL.  KTCA and its related station KTCI provide public television service to over 3 million people in the Minneapolis/St. Paul region.
File no: 00037, Northern Minnesota PTV, Inc., KAWE, BSU, Box 9, 1500 Birchmont Drive, N.E,Bemidji, MN  56601. Contact person: Mr. Bill Sanford, phone: (218) 751-3407, e_mail: bsanford@lakelandptv.org.  Funds requested: $195,840. Total project cost: $261,120.  Project summary: To improve the production facilities of public television station KAWE, operating on  Ch. 9, Bemidji, by replacing video tape equipment and a character generator.    The station provides public television service to 300,000 people in Northern Minnesota.
File no: 00041, Asian Media Access, , 730 Hennepin Avenue, Suite M 7,Minneapolis, MN  55403. Contact person: Mrs. Ange Hwang, phone: (612) 376-7715, e_mail: amamedia@amamedia.org.  Funds requested: $50,000. Total project cost: $72,000.  Project summary: To plan for the activation of a Low Power FM station to serve the Asian-American community in the University Avenue corridor of St. Paul, MN.  There are approximately 77,000 Asian Americans who live in Minnesota, most of whom live in the Twin Cities area.
File no: 00050, Duluth-Superior Area Educational TV, , 1202 East University Circle, ,Duluth, MN  55811-2420. Contact person: Mr. Allen Harmon, phone: (218) 724-8567, e_mail: email@wdse.org.  Funds requested: $1,251,797. Total project cost: $3,129,493.  Project summary: This application is a two-phase proposal to convert WDSE to digital broadcasting.  The application requests Federal funding of $1,251,797, which is 40% of the total project cost of $3,129,493.  For FY 2000, the application requests $858,957 to purchase  a transmitter, antenna, combiner and STL.  For FY 2001, the application requests $392.840 to purchase the balance of the transmitter and an encoder.  The applicant provides public television programming to 400,000 people in Northeastern Minnesota and Northwestern Wisconsin.
File no: 00062, Northern Minnesota PTV, Inc., KAWE, BSU, #9, 1500 Birchmont Drive,Bemidji, MN  56601. Contact person: Mr. William Sanford, phone: (218) 751-3407, e_mail: bsanford@lakelandptv.org.  Funds requested: $938,919. Total project cost: $1,401,370.  Project summary: The project will convert public television station KAWE to digital broadcasting.  The application requests Federal funds of $938,919, which is 67% of the total project cost of $1,401,370.  The application requests funding to purchase  a transmitter,  antenna , tower rebuild,  STL, 2 channel encoder.  The station provides public television service to 300,000 people in Northern Minnesota.
File no: 00074, Austin Independent School Dist. 492, KSMQ, 2000 8th Avenue, NW, ,Austin, MN  55912. Contact person: Mr. Richard Sailors, phone: (507) 433-0671, e_mail: rsailors@ksmq.org.  Funds requested: $485,912. Total project cost: $1,022,802.  Project summary: To extend the public television service ot KSMQ, operating on Ch. 15 in Austn by constructing a repeater station operating on Ch. 35 in Winona.  The new facility will be connected via a four hop microwave to KSMQ.
File no: 00081, Faribault Comm. TV & Multimedia Ctr, , 17857  Alexander Way, ,Faribault, MN  55021. Contact person: Mrs. Linda Cross, phone: (507) 334-7270, e_mail: ics@clear.lakes.com.  Funds requested: $238,801. Total project cost: $318,402.  Project summary: To activate a community access/education channel for the Faribault Community Television and Multimedia Center, Faribault, Minnesota.  The project would purchase the equipment necessary for the access channel's production studio.  The applicant will be transmitting over ch. 10 of the local cable television system.
File no: 00082, Northern Minnesota PTV, Inc., KAWB, BSU # 9, 1500 Birdmont Drive,Bemidji, MN  56601. Contact person: Mr. William Sanford, phone: (218) 751-3407, e_mail: bsanford@lakelandptv.org.  Funds requested: $1,024,653. Total project cost: $1,529,333.  Project summary: The application proposes to convert public television station KAWB, Brainerd, to digital broadcasting.  The applicant requests $1,024,653 in Federal funding, which is 67% of the projects cost of $1,529,333.  The project will purchase a transmitter, antenna, two hop STL,  and 2 channel encoder.  KAWB provides public television service to 300,000 people in central Minnesota.
File no: 00159, Southern California Public Radio, Minnesota Communications Group, 45 East 7th Street, ,St. Paul, MN  55101. Contact person: Mr. Ron Hall, phone: (651) 290-1163, e_mail: rhall@mpr.org.  Funds requested: $415,787. Total project cost: $831,574.  Project summary: To establish fully-digital news and information production studios for public radio station KPCC-FM, which is licensed to Pasadena City College ("the College").  Station KPCC-FM operates on 89.3 MHz and reaches a potential listening audience of approximately 15 million persons in the Pasadena/Los Angeles area.  The College has entered into a contractual agreement with Southern California Public Radio, which is a subsidiary of Minnesota Communications Group.  The latter is also the parent organization of Minnesota Public Radio.  Southern California Public Radio will administer the station's operations.  With this administrative restructuring , the station will adopt an all-news format, with a strong emphasis on locally originated programming.  To accomplish this new programmatic mission, Southern California Public Radio is requesting a full complement of studio equipment.
File no: 00197, Minnesota Public Radio, Marketplace Productions, 45 East 7th Street, ,St. Paul, MN  55101. Contact person: Mr. Ron Hall, phone: (651) 290-1163, e_mail: rhall@mpr.org.  Funds requested: $445,316. Total project cost: $890,633.  Project summary: To purchase studio equipment which will be used for production of national programming by the applicant's newly established Marketplace Production division.   The project will equip a digital production facility for the origination of the "Marketplace" and "The Savvy Traveler"  radio programs which are broadcast by approximately 300 public radio stations nationwide.   The production facility will be located in the Los Angeles area.
File no: 00198, Pioneer Public Television, KWCM-TV/KSMN-TV/K49FA-TV, 120 West Schlieman Avenue, ,Appleton, MN  56208. Contact person: Mr. Ansel Doll, phone: (320) 289-2622, e_mail: adoll@pioneer.org.  Funds requested: $207,231. Total project cost: $309,300.  Project summary: To improve the facilities of public television station KWCM, Appleton, operating on Ch. 10, by replacing  eight year old videotape equipment with digital VTR's and a video server.  The project will also acquire analog-digital converters as part of the station's conversion to digital broadcasting.  The applicant provides public television service to 1.2 million people in Western Minnesota, and adjoining areas of South Dakota and Iowa through two stations and six translators.
File no: 00238, Fresh Air, Inc., KFAI, 1808 Riverside Avenue, ,Minneapolis, MN  55454. Contact person: Mr. David McKay, phone: (612) 341-3144, e_mail: dmckay@kfai.org.  Funds requested: $99,500. Total project cost: $750,000.  Project summary: To improve the operation of public radio station KFAI, 90.3 MHz, Minneapolis, MN, by replacing worn out and obsolete equipment, including audio consoles, a digital workstation, and an audio processor.  The station serves a population of 950,000 people.
File no: 00036, Southwest Missouri State University, KSMU, 901 S. National, ,Springfield, MO  65804. Contact person: Dr. Arlen Diamond, phone: (417) 836-4402, e_mail: aed852f@mail.smsu.edu.  Funds requested: $36,802. Total project cost: $73,604.  Project summary: To extend the service of KSMU(FM), Springfield to the community of West Plains by constructing a Class A FM repeater station operation on 90.9 MHz.   The repeater station will replace a translator operated by the applicant in West Plains which currently serves approximately 9,300 people. The new repeater station will provide first public radio service to an additional 7,000 people.
File no: 00060, New Wave Corporation, KOPN, 915 East Broadway, ,Columbia, MO  65201. Contact person: Ms. Christina Hubbs, phone: (573) 874-5676, e_mail: cmh@ci.columbia.mo.us.  Funds requested: $18,900. Total project cost: $37,801.  Project summary: To improve the operation of public radio station KOPN, 89.5 MHz, Columbia, MO, by replacing obsolete and worn out equipment, including an audio console, a cassette machine, a DAT machine, a digital audio workstation, and a new link to its satellite receiver.  The station serves a population of about 230,000 people.
File no: 00164, Public Television 19, Inc., KCPT, 125 East 31st Street, ,Kansas City, MO  64108. Contact person: Ms. Brenda Williams, phone: (816) 756-3580, e_mail: brenda_williams@kcpt.org.  Funds requested: $304,579. Total project cost: $761,447.  Project summary: To continue the digital conversion of public television station KCPT, Kansas City, MO, by purchasing a DTV antenna, STL, encoder, and monitoring and test equipment.  The estimated total project cost is $761,447 with a 40% Federal request of $304,579.  KCPT serves a population of about 1.8 million.
File no: 00266, Southeast Missouri State University, Southeast Public Radio, One University Plaza, MS 0300,Cape Girardeau, MO  63701. Contact person: Mr. Greg Petrowich, phone: (573) 651-5070, e_mail: c666npr@semovm.semo.edu.  Funds requested: $106,203. Total project cost: $141,605.  Project summary: To extend the signal of public radio station KRCU, 90.9 MHz, Cape Girardeau, MO, by acquiring a new transmitter and antenna.  The station's transmission site will be moved as part of the project, enabling KRCU to bring the first public radio signal to about 19,500 persons.  The station presently serves a population of about 71,000 people.
File no: 00269, St. Louis Regional Ed & PTV Comm, , 3655 Olive Street, ,St. Louis, MO  63108. Contact person: Mr. Michael Hardgrove, phone: (314) 512-9000, e_mail: mike_hardgrove@ketc.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $323,039. Total project cost: $1,292,156.  Project summary: To convert public television station KETC, St. Louis, MO, to digital transmission by purchasing a DTV transmitter, an STL, encoders, a multiplexer, a video server, and monitors.  The estimated total project cost is $1,292,156 with a 25% Federal request of $323,039.  KETC serves a population of about 3 million.
File no: 00124, Northern Marianas Public Schools, , P. O. Box 501370, ,Saipan, MP  96950. Contact person: Mr. Nicolas Sablan, phone: (670) 644-3721, e_mail: pssmasci@itecnmi.com.  Funds requested: $296,209. Total project cost: $296,209.  Project summary: To provide the financial resources needed to implement an interactive video teleconferencing system for the Partners in Distance Learning Network ("the Network"), a consortium of entities of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands.  The Network partners include the Public School System, which is the formal applicant, the Office of the Governor, Northern Marianas College, the Commonwealth Health Center, the Pan-Pacific Education and Communication Experiments by Satellite (PEACESAT) program, and the Pacific Resources for Education and Learning.
File no: 00222, Mississippi Authority for ETV, , 3825 Ridgewood Road, ,Jackson, MS  39211. Contact person: Mr. Martin Mangold, phone: (601) 432-6379, e_mail: martin@etv.state.ms.us.  Funds requested: $3,454,040. Total project cost: $8,635,100.  Project summary: A three-phase application for the digital conversion of the eight stations that compose the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television's public television network.   The estimated total project cost is $8,635,100 with a 40% Federal request of $3,454,040.   The equipment requests for all the eight stations are almost identical.  In each case, the request calls for basic DTV transmission equipment, the major items being a DTV transmitter, antenna, RF combiner, ATSC demodulator, and MPEG Analyzer.  (An exception is the Jackson station, which needs only the DTV transmitter.)   For FY 2000, the applicant requests $1,129,120 for the following stations:  WMPN, Jackson (DTV ch. 20);  WMAV, Oxford (DTV ch. 36); and WMAH, Biloxi (DTV ch. 16).  For FY 2001, the applicant requests $1,171,200 for the following stations:  WMAU, Bude (DTV ch. 18);  WMAO, Greenwood (DTV ch. 25); and WMAW, Meridian (DTV ch. 44).   For FY 2002, the applicant requests $1,153,720 for the following stations:  WMAE, Booneville (DTV ch. 55) and WMAB, Mississippi State (DTV ch. 38).  Taken together, the eight transmitters cover the entire state, bringing public television to 2,752,092 Mississippi residents.
File no: 00168, Billings Community Cable Corp., Community Seven, 415 North 30th Street, ,Billings, MT  59101. Contact person: Ms. Susan DeCamp, phone: (406) 247-3890, e_mail: sdc@int.net.  Funds requested: $59,583. Total project cost: $79,445.  Project summary: To assist the Billings Community Cable Corporation (BCCC) in establishing a community radio station to serve Billings, MT.  The proposed station would operate on 88.1 MHz with an ERP of 2.25 kw.  The project would purchase basic transmission and interconnection equipment.  The new station would offer programming targeted for the Hispanic-American, African-American, Asian-American and Native American populations of the Billings area.  BCCC's partners in this effort include Yellowstone Public Radio (Station KEMC-FM, also in Billings), the City of Billings, The Parmly Billings Library, School District 2, The Billings Gazette,  and Montana State University at Billings.
File no: 00257, Piegan Institute, Inc., , P. O. Box 909, 308 Popmini,Browning, MT  59417. Contact person: Mr. Darrell Kipp, phone: (406) 338-7740, e_mail: piegan@3rivers.net.  Funds requested: $59,009. Total project cost: $91,809.  Project summary: To plan for the first public radio station to serve more than 14,000 people who live in and around the Blackfeet Indian Reservation  near Browning MT.  The proposed station would have local origination and would also broadcast Native American programming from AIROS and Koahnic Broadcasting available by satellite.
File no: 00264, Northern Cheyenne Tribe, , P. O. Box 128, ,Lame Deer, MT  59043. Contact person: Ms. Norma Gourneau, phone: (406) 477-6284, e_mail: .  Funds requested: $441,906. Total project cost: $589,209.  Project summary: To establish a new public radio station operating on 90.3 MHz, Lame Deer MT which would serve the Northern Cheyenne Tribe and surroundings communities.   The station would have local origination capability and would provide first public radio service to 38,000 people.
File no: 00032, Gospel and Deliverance Ministries, , 2450 Highway 211 West, ,Lumberton, NC  91073-8400. Contact person: Mr. Gerald Locklear, phone: (910) 738-4478, e_mail: gim@intrstar.net.  Funds requested: $1,083,392. Total project cost: $1,692,800.  Project summary: To improve noncommercial low power station WPEM-TV, Ch. 47, in Lumberton by replacing and augmenting obsolete and worn-out equipment.   Equipment includes portable HDTV remote package with camera, playback with downconverter, audio mixer, microphones and related equipment.  Production control and studio equipment includes 3 studio CCD 16 x 9 switchable cameras with lens, pedestals and mounting heads, digital production switcher, 3 digital videotape recorders with monitoring, digital converter/upconverter, character generator/graphics station, dual channel still store and monitors.
File no: 00070, University of North Carolina, WUNC Radio, CB#0915, 120 Friday Center Drive,Chapel Hill, NC  27599-0915. Contact person: Mr. Jonathan Howes, phone: (919) 966-5454, e_mail: bdavis@wunc.org.  Funds requested: $20,000. Total project cost: $40,200.  Project summary: To improve the facilities of WRQM-FM, 90.9 MHz, in Rocky Mount.  Station repeats the signal of WUNC-FM, Chapel Hill.  WRQM seeks to replace its transmitter, remote control, exciter, studio-to-transmitter receiver, SCA generator and related equipment that was damaged in September 1999 during hurricane Floyd.  WRQM seeks expedited consideration since it is currently operating at a 75% power level with a loaned transmitter.
File no: 00091, University of North Carolina, WUNC Radio, 120 Friday Center Drive, ,Chapel Hill, NC  27599-0915. Contact person: Mr. Jonathan Howes, phone: (919) 966-5955, e_mail: bdavis@wunc.org.  Funds requested: $269,775. Total project cost: $369,775.  Project summary: To extend the service of public radio station WUNC(FM), Chapel Hill, NC, by constructing a station operating on 88.9 MHz in Manteo.  The station will have a small studio for local origination and will receive programming from WUNC via satellite interconnection.  The 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: 00094, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, , Post Office Box 455, ,Cherokee, NC  28719. Contact person: Mrs. Susan Jones, phone: (828) 497-4951, e_mail: sbj@dnet.net.  Funds requested: $37,500. Total project cost: $50,000.  Project summary: To plan for the establishment of a public radio station on the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian Reservation.  The proposed station will provide coverage to an estimated 20,000 people who only receive limited public radio service due to the mountainous terrain that blocks distant station signals.
File no: 00132, Southwestern Community College, , 447 College Drive, ,Sylva, NC  28779. Contact person: Ms. Laura Dodson, phone: (828) 586-4091, e_mail: lpennington@southwest.cc.nc.us.  Funds requested: $300,345. Total project cost: $600,690.  Project summary: To assist Southwestern Community College, Sylva, NC, establish a distance learning system that would interconnect diverse institutions in Jackson, Macon, and Swain Counties in rural western North Carolina.  The goal of the project is to transmit instructional programming not only to locations within the three-county area but also to academic and other institutions throughout the eastern United States.   One learning audience would be law enforcement officers of American Indian sites, the U. S. Forest Service, and the U. S. Park Service throughout the East.  The project would install video classroom equipment at 12 locations:  the College itself; Macon Co. Outreach Center; Swain Co. Outreach Center; the Outreach Center of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians; Smoky Mountain HS; Blue Ridge K-12 School; Western Carolina University; Swain Co. HS; Cherokee Middle/High School (on the Cherokee Indian Reservation); Franklin HS; Nantahala K-12 School; and Highlands K-12 School.
File no: 00196, Word of God Christian Academy, Inc., , 3000 Rock Quarry Road, ,Raleigh, NC  27610. Contact person: Mrs. Yvette Kennedy, phone: (919) 661-7773, e_mail: ykenn118@yahoo.com.  Funds requested: $91,100. Total project cost: $111,100.  Project summary: To help the Word of God Christian Academy, Inc., Raleigh, NC, develop a long-range plan for designing, implementing, and evaluating the possible use of instructional technologies and distance learning systems to serve minority learners in the classroom, at work, at community centers, and at home.  Special emphasis would be placed on employing these technologies (1)  to assist high school learners reach the State-mandated proficiency level for graduation and  (2) to provide specialized help to "at-risk" learners.
File no: 00209, University of North Carolina, , 10 TW Alexander Drive, ,Research Triangle Park, NC  27709. Contact person: Ms. Meg Lu, phone: (919) 549-7154, e_mail: mlu@unctv.org.  Funds requested: $2,959,882. Total project cost: $7,399,706.  Project summary: This is a two-phase digital television conversion application for six of the eleven television stations in the state's public television network:  WUNC (Chapel Hill), WUNG (Concord/Charlotte), WUNE (Linville), WUNK (Greenville), WUNF (Asheville) and WUNL (Winston-Salem).  The applicant seeks a 40% Federal  request, $2,959,882, of the estimated total project cost of $7,399,706.   For FY 2000, WUNC seeks $666,588 in Federal funds for a transmitter, transmitter proof of performance, remote control, antenna, transmission line and ATSC test equipment.  For FY 2001,  WUNG, WUNE, WUNK, WUNF and WUNL seek $2,293,294 in Federal funds to obtain similar packages consisting of transmitter, transmitter proof of performance, remote control, antenna, transmission line and ATSC test equipment.
File no: 00207, Prairie Public Broadcasting, Inc., KFME-TV, 207 North 5th Street, P. O. Box 3240,Fargo, ND  58102. Contact person: Mr. Mark Lande, phone: (701) 241-6900, e_mail: mlande@prairiepublic.org.  Funds requested: $2,600,524. Total project cost: $3,881,379.  Project summary: A two-phase application for the digital conversion of two stations in the North Dakota public television network.  The total estimated project cost is $3,881,379 with a 67% Federal request of $2,600,524.   For FY 2000, the applicant requests $985,470 in dissemination equipment including tower modifications, antenna, transmitter, encoders, test equipment and related items for KFME in Fargo.  For FY 2001, the applicant requests $1,615,054 in dissemination equipment including a new 1,000 ft tower, transmitter, antenna, encoder system, interconnection equipment and test equipment for KGFE (Grand Forks) with its transmitter to be located 28 miles east in Crookston, MN.
File no: 00210, Prairie Public Broadcasting, Inc., , 207 North 5th Street, P. O. Box 3240,Fargo, ND  58102. Contact person: Mr. Mark Lande, phone: (701) 241-6900, e_mail: mlande@prairiepublic.org.  Funds requested: $851,030. Total project cost: $1,270,194.  Project summary: This is a two-phased application for the digital conversion and replacement of an analog microwave system that connects the Fargo and Grand Forks studios.  It is a necessary part of the state's digital conversion plan.  The total estimated project cost is $1,270,194 with a 67% Federal request of $851,030.   For FY 2000, the applicant seeks $449,850 for microwave interconnection equipment including towers, dishes, waveguide, equipment shelters and spare parts to connect the two studios.  For FY 2001, the applicant requests $401,180 to install microwave encoder/decoder equipment, conduct tests and proofs of performance to complete the project.
File no: 00265, Prairie Public Broadcasting, Inc., , 207 North 5th Street, P. O. box 3240,Fargo, ND  58102. Contact person: Mr. Mark Lande, phone: (701) 241-6900, e_mail: mlande@prairiepublic.org.  Funds requested: $1,232,054. Total project cost: $1,642,739.  Project summary: 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: 00020, University of Nebraska/Omaha, , 6001 Dodge Street, Engineering Bldg.   #200,Omaha, NE  68182. Contact person: Ms. Debra Aliano, phone: (402) 554-2516, e_mail: Debra_Aliano/OAA/UNO/UNEBR@unomail.unomaha.edu.  Funds requested: $30,960. Total project cost: $64,500.  Project summary: To improve the production and origination facilities used in conjunction with KYNE-TV, Ch. 26, in Omaha.  Project would acquire a lighting dimmer system and fixtures consisting of a light control console, dimmer modules, module rack and studio lights.  Facility has been without adequate method of controlling lighting levels since KYNE-TV's sign-on in 1965.  Productions are carried on the Nebraska state public television network.
File no: 00071, Educational Service Unit 7, , 2657 44th Avenue, ,Columbus, NE  68601. Contact person: Ms. Phyllis Brunken, phone: (402) 564-5753, e_mail: pbrunke@esu7.org.  Funds requested: $579,829. Total project cost: $773,105.  Project summary: To establish a video distance learning system for the Educational Service Unit 7 ("ESU 7"), Columbus, Nebraska.  The system would interconnect 13 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: 00100, Nebraska Educational T/C Commission, , 1800 North 33rd Street, P. O. Box 83111,Lincoln, NE  68501-3111. Contact person: Mr. Rod Bates, phone: (402) 472-3611, e_mail: rbates1@unl.edu.  Funds requested: $6,566,664. Total project cost: $16,416,661.  Project summary: A three-phase application for the digital conversion of the state's nine-station public television network.   The total estimated project cost is $16,416,661 with a 40% Federal request of $6,566,664.  For FY 2000, the applicant requests $4,549,382 to purchase towers, transmitters, antennas, transmission lines, encoders and a variety of associated equipment for several of the network stations.   For FY 2001, the applicant seeks $1,537,120 to continue with purchase of additional transmitters, lines, antennas and test equipment.  In FY 2002, NETC seeks an additional $480,162 to purchase retransmission/origination equipment including automation, encoding equipment, stillstore  and associated equipment.  The cost of two of the towers in this project will be shared with commercial licensees.  The applicant proposes the acquisition of both VHF and UHF transmission equipment so that it can return to VHF channels when the NTSC  is retired.
File no: 00267, Nebraska Educational T/C Commission, , 1800 North 33rd Street, P. O. Box 83111,Lincoln, NE  68501-3111. Contact person: Mr. Rod Bates, phone: (402) 472-3611, e_mail: rbates1@unl.edu.  Funds requested: $300,000. Total project cost: $600,000.  Project summary: To improve public television station KTNE, Ch. 13, in Alliance by replacing its failing NTSC transmitter.  Replacement is necessary due to recurring audio problems which lead to reduction in power level and coverage.  The transmitter will be used in conjunction with the state's DTV conversion plans.
File no: 00002, University of New Hampshire, New Hampshire Public Television, 268 Mast Road, ,Durham, NH  03824. Contact person: Mr. Robert Ross, phone: (603) 868-4360, e_mail: bross@nhptv.unh.edu.  Funds requested: $1,593,880. Total project cost: $3,984,700.  Project summary: A two-phase application for the digital conversion of three stations in the New Hampshire Public Television Network.  The total estimated project cost is $3,984,700 with a 40% Federal request of $1,593,880.  For FY2000, the applicant requests $1,202,880 to purchase digital transmitters and antennas for WENH in Durham and WLED in Littleton.  Also in FY2000, the applicant will purchase encoders and routing equipment for the Network's headquarters in Durham.  For FY2001 the application requests $391,000 to purchase a digital transmitter and antenna for WEKW in Keene.
File no: 00051, New Hampshire Public Radio, Inc., WEVO-FM, 207 North Main Street, ,Concord, NH  03301. Contact person: Mr. Scott McPherson, phone: (603) 228-8910, e_mail: smcpherson@nhpt.org.  Funds requested: $49,510. Total project cost: $99,021.  Project summary: The project will expand the service area of New Hampshire Public Radio by constructing a repeater station In Jackson operating on 99.5 MHz.  The station will provide public radio programming to about 135,000 residents of Grafton, Carroll and Coos counties and first service to over 5,000 Mount Washington Valley residents.
File no: 00193, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth Medical School, Department of Community & Family, HB 7250,Hanover, NH  03755. Contact person: Dr. Rosemary Orgren, phone: (603) 650-1817, e_mail: rosemary.orgren@dartmouth.edu.  Funds requested: $394,845. Total project cost: $574,895.  Project summary: To locate interactive video classroom equipment at 15 sites throughout New Hampshire.  The goal of the network would be to improve the health, social, and economic status of the New Hampshire population through professional development programs, course work exchange,  dissemination of State Government information, and the convening of meetings between citizens and the diverse State agencies.  Project video classrooms would be located at ten University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension Field Offices, two New Hampshire State Library sites, and three offices of the New Hamphire Area Health Education Center Program.  The latter is an initiative of Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover.  Other project partners include UNH Telecom and New Hampshire Public Television.
File no: 00180, New Jersey Public Broadcasting Auth, , 25 South Stockton Street, P. O. Box 777,Trenton, NJ  08625. Contact person: Mr. William Schnorbus, phone: (609) 777-5163, e_mail: b_schnorbus@njn.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $807,034. Total project cost: $2,017,585.  Project summary: Application for the digital conversion of WNJN, Montclair, one of four stations of the New Jersey Public Television Network.  The total estimated project cost is $2,017,585.  The 40% request of $807,034 will support the transmission system including transmitter, antenna, line, combiner, STL and test equipment.  WNJN will be the second station in the New Jersey Network to be converted to digital broadcast.
File no: 00212, Newark Public Radio, Inc., WBGO-FM, 54 Park Place, ,Newark, NJ  07102. Contact person: Mr. Cephas Bowles, phone: (973) 624-8880, e_mail: cephasjazz@aol.com.  Funds requested: $50,000. Total project cost: $100,000.  Project summary: To replace a failing transmitter at WBGO-FM, 88.3 MHz in Newark, New Jersey.  The station serves a population of 14 million people in the New York City metropolitan area.
File no: 00231, New Jersey Public Broadcasting, , 25 South Stockton Street, P. O. Box 777,Trenton, NJ  08625. Contact person: Mr. William Schnorbus, phone: (609) 777-5163, e_mail: b_schnobus@njn.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $74,137. Total project cost: $148,274.  Project summary: To expand the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Network by construction of two non-commercial FM stations in the northern part of the state, one in Bernardsville and the other in Netcong.  These stations will provide first public radio service to more than 139,000 people and added service to over 164,000.
File no: 00058, University of New Mexico, KNME-TV, 1130 University Boulevard NE, ,Albuquerque, NM  87102. Contact person: Mr. Jon Cooper, phone: (277) 277-2121, e_mail: jon@knme1.unm.edu.  Funds requested: $8,202,200. Total project cost: $15,402,200.  Project summary: This is a four-phase digital television conversion cooperative application by the three New Mexico public  television stations:  KNME (Albuquerque), KENW (Portales) and KRWG (Las Cruces).  KNME, the lead applicant, seeks a 53% Federal  request, $8,202,200, of the estimated total project cost of $15,402,200.   For FY 2000, the 3 stations seek a combined $2,904,800 for 3 new towers,  antennas, lines, and related items.  For FY 2001, the stations seek $2,645,750  for transmitters, microwave interconnection, test equipment amd associated items.  In FY 2002, $1,451,450 is sought for servers, routers, switchers, encoders and similar items.  The FY 2003 request of  $1,200,200 is for master control switchers, HD VCR's, encoders, test equipment and other items.
File no: 00160, Eastern New Mexico University, KENW-FM, Station 52, ,Portales, NM  88130. Contact person: Mr. Duane Ryan, phone: (505) 562-2112, e_mail: .  Funds requested: $22,860. Total project cost: $30,480.  Project summary: To expand 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).  The new translators will add a first public radio service to about 2,500 people.
File no: 00001, Univ. & Comm. Coll System of Nevada, , 2601 Enterprise Road, ,Reno, NV  89512. Contact person: Dr. Katrina Meyer, phone: (775) 784-4901, e_mail: kmeyer*nevada.edu.  Funds requested: $606,000. Total project cost: $991,500.  Project summary: To extend the distance learning network of the University and Community College System of Nevada across the I-80 corridor from Reno to Elko.   The System's present T-1 interconnections along that corridor have reached capacity usage.  The project would allow the System to make use of "dark" optical fiber placed along the corridor to bring additional course work to video classrooms already in place and to establish video classrooms at six additional school systems.   It would also enhance the students' ability to use the Internet.  The project would purchase regenerators and UPS units at eight locations along the fiber line, and would equip the six new video classrooms.
File no: 00072, Clark County School District, KLVX Channel 10, 4210 Channel 10 Drive, ,Las Vegas, NV  89119. Contact person: Mr. Thomas Axtell, phone: (702) 799-1010, e_mail: taxtell@klvx.org.  Funds requested: $465,282. Total project cost: $1,163,206.  Project summary: To  assist in the digital conversion of KLVX in Las Vegas.   The total estimated project cost is $1,163,206 with a 40% Federal request of $465,282.   This twelve-month project will strengthen the existing tower,  purchase a VHF transmitter, transmission line, exciter, diplexer, studio-to-transmitter link, remote control, satellite demod and test equipment.   Station serves about 1.4 million people in NV and parts of California and Arizona.
File no: 00075, Channel 5 Public Broadcasting, Inc., KNPB/Channel 5, 1670 North Virginia Street, ,Reno, NV  89503. Contact person: Mr. Richard Schneider, phone: (775) 784-1438, e_mail: rick@knpb.org.  Funds requested: $425,728. Total project cost: $1,064,320.  Project summary: To  assist in the digital conversion of KNPB in Reno.   The total estimated project cost is $1,064,320 with a 40% Federal request of $425,728.   This twelve-month project will purchase a transmitter, encoding system, master control system, file server,  encoders/decoders, interconnection equipment, test equipment and related items.
File no: 00111, University of Nevada, KUNR-FM, Mail Stop 325, Sponsored Project, University of Nevada-Reno,Reno, NV  89557. Contact person: Ms. Mary Washoe, phone: (775) 784-4040, e_mail: maryh@unr.edu.  Funds requested: $69,368. Total project cost: $138,736.  Project summary: To improve public radio station KUNR-FM, 88.7 MHz, in Reno by replacing its 19-year-old transmitter, the studio-to-transmitter link, and acquiring an emergency back-up transmitter.  KUNR-FM provides the only public radio service for about 275,000 people.
File no: 00005, Western NY Public Bdcstg. Assoc., , P. O. Box 1263, 140 Lower Terrace,Buffalo, NY  14240-1263. Contact person: Mr. Richard Daly, phone: (716) 845-7002, e_mail: ddaly@wned.org.  Funds requested: $372,289. Total project cost: $930,724.  Project summary: As part of the station's digital convertion plan, the applicant is requesting funds to support a digital master control facility for WNED-TV, Channel 17 in Buffalo.  The Federal request of $372,289 represents 40% of the total project cost of $930,724.  The proposed equipment includes satellite receivers, multi-channel server, routing switchers, ATSC encoder, data multiplexing system and test equipment.
File no: 00061, Public Bdcstg Council of Central NY, , 506 Old Liverpool Road, P. O. Box 2400`,Syracuse, NY  13220. Contact person: Mr. John Duffy, phone: (315) 451-8824, e_mail: john_duffy@wcny.org.  Funds requested: $1,730,340. Total project cost: $4,325,850.  Project summary: Application requesting emergency funding to replace the NTSC transmission system for WCNY-TV in Syracuse.  The applicant will have to move the transmitter and antenna by May of 2000 from the current tower owned by a commercial station.  Funding is requested for the construction of a joint tower with several commercial partners.  In addition, the applicant will replace the 22-year-old transmitter and will purchase and install equipment that will provide analog and digital broadcasting to the community.  The station serves a population of approximately 1.8 million people.
File no: 00080, WMHT Educational Telecommunications, Station WMHT-TV, 17 Fern Avenue, ,Schnectady, NY  12301-0017. Contact person: Ms. Elizabeth Hood, phone: (518) 357-1700, e_mail: lhood@wmht.org.  Funds requested: $1,111,450. Total project cost: $2,778,625.  Project summary: Application for the conversion to digital broadcast of WHMT in Schenectady.  The total estimated cost of the project is $2,778,625 with a 40% Federal request of $1,111,450.  The project will purchase and install the transmitter, antenna, line, STL, multi-channel server, routing switcher ATSC encoder, multiplexing system, test and monitoring equipment.  WHMT currently provides public television programming to over 1.2 million people.  It is anticipated that the new digital service will add approximately 325,000 people.
File no: 00129, Educational Broadcasting Corp., Station WNET/ Thirteen, 450 West 33rd Street, ,New York, NY  10001. Contact person: Mr. Thomas Conway, phone: (212) 560-2780, e_mail: conway@thirteen.org.  Funds requested: $2,769,228. Total project cost: $8,500,515.  Project summary: The project is a four-year collaboration of the three New York stations (WNET, WNYE and WLIW) to construct a joint master control facility.  The total estimated project cost is $8,500,515 and the 33% Federal request is $2,769,228.  In FY 2000 the stations are requesting $516,254.  For FY 2001 the requested funds total $810,214.  In FY 2002, the request of $762,080 will support continuation of the work, ending with a request of $680,680 for FY 2003.  The project consists of the purchase and installation of master control and interconnection equipment including encoders, decoders, monitoring and automation equipment, routing systems, video servers and test equipment.  The stations provide public broadcasting programming to a population of over 18 million people in New York City, Long Island and surrounding areas of New Jersey and Connecticut.
File no: 00153, Long Island Education TV Council, , Channel 21 Drive, ,Plaineview, NY  11803. Contact person: Mr. Terrel Case, phone: (516) 367-2100, e_mail: Terrel_Case@WLIW.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $638,281. Total project cost: $1,276,562.  Project summary: To replace a 22-year-old transmitter at WLIW-TV, Channel 21 in Plainview, New York.  The station serves a population of over 5.1 million people.
File no: 00155, WXXI Public Broadcasting Council, WXXI-TV, 280 State Street, ,Rochester, NY  14614. Contact person: Mr. Norm Silverstein, phone: (716) 325-7500, e_mail: norms@wxxi.org.  Funds requested: $405,112. Total project cost: $1,620,450.  Project summary: Application for the digital conversion of WXXI in Rochester.  The total estimated project cost is $1,620,450.  The 25% Federal request of $405,112 will support transmission and master control equipment including transmitter, antenna, line, encoder, routing system, STL, test and monitoring equipment.  The station serves a population of over 1.2 million people.
File no: 00188, WNYC Radio, , One Centre Street, 24th Floor,New York, NY  10007. Contact person: Mr. Joe Majoros, phone: (212) 669-3004, e_mail: jmajoros@WNYC.org.  Funds requested: $700,000. Total project cost: $1,400,000.  Project summary: To move the transmitter site and increase power for WNYC-AM, 820 kHz in New York City.  The project will double the station's coverage and will increase its audience to more than 6.2 million listeners.
File no: 00221, Long Island University, WPBX_88.3 FM, Southampton College, 239 Montauk Highway,Southampton, NY  11968. Contact person: Dr. Wallace Smith, phone: (631) 287-8392, e_mail: wsmith@southampton.liu.edu.  Funds requested: $164,117. Total project cost: $328,236.  Project summary: To replace the transmitter, antenna and STL at WPBX-FM in Southampton, New York.  The station will be relocating to a new tower and increasing power.  The station currently serves about 3.5 million residents of Suffolk County and eastern Long Island.
File no: 00239, Syracuse University, WAER-FM, 215 University Place, ,Syracuse, NY  13244-2110. Contact person: Mr. Joseph Lee, phone: (315) 443-4021, e_mail: jblee@summon.syr.edu.  Funds requested: $5,722. Total project cost: $11,445.  Project summary: To replace the satellite retrieval system at WAER-FM, Syracuse, to make it compatible with the NPR system.  The station serves a population of more than 500,000 people.
File no: 00270, St. Lawrence University, , St. Lawrence University, ,Canton, NY  13617. Contact person: Ms. Ellen Rocco, phone: (315) 229-5356, e_mail: ellen@ncpr.org.  Funds requested: $32,365. Total project cost: $49,865.  Project summary: To install five radio translators that will provide the first public radio service to about 12,000 residents of five communities in the Adirondack North Country.  The project will also replace a 22-year-old production board at WSLU-FM in Canton, New York.  The station currently serves a population of more than 450,000 people.
File no: 00006, Ohio University, Telecommunications Center, 9 South College Street, ,Athens, OH  45701. Contact person: Mr. Paul Witkowski, phone: (740) 593-4784, e_mail: witkowski@ohio.edu.  Funds requested: $2,865,512. Total project cost: $7,163,780.  Project summary: A three-phase application for the digital conversion of Ohio University public television station WOUB-TV, Athens, and its repeater, WOUC-TV, Cambridge, OH.  The estimated total project cost is $7,163,780 with a 40% Federal request of $2,865,512.  For FY 2000, the application requests $531,600 to purchase a DTV upgrade for the WOUB-TV transmitter plus a remote control system, a combiner, a 4-channel encoder, an STL, and test equipment.  For FY 2001, the application requests $1,732,712 to purchase a DTV upgrade for the WOUC-TV transmitter plus a tower, a remote control system, a 4-channel encoder, an STL, and test equipment.  For FY 2002, the application requests $601,200 to purchase a digital routing switcher, an audio switcher, conversion equipment, an automation system, and digital synchronizers.
File no: 00017, Resrcs & Instruc/Staff Excellence, , 2 Garfield Place, Suite 202, ,Cincinnati, OH  45202. Contact person: Mr. W.W. Bud White, phone: (513) 721-0221, e_mail: white@risetraining.org.  Funds requested: $311,917. Total project cost: $415,891.  Project summary: To purchase video production equipment that would allow the Resources and Instruction for Staff Exellence, Inc. (RISE) to produce instructional programming to be distributed via the Mayerson Academy Channel, which will be transmitted on the EchoStar III Satellite's Direct Broadcast Satellite's public interest channels.  The programming that RISE would produce would respond to the needs of Head Start teachers nationwide.  The  1998 Reauthorization of the Head Start Act requires at least 50% of all Head Start teachers in center-based programs to have an associate, baccalaueate, or advanced degree in early childhood education or a related field by 2003, and the RISE programming would assist these teachers to achieve these degrees.
File no: 00021, ETV Association of Metro. Cleveland, WVIZ, 4300 Brookpark Road, ,Cleveland, OH  44134. Contact person: Mr. Jerrold Wareham, phone: (216) 739-3850, e_mail: jwareham@wviz.org.  Funds requested: $509,092. Total project cost: $1,018,184.  Project summary: To improve the operation of public television station WVIZ, Ch. 25, Cleveland, OH, by replacing its NTSC transmitter and transmission line.  The station serves a population of about 3.7 million people.
File no: 00022, ETV Association of Metro. Cleveland, Station WVIZ-TV, 4300 Brookpark Road, ,Cleveland, OH  44134. Contact person: Mr. Jerrold Wareham, phone: (216) 739-3850, e_mail: jwareham@wviz.org.  Funds requested: $1,784,400. Total project cost: $4,461,000.  Project summary: A three-phase application for the digital conversion of public television station WVIZ, Cleveland, OH.  The estimated total project cost is $4,461,000 with a 40% Federal request of $1,784,400.  For FY 2000, the application requests $901,600 to purchase an antenna and transmission line, a format server, a digital STL, and monitoring equipment.  For FY 2001, the application requests $702,800 to purchase a DTV transmitter and test equipment.  For FY 2002, the application requests $180,000 to purchase tape recorders, an encoder, and a still store.  WVIZ serves a population of about 3.7 million.
File no: 00142, Public Bdcstg Fndn of NW Ohio, WGTE-TV, 136 Huron Street, ,Toledo, OH  43604. Contact person: Mr. Daniel Niedzwiecki, phone: (419) 243-3091, e_mail: dan_niedzwiecki@wgte.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $329,125. Total project cost: $1,316,500.  Project summary: To  convert public television station WGTE-TV, Toledo, OH, to digital transmission through the purchase of a DTV transmitter, a digital STL, a routing switcher, and monitoring and test equipment.  The estimated total project cost is $1,316,500 with a 25% Federal request of $329,125.  WGTE-TV serves a population of about 1,616,567.
File no: 00156, Columbus Board of Education, WCBE, 540 Jack Gibbs Boulevard, ,Columbus, OH  43215. Contact person: Mr. Gary May, phone: (614) 365-5555, e_mail: gmay@wcbe.org.  Funds requested: $72,316. Total project cost: $144,632.  Project summary: To improve the delivery and reliability of the signal of public radio station WCBE, 90.5 MHz, Columbus, OH, by replacing its worn out and obsolete transmitter, antenna, remote control, transmission line, and audio processor.  The station serves a population of about 3.5 million people.
File no: 00190, Greater Cincinnati TV Educ Fndn, WCET-TV/Channel 48, 1223 Central Parkway, ,Cincinnati, OH  45214. Contact person: Mr. W. Wayne Godwin, phone: (513) 381-4033, e_mail: wayne_godswin@wcet.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $502,350. Total project cost: $1,255,874.  Project summary: To  convert public television station WCET, Cincinnati, OH, to digital transmission through the purchase of a DTV transmitter, STL, ATSC encoder, server, and monitoring and test equipment.  The estimated total project cost is $1,255,874 with a 40% Federal request of $602,350  WCET serves a population of about 1,500,000.
File no: 00200, Northeastern Educational TV of Ohio, WNEO/WEAO, 1750 Campus Center Drive, ,Kent, OH  44240. Contact person: Mr. William Glaeser, phone: (330) 677-4549, e_mail: bill_g@wneo.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $357,084. Total project cost: $892,709.  Project summary: To improve the operation of public television station WNEO, Kent, OH, by replacing worn out, obsolete, and life-expired master control room equipment, including a video server, routing switcher, and monitoring items.  The estimated total project cost is $892,709 with a 40% Federal request of $357,084.  The station serves a population of about 1,846,758.
File no: 00206, Ohio State University, WOSU-FM/AM, 2400 Olentangy River Road, ,Columbus, OH  43210. Contact person: Mr. Sam Eiler, phone: (614) 292-9678, e_mail: eiler.l@osu.edu.  Funds requested: $58,529. Total project cost: $117,058.  Project summary: To improve the operation of public radio stations WOSU-AM and FM, Columbus, OH, and their repeaters by replacing worn out and obsolete equipment with a digital audio storage and delivery system and an audio processor.  The stations serve a population of about 1.6 million people.
File no: 00245, Antioch University, , 795 Livermore Street, ,Yellow Springs, OH  45387. Contact person: Mr. Steve Spencer, phone: (937) 767-6422, e_mail: sspencer@wyso.org.  Funds requested: $57,778. Total project cost: $115,556.  Project summary: To augment the current equipment inventory of public radio station WYSO, 91.3 MHz, Yellow Springs, OH, by acquiring a digital hard disk audio system, establishing a digital audio production studio, and retrofitting a theater as a performance studio.  The station serves a population of about 1 million people.
File no: 00252, Greater Dayton Public Television, , 110 South Jefferson Street, ,Dayton, OH  45402. Contact person: Mr. David Fogarty, phone: (937) 220-1611, e_mail: David_Fogarty@WPTD.PBS.ORG.  Funds requested: $1,102,632. Total project cost: $2,756,584.  Project summary: A three-phase application for the digital conversion of public television station WPTD, Dayton, OH.  The estimated total project cost is $2,756,584 with a 40% Federal request of $1,102,632.  For FY 2000, the application requests 408,669 to strengthen its tower and to purchase a DTV antenna and transmission line.  For FY 2001, the application requests $388,723 to purchase a DTV transmitter, STL, and monitoring equipment.  For FY 2002, the application requests $305,240 to purchase a server, a router, an encoder, a satellite receive system, and test equipment.  The station serves a population of about 2,632,738.
File no: 00268, Ohio State University, , 2400 Olentangy River Road, ,Columbus, OH  43210. Contact person: Mr. Thomas Lahr, phone: (614) 292-9678, e_mail: lahr.2@osu.edu.  Funds requested: $1,027,636. Total project cost: $2,569,090.  Project summary: To convert public television station WOSU-TV, Columbus, OH, to digital transmission.  The estimated total project cost is $2,569,090, with a 40% Federal request of $1,027,636 to purchase a DTV transmitter, antenna, transmission line, STL, encoder, video and audio routers, switcher, and test equipment.  WOSU-TV serves a population of about 1,866,000.
File no: 00057, University of Oklahoma, KGOU Radio, 780 Van Vleet Oval, ,Norman, OK  73019. Contact person: Ms. Karen Holp, phone: (405) 325-3388, e_mail: kholpou.edu.  Funds requested: $433,746. Total project cost: $578,328.  Project summary: To activate a new 100 KW public radio repeater station in Woodward on 88.1 MHz.   The new station will repeat the signal of KGOU-FM in Norman but would be capable of inserting local interest programming.  Station would provide a first service to about 38,414 people in northwestern Oklahoma.  Project includes about $250,000 for the upgrade of an existing tower which will provide leased space.
File no: 00107, Oklahoma Educational TV Authority, KETA, 7403 North Kelley Avenue, Post Office Box 14190,Oklahoma City, OK  73113. Contact person: Mr. Malcolm Wall, phone: (405) 848-8501, e_mail: .  Funds requested: $4,480,000. Total project cost: $11,200,000.  Project summary: This is a three-phase digital television conversion application for the four OETA public stations:  KETA (Oklahoma City), KOED (Tulsa), KOET (Eufaula) and KWET (Cheyenne).   OETA seeks a 40% Federal  request, $4,480,000, of the estimated total project cost of $11,200,000.   For FY 2000, KETA seeks a combined $1,983,904 for transmitter, antenna, line, remote control, studio-to-transmitter link, master control equipment, switcher, digital VTR's, router, automation, encoding/decoding, test equiptment and related items.  For FY 2001,  KOED, KOET, and KWET seek $2,324,004 in Federal funds to obatin, transmitters, antennas, lines, tower modifications, STL, encoders/decoderas, interconnection, test/monitoring equipment and associated items.   In FY 2002, $172,092 is sought for equipment to upgrade the Tulsa TOC.  Items include: encoding equipment, routing equipment, decoding equipment, upconverter and similar items.
File no: 00182, Cameron University, KCCU-FM, 2800 West Gore, ,Lawton, OK  73505. Contact person: Mr. Mark Norman, phone: (580) 581-2425, e_mail: markn@cameron.edu.  Funds requested: $48,918. Total project cost: $65,314.  Project summary: To activate a new public radio station on 90.1 MHz in Altus.   New 1 KW station will replace a 250-watt translator and will provide protected coverage to about 23,875 people.  Station's power is limited to 1,000 watts because of its proximity to a Ch. 6 television station located in Wichita Falls, TX.   New station will receive a public radio signal via satellite from KCCU-FM in Lawton but will also have local origination capacity.
File no: 00183, Cameron University, KCCU-FM, 2800 West Gore, ,Lawton, OK  73505. Contact person: Mr. Mark Norman, phone: (580) 581-2425, e_mail: markn@cameron.edu.  Funds requested: $146,538. Total project cost: $195,384.  Project summary: To help public radio station KCCU-FM, licensed to Cameron University, Lawton, OK, establish an FM station in the community of Clinton, in western Oklahoma.   The new station would operate on 89.1MHz with an ERP of 43kw.  The station would bring the first public radio signal to over 67,000 residents of Clinton, Weatherford, Elk City and other communties in that region.  For most of its programming day, the Clinton station would rebroadcast the basic program schedule of host station KCCU-FM.  For six hours each day, however, the new station would broadcast local news and public service announcements.  To accomplish this local production, the project would include a local origination computer and small studio at the Clinton transmission site.   For the local origination, KCCU-FM would work cooperatively with Western Oklahoma State College, Altus, and Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford.
File no: 00104, Oregon Public Broadcasting, , 7410 S.W. Macadam Avenue, ,Portland, OR  97219. Contact person: Mr. Brian Sickora, phone: (503) 293-1900, e_mail: Brian_Sickora@opb.org.  Funds requested: $3,064,246. Total project cost: $7,660,616.  Project summary: The applicant proposes a three-phase project to convert its statewide public television system to digital broadcasting.  The applicants requests $3,064,246, which is 40% Federal funding of a project with a total cost of $7,660,616.  For FY 2000, the applicant requests $943,206 to purchase master control and routing switchers, a 4 channel digital encoder, video server and related equipment for the Network's headquarters in Portland and transmitter for KOPB, Portland.  For FY 2001, the applicant requests $1,162,396 to purchase a transmitter, antenna, combiner and 800 ft. tower for KEPB, Eugene;  For FY 2002, the applicant requests $958,645 to purchase a transmitter and 4 hop microwave for KOAC, Corvallis; a transmitter, antenna, and 6 hop Microwave for KOAB, Bend; and a transmitter, antenna, and 3 hop microwave for KTVR, La Grande.  The applicant provides public television service to 3 million people, 90% of the state of Oregon.
File no: 00240, Blue Mountain Community College, Small Business Development Ctr, 37 East Dorion Avenue, ,Pendleton, OR  97801. Contact person: Mr. John Fletcher, phone: (541) 276-6233, e_mail: jfletcher@bmcc.cc.or.us.  Funds requested: $550,000. Total project cost: $779,000.  Project summary: To assist Blue Mountain Community College to establish a video and Internet-based distance learning system that would interconnect diverse sites in rural Umatilla and Morrow Counties in northeast Oregon.
File no: 00004, Pennsylvania State University, WPSU, 102 Wagner Building, ,University Park, PA  16802-3899. Contact person: Mr. George Thurman, phone: (814) 865-3333, e_mail: gxt1@psu.edu.  Funds requested: $15,711. Total project cost: $20,948.  Project summary: To extend the signal of public radio station WPSU, 91.5 MHz, University Park, PA, by activating a translator on 102.5 MHz in Hungtingdon, PA, to bring the first public radio signal to about 17,333 residents of Central Pennsylvania.  WPSU presently serves about 380,519 people.
File no: 00047, Northeastern Pennsylvania ETV Assoc, WVIA-FM, 70 Old Boston Road, ,Pittston, PA  18640. Contact person: Mr. A. William Kelly, phone: (570) 602-1120, e_mail: bill_kelly@wvia.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $125,517. Total project cost: $251,034.  Project summary: To improve the signal of public station WVIA-FM, 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: 00049, Northeastern Pennsylvania ETV Assoc, WVIA-TV, 70 Old Boston Road, ,Pittston, PA  18640. Contact person: Mr. A. William Kelly, phone: (570) 602-1120, e_mail: Bill_Kelly@WVIA.PBS.Org.  Funds requested: $213,925. Total project cost: $855,700.  Project summary: To convert public station WVIA-TV, Pittston, PA, to digital broadcasting by purchasing a DTV transmitter, a video server, encoders, and decoders.  The estimated total project cost is $855,700 with a 25% Federal request of $213,925.  WVIA-TV serves a population of about 1,615,679.
File no: 00073, Pennsylvania State University, WPSX-TV, 102 Wagner Building, ,University Park, PA  16802. Contact person: Mr. George Thurman, phone: (814) 865-3333, e_mail: gxt1@psu.edu.  Funds requested: $2,709,571. Total project cost: $6,773,931.  Project summary: A two-phase application for the digital conversion of public television station WPSX, University Park, PA.  The estimated total project cost is $6,773,931 with a 40% Federal request of $2,709,571.  For FY 2000, the application requests $1,779,660 to purchase a DTV transmitter, an antenna and tower, transmission line, STL, test equipment, plus DTV transmitter and microwave interconnect for its Pine Grove Mills, PA, booster.  For FY 2001, the application requests $929,911 to purchase DTV transmitters, antennas, transmission line, and microwave interconnects for its Altoona and Johnstown, PA, boosters, plus a video server, audio and video routers, and an automation system for its master control room.  WPSX serves a population of about 1,957,965.
File no: 00077, WQED Pittsburgh, Station WQED-TV, 4802 Fifth Avenue, ,Pittsburgh, PA  15213. Contact person: Mr. Jeffrey Rutkowski, phone: (412) 622-1312, e_mail: jrutkows@wqed.org.  Funds requested: $1,116,152. Total project cost: $2,790,378.  Project summary: To convert public station WQED-TV, Pittsburgh, PA, to digital broadcasting.  The estimated total project cost is $2,790,378 with a 40% Federal request of $1,116,152 to purchase a DTV transmitter, antenna, transmission line, combiner, tower bracing, a receiver/demodulator, a switcher, an encoder, monitors, and an automation package.  The station serves a population of 3.25 million.
File no: 00097, Public Bdcstg of NW Pennsylvania, WQLN-TV, 8425 Peach Street, ,Erie, PA  16509. Contact person: Ms. Patricia Combine, phone: (814) 864-3001, e_mail: pcombine@wqln.org.  Funds requested: $360,000. Total project cost: $900,000.  Project summary: To convert public station WQLN-TV, Erie, PA, to digital broadcasting.  The estimated total project cost is $900,000 with a 40% Federal request of $360,000 to purchase transmitter modification, a DTV antenna, transmission line, and a combiner.  The station serves a population of about 750,000.
File no: 00098, Public Bdcstg of NW Pennsylvania, WQLN-TV, 8425 Peach Street, ,Erie, PA  16509. Contact person: Ms. Patricia Combine, phone: (814) 864-3001, e_mail: pcombine@wqln.org.  Funds requested: $64,991. Total project cost: $129,982.  Project summary: To improve the production capability of public station WQLN-TV, ch. 54, Erie, PA, by replacing worn out and obsolete studio cameras.  The station serves a population of about 750,000 people.
File no: 00105, WHYY, Inc., WHYY-TV, 150 North Sixth Street, ,Philadelphia, PA  19106. Contact person: Mr. John Doran, phone: (215) 351-1271, e_mail: jdoran@whyy.org.  Funds requested: $412,525. Total project cost: $1,031,313.  Project summary: To assist the digital conversion of public station WHYY-TV, Philadelphia, PA,  The estimated total project cost is $1,031,313 with a 40% Federal request of $412,525 to purchase equipment to launch a multi-channel SDTV service and to establish a joint on-air operations center with public television station WYBE, also Philadelphia.  The project includes a digital encoder, multi-channel servers, and expansion of automation and router systems.  WHYY-TV serves a population of about 7.3 million people.
File no: 00122, WQED Pittsburgh, WQED-FM, 4802 Fifth Avenue, ,Pittsburgh, PA  15213. Contact person: Mr. James Cunningham, phone: (412) 622-1541, e_mail: jcunning@wqed.org.  Funds requested: $61,500. Total project cost: $123,000.  Project summary: To improve the operation of public station WQED-FM, 89.3 MHz, Pittsburgh, by replacing its analog tape decks, playback automation, and cart machines with a hard disc digital system.  The station serves a population of about 2.2 million people.
File no: 00141, Crawford County Regional Alliance, , 18257 Industrial Drive, ,Meadville, PA  16335. Contact person: Mrs. Maryann Martin, phone: (814) 337-8200, e_mail: mmartin@gremlan.org.  Funds requested: $75,000. Total project cost: $155,000.  Project summary: To assist the Crawford County Regional Alliance, Meadville, PA, to plan for the incorporation of distance learning and information technologies into its Regional Training & Conference Center.   The Alliance is an element of the Crawford County Development Corporation.
File no: 00163, Lehigh Valley Public T/C Corp, WLVT-TV, 123 Sesame Street, ,Bethleham, PA  18015. Contact person: Mr. James Baum, phone: (610) 867-4677, e_mail: jamesb@WLVT.org.  Funds requested: $659,330. Total project cost: $1,648,325.  Project summary: To convert public station WLVT-TV, Bethlehem, PA, to digital broadcasting.  The estimated total project cost is $1,648,325 with a 40% Federal request of $659,330 to purchase a DTV transmitter, antenna, transmission line, STL, multi-channel server, encoders, a video switcher, and test equipment.  The station serves a population of about 4.5 million people.
File no: 00213, WITF, Inc., Station WITF-TV, 1982 Locust Lane, ,Harrisburg, PA  17105. Contact person: Mr. Greg Poland, phone: (717) 236-6000, e_mail: greg_poland@witf.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $342,869. Total project cost: $2,167,869.  Project summary: A single-phase application for the digital conversion of public television station WITF, Harrisburg, PA. Station WITF-TV operates on ch. 33 for its analog signal and will operate on ch. 36 for its digital signal.   The estimated total project cost is $2,167,869 with a 15.8% Federal request of $342,869.  The proposal requests a DTV transmitter,  antenna, STL system, routing switcher, four-channel encoder, multi-channel server, a master control switcher, and diverse other associated equipment.   Station WITF-TV's signal reaches approximately 1,058,000 residents of the greater Harrisburg area.
File no: 00230, WITF, Inc., , 1982 Locust Lane, ,Harrisburg, PA  17105. Contact person: Mr. Greg Poland, phone: (717) 236-6000, e_mail: greg_poland@wift.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $299,656. Total project cost: $599,312.  Project summary: To replace the worn-out and failing 24-year-old analog transmitter of public television station WITF, which operates on ch. 33 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and which brings the sole public TV signal to over one million residents of that area.
File no: 00249, The Pennsylvania State University, Office of Sponsored Programs, 110 Technology Center, ,University Park, PA  16802. Contact person: Mr. Paul Antolosky, phone: (814) 863-0681, e_mail: pma3@psu.edu.  Funds requested: $102,000. Total project cost: $204,000.  Project summary: To assist The College of Agricultural Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University to extend the reach of its credit courses and Cooperative Extension programs.  The project would purchase MPEG II digital encoding equipment.  The encoder would be installed on an existing Ku-Band uplink at the University, thus allowing the University to utilize digital transmission to send its course work to presently unserved learning audiences.
File no: 00205, Ana G. Mendez University System, WQTO-TV, State Road 176 km 0.3 Cupey, ,San Juan, PR  00926. Contact person: Mr. Ariel Diaz, phone: (787) 766-2600, e_mail: ca_adiaz@suagm.edu.  Funds requested: $1,249,207. Total project cost: $2,115,200.  Project summary: To assist in the digital conversion and to improve the existing analog transmission capacity of public television station WQTO, which brings a public TV signal to 602,878 residents of greater Ponce, PR.  For approximately 350,000 of these viewers, WQTO-TV's signal represents the sole public TV over-the-air service.   Station WQTO-TV repeats the signal of its host station, WMTJ-TV, ch. 40, San Juan.  Both stations are licensed to the Ana G. Mendez University System.  Station WQTO-TV operates on ch. 26 for its analog signal and will operate on ch. 25 for its digital signal.  The project would purchase a digital transmitter, antenna, and transmission line for WQTO-TV as well as a small secondary tower to accomodate microwave dishes presently mounted on the station's existing tower.  This would represent the second phase of the station's four-phase digital conversion plan.   The project would also replace WQTO-TV's worn-out and unreliable 13-year-old analog transmitter as well as the station's present antenna and transmission line.
File no: 00219, University of Puerto Rico, Station WRTU-FM, Ponce De Leon & Pastrana Street, ,San Juan, PR  00931. Contact person: Dr. Eliseo Colon-Zayas, phone: (787) 751-8640, e_mail: ecolon@rrpac.upr.clu.edu.  Funds requested: $153,087. Total project cost: $306,174.  Project summary: To improve the basic transmission capabilities of public radio station WRTU-FM, which is licensed to the University of Puerto Rico/Rio Piedras and which operates on 89.7 Mhz in San Juan.  The project would replace station WRTU-FM's transmitter, transmission line, and antenna, all of which were purchased in 1976 and are now worn-out and failing.  Through its repeater station, WRUO-FM (88.3 Mhz), the applicant transmits a sole public radio signal to the community of Mayaguez, on the western coast of Puerto Rico.  In all, station WRTU-FM's service reaches over 2.6 million residents of Puerto Rico.
File no: 00232, Rhode Island Public T/C Authority, , 50 Park Lane, ,Providence, RI  02907. Contact person: Mrs. Susan Farmer, phone: (401) 222-3636, e_mail: sfarmer@tv.wsbe.org.  Funds requested: $692,182. Total project cost: $2,067,799.  Project summary: A two-phase application for the digital conversion of WSBE, Providence.  The total estimated cost of the project is $2,067,799 and the 33% Federal request is $692,182.  For FY 2000, the requested amount of $392,152 will support the modification of the tower and the purchase and installation of the transmitter, the antenna, line, monitoring and test equipment.  In FY 2001, the applicant requests $300,030 for the master control facility including video server, routing system, encoder, STL and test equipment.  The station serves a population of approximately 2 million people.
File no: 00019, South Carolina ETV, , 1101 George Rogers Boulevard, ,Columbia, SC  29201. Contact person: Mr. Thomas Fowler, phone: (803) 737-3404, e_mail: fowler@scetv.org.  Funds requested: $34,500. Total project cost: $71,000.  Project summary: To improve public radio station WEPR-FM, 90.1 MHz, in Greenville by replacing its 27-year-old transmitter.
File no: 00065, South Carolina ETV, , 1101 George Rogers Boulevard, ,Columbia, SC  29201. Contact person: Mr. Leslie Griffin, phone: (803) 737-3486, e_mail: hgriffin@scetv.org.  Funds requested: $6,719,026. Total project cost: $16,797,570.  Project summary: A four-phase application for the digital conversion of the state's eleven-station public television network.   The total estimated project cost is $16,797,570 with a 40% Federal request of $6,719,026.  For FY 2000, the applicant requests $1,952,834 to activate WRLK (Columbia) to gain experience and test information.  It will also install digital transmission and encoding infrastructure in the master control, begin retrofitting the microwave system to the northwest and southern parts of the state, install transmitters and antennas at WNTV (Greenville) and WITV (Charleston) to serve the largest audiences.   For FY 2001, the applicant seeks $2,564,172 to install transmitters and antennas at WHMC (Conway), WJWJ (Beaufort), WNEH (Greenwood), WNSC (Rock Hill) and complete retrofitting the microwave system to the eastern portion of the state.   In FY 2002, the applicant seeks $480,162 to install transmitters and antennas at WJPM (Florence), WRET (Spartanburg). WEBA (Barnwell), and WRJA (Sumter).  SCETV will also provide ATSC encoders and digital master control for 4 regional studios (WRET, WNSC, WRJA and WJWJ).  For FY 2003, SCETV seeks an additional $28,689 to establish datacasting.
File no: 00201, South Dakota Brd. of Dir. for ETV, South Dakota Public Television, Cherry & Dakota Streets, Box 5000,Vermillion, SD  57069. Contact person: Mr. Donald Forseth, phone: (605) 677-5861, e_mail: Don.forseth@sdpb.org.  Funds requested: $29,471,319. Total project cost: $39,295,092.  Project summary: A three-phase application for the digital conversion of the state's nine-station public television network.   The total estimated project cost is $39,295,092 with a 75% Federal request of $29,471,319.   For FY 2000, the applicant requests $10,761,798 to activate KCSD (Sioux Falls), KBEH (Rapid City) and KUSD (Vermillion).  Each station will receive packages including transmitter, antenna, transmission line and tower/tower modifications.  Funds will also be used for acquiring test equipment and for modifications to existing microwave interconnection systems.   For FY 2001, the applicant seeks $9,938,646 to activate KESD (Brookings),  KDSD (Aberdeen) and KTSD (Pierre).  Each station will receive similar packages to those in FY 2000 projects including test and microwave interconnection systems.   In FY 2002, the applicant seeks $8,770,875  to activate KPSD (Eagle Butte), KQSD (Lowry) and KZSD (Martin)   Equipment packages are similar to those in FY 2000 and FY 2001 phases.
File no: 00003, University of Tennessee/Chattanooga, Department 1151, 615 McCallie Avenue, ,Chattanooga, TN  37403. Contact person: Dr. John McCormack, phone: (423) 755-4756, e_mail: .  Funds requested: $11,348. Total project cost: $22,698.  Project summary: To improve the facilities of public radio station WUTC-(FM), operating on 88.1 MHz in Chattanooga, TN by purchasing an emergency power generator for the applicant's studio facility.   The station serves one million people in Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina and Alabama.
File no: 00009, Nashville Public Television, WNPT, 161 Rains Avenue, ,Nashville, TN  37203. Contact person: Mr. Charles Brumbelow, phone: (615) 259-9325, e_mail: Charles_Brumbelow@wdcn.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $998,314. Total project cost: $2,495,787.  Project summary: The application proposes a three-phase project to convert public television station WNPT, operating on Channel 8, to digital broadcasting on channel 46.  The application requests $257,878 in FY 2000 to purchase a digital router, video server and related master control equipment;  $206,200 in FY 2001 to  purchase a 4 channel Digital TV encoder and $534,236 in FY 2002 to purchase a digital transmitter and STL equipment.   The applicant requests 40% Federal funding for the project and provides public television services to 2.1 million people in the Nashville area.
File no: 00216, Mid-South Public Communications Fdn, WKNO-FM, 900 Getwell Road, ,Memphis, TN  38111. Contact person: Mr. Michael LaBonia, phone: (901) 458-2521, e_mail: rabernathy@wkno.org.  Funds requested: $90,478. Total project cost: $180,957.  Project summary: To improve the facilities of public radio station WKNO(FM), operating on  91.1 MHz, in Memphis TN, by replacing  its obsolete, 28 year old antenna and transmission line.   The new antenna will be placed on the top of an adjacent tower, increasing tower height and improving radio coverage to the Northeast of Memphis as well as preparing the existing  tower to house the digital antenna of WKNO-TV.  WKNO(FM) serves 1.6 million people in the Memphis area.
File no: 00217, Mid-South Public Communications Fdn, WKNO-TV, 900 Getwell Road, ,Memphis, TN  38111. Contact person: Mr. Michael LaBonia, phone: (901) 458-2521, e_mail: rabernathy@wkno.org.  Funds requested: $48,016. Total project cost: $120,039.  Project summary: This application will begin the applicant's conversion to digital broadcasting by strengthening the applicant's 1000 ft. tower so it can support the digital television antenna required for digital broadcasting.   The applicant is requesting 40% Federal funding of the $120,039 project cost.  WKNO(TV) serves 1.6 million people in the Memphis area.
File no: 00253, Greater Chattanooga Public TV Corp, , 4411 Amnicola Highway, ,Chattanooga, TN  37406. Contact person: Mr. Victor Hogstrom, phone: (423) 629-0045, e_mail: victor_hogstrom@wtci.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $452,640. Total project cost: $1,131,600.  Project summary: The application will convert public televison station WTCI(TV), operating on Ch. 45 in Chattanooga, to digital broadcasting.  The applicant requests 40% Federal funding of a total project cost of  $1,131,600.  The application requests purchase of a transmitter, antenna and  one channel digital encoder.   The applicants provides public televison service to 800,000 people in the Chattanooga area.
File no: 00025, Houston Community College System, Houston Community College TV, 22 Waugh Drive, ,Houston, TX  77007. Contact person: Mr. Ralph Hamilton, phone: (713) 718-6262, e_mail: hamilton_v@hccs.cc.tx.us.  Funds requested: $212,750. Total project cost: $425,500.  Project summary: To extend the instructional programming of the Houston Community College System ("the System") by purchasing a master control system, a video server, and a satellite uplink.  For some years, the System has been producing distance learning course work for over-the-air broadcast (in cooperation with public television station KUHT-TV, Ch. 8) and for the System's own dedicated education cable TV channel.  The project would allow the System to transmit its instructional materials initially to two neighboring communities -- West University Place and Bellair -- where the programming will be disseminated via cable television.  Additionally, the project would permit the dissemination of the System's course work to many communities in South Texas.  This last would be accomplished by arrangements with South Texas Community College, McAllen, and with Laredo Community College, Laredo.  The affected areas of South Texas have vast Hispanic populations and the Houston Community College System would be able to provide a good deal of educational materials targeted for Hispanic learners.  The enhanced master control capability would also enable the System to make expanded use of its multi-media presentations.
File no: 00079, Capital of TX Public T/C Council, KLRU, 2504-B Whitis Avenue, ,Austin, TX  78705. Contact person: Ms. Mary Beth Rogers, phone: (512) 471-9031, e_mail: MaryBeth_Rogers@klru.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $802,880. Total project cost: $2,007,200.  Project summary: A single-phase application to acquire the dissemination equipment to convert KLRU in Austin.  The total estimated project cost is $2,007,200 with a 40% Federal request of $802,880.  KLRU requests funds to acquire half of the cost of an 1,100 foot tower, an antenna and transmission line.  The cost of the tower will be shared with A. H. Belo, Corporation, licensee of a commercial television station.
File no: 00106, University of Houston System, KUHF-FM Radio, 3801 Cullen Boulevard, Communications Building #101,Houston, TX  77004. Contact person: Mr. John Proffitt, phone: (   )    -, e_mail: jproffitt@uh.edu.  Funds requested: $43,037. Total project cost: $86,074.  Project summary: To improve the facilities of public radio station KUHF-FM, 88.7 MHz, in Houston by ugrading the studio production and master conrol facilities.  KUHF will replace existing analog equipment with a digital mixing console, a digital audio file server and management system and related equipment.  Station serves 4,432,300 people in the Houston-Galveston area.
File no: 00157, South Texas Broadcasting System, KEDT-TV, 4455 South Padre Island Drive, Suite 38,Corpus Christi, TX  78411. Contact person: Mr. Donald Dunlap, phone: (361) 855-2213, e_mail: don_dunlap@kedt.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $929,100. Total project cost: $1,548,500.  Project summary: A single-phase application to convert KEDT in Corpus Christi.  The total estimated project cost is $1,548,500 with a 60% Federal request of $929,100.  KEDT requests funds to acquire a digital transmitter, antenna, transmission line, tower upgrade, digital studio-to-transmitter link, remote control, related dissemination equipment and test equipment
File no: 00167, ETCOM, Inc., KXCR, 2023 Myrtle Avenue, ,El Paso, TX  79901. Contact person: Mr. Arturo Vasquez, phone: (915) 542-2900, e_mail: avasquez@elp.rr.com.  Funds requested: $88,271. Total project cost: $135,801.  Project summary: To improve and extend the facilities of public radio station KXCR-FM, 89.5 MHz, in El Paso.  KXCR seeks to relocate its transmission facilities and increase power from 128 watts to 3 KW.  This should improve the signal coverage in areas that presently do not receive an acceptable signal.  In addition, this Hispanic-owned public radio station will acquire new on-air and production consoles and related equipment.
File no: 00173, University of Houston, KUHT-TV, 4513 Cullen Boulevard, ,Houston, TX  77004. Contact person: Mr. Jeff Clark, phone: (713) 749-8201, e_mail: jclarke@kuht.uh.edu.  Funds requested: $292,300. Total project cost: $730,749.  Project summary: To improve public television station KUHT-TV, Ch. 8, in Houston by replacing its analog composite studio production equipment with digital component equipment consisting of a digital production switcher and accessories, audio console and accessories, component still store and accessories and a digital character generator with accessories.  In addition, KUHT will augment its facilities with the purchase of a HDTV remote package consisting of HDTV camera/recorder, lens, and accessories, HDTV deck w/downconverter and accessories, plus HDTV/SDTV monitor and accessories.  New equipment will be installed in KUHT's new Melcher Center as the station relocates during the summer of 2000.
File no: 00174, Alamo Public T/C Council, KLRN-TV, 501 Broadway, ,San Antonio, TX  78215. Contact person: Mr. Charles Vaughn, phone: (210) 270-9000, e_mail: cvaughn@klrn.org.  Funds requested: $554,986. Total project cost: $2,219,944.  Project summary: A two-phase application to convert KLRN in San Antonio.  The total estimated project cost is $2,219,944 with a 25% Federal request of $554,986.   In FY 2000, KLRN requests $174,006 to purchase digital studio-to-transmitter link, antenna, line, satellite demods, server, converters monitoring and test equipment.  In FY 2001, it seeks $380,980 to acquire encoder, multiplex system, tower modifications, remote control, transmitter, testing and monitoring equipment.
File no: 00179, North Texas Public Broadcasting, , 3000 Harry Hines Boulevard, ,Dallas, TX  75201. Contact person: Mr. Gary Ferrell, phone: (214) 740-9210, e_mail: gferrell@kera.org.  Funds requested: $92,476. Total project cost: $231,190.  Project summary: A single-phase application to continue the digital conversion of KERA in Dallas.  The total estimated project cost is $231,190 with a 40% Federal request of $92,476.  KERA requests funds to acquire a digital studio-to-transmitter link and related equipment.   Equipment will benefit both the analog and digital stations,
File no: 00236, Dallas County Community College, LeCroy Center for Educ. T/C, 701 Elm Street, ,Dallas, TX  75202. Contact person: Mr. Lyndon McClure, phone: (214) 860-2456, e_mail: lmcclure@dcccd.edu.  Funds requested: $141,900. Total project cost: $283,800.  Project summary: To purchase digital encoding equipment, and other associated equipment items, to allow the Dallas County Community College District, Dallas, TX, to add digital capability to its present analog satellite uplink earth station.  This would allow the Community College District and the STARLINK network of the Texas Association of Community Colleges to offer substantially increased instructional programming via the satellite, both to Texas institutions and to entities nationwide.
File no: 00246, Amarillo College, KACV-TV, 2408 South Jackson, ,Amarillo, TX  79109. Contact person: Ms. Joyce Herring, phone: (806) 371-5225, e_mail: jsherrin@actx.edu.  Funds requested: $247,629. Total project cost: $330,173.  Project summary: To improve public television station KACV-TV, Ch. 2, in Amarillo by replacing 10 old videotape recorders, a virtual recorder, two field cameras, associated monitors and controls in master control and post production.   KACV-TV will also acquire a server and related equipment.  Station provides the only public television for about 405,000 people.
File no: 00043, Moab Public Radio, , 1743 Rocky Road, ,Moab, UT  84532. Contact person: Mr. Jeff Flanders, phone: (425) 259-8824, e_mail: kzmu@lasal.net.  Funds requested: $15,075. Total project cost: $20,100.  Project summary: To improve public radio station KZMU-FM, 89.7 MHz, in Moab.  KZMU-FM, a 100-watt community station, seeks to augment its production equipment by acquiring a console, speakers, monitor, CD players, DAT recorder, MD recorder, casettes, turntables and a variety of related production equipment.   KZUM-FM provides a locally originated service to about 10,000 people.
File no: 00044, University of Utah, Station KUED-TV, 1471 Federal Way, ,Salt Lake City, UT  84102. Contact person: Ms. Lynne Chronister, phone: (801) 581-3003, e_mail: Ospaward@osp.utah.edu.  Funds requested: $460,260. Total project cost: $1,841,041.  Project summary: A single-phase application to continue the digital conversion of KUED/KULC in Salt Lake City.   The total estimated project cost is $1,841,041 with a 25% Federal request of $460,260.   A new DTV transmitter, exciter, filter, coax line, HVAC, remote control, studio-to-transmitter link and test equipment will be installed at KUED's Farnsworth Peak transmitter site.  New satellite demodulators, encoders, program system manager (PSIP), converters, router, testing and monitoring equipment will be installed at the Eccles Broadcasting Center for use by KUED/KULC.  In addition, a new DTV station will be established at the Webb Hill site to serve St. George, UT.  Equipment being installed includes UHF transmitter, remote control, antenna, digital studio-to-transmitter link, transmission line, demodulator, monitoring equipment and exciter.
File no: 00121, Brigham Young University, Station KBYU-TV, C-302 HFAC, ,Provo, UT  84602. Contact person: Mr. Duane Roberts, phone: (801) 378-8450, e_mail: Duaner@kbyu.byu.edu.  Funds requested: $919,640. Total project cost: $2,299,100.  Project summary: A single-phase application to convert KBYU in Provo.  The total estimated project cost is $2,299,100 with a 40% Federal request of $919,640.   KBYU will purchase a transmitter, antenna line, remote control, digital studio-to-transmitter link, fiber optic system, test equipment, file server, near line storage, router upgrade, encoders, switcher and related digital equipment.
File no: 00148, University of Utah, KUER, University of Utah, Office of Sp, 1471 Federal Way,Salt Lake City, UT  84102. Contact person: Ms. Lynne Chronister, phone: (801) 581-3003, e_mail: ospward@osp.utah.edu.  Funds requested: $126,647. Total project cost: $253,293.  Project summary: To improve public radio station KUER-FM, 90.1 MHz, in Salt Lake City by replacing aging analog studio production equipment, converting to digital production and digital dissemination equipment.  Project will replace 17-year-old FM transmitter, antenna, line and acquire some digital equipment including a hard drive, audio processors and related equipment.  KUER-FM serves not only Salt Lake City but feeds a network of radio translators across the state.
File no: 00255, Utah State University, Utah Public Radio, 8505 Old Main Hill, ,Logan, UT  84322. Contact person: Mr. Bryan Earl, phone: (435) 797-3107, e_mail: bryear@upr.usu.edu.  Funds requested: $5,081. Total project cost: $6,775.  Project summary: To extend the signal of public radio station KUSU-FM in Logan by constructing a 10-watt translator station on 89.7 MHz in Garrison, UT.   The proposed translator will provide a first service to about 585 people in Garrison and Baker, NV.
File no: 00045, Shenandoah Valley Educational TV, WVPT-TV, 298 Port Repubic Road, ,Harrisonburg, VA  22801. Contact person: Mr. Maurice Bresnahan, phone: (540) 434-5391, e_mail: Moss_Bresnahan@wvpt.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $2,942,290. Total project cost: $7,355,700.  Project summary: A multi-year award for the digital conversion of two transmitters, five translators and the master control facilities for the Shenandoah Valley ETV in Harrisonburg.  The first phase of the project, funded by this award, covers the tower, transmitter, antenna, microwave, STL system, encoders and  related equipment for WVPT-TV.  The station serves a population of over 475,000 people.
File no: 00048, Shenandoah Valley Educational TV, WVPT-TV, 298 Port Republic Road, ,Harrisonburg, VA  22801. Contact person: Mr. Maurice Bresnahan, phone: (540) 434-5391, e_mail: Moss_Bresnahan@WVPT.pbs.org.  Funds requested: $58,824. Total project cost: $147,060.  Project summary: The applicant is requesting emergency funding to replace the Charlottesville translator currently operating on Channel 19.  The FCC awarded the Channel 19 frequency to a commercial station and the applicant has to install a new translator on Channel 37 to maintain service to over 59,000 residents.
File no: 00138, Hampton Roads Educ. T/C Assoc., Inc, WHRO, 5200 Hampton Boulevard, ,Norfolk, VA  23508. Contact person: Mrs. Roberta Fisher, phone: (757) 889-9400, e_mail: bobbie.fisher@whro.org.  Funds requested: $532,478. Total project cost: $1,331,195.  Project summary: Application for the digital conversion of WHRO in Norfolk.  The total estimated cost of the project is $1,331,195.  The 40% Federal request of $532,478 will cover transmission equipment including transmitter, antenna, transmission line and STL.  The station serves a population of about 1.6 million residents of the Norfolk, Hampton Roads area.
File no: 00172, Old Dominion University, Academic Technology Services, Gornto Teletechnet Building, Room 405,Norfolk, VA  23529. Contact person: Mr. Patrick Pow, phone: (757) 683-3181, e_mail: .  Funds requested: $237,935. Total project cost: $486,470.  Project summary: To extend the distance learning network -- called TELETECHNET -- of Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.  The project would install a total of 20 video receive classrooms, three each in five new sites  (these sites would also purchase satellite receive-only equipment) and one each in five other Virginia academic institutions that already have TELETECHNET equipment but need the additional classroom.  In addition, the project would install a fifth video classroom on the University's main campus, so as to provide control room support necessary to transmit additional course work via the University's relatively new MPEG II configuration.  Finally, the project would purchase test equipment that the University would use to monitor the technical quality of the MPEG II operations.
File no: 00234, Tomorrow is Today, , 1750 Tyson Boulevard 4th Floor, ,McLean, VA  22102. Contact person: Ms. Karen McRae, phone: (703) 744-1466, e_mail: Kmr@aol.com.  Funds requested: $358,604. Total project cost: $478,139.  Project summary: To create a radio network that will produce programming targeted to underserved minority groups.  It will initially target the African American community and will be available to radio stations across the country.
File no: 00235, Central Virginia Educ. T/C Corp., WNVT/WNVC, 8101A Lee Highway, ,Falls Church, VA  22042. Contact person: Ms. Elizabeth Harris, phone: (603) 698-9682, e_mail: eharrisatworldviewtv.org.  Funds requested: $414,759. Total project cost: $1,036,898.  Project summary: This application if for the digital conversion of a shared master control facility for WNVT/Goldvein and WNVC/Fairfax, Virginia.  The total estimated project cost is $1,036,898 and the 40% Federal request is $414,759.  The project will purchase and install a digital router, tape decks, frame synchronizer, amplifiers, monitoring and test equipment for the shared operations of WNVT and WNVC.  The stations serve a population of over 4.7 million people in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia.
File no: 00256, Valley Voice Friends, , 821 South Main Street, Suite 100,Harrisonburg, VA  22807. Contact person: Mr. Robert Munro, phone: (540) 568-3811, e_mail: munrorg@jmu.edu.  Funds requested: $21,000. Total project cost: $42,000.  Project summary: To expand the coverage of the Valley Voice Radio Reading Service in Harrisonburg, VA, the applicant will purchase and distribute 600 subcarrier receivers.
File no: 00243, Virgin Islands Public TV System, Station WTJX-TV, P. O. Box 7879, 158-158A Haypiece Hill Sub Base,Charlotte Amalie, VI  00801. Contact person: Ms. Lori Elskoe, phone: (304) 774-6255, e_mail: lelskoe@wtjx.org.  Funds requested: $585,406. Total project cost: $780,542.  Project summary: A single-phase application project that would accomplish the first step of the digital conversion of public television station WTJX,  which brings the sole public TV signal to the 100,000 residents of the Virgin Islands.  The station, which is based in Charlotte Amalie, operates on ch. 12 for its analog signal and will operate on ch. 44 for its digital signal.   The proposal would purchase a DTV transmitter, antenna, transmission line and diverse associated digital equipment.
File no: 00162, Vermont ETV, Inc., WVTA, 88 Ethan Allen Avenue, ,Colchester, VT  05446. Contact person: Mr. Wayne Rosberg, phone: (802) 655-5276, e_mail: wrosberg@vpt.org.  Funds requested: $2,171,184. Total project cost: $5,427,960.  Project summary: A three-phase project for the digital conversion of the the four transmitter sites of the Vermont Public Television Network.  The total project cost is estimated at $5,427,960 and the 40% Federal request is $2,171,184.  For FY 2000 the request of $689,434 will cover the transmitter, antenna, line, monitoring and test equipment at WVTA, Windsor.  In FY 2001, the applicant requests $878,582 for the transmission systems at WVER, Rutland and WVTB, St. Johnsbury.  The request of $603,168 for FY 2002 will fund transmission facilities at WETK, Burlington.  The project also includes construction of the microwave system for the Network and the master control facility.  The stations serve a population of over one million people throughout the state of Vermont and bordering areas of New Hampshire, New York and Massachusetts.
File no: 00011, Spokane School Dist #81/ KSPS-TV, , 3911 S. Regal St., ,Spokane, WA  99223. Contact person: Mr. Claude Kistler, phone: (509) 354-7734, e_mail: Ckistler@kpsp.org.  Funds requested: $866,468. Total project cost: $2,166,171.  Project summary: A three-phase project for digital conversion of KSPS-TV, DTV Channel 8 in Spokane.  The total estimated project cost is $2,166,171 with a 40% Federal request of $866,468.  In FY2000, the applicant requests $643,608 to purchase the transmitter, antenna, line, STL, video server, encoder and test equipment.  For FY2001, the total request is $109,326 for master control equipment including monitoring units, master control switcher and test equipment.  The FY2002 request is $113,534 for HD encoding and multi-casting equipment.
File no: 00030, KCTS Television, , 401 Mercer Street, ,Seattle, WA  98109. Contact person: Mr. Burnill Clark, phone: (206) 443-6706, e_mail: clarb@kcts.org.  Funds requested: $640,185. Total project cost: $955,550.  Project summary: To complete the digital transmission system of KYVE, DTV 21 in Yakima, by purchasing and installing the transmitter, STL, encoding/multiplexing equipment and related test equipment.  The station provides the only public television service to about 254,000 residents.
File no: 00042, KCTS Television, Station KCTS-DT, 401 Mercer Street, ,Seattle, WA  98109. Contact person: Mr. Burnill Clark, phone: (206) 443-6706, e_mail: bclark@ktcs.org.  Funds requested: $161,575. Total project cost: $646,300.  Project summary: The project will replace the analog single channel master control switcher and the routing switcher with a digital multi-channel switcher and a digital routing switcher at KCTS-TV, DTV 41 in Seattle.  The station serves a population of over 3.7 million people.
File no: 00056, Washington State University, Educational T/C & Technology, 382 Murrow Center, P. O. Box 642530,Pullman, WA  99164-2530. Contact person: Mr. Dennis Haarsager, phone: (509) 335-6511, e_mail: haarsager@wsu.edu.  Funds requested: $57,885. Total project cost: $115,770.  Project summary: The project will replace two master control on-air consoles and a routing switcher at the Northwest Public Radio Network operation center in Pullman.  The twelve stations in the Network serve a population of almost one million residents of the state.
File no: 00086, Washington State Univeristy, Educ. T/C & Technology, 382 Murrow Center, Post Office Box 642530,Pullman, WA  99164-2530. Contact person: Mr. Dennis Haarsager, phone: (509) 335-6511, e_mail: haarsager@wsu.edu.  Funds requested: $81,600. Total project cost: $108,800.  Project summary: To bring first public radio service to about 62,000 residents of Southwest Washington by construction of a repeater station in Chehalis/Centralia, KWSU operating on 88.9 MHz.
File no: 00275, Bates Technical College, , 1101 South Yakima Avenue, ,Tacoma, WA  98405. Contact person: Ms. Debbie Emond, phone: (253) 596-1528, e_mail: .  Funds requested: $2,039,040. Total project cost: $2,718,721.  Project summary: A three-phase application for the digital conversion of KBTC/Tacoma and KCKA/Centralia.  The total estimated project cost is $2,718,721 and the 75% Federal request is $2,039,040.  In FY 2000 the requested $962,169 will support KBTC's transmitter, antenna, line, STL, router, monitoring and test equipment.  In FY 2001, the applicant requests $585,388 for the transmission system at KCKA in Centralia.  For FY 2002, the request of $491,483 will fund the master control facility including the video server, swtching and monitoring equipment.  The stations serve a population of more than 2.8 million people.
File no: 00278, City of Centralia, City Manager's Office, 118 W. Maple St., ,Centralia, WA  98531. Contact person: Mr. Thomas Reber, phone: (   )    -, e_mail: .  Funds requested: $78,407. Total project cost: $104,543.  Project summary: To assist the City of Centralia, WA, to evaluate the engineering, equipment, and implementation rerquirements associated with the establishment of a commununity-access PEG channel on the local cable television system.
File no: 00092, Wisconsin Public Radio, WHA-AM, 821 University Avenue, ,Madison, WI  53706. Contact person: Mr. Greg Schnirring, phone: (608) 263-4199, e_mail: schnirring@wpr.org.  Funds requested: $90,000. Total project cost: $180,000.  Project summary: To improve the production capability of Wisconsin Public Radio, Madison, WI, by replacing worn out and obsolete equipment, including a digital editing system, an audio mixer, and digital tape recorders.  Wisconsin Public Radio serves a population of about 7,587,315 people.
File no: 00133, Lac Courte Oreilles Public Bdcstng, WOJB, 13386 W. Trepania Road, ,Hayward, WI  54843. Contact person: Ms. Camille Lacapa, phone: (715) 634-2100, e_mail: wojbgm@aol.com.  Funds requested: $21,753. Total project cost: $43,506.  Project summary: To improve public radio station WOJB, 88.9 MHz in Hayward, WI, by purchasing test equipment and replacing 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: 00145, Educational Communications Board, , 3319 West Beltline Highway, ,Madison, WI  53713. Contact person: Mr. Thomas Fletemeyer, phone: (608) 264-9676, e_mail: tfletemeyer@ecb.state.wi.us.  Funds requested: $2,230,691. Total project cost: $8,922,770.  Project summary: A two-phase application for the digital conversion of five public television stations of the Educational Communications Board, Madison, WI.  The estimated total project cost is $8,922,770 with a 25% Federal request of $2,230,691.  For FY 2000, the application requests $877,453 to purchase a digital transmitter, antenna, tower work, and test equipment for WNPE, Green Bay, and a digital transmitter, antenna, tower, transmission line, and test equipment for WHRM, Wausau.  For FY 2001, the application requests $1,351,238 to purchase a digital transmitter, antenna, transmission line, tower work, and test equipment for WHLA, La Crosse; a digital transmitter, antenna, transmission line, tower work, and test equipment for WHWC, Menomonie; and a digital transmitter, antenna, transmission line, tower work, and test equipment for WLEF, Park Falls.  The stations serve a population of about 2.3 million people.
File no: 00199, Milwaukee Area Technical College, WMVS/WMVT, 1036 North 8th Street, ,Milwaukee, WI  53233. Contact person: Mr. Tom Dvorak, phone: (414) 271-1036, e_mail: dvorakt@matc.edu.  Funds requested: $1,027,961. Total project cost: $4,111,845.  Project summary: A four-phase application for the digital conversion of the two public television stations of the Milwaukee, WI, Area Technical College, WMVS and WMVT.  The estimated total project cost is $4,111,845 with a 25% Federal request of $1,027,961.  For FY 2000, the application requests $253,086 to purchase a digital transmitter, an STL upgrade, and an encoder for WMVS and antenna and transmission line for WMVT.  For FY 2001, the application requests $192,500 to purchase a switcher, encoder expansion, a digital server, digital tape recorders, satellite demods, and format converter.  For FY 2002, the application requests $298,750 to purchase router and encoder expansion, a digital server, digital tape recorders, satellite decoders, and an encoder switching control.  For FY 2003, the application requests $283,625 to purchase a digital transmitter for WMVT, a digital microwave, and studio monitoring.  The stations serve a population of about 2.1 million people.
File no: 00215, La Crosse Med. Health Sci. Consort., Health Science Center, 105 Graff Main Hall, 1725 State Street,La Crosse, WI  54601. Contact person: Dr. Martin Venneman, phone: (608) 785-8218, e_mail: venneman@sah.uwlax.edu.  Funds requested: $508,600. Total project cost: $678,140.  Project summary: To assist the La Crosse Medical Health Science Consortium, Inc. ("the Consortium") establish an interactive video distance learning network.  The network would interconnect the Consortium's Health Care Center in La Crosse, WI, with three sites in the rural communities of Black River Falls and Mauston;  both are in Wisconsin.  The Consortium is composed of Western Wisconsin Technical College (WWTC), Viterbo College, the University of Wisconsin/La Crosse, Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center, and Franciscan Healthcare (Mayo Health Systems).  The proposal calls for three video classrooms to be installed at the Health Care Center and one video classroom each at the WWTC campus in Black River Falls, the Krohn Clinic in Black River Falls, and the Mile Bluff Medical Center in Mauston.  The project would also purchase a small portable videoconferencing unit.
File no: 00220, University of Wisconsin, WHA Television, 821 University Avenue, ,Madison, WI  53706. Contact person: Mr. Byron Knight, phone: (   )    -, e_mail: knight@wpt.org.  Funds requested: $583,000. Total project cost: $2,333,799.  Project summary: To convert public station WHA-TV, Madison, WI, to digital broadcasting.  The estimated total project cost is $2,333,799 with a 25% Federal request of $583,000 to purchase a digital transmission with options and spares, antenna tower reinforcement, STL, combiner, and test equipment.  The station serves a population of about 500,000 people.
File no: 00099, Tyler Consolidated Middle/High Sch, , 1993 Silver Knight Drive, ,Sistersville, WV  26175. Contact person: Ms. Sandy Weese, phone: (304) 758-2145, e_mail: .  Funds requested: $55,000. Total project cost: $55,000.  Project summary: 
File no: 00154, Clay County Communications Ltd., , P.O. Box 954, Clay,WV   25043, 15 Falling Rock Road,Clendenin, WV  25045. Contact person: Mr. Delbert Davis, phone: (304) 548-7503, e_mail: enerqizer10@citvnet.net.  Funds requested: $69,525. Total project cost: $73,525.  Project summary: To plan for a radio station that will provide first public radio service to about 10,000 residents of Clay County, West Virginia.
File no: 00237, HOPE Community Development Corp., , 600 Kanawha Boulevard, W, ,Charleston, WV  25302. Contact person: Rev. Matthew Watts, phone: (   )    -, e_mail: gracech@wv-cis.net.  Funds requested: $47,660. Total project cost: $47,660.  Project summary: Planning for a low power radio station serving the African American community in Charleston, West Virginia.
File no: 00276, WV Educational Broadcasting, West Virginia Public Radio, 600 Capitol Street, ,Charleston, WV  25301. Contact person: Mr. Dale Rhodes, phone: (304) 556-4900, e_mail: dhrodes@wvpubcast.org.  Funds requested: $218,195. Total project cost: $436,390.  Project summary: To expand its coverage and provide first public radio service to about 50,000 residents of central West Virginia, the project will replace a 23-year-old transmitter and construct a new tower at WVPN-FM in Charleston.  In addition, the West Virginia Public Radio Network will replace a 31-year-old transmitter, the antenna and the line at WVPW in Buckhannon.  The Network serves over 2 million people.
File no: 00277, WV Educational Broadcasting, WPBY-TV/WNPB-TV/WSWP-TV, 600 Capitol Street, ,Charleston, WV  25301. Contact person: Mr. Bill Acker, phone: (304) 556-4900, e_mail: backer@wvpubcast.org.  Funds requested: $1,846,084. Total project cost: $4,615,217.  Project summary: A three-phase application for the conversion of three stations in the West Virginia Public Television Network.  The total estimated cost of the project is $4,615,217 and the 40% Federal request is $1,846,084.  For FY 2000, the applicant is requesting $892,765 for tower modification and to purchase and install the transmitter, antenna, line and STL at WPBY/Huntington.  Also during FY 2000, the applicant will purchase and install equipment for the Beckley master control facility including video server, router, convertors, encoder, monitoring and test equipment.  In FY 2001, the requested $465,342 will fund the transmission system at WNPB/Morgantown.  The request of $487,977 for FY 2002 will support the transmission system at WSWP/Beckley.  The Network serves a population of over $1.8 million residents of West Virginia.