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

2 Balanced Budget Downpayment Act, II, Pub. L.

No. 104–134, 110 Stat. 1321 (1996). 3 61 FR 6912 (Feb. 22, 1996).

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Telecommunications and

Information Administration

[Docket Number: 960205021–6132–02]

RIN 0660–ZA01

Public Telecommunications Facilities

Program (PTFP)

AGENCY: National Telecommunications

and Information Administration,

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice, funding availability and

applications received.

SUMMARY: The National

Telecommunications and Information

Administration (NTIA) previously

announced the solicitation of grant

applications for the Public

Telecommunications Facilities Program

(PTFP) for planning and construction

grants for public telecommunications

facilities. The PTFP had not received its

final status of funding at that time, and

stated that PTFP would publish a notice

when the funding status for fiscal year

1996 was known. This notice will

announce the funding level, as well as

announce the applications which were

received in response to the solicitation.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dennis Connors, Director, Public

Broadcasting Division, telephone: (202)

482–5802; fax: (202) 482–2156.

Information about the PTFP can also be

obtained electronically via Internet

(send inquiries to http://

www.ntia.doc.gov) or through the NTIA

BBS at (202) 482–1199 (set computer

modems for 8 stop bits, 0 polarity).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Funding

Availability: By Federal Register notice

dated February 22, 1996, the NTIA,

within the Department of Commerce,

announced that the program was

soliciting grant applications, and that

the closing date for receipt of

applications was 5 p.m. EST, March 28,

1996.1 The Notice of Closing Date

provided that announcement of

available funds would be made once

Congress appropriated an amount for

the PTFP. On April 26, 1996, Congress

appropriated $15.5 million for the

PTFP.2

Except for the notice that funding for

the PTFP for FY 1996 is $15.5 million,

all other information announced in the

Notice of Closing Date remains in effect.

For further information on the Public

Telecommunications Facilities Program,

please refer to the program’s Notice of

Closing Date, published in the Federal

Register on February 22, 1996.3

Applications Received: In all, 251

applications were received from 47

states, the District of Columbia, Guam,

the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,

American Samoa, and the

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana

Islands. The total amount of funds

requested by the applications is $54.9

million.

Notice is hereby given that the PTFP

received applications from the following

organizations. The list includes all

applications received. Identification of

any application only indicates its

receipt. It does not indicate that it has

been accepted for review, has been

determined to be eligible for funding, or

that an application will receive an

award.

Any interested party may file

comments with the Agency supporting

or opposing an application and setting

forth the grounds for support or

opposition. Such comments must

contain a certification that a copy of the

comments has been delivered to the

applicant. Comments must be sent to

the following address: NTIA/PTFP,

Room 4625, 14th Street and

Constitution Ave., NW., Washington,

DC 20230.

The Agency will incorporate all

comments from the public and any

replies from the applicant in the

applicant’s official file.

AK (Alaska)

File No. 96132 CTB Alaska Public

Telecomm., Inc., 3877 University Drive,

Anchorage, AK 99508. Signed By: Ms.

Susan Reed, President. Funds

Requested: $663,350. Total Project Cost:

$844,479. To replace the 22-year-old

transmitter for public TV station KAKM,

which operates on Ch. 7 in Anchorage.

The project would also purchase a

replacement hot-standby STL for one of

the station’s STL hops, SAP generation

equipment, and diverse test equipment

items.

File No. 96249 ICTB Bethel

Broadcasting, Inc., Pouch 468, Bethel,

AK 99559. Signed By: Mr. John

McDonald, General Manager/Station

KYUK. Funds Requested: $543,340.

Total Project Cost: $742,510. To

purchase three digital encoders to

convert the satellite offerings of the

Distance Delivery Consortium from

analog to digital service. The Distance

Delivery Consortium provides

instructional programming to 52 villages

in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of

Western Alaska, the Interior of Alaska,

and Southeast Alaska. The project will

also purchase 74 compressed digital

receivers to receive the digital satellite

service.

AL (Alabama)

File No. 96006 CTB Alabama ETV

Commission, 2112 11th Avenue South,

Ste 400, Birmingham, AL 35205–2884.

Signed By: Ms. Judy Stone, APT

Executive Director. Funds Requested:

$186,878. Total Project Cost: $373,756.

Replace fourteen Alabama Public

Television microwave equipment

shelters throughout the state network,

add a shelter and wiring for an

emergency generator at WCIQ which

experiences AC power outages, and

replace the network’s on-line editing

system at its only production facility in

Montgomery, Alabama.

File No. 96087 CTB 95055. City of

Prichard, 216 East Prichard Lane,

Prichard, AL 36610. Signed By: Hon.

Jesse Norwood, Mayor. Funds

Requested: $418,924. Total Project Cost:

$668,924. To establish a low-power

noncommercial television station

operating on Channel 60 in Prichard,

Alabama, to provide educational and

informational services to the city of

Prichard and surrounding areas.

File No. 96107 CRB Gadsden State

Community College, 1001 George

Wallace Drive, Gadsden, AL 35902.

Signed By: Dr. Victor Ficker, President.

Funds Requested: $49,250. Total Project

Cost: $98,500. To upgrade the power

and antenna height of noncommercial

radio station, WSGN–FM, operating on

91.5 MHz from Gadsden State

Community College in Gadsden,

Alabama.

File No. 96124 ICTN 95082. Black

Warrior Telecom Consortium, 607

Highway 80 West, Demopolis, AL

36732. Signed By: Mr. Marcus Walters,

President. Funds Requested: $193,484.

Total Project Cost: $257,978. To

construct a video production studio and

purchase related test equipment for the

Black Warrior Telecommunications

Consortium, Inc., Demopolis, Alabama.

The studio will allow the Consortium to

originate educational programming to be

transmitted over the ITFS systems

operated by the Consortium members.

The Consortium is composed of five

school systems (Marengo, Greene, and

Sumter Counties and the cities of

Demopolis and Linden City) and the

West Alabama Health Services, all

located in rural west Alabama.

File No. 96178 ICTBN University of

AL Board of Trustees, Box 870104,G–

60 Rose Admin. Bld, Tuscaloosa, AL

35487. Signed By: Dr. Robert Wells,

Ass’t Academic VP for Research. Funds

Requested: $138,771. Total Project Cost:

$277,542. To convert an analog Ku-band
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uplink to digital compression. The

conversion to digital will enable

continued distribution of three weekly

instructional series on Integrated

Science to over 150,000 students

nationwide in grades 5, 6, and 7, and

will permit the delivery of this program

directly to schools and public television

entities.

AR (Arkansas)

File No. 96105 CTB Arkansas ETV

Commission, 350 South Donaghey,

Conway, AR 72032. Signed By: Ms.

Susan Howarth, Executive Director.

Funds Requested: $242,049. Total

Project Cost: $484,099. To improve the

state’s public television network by

establishing a production and distance

learning studio in Little Rock thus

improving the AETN’s ability to

produce and broadcast news and

information programs from the state

capital. AETN serves approximately

2.35 million people.

File No. 96110 CRB Arkansas State

University, 104 Cooley St, P.O. Drawer

2160, State University, AR 72467.

Signed By: Dr. Stanley Williams, VP for

Finance & Admin. Funds Requested:

$36,783. Total Project Cost: $73,567. To

improve public radio station KASU–FM,

91.9 MHz, State University, by replacing

old, obsolete origination equipment.

KASU–FM will acquire digital

workstations, digital audio boards and

editing packages, two audio consoles,

monitor amplifiers, microphones and

speakers and related equipment. KASU–

FM serves approximately 250,000

people in AR, MO and TN.

File No. 96235 CTB AR Education TV

Commission, 350 South Donaghey,

Conway, AR 72032. Signed By: Ms.

Susan Howarth, Executive Director.

Funds Requested: $212,500. Total

Project Cost: $425,000. To improve

public television station KETS–TV, Ch.

2, in Little Rock, by strengthening the

commercial tower on which its antenna

is mounted. KETS–TV, the flagship

station of the AETN, serves more than

1 million people.

AS (American Samoa)

File No. 96004 CTB American Samoa

Government, Office of Public

Information, Pago Pago, AS 96799.

Signed By: Mrs. Vaoita Savali, Director.

Funds Requested: $253,470. Total

Project Cost: $253,470. To improve the

production facilities of public television

station KVZK–TV, operating on Ch. 2 in

Pago Pago, by purchasing three studio

cameras and related equipment. The

project will also provide test equipment

to ensure continued operation of this

facility which serves 57,000 residents of

American Samoa.

File No. 96250 ICRTN Government of

American Samoa, Office of Governor,

Pago Pago, AS 96799. Signed By: Mr.

Aifili Lutali, Governor. Funds

Requested: $398,600. Total Project Cost:

$398,600. To activate a new service for

distance education by purchasing a

digital satellite system to serve

American Samoa. The system will

provide compressed digital video and be

affiliated with the Pan-Pacific

Educational and Communications

Experiments by Satellite (PEACESAT)

program headquartered in Hawaii.

AZ (Arizona)

File No. 96063 PRB Hopi Foundation,

Highway 264 Market 367–9,, Hotevilla,

AZ 86030. Signed By: Ms. Barbara

Poley, Executive Director. Funds

Requested: $37,176. Total Project Cost:

$41,156. Conduct planning activities,

including engineering and research

studies, for the construction of a public

radio facility in Hotevilla, Arizona,

serving the Hopi Indian reservation of

northeastern Arizona.

File No. 96075 CTN San Carlos

Apache Tribe, San Carlos Avenue, Bldg.

# 13, San Carlos, AZ 85550. Signed By:

Mr. Raymond Stanley, Tribal Chairman.

Funds Requested: $12,980. Total Project

Cost: $17,309. To purchase studio

production equipment to allow the San

Carlos Apache Tribe to originate

programming to be transmitted over the

local cable television system on a

community access channel.

File No. 96088 CTB Arizona State

University, 10th & Myrtle, Box 871603,

KAET, Tempe, AZ 85287–1405. Signed

By: Ms. Janice Bennett, Director, Res. &

Creative Act. Funds Requested:

$139,600. Total Project Cost: $279,200.

To improve public television station

KAET–TV, Ch. 8, Phoenix (Tempe), by

replacing old, unreliable production

equipment including electronic editor,

field production camera and video

recorder, remote production switcher,

monitors, character generator and four

Beta video recorders. KAET–TV serves

approximately 2.8 million people.

File No. 96111 ICTN Northern

Arizona University, Comm. Bldg, Rm

123, Osborne Rd., Flagstaff, AZ 86011.

Signed By: Dr. Jeanette Baker, Contract

Officer, NAU. Funds Requested:

$1,278,014. Total Project Cost:

$2,556,028. To purchase the

interconnection and video classroom

equipment required to expand Northern

Arizona University’s (NAU) duplex

microwave-based distance learning

system—called NAUNet—to six

additional sites: Arizona Western

College at San Luis; Central Arizona

College at Apache Junction; Chinle

Unified School District; Coconino

Community College at Page; Eastern

Arizona College at Payson; and

Northland Pioneer College at Show

Low. The project would also install hub

site equipment at NAU/Flagstaff, NAU/

Yuma, and at the NAUNet hub site in

Phoenix. All system end-points would

include equipment for interface with

host-institution Local Area Networks

(LANs) and would provide students

with local dial-up access to e-mail,

bulletin boards, and Internet service.

File No. 96123 CRB Maricopa County

Cmty Coll. Dist., 3124 East Roosevelt,

Phoenix, AZ 85008. Signed By: Dr.

Alfredo de los Santos, Vice Chancellor

Ed. Dev. Funds Requested: $15,089.

Total Project Cost: $30,178. To acquire

420 SCA radio receivers for use by

print-impaired persons. The special

receivers will be distributed to all areas

served by the stations carrying the

service. The main studio is in Phoenix,

with satellite facilities in Tucson and

Flagstaff. This 24-hour service provides

the only radio reading service in AZ.

File No. 96173 CRB White Mountain

Apache Tribe, Tribal Exe Bldg SR 73,

PO Box 70, Whiteriver, AZ 85941.

Signed By: Mr. Ronnie Lupe, Chairman.

Funds Requested: $68,033. Total Project

Cost: $90,711. To expand the facilities

of public radio station KNNB–FM, 88.1

MHz, in Whiteriver by relocating and

increasing the power of the station.

KNNB–FM will acquire a new

transmitter, tower, antenna,

transmission and other dissemination

equipment.

File No. 96186 CRB Northern Arizona

University, Comm. Bldg 16, Rm 229,

Osborn Rd, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. Signed

By: Dr. Jeanette Baker, Contract Officer.

Funds Requested: $108,351. Total

Project Cost: $144,469. To activate a

new FM public radio station on 90.9

MHz, in Page. Station will repeat the

signal of KNAU–FM, Flagstaff, and have

local origination capacity. Project

includes sufficient local production

equipment to constitute a full service

facility. Studios will be located on the

Coconino Community College campus.

New station will provide first public

radio service to approximately 9,448

people in northern AZ and southern UT.

CA (California)

File No. 96008 CTB California

Community TV Network, 559 E. Alisal

Street, #106, Salinas, CA 93905. Signed

By: Mr. Wendell Chino, President.

Funds Requested: $324,748. Total

Project Cost: $431,330. The California

Community Television Network,

KCAH–TV in Salinas, CA., operating on

Channel 25, seeks a grant to help install

a 10 kw transmitter and antenna system

to provide the first public TV signal for
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significant portions of Santa Cruz,

Monterey, Santa Clara and San Benito

counties, sections of San Mateo, and

small areas in Stanislaus, Merced and

Alameda counties, all of which include

198,114 potential viewers who will

receive first signal.

File No. 96016 CRB State of CA—

Humboldt State Univ, Humboldt State

University, Arcata, CA 95521. Signed

By: Dr. Edward Webb, Vice President.

Funds Requested: $67,860. Total Project

Cost: $90,480. KASU–FM, operating on

90.5 MHz in Arcata, California seeks a

grant to construct a repeater transmitter,

operating on 91.9 MHz, at Crescent City,

CA and establish a satellite studio

facility in Crescent City which will

provide Del Notre County with its first

public radio origination capability. The

project will provide first public radio

service to approximately 13,000

potential listeners.

File No. 96025 PTN Ed T/C

Consortium of Central CA, 1101 E.

University, Fresno, CA 93741. Signed

By: Dr. Robert Wyman, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $199,865.

Total Project Cost: $560,445.

Educational Telecommunications

Consortium of Central Valley region of

California, located in Fresno, CA,

requests funding for a comprehensive

Planning project to develop a Four

County regional area in Central

California, including Fresno, Madera,

Tulare and Kings Counties, to interface

existing resources with those needed for

the region and for the purpose of

sharing training and technology

resources both instructional and

administrative. This would allow

professional staff and some students to

utilize new and emerging technology in

a regional Center.

File No. 96028 CTB San Mateo

County Comm Coll District, 1700 West

Hillsdale Blvd., San Mateo, CA 94002.

Signed By: Dr. Lois Callahan,

Chancellor. Funds Requested: $406,628.

Total Project Cost: $813,257. KCSM–TV,

Ch 60, in San Mateo, CA, requests

replacement of its aged production

switcher, audio board, cameras, and

associated equipment and to construct a

satellite uplink to provide educational

courses and adult learning materials,

teleconferences, etc, to colleges in the

Bay Area, cable educational channels

and libraries in the communities of

Northern California. This station serves

4,650,000 potential viewers.

File No. 96029 CTB Los Angeles

Unified School Dist., 1061 West Temple

Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Signed

By: Mr. Sidney Thompson,

Superintendent. Funds Requested:

$558,520. Total Project Cost: $1,117,040.

KLCS–TV, Channel 58 in Los Angeles,

CA requests replacement of its 23 year

old transmitter and to link, by Digital

Duplex, KLCS with the facilities at the

studios of the Educational

Telecommunications Network (ETN).

ETN is an FCC licensed Ku-Band

Satellite network owned and operated

by the Los Angeles County Office of

Education.

File No. 96044 CTB KQED, Inc., 2601

Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA

94110–1400. Signed By: Mrs. Mary G.F.

Bitterman, President & CEO. Funds

Requested: $459,285. Total Project Cost:

$918,570. To improve KQED–TV,

Channel 9, in San Francisco, CA, by

replacing the editing system, by adding

two Digital 1⁄2′′ VCR’s and adding the

Sales Tax and the A–133 Audit. The

applicant provides service to 5.5 million

potential viewers in the San Francisco

area.

File No. 96050 CTB Valley Public

Television, Inc., 1544 Van Ness Avenue,

Fresno, CA 93721. Signed By: Mr. Colin

Dougherty, Exec. Dir/General Manager.

Funds Requested: $270,137. Total

Project Cost: $540,274. To improve

KVPT–TV, Channel 18, in Fresno, CA,

by replacing its 19 year old transmitter

Applicant currently serves a potential

TV audience of 2,300,000.

File No. 96058 CRB KQED, Inc., 2601

Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA

94110. Signed By: Mrs. Mary Bitterman,

President and CEO. Funds Requested:

$97,010. Total Project Cost: $194,020.

KQED–FM, operating at 110kw ERP, on

88.5 MHz, in San Francisco, CA, seeks

to replace its 17 year-old transmitter and

antenna, both at the end of their useful

life. KQED–FM provides service to 5.3

million potential listeners.

File No. 96062 CRB San Diego Comm

College District, 1313 Twelfth Avenue,

San Diego, CA 92101. Signed By: Mr.

Augustine Gallego, Chancellor. Funds

Requested: $61,383. Total Project Cost:

$122,766. To improve KSDS–FM,

operating on 88.3 MHz, in San Diego,

CA, by replacing a 20 year old

transmitter, a 19 year old antenna and

transmission line, increasing its power,

and adding circular polarization, to

provide the station’s program service to

an extended population by increasing

KSDS’s power capacity from 831 watts

ERP to 19,000 watts ERP.

File No. 96112 CRB Nevada City

Community Broadcast Gp, 401 Spring

Street, Nevada City, CA 95959. Signed

By: Mr. Brian Terhorst, General

Manager. Funds Requested: $42,907.

Total Project Cost: $85,815. To improve

KVMR–FM, operating on 89.5 MHz, in

Nevada City, CA, by replacing the

transmitter, antenna, feedlines, tower,

STL antenna, adaptor and wattmeter

and adding a satellite downlink to bring

first service of national programming to

a majority of the station’s 340,000

potential listeners.

File No. 96122 CTB KBSV–TV, P.O.

Box 4116, Modesto, CA 95352. Signed

By: Dr. Sargon Dadesho, Director of

Mass Media. Funds Requested:

$313,500. Total Project Cost: $418,000.

To improve KBSV–TV which will

operate on Channel 23 starting April 16,

1996, by establishing a first Local

Origination Capacity. The main

objective of this station is to provide

multicultural and educational programs

to the diversified population in its

coverage area. Applicant claims no

other station is serving the functions

outlined above. The coverage area

includes 370,000 potential viewers.

File No. 96125 CRB Pacifica

Foundation, 1929 MLK Jr. Avenue,

Berkeley, CA 94704. Signed By: Ms.

Patricia Scott, Executive Director. Funds

Requested: $160,929. Total Project Cost:

$214,572. To improve KPFK–FM,

operating on 90.7 MHz, in North

Hollywood, CA and KPFT–FM,

operating on 90.1 MHz, in Houston, TX,

by replacing a mismatched set of old

tape decks and cart machines with

digital technology. The applicant

provides service to approximately

13,840,832 listeners in North

Hollywood and approximately

3,192,000 listeners in Houston.

File No. 96135 IPTN Kern Community

College District, 100 East College

Avenue, Porterville, CA 93257. Signed

By: Dr. Bonnie Rogers, President. Funds

Requested: $46,185. Total Project Cost:

$82,867. To develop a plan for a

telecommunications system that would

incorporate materials from the Kern

Educational Telecommunications

Consortium and other sources, in

providing a distance learning and job

training service to an underserved,

largely Hispanic and American Indian

population in southern Tulare County,

California.

File No. 96152 CRB Los Angeles

Radio Reading Service, 3580 Wilshire

Blvd. Suite 1660, Los Angeles, CA

90010. Signed By: Mr. Paul J.

Vandeventer, Executive Director. Funds

Requested: $19,275. Total Project Cost:

$25,700. The Los Angeles Radio

Reading Service has been granted its

subsidiary frequency by KCSN–FM in

Los Angeles and now requests funding

for a start-up inventory of 300 SCA

receivers and multi-user site equipment

for one convalescent home and two

residential homes for those who are

blind. Additionally, the project includes

an FM antenna and a low power

transmitter, a transmit coupling, a

coaxial cable and wire cable.
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File No. 96159 CRB San Francisco

Unified School Dist., 2576 Harrison

Street, San Francisco, CA 94110. Signed

By: Ms. Linda Davis, Deputy

Superintendent. Funds Requested:

$18,973. Total Project Cost: $37,945. To

improve KALW–FM, operating on 91.7

MHz, in San Francisco, CA, by replacing

its 16 year old satellite dish and 10 year

old audio console and to upgrade its

communication system by purchasing a

telephone interface to allow on-air call

conferencing. Applicant currently

serves 1,977,000 potential listeners.

File No. 96161 CRB California State

Univ, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff

Street, Northridge, CA 91330–8312.

Signed By: Mr. Mark Lipschutz,

Director, Res. & Spon. Project. Funds

Requested: $9,422. Total Project Cost:

$18,844. To improve KCSN–FM,

operating on 88.5 MHz, in Northridge,

CA, by adding digital editing equipment

which will optimize the applicant’s use

of the DAT and mini-disc equipment

KCSN acquired under a ’94 grant. The

items requested include: the core

system, interface, signal processor,

keyboard, hard drive, noise reduction,

software, computer, tape drive and

monitor. The station serves

approximately 1.5 million people.

File No. 96181 CRB Bet-Nahrain, Inc.,

P.O. Box 4116, Modesto, CA 95352.

Signed By: Dr. Sargon Dedesho, Director

of Mass Media. Funds Requested:

$182,235. Total Project Cost: $242,980.

To enable KBES–FM, operating on 89.5

MHz, located in Ceres, CA, to acquire

the necessary items of equipment to

bring the inventory of an already

operating station to the basic level of

equipment requirements established by

PTFP. The equipment requested is a 150

to 200 watt transmitter, plus all the

items listed in the Guidelines Booklet

for the On-Air Control Room,

Production Control Room, and News

Control Room. Approximately 370,000

potential listeners benefit from the

KBES–FM Programming.

File No. 96182 CTB Bay Area

Multicultural T/C Asso., 1740 Cesar

Chavez Street, San Francisco, CA 94124.

Signed By: Mr. Humberto Cintron,

President, Board of Directors. Funds

Requested: $263,166. Total Project Cost:

$350,888. To activate a minority public

TV station, operating on Channel 32 in

San Francisco, CA, which will provide

programming for the 2.2 million Bay

Area residents who are members of 5

minority groups. The applicant has

applied to the FCC to be granted the

license for Channel 32 in place of the

current license-holder of Ch 32.

File No. 96188 ICTB Kern Educational

T/com. Consortium, 1300 17th Street,

City Centre, Bakerfield, CA 93301–4533.

Signed By: Dr. Kelly Blanton, Kern

County Superintendent. Funds

Requested: $888,116. Total Project Cost:

$1,184,155. To establish a

noncommercial television station in

Bakersfield, CA, which will bring a first

public TV signal to approximately

780,000 residents of that area. In

addition to some nationally-distributed

public television programming, the

station will transmit a vast amount of

instructional programming from the

Kern Educational Telecommunications

Consortium, which has its headquarters

in Bakersfield. The new station will also

incorporate into its schedule

programming targeted towards the

Hispanic-American population, which

constitutes approximately 30% of the

total population of the station’s

proposed service area.

File No. 96207 ICTN Monterey

County Office of Education, 901 Blanco

Court, Salinas, CA 93901. Signed By:

Mr. William Barr, Superintendent.

Funds Requested: $338,454. Total

Project Cost: $676,908. To add two ITFS

links to the Monterey County Office of

Education’s existing distance learning

system, and purchase microwave

equipment to interconnect the ITFS

system with diverse other transmission

outlets throughout the Office’s service

area.

File No. 96221 ICTN The National

Hispanic University, 14271 Story Road,

San Jose, CA 96127. Signed By: Dr.

Roberto Cruz, President. Funds

Requested: $244,043. Total Project Cost:

$305,053. To purchase a VSAT satellite

terminal and electronic classroom

facilities to permit the National

Hispanic University to become a

participating member of the Hispanic

Educational Telecommunications

System (HETS).

CO (Colorado)

File No. 96024 CTB University of

Southern Colorado, 2200 Bonforte

Boulevard, Pueblo, CO 81001. Signed

By: Dr. Robert Shirley, President. Funds

Requested: $534,438. Total Project Cost:

$1,068,876. To extend and improve the

facilities of KTSC–TV, Channel 8 in

Pueblo by activating translators in

Durango (Ch. 29), Ignacio (Ch. 15) and

Towaoc (Ch. 49) to provide first public

television service to approximately

56,000 residents of western Colorado.

KTSC will also replace a failing 15-yearold 3⁄4 inch videotape system and will

upgrade its facilities to offer stereo

broadcast and descriptive video

services.

File No. 96091 CRB Boulder

Community Broadcasting, 1900 Folsom

Avenue, Suite 100, Boulder, CO 80302.

Signed By: Ms. Marty Durlin, Station

Manager. Funds Requested: $8,715.

Total Project Cost: $17,430. To enhance

and improve the production facilities of

KGNU–FM, operating on 88.5 in

Boulder, Colorado, by purchasing and

installing two Digital Audio

Workstations.

File No. 96095 ICTN 95262. National

Technological University, 700 Centre

Avenue, Ft. Collins, CO 80526. Signed

By: Dr. Lionel Baldwin, President.

Funds Requested: $413,576. Total

Project Cost: $827,152. To construct two

additional Ku-band satellite uplinks in

the National Technological University

system which will increase engineering

programming distributed nationwide.

The uplinks will be located at the

University of California, Berekely and

the University of Florida, Gainesville.

The project also proposes to add digital

compression equipment for existing Kuband uplinks at Kansas State University,

Manhattan, KS and the University of

Texas at Austin.

File No. 96106 IPTN Regis University,

3333 Regis Blvd., Denver, CO 80221.

Signed By: Dr. William Husson,

Academic Dean. Funds Requested:

$61,620. Total Project Cost: $140,760.

On behalf of the Association of Jesuit

Colleges and Universities (AJCU), Regis

University in Denver, Colorado will

manage the development of a plan for

the use of telecommunications facilities

in an interconnected system among the

28 AJCU institutions through local

technology applications for distance

learning services including the sharing

of educational courses.

File No. 96117 CTB Region 10 League

for Economic, 300 North Cascade, Suite

1, Montrose, CO 81401. Signed By: Mrs.

Mary Helen deKoevend, Chairperson.

Funds Requested: $57,705. Total Project

Cost: $76,940. To maintain and improve

the broadcast services of KTSC–TV,

Channel 8 in Montrose, Colorado, by

replacing four translator and one

transmitter serving over 47,000

residents of Montrose, Ouray and Delta

counties.

File No. 96162 IPTN Colorado

Community College, 9125 E. 10th Drive,

Aurora, CO 80010. Signed By: Mr. Don

Goodwin, Executive Director, HEAT Ctr.

Funds Requested: $318,600. Total

Project Cost: $498,600. To develop the

technology master plan toward the

design of the Lowry

Telecommunications and Information

Infrastructure network in support of an

open learning system for distance

learning and training, through the

Higher Education and Advanced

Technology (HEAT) Center in the Lowry

Community of Aurora, Colorado.

File No. 96205 ICTN Northern

Colorado Board of Coop., 830 South
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Lincoln Street, Longmont, CO 80501.

Signed By: Dr. Jack Hale, Executive

Director/NC BOCES. Funds Requested:

$328,034. Total Project Cost: $1,125,148.

To establish a two-way, interactive

compressed video distance learning

system to serve the diverse academic

institutions of the northeast quadrant of

Colorado. For this project, the Northern

Colorado Board of Cooperative

Educational Services is acting on behalf

of a partnership of 38 K–12 school

districts, three community colleges, a

university, and the State’s Division of

Telecommunications. The proposal

would interconnect six existing distance

education networks and extend service

to five presently-unserved remote sites.

The new network would be known as

the Colorado Information Infrastructure.

CT (Connecticut)

File No. 96083 IPTN Norwich

Commun. Tech. Learning Ctr., 194

Washington Street, Norwich, CT 06360.

Signed By: Mr. William Stanley,

Chairman, Board of Directors. Funds

Requested: $85,350. Total Project Cost:

$335,350. To assist the Norwich

Communications Technology Learning

Center, Inc. in planning how to put into

place the strategies, community support,

and technological structures needed to

establish interactive distance learning

systems that would serve the schools

and businesses of Eastern Connecticut.

File No. 96192 CRB University of New

Haven, 300 Orange Avenue, West

Haven, CT 06516. Signed By: Dr. James

Uebelacker, Provost. Funds Requested:

$17,400. Total Project Cost: $34,800. To

improve WNHU–FM, operating on 88.7

MHz, in West Haven, CT, by replacing

a 1970 vintage Moseley TFL–280BFN

Limiter and to replace 2 1974 vintage

cart machines with a digital master

control work station and storage facility.

Applicant provides service to

approximately 1 million potential

listeners.

DC (District of Columbia)

File No. 96019 CRB American

University, Brandywine Building,

Washington, DC 20016–8082. Signed

By: Mr. Donald Myers, Vice Pres. of Fin.

& Treasurer. Funds Requested: $47,000.

Total Project Cost: $188,000. To

improve the signal of public radio

station WAMU, 88.5 MHz, Washington,

DC, by replacing its worn-out and

unreliable transmitter. The station

serves a population of about 4,306,989.

File No. 96053 CRB 95155. Univ. of

the District of Columbia, 4200

Connecticut Ave, NW, Washington, DC

20008. Signed By: Dr. Martha

Bridgeforth, V.P., Institutional Adv.

Funds Requested: $19,386. Total Project

Cost: $38,772. To improve the facilities

of public radio station WDCU–FM,

operating on 90.1 MHz, by purchasing a

C band satellite downlink. The

downlink will enable the station to

broadcast programming from National

Public Radio and other sources

distributed by the Public Radio Satellite

System. WDCU–FM serves 3 million

people in the Washington DC

metropolitan area.

File No. 96232 IPRTN Soundprint

Media Center, Incorp, 4000 Brandywine

St. NW, Suite 620, Washington, DC

20016. Signed By: Ms. Moira Rankin,

Executive Producer. Funds Requested:

$99,565. Total Project Cost: $123,803.

To develop a plan based on research

regarding the potential use of existing

and proposed new technologies at

public television and radio stations

nationwide, that would determine the

possible integration of these

technologies in a telecommunications

network for distance learning services.

FL (Florida)

File No. 96030 CTB University of

Florida, Weimer Hall, Gainesville, FL

32611. Signed By: Dr. Thomas Walsh,

Director of Research. Funds Requested:

$53,940. Total Project Cost: $107,880.

To upgrade the facilities of WUFT–TV,

Channel 5 in Gainesville, by replacing

worn-out and obsolete master control

equipment with digital video storage

technology.

File No. 96037 CTB South Florida

Public Telecom., Inc., 3401 South

Congress Avenue, Boynton Beach, FL

33426. Signed By: Mrs. Mary Souder,

President/CEO. Funds Requested:

$166,600. Total Project Cost: $333,200.

To improve the broadcast services of

WXEL–TV, Channel 42 in Boyton Beach

and to provide Descriptive Video

Services to blind and visually impaired

individuals, by replacing the station’s

12-year-old routing system and the

master control switcher with analog/

digital equipment.

File No. 96043 CTB Florida State

University, 1600 Red Barber Plaza,

Tallahassee, FL 32310. Signed By: Dr.

Robert Johnson, VP for Research. Funds

Requested: $133,275. Total Project Cost:

$266,550. To ensure a continued high

quality production and programming

facility at WFSU and WFSG by

replacing 14-year-old, 3⁄4 inch editing

equipment.

File No. 96086 CTB University of

South Florida, 4202 Fowler Avenue,

WRB 219, Tampa, FL 33620. Signed By:

Mr. James Heck, General Manager.

Funds Requested: $41,812. Total Project

Cost: $83,624. To upgrade its broadcast

capabilities, WUSF–TV, Channel 16 in

Tampa, by replacing its worn-out and

unreliable optical disc units with a

video server.

File No. 96089 CTB Florida West

Coast Pub. Brdcstg., 1300 North

Boulevard, Tampa, FL 33677–4033.

Signed By: Mr. Stephen L. Rogers,

President & CEO. Funds Requested:

$217,850. Total Project Cost: $435,700.

To improve the production capacity of

WEDU–TV, Channel 3 in Tampa, by

purchasing a switcher, editor and effects

equipment so that the station can

continue to produce programming for

local, state and national distribution.

File No. 96090 ICTN School Board of

Broward County, 600 Southeast Third

Avenue, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301.

Signed By: Dr. Frank Petruzielo,

Superintendent of Schools. Funds

Requested: $136,962. Total Project Cost:

$273,924. To establish an Instructional

Television Fixed Service (ITFS) system,

with associated video classroom and

satellite receive-only earth station, to

bring distance learning to the public

school students of Broward County,

Florida.

File No. 96113 CRB Florida Institute

of Technology, 150 W. University Blvd.,

Melbourne, FL 32901. Signed By: Mr.

Robert Merrill, Director, Sponsored

Programs. Funds Requested: $23,126.

Total Project Cost: $30,835. To improve

its facilities and provide first public

radio service to approximately 13,000

people, WFIT–FM, operating on 89.5

MHz in Melbourne, will increase its

antenna height from 34 meters to 46

meters and its power from 2,350 Watts

to 8,000 Watts.

File No. 96139 ICTBN Coastal

Educational Broadcasters, 1200 W.

Intern’t Speedway Blvd., Daytona

Beach, FL 32114. Signed By: Dr. Don

Thigpen, President. Funds Requested:

$491,000. Total Project Cost: $982,000.

To improve the transmission,

origination, and test equipment of

public TV station WCEU, broadcasting

on Ch. 15 from Daytona Beach, FL. The

project would embrace both broadcast

and nonbroadcast elements. The

project’s transmission equipment would

allow the station to add four educational

programming streams to the existing

Daytona Beach Community College

ITFS system. The origination equipment

would permit WCEU–TV to produce

additional programming for its over-theair broadcast audience as well as to

integrate its broadcast and educational

services and to move to digital random

access and tape storage. The project also

includes equipment for an interactive

video classroom; this would be used to

originate instructional classes for high

school students.

File No. 96174 CRB Sylum Education

Foundation, 485 N.E. 160 Terrace, North
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Miami Beach, FL 33162. Signed By: Mr.

Chris Bain, President. Funds Requested:

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

construct a noncommercial FM station,

operating on 88.7 MHz, to provide radio

services targeted to the young people in

the City of North Miami Beach and

surrounding areas.

File No. 96198 ICTN Florida

International University, NE 151 Street

and Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL 33181.

Signed By: Dr Thomas Breslin, Vice

Provost for Research. Funds Requested:

$362,190. Total Project Cost: $848,692.

To establish a distance learning system

under the auspices of the South Florida

Distance Learning Network, which is

composed of Florida International

University and other academic

institutions in the South Florida area.

The system will provide diverse

instructional programming to Dade,

Broward, and Monroe Counties. The

proposed system will transmit via fiber

optics and via the ITFS system of public

television station WLRN, Ch. 17, Miami.

Station WLRN–TV is licensed to the

Dade County School Board.

File No. 96217 CRB 95116. University

of Florida, 2208 Weimer Hall,

Gainesville, FL 32611. Signed By: Mr.

Richard Lehner, General Manager.

Funds Requested: $28,769. Total Project

Cost: $57,538. To install automation

equipment at WUFT–FM, operating on

89.1 MHz in Gainesville, to maintain 24-

hour a day programming in a costeffective manner.

File No. 96218 CTB Florida Gulf Coast

University, Channel 30 Drive, Bonita

Springs, FL 33923. Signed By: Dr. Roy

McTarnaghan, President. Funds

Requested: $342,114. Total Project Cost:

$684,229. To improve the broadcast

operations of WSFP–TV, Channel 30 in

Bonita Springs, Florida, by replacing

obsolete, inefficient and trouble-prone

origination equipment and acquiring

one LIS mass storage unit.

File No. 96219 CRB Florida Gulf Coast

University, 8111 College Parkway, Fort

Myers, FL 33919. Signed By: Dr. Roy

McTarnaghan, President. Funds

Requested: $134,061. Total Project Cost:

$268,123. To upgrade and improve its

facilities, WSFP–FM, operating 90.1

MHz in Fort Myers, by replacing wornout and obsolete local origination

equipment.

File No. 96223 CRB Florida Gulf Coast

University, 8111 College Parkway, Fort

Myers, FL 33919. Signed By: Dr. Roy

McTarnaghan, President. Funds

Requested: $67,850. Total Project Cost:

$135,700. To bring first public radio

programming services to approximately

60,000 residents of Collier County,

WSFP–FM, operating on 90.1 MHz in

Fort Myers, will activate a repeater

transmitter in Marco Island operating on

91.7 MHz.

File No. 96241 CTB Community

Communications, Inc., 11510 East

Colonial Drive, Orlando, FL 32817.

Signed By: Mr. Stephen McKenney

Steck, President. Funds Requested:

$49,168. Total Project Cost: $98,336. To

improve the post-production

capabilities of WMFE–TV, Channel 24

in Orlando, by purchasing a digital

video effects unit and a font generator

to more effectively meet increased

demand for the station’s editing

facilities.

File No. 96243 CTB WJCT, Inc., 100

Festival Park Avenue, Jacksonville, FL

32202. Signed By: Mr. William Dresser,

President & General Manager. Funds

Requested: $190,000. Total Project Cost:

$380,000. To maintain the high quality

of the broadcast services of WJCT–TV,

Channel 7 in Jacksonville, Florida, by

replacing three 12-year-old studio

camera systems.

GA (Georgia)

File No. 96076 PTB Albany Technical

Institute, 1021 Lowe Road, Albany, GA

31701. Signed By: Dr. Anthony Parker,

President. Funds Requested: $90,180.

Total Project Cost: $90,180. Conduct

planning and research activities for the

construction of a broadcast facility that

will provide distance learning services

to students in rural, remote

communities of Baker, Calhoun, Clay,

Randolph and Terrell counties, Georgia.

File No. 96079 CRB 95281. GA Public

Telecomm. Commission, 1540 Stewart

Ave., S.W., Atlanta, GA 30310. Signed

By: Mr. Frank Bugg, Deputy Director.

Funds Requested: $27,000. Total Project

Cost: $54,000. Peach State Public Radio

will establish a noncommercial FM

radio station operating on 88.3 MHz in

Demorest, GA, to provide first service to

a population of over 260,000 people in

the Northeast section of Georgia.

File No. 96082 CTN City of Atlanta,

68 Mitchell St. SW, Ste 1200, Atlanta,

GA 30335. Signed By: Dr. Renee KempRotan, Act. Dir., Bur. of Econ. Devel.

Funds Requested: $399,100. Total

Project Cost: $798,200. To assist the City

of Atlanta in constructing four

electronic town centers and media parks

serving the residents of Atlanta’s

Empowerment Zone neighborhoods.

File No. 96109 CTB Atlanta Board of

Education, 740 Bismark Road, NE,

Atlanta, GA 30324. Signed By: Dr.

Benjamin Canada, Superintendent.

Funds Requested: $156,869. Total

Project Cost: $313,738. To improve the

production facilities of WPBA–TV, Ch.

30 in Atlanta, GA, by replacing 10 year

old 1′′ video tape machines with

modern video cassette machines. The

project will also replace obsolete test

and monitoring equipment necessary for

the station to continue service to 2.5

million people in the greater Atlanta

area.

File No. 96130 IPTN Clark Atlanta

University, James Brawley Dr. at Fair St.

SW, Atlanta, GA 30314. Signed By: Dr.

Kofi Bota, Vice President, Rsch/Spons

Pgm. Funds Requested: $67,507. Total

Project Cost: $79,347. To develop a

plan, managed by Clark Atlanta

University, for a comprehensive

telecommunications system among

Historically Black Colleges and

Universities (HBCUs) and Minority

Institutions (MIs) that could potentially

incorporate various technologies in a

nationwide interactive distance learning

service.

GU (Guam)

File No. 96167 ICRTN University of

Guam, House 6 UOG Station, Mangilao,

GU 96923. Signed By: Ms. Carmen

Fernandez, Director/CCE–OF. Funds

Requested: $354,200. Total Project Cost:

$354,200. To activate a new service for

distance education by purchasing a

digital satellite system to serve Guam.

The system will provide compressed

digital video and be affiliated with the

Pan-Pacific Educational and

Communications Experiments by

Satellite (PEACESAT) program

headquartered in Hawaii.

HI (Hawaii)

File No. 96212 CTB Hawaii Public

Broadcasting Auth., 2350 Dole Street,

Honolulu, HI 96822. Signed By: Mr.

Sheldon Robbs, Executive Director.

Funds Requested: $75,000. Total Project

Cost: $150,000. To improve the

transmission facilities of Hawaii Public

Broadcasting on the island of Hawaii by

replacing six public television

translators and related equipment

serving 57,000 people on the Big Island.

Replacement equipment will be placed

at translators located at Honohina, Hilo,

Kilauea Military Camp, Naalehu, South

Point and Waimea.

File No. 96251 PTN University of

Hawaii, 2540 Maile Way, Spalding HL.

253, Honolulu, HI 96822. Signed By: Dr.

Peter Garrod, Interim Director of

Research. Funds Requested: $98,051.

Total Project Cost: $130,117. To develop

a plan for the extension of the PanPacific Education and Communication

Experiments by Satellite (PEACESAT)

Network and its programs and services,

beyond the District Centers and into the

outlying, underserved communities in

American Samoa, Guam, and the

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana

Islands.
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IA (Iowa)

File No. 96129 ICTN Eastern IA

Community College Dist., 306 West

River Drive, Davenport, IA 52801.

Signed By: Dr. John Blong, Chancellor.

Funds Requested: $114,971. Total

Project Cost: $229,943. To construct two

video classrooms, with associated

interconnection equipment, in the Kahl

Educational Center, located in

downtown Davenport. The Center is a

campus of Scott Community College,

which in turn is part of the Eastern Iowa

Community College District. The video

classrooms will originate and receive

instructional programming transmitted

over the Iowa Communications

Network. One classroom will focus on

programming of regional interest, the

second on classes for statewide

distribution.

File No. 96143 CRB 95238. Iowa State

Univ. of Science & Tech, Pammel Drive,

Ames, IA 50011. Signed By: Mr. Richard

E. Hasbrook, Contracts & Grants Officer.

Funds Requested: $159,777. Total

Project Cost: $213,037. To extend the

signal of public radio station WOI-FM,

90.1 MHz, Ames, IA, by constructing a

repeater station to operate on 89.1 MHz

in Ottumwa, IA. The new station will

provide the first public radio signal to

about 63,295 residents of southeastern

Iowa.

File No. 96154 CRB Kirkwood

Community College, P.O. Box 2068,

Cedar Rapids, IA 52404. Signed By: Dr.

Norm Nielsen, President. Funds

Requested: $51,097. Total Project Cost:

$113,549. To improve the signal quality

and production capability of public

radio station KCCK, 88.3 MHz, Cedar

Rapids, IA, by replacing its 18-year-old

transmitter, antenna, and transmission

line, and by replacing worn-out and

obsolete audio recording and playback

equipment. The station serves a

population of about 358,382 persons.

File No. 96193 CTB Iowa Public

Broadcasting Board, 6450 Corporate

Drive, Johnston, IA 50131. Signed By:

Mr. C. David Bolender, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $90,281.

Total Project Cost: $180,562. To

improve the signals of two translators

operated by Iowa Public Television,

Johnston, IA, by replacing their

transmitters and associated equipment.

The translators concerned broadcast on

channel 14 in Decorah, IA, and on

channel 41 in Lansing, IA. Together

they serve about 35,137 persons. In

addition to the translators, Iowa Public

Television operates eight full-power TV

stations across the state.

File No. 96215 CRB Western Iowa

Tech. Cmty. College, 4647 Stone

Avenue, Sioux City, IA 51106. Signed

By: Dr. Robert E. Dunker, President.

Funds Requested: $49,828. Total Project

Cost: $99,656. To improve the signal

quality of public radio station KWIT,

90.3 MHz, Sioux City, IA, by replacing

its worn-out 19-year-old transmitter. In

addition, the project will acquire a

dummy load and dehydrator and

convert the station’s STL from analog to

digital operation. KWIT serves a

population of about 360,000.

ID (Idaho)

File No. 96166 CTB Idaho Public

Television, 1450 N. Orchard, Boise, ID

83706. Signed By: Mr. Jerold Garber,

General Manager. Funds Requested:

$305,312. Total Project Cost: $407,083.

To replace worn out dissemination

equipment with an automated system

which will improve the operations of

KAID in Boise, KIPT in Twin Falls,

KISU in Pocatello, KUID in Moscow and

KCDT in Coeur D’Alene.

IL (Illinois)

File No. 96033 CTN City of Urbana,

400 South Vine, Urbana, IL 61801.

Signed By: Ms. Amy Jordan, Urbana

Public TV Coordinator. Funds

Requested: $59,325. Total Project Cost:

$118,650. To help the City of Urbana

establish a PEG cable television

community access to transmit City

Council meetings and other

government-related programming.

File No. 96118 CTB West Central IL

Educ Telecom Corp, Shepherd Road,

Bldg. K, Room 64, Springfield, IL 62707.

Signed By: Dr. Jerold Gruebel,

President/General Manager. Funds

Requested: $155,874. Total Project Cost:

$259,790. To improve the service of the

West Central Illinois Educational

Telecommunications Corporation (dba

CONVOCOM), Springfield, IL, by

converting its Springfield translator to a

full-power repeater operating on

Channel 65 by acquiring a high-gain

antenna system and by establishing a

reliable microwave link between

Springfield and CONVOCOM station

WSEC (TV), Jacksonville, IL. It is

estimated that some 258,542 persons

will receive enhanced public television

service from this project.

File No. 96225 CTB Black Hawk

College, 6600 34th Avenue, Moline, IL

61265. Signed By: Dr. Judith A.

Redwine, President. Funds Requested:

$944,732. Total Project Cost: $1,259,643.

To extend and improve the signal of

public television station WQPT,

operating on Ch. 24, Moline, IL, by

relocating its transmitting facilities to

Orion, IL, and increasing its power and

antenna height. Benefiting from this

project will be an estimated 204,710

persons who cannot now receive a

Grade B or better public television

signal because of terrain, distance from

a station, and other factors affecting

reliable reception. The station now

serves an estimated 237,886 persons.

File No. 96228 CRB University of

Illinois, 1110 West Main Street, Urbana,

IL 61801. Signed By: Mr. Craig S.

Bazzani, Comptroller. Funds Requested:

$9,107. Total Project Cost: $18,214. To

improve the signal coverage of WILL–

FM, 90.9 MHz, Champaign-Urbana, IL,

by activating a translator to operate on

101.1 MHz in Urbana to overcome

interference from terrain features and

strong stations operating on near-by

frequencies. WILL–FM serves a

population of about 119,894 persons.

IN (Indiana)

File No. 96048 CTB Indiana

University, P.O. Box 1847, Bloomington,

IN 47402. Signed By: Dr. George Walker,

Vice President, Research. Funds

Requested: $52,088. Total Project Cost:

$104,176. To improve public television

station WITU, operating on Ch, 30,

Bloomington, IN, by acquiring a new

switcher and a hard-disk video file

server to replace worn-out and obsolete

master control equipment. The station

serves a population of about 485,800.

File No. 96151 CTB Michiana Public

Broadcasting Corp., 2300 Charger

Boulevard, Elkhart, IN 46514. Signed

By: Ms. Trina Cutter, President/General

Manager. Funds Requested: $57,038.

Total Project Cost: $114,075. To

improve public television station WNIT,

operating on Ch. 34, Elkhart, IN, by

replacing aging and obsolete video

editing and test equipment. The station

serves a population of about 791,000.

File No. 96176 CRB Metro

Indianapolis Pub Bdcstg, Inc., 1401

North Meridian Street, Indianapolis, IN

46202. Signed By: Mr. Lloyd Wright,

President & General Manager. Funds

Requested: $55,000. Total Project Cost:

$110,000. To improve public radio

station WFYI–FM, 90.1 MHz,

Indianapolis, IN, by replacing its 26-

year-old transmitter, which is worn-out

and obsolete. The station serves a

population of about 2-million.

File No. 96230 CTB Tri-State Public

Teleplex, Inc., 405 Carpenter Street,

Evansville, IN 47708–1027. Signed By:

Mr. David Dial, President and General

Manager. Funds Requested: $84,580.

Total Project Cost: $169,161. To

improve the operation of public station

WNIN–TV, Ch. 9, Evansville, IN, by

replacing several items of worn-out and

obsolete production equipment,

including a character generator, lighting

instruments, and a field camera and by

acquiring a hard-disk digital video
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editing system. The station serves a

population of about 750,000.

File No. 96233 CTB Ball State

University, Ball State University,

Muncie, IN 47306–0080. Signed By: Dr.

James L. Pyle, Exec Dir, Academic

Research. Funds Requested: $230,738.

Total Project Cost: $461,476. To

improve the operation of public

television station WIPB, Ch. 49, Muncie,

IN, by replacing obsolete and worn-out

cameras and a character generator. The

station serves a population of about

980,000.

KS (Kansas)

File No. 96002 ICTN Western Kansas

Cmty Srvcs Consort., 1007 West Eighth

Street, Pratt, KS 67124. Signed By: Ms.

Joyce Hartmann, Executive Director.

Funds Requested: $168,883. Total

Project Cost: $356,589. To assist the

Consortium’s five community colleges

to extend their instructional

programming throughout the

Consortium’s 41-county educational

service area. Colby Community College

proposes to interconnect with two

existing distance learning networks.

Dodge City Community College would

install four portable ITV classrooms in

rural areas and purchase a satellite

receive-only earth station. Garden City

Community College will construct four

video classrooms, one at the Lee

Richardson Zoo. Pratt Community

College will expand its connectivity to

the existing A–Plus Network. Seward

County Community College will equip a

video classroom in the community of

Johnson.

File No. 96021 CRB Kanza Society,

Inc., 210 North Seventh, Garden City,

KS 67846–5519. Signed By: Ms.

Kathleen Holt, Executive Director.

Funds Requested: $91,534. Total Project

Cost: $140,821. To improve and extend

the signal of KANZ–FM (91.1 MHz) in

Garden City and KZNA–FM (90.5 MHz)

in Hill City, by replacing (including

changing existing frequency), relocating

or changing the coverage of the

following twelve FM translators:

Ashland, KS (K252AX to 92.9 MHz);

Atwood, KS (K237CN); Colby, KS

(K205BR); Dodge City, KS (K242AE to

92.9 MHz); Elkhart, KS (K252AV to 90.3

MHz); Goodland, KS (K219AJ to 89.7

MHz); Guymon, OK (K205FP); Lamar,

CO (K252BY to 90.7 MHz); Ness City,

KS (K252AY to 92.9 MHz); St. Francis,

KS (K257DI to 96.3 MHz); Sharon

Springs, KS (K214AU); and Tribune, KS

(K252AW to 89.5 MHz). The changes

will result in approximately 35,217

people receiving a first public radio

signal.

File No. 96051 CRB Kansas State

University, Room 2, Fairchild Hall,

Manhattan, KS 66506–4701. Signed By:

Dr. R. W. Trewyn, Assoc. Vice Provost

for Res’ch. Funds Requested: $18,090.

Total Project Cost: $36,180. To improve

the facilities of public radio station

KKSU–AM, 580 kHZ, in Manhattan, by

converting the station to a stereo

production facility, converting to digital

record and playback technology, and

expanding the routing and distribution

system due to additional demands.

KKSU–AM will also acquire an

oscilloscope. Station serves about 5.4

million people in parts of KS, NE, MO,

IA and OK.

File No. 96138 CRB Wichita State

University, 3317 East 17th Street,

Wichita, KS 67208. Signed By: Dr.

Gerald Loper, Associate Vice President.

Funds Requested: $19,250. Total Project

Cost: $38,500. To improve the facilities

of public radio station KMUW–FM, 89.1

MHz, in Wichita, by installing an

uninterruptable power supply system to

keep the station on the air during power

outages and replacing 10-to-20 year old

analog production equipment with

digital recording and editing equipment.

KMUW–FM serves about 678,000

people in south central KS.

File No. 96140 CTB Kansas Public

Telecom. Service, 320 West 21st St.,

P.O. Box 288, Wichita, KS 67201.

Signed By: Mr. Zoel Parenteau,

President & General Manager. Funds

Requested: $14,357. Total Project Cost:

$28,715. To improve the facilities of

public television station KPTS–TV, Ch.

8, in Wichita, by replacing an old,

obsolete video tape recorder, acquiring

a new waveform monitor, a new color

monitor and an FCC required EBS

encoder decoder. KPTS–TV serves

approximately 388,000 people.

File No. 96180 CRB Kansas Public

Broadcasting Council, 900 SW Jackson,

Room 751S, Topeka, KS 66612–1275.

Signed By: Mr. David M. Wilson,

Chairman. Requested: $41,528. Total

Project Cost: $83,056. To purchase a

portable Ku-band satellite uplink as

well as six fixed downlinks to be placed

at public radio stations serving the state.

The equipment will be used to share

programming gathered from around the

state. Downlinks will be placed at

KHCC–FM, Hutchinson, KANZ–FM,

Garden City, KANU–FM, Lawrence,

KKSU–AM, Manhattan, KRPS–FM,

Pittsburg and KMUW–FM, Wichita.

File No. 96202 CTB Smoky Hills

Public Television, 604 Elm Street,

Bunker Hill, KS 67626. Signed By: Mr.

David Wilson, CEO/General Manager.

Funds Requested: $58,000. Total Project

Cost: $116,000. To extend the signal of

public television station KOOD–TV, Ch.

9, in Bunker Hill, by constructing a new

repeater station in Dodge City, on Ch.

21. Project also includes an Electronic

Field Production unit consisting of a

portable video camera, recorder and

accessories to be used to provide

additional production capacity to better

serve the proposed coverage area.

Station will provide a first over-the-air

signal to about 26,000 people.

File No. 96214 CRB Hutchinson

Community College, 815 N. Walnut,

Suite 300, Hutchinson, KS 67501.

Signed By: Dr. Edward Berger,

President. Funds Requested: $31,150.

Total Project Cost: $62,300. To improve

public radio station KHCC–FM, 90.1

MHz, in Hutchinson, by replacing

obsolete equipment with a digital audio

storage system and interfaces, three

DAT recorders and four microphones.

This station, and its two repeater

stations, serve approximately 925,000

people in central KS.

File No. 96222 CTB Washburn

University of Topeka, 1700 Southwest

College Avenue, Topeka, KS 66621.

Signed By: Dr. Hugh Thompson,

President. Funds Requested: $114,547.

Total Project Cost: $229,094. To

improve public television station

KTWU–TV, Ch. 11, in Topeka by

replacing its 42 year old transmission

line, adding a backup studio to

transmitter microwave system, and

upgrading its master control operations

by adding a digital video playback

system. KTWU–TV serves

approximately 1.26 million people.

KY (Kentucky)

File No. 96098 CRB Murray State

University, 15th & Olive Streets,

Murray, KY 42071. Signed By: Dr. James

Booth, Provost. Funds Requested:

$37,620. Total Project Cost: $50,160. To

improve reception to its current

audience and to reach approximately

54,000 new listeners, WKMS–FM,

operating on 91.3 MHz in Murray,

Kentucky, will activate a translator in

Paducah (92.1 MHz) and a repeater in

Madisonville (90.1 MHz).

File No. 96171 ICTN Center for Rural

Development, 2292 South Highway 27,

Suite 300, Somerset, KY 42501. Signed

By: Mrs. Hilda Gay Legg, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $619,588.

Total Project Cost: $826,117. To

establish a production studio for The

Center for Rural Development,

Somerset, KY. The studio will allow the

Center to produce instructional

programming as part of its mandate to

act as a training and education center

for a 40-county service area. The

Center’s partners in this

telecommunications enterprise are the

University of Kentucky and Kentucky

Educational Television.
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File No. 96196 CTB Kentucky

Educational Television, 600 Cooper

Drive, Lexington, KY 40502. Signed By:

Mrs. Virginia Fox, Executive Director.

Funds Requested: $689,076. Total

Project Cost: $1,148,460. To improve the

broadcast services of WKMJ–TV,

Channel 68 in Louisville, Kentucky, by

replacing the aging transmitter, the

transmission line and the antenna

which was damaged by lightning.

File No. 96210 CTB Fifteen

Telecommunications, Inc., 4421 Bishop

Lane/PO Box 37380, Louisville, KY

40218. Signed By: Mr. John-Robert

Curtin, President & CEO. Funds

Requested: $39,975. Total Project Cost:

$79,950. To improve the broadcast

operations of WKPC–TV, Channel 15 in

Louisville, Kentucky by constructing a

free standing 195 ft. tower for the

station’s STL and ITFS.

LA (Louisiana)

File No. 96045 CTB Educational

Broadcasting Fdn., 2929 South

Carrollton Avenue, New Orleans, LA

70118. Signed By: Mr. James Kelly,

General Manager. Funds Requested:

$94,808. Total Project Cost: $189,617.

To improve the production facilities of

public television station WLAE–TV,

operating on Ch. 32 in New Orleans, LA.

The project will replace a 20 year old

video production switcher for the

production of local programs. WLAE–

TV serves 1.2 million people in the

greater New Orleans area.

File No. 96093 CTB Greater New

Orleans ETV Found., 916 Navarre

Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70124.

Signed By: Mr. Randall Feldman,

President & General Manager. Funds

Requested: $191,500. Total Project Cost:

$383,000. To improve the production

facilities of public television station

WYES–TV, operating on Ch. 12 in New

Orleans, by replacing 1’’ video tape

machines with digital video cassette

machines and replacing four Betacam

players with a disc storage system. The

project will also replace a 10 year old

DVE system with a dual channel system

and purchase a non-linear editor for the

production of local programs. WYES–

TV serves 1.7 million people in the

greater New Orleans area.

File No. 96127 ICTN New Orleans

Educ. T/C Consortium, 2929 South

CarrolltonAvenue, New Orleans, LA

70118. Signed By: Dr. Robert Lucas,

Executive Director. Funds Requested:

$287,293. Total Project Cost: $574,586.

To purchase T–1 interconnection and

video classroom equipment to allow the

New Orleans Educational

Telecommunications Consortium to

extend its ITFS-based distance learning

service to Lake Ponchartrain’s north

shore and to the Stennis Space Center,

which is located in Mississippi.

File No. 96246 ICTN 95147.

Northwestern State University, Kyser

Hall, Room 153, Natchitoches, LA

71497. Signed By: Dr. Robert Alost,

President. Funds Requested: $569,528.

Total Project Cost: $759,371. To

purchase a Ku-band mobile satellite

uplink to expand the distance learning

opportunities to under served areas of

Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and

Oklahoma.

MA (Massachusetts)

File No. 96036 CRB 95145. Cape &

Islands Commm Public Radio, 78

Gardiner Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543.

Signed By: Mr. Jay Allison, President.

Funds Requested: $212,450. Total

Project Cost: $283,270. To provide first

public radio service to 70,639 citizens of

Woods Hole and Nantucket, MA by

constructing new FM broadcast studios,

control rooms, antennas and

transmitters at 90.1 MHz, Woods Hole,

MA, and 91.1 MHz, Nantucket, MA.

File No. 96131 CRB University of

Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003.

Signed By: Ms. Carol Sprague, Acting

Assoc. Director. Funds Requested:

$46,827. Total Project Cost: $93,655. To

improve WFCR–FM, operating on 88.5

MHz, in Amherst, MA, by replacing the

audio console and associated items,

monitor amplifier, monitor speakers,

storage system, two cassette decks, two

turntables, microphone processor,

telephone hybrid, routing switcher,

cabinets, and test equipment. Applicant

provides service to approximately

1,144,371 potential listeners.

File No. 96158 CRB University of

Massachusetts, 100 Morrissey Blvd.,

Boston, MA 02125. Signed By: Mr. Paul

O’Keefe, Director. Funds Requested:

$67,730. Total Project Cost: $92,730. To

improve WFPB–FM, operating on 91.9

MHz, in Falmouth, MA, by replacing the

present temporary system, using mostly

borrowed and rented equipment which

makes this project a middle ground

between establishing a new first service

and replacing an existing system. The

applicant owns very few broadcast

items, so the equipment requested is

basically an activation package. WFPB–

FM will serve approximately 40,000

listeners.

File No. 96208 CTB WGBH

Educational Foundational, 125 Western

Avenue, Boston, MA 02134. Signed By:

Mr. Andrew Griffiths, VP/Finance and

Administration. Funds Requested:

$587,605. Total Project Cost: $1,175,210.

To improve WGBH–TV, operating on Ch

2, in Boston, MA, by replacing six

eighteen-year-old studio cameras.

WGBH Educational Foundation serves

approximately 5,430,000 viewers.

File No. 96220 ICTN Douglas Public

Schools, 21 Davis Street, East Douglas,

MA 01516. Signed By: Mrs. Concetta

Verge, Superintendent. Funds

Requested: $19,323. Total Project Cost:

$38,647. To establish a video conference

classroom for the Douglas, Mass., Public

Schools to be used for distance learning

purposes. The project would use PicTel

equipment with the signals transmitted

via ISDN.

File No. 96244 ICTN Springfield

Technical Cmty College, One Armory

Square, Springfield, MA 01105. Signed

By: Dr. Andrew Scibelli, President.

Funds Requested: $250,000. Total

Project Cost: $500,000. To help establish

a T–1-based, compressed video,

interactive distance learning network

that will allow Springfield Technical

Community College (STCC) to provide

instructional programming to eight

schools and fifty small businesses in

Springfield, MA. The equipment will

also permit STCC to interconnect with

the University of Massachusetts and 120

other national universities as well as

with a New England-wide technical

training collaborative of eight colleges

offering common curricula. The

proposed network will serve a large

section of Springfield that the Federal

Government has designated an

Enterprise Zone.

MD (Maryland)

File No. 96073 CRB Univ. of

Maryland Eastern Shore, Backbone

Road, Princess Anne, MD 21853. Signed

By: Dr. William Hytche, President,

UMES. Funds Requested: $86,647. Total

Project Cost: $115,550. To provide first

public radio service to over 70,000

residents of Eastern Delaware and

Northern Maryland, WESM–FM,

operating on 91.3 MHz in Princess

Anne, Maryland, will construct a

repeater station in Massey, MD.

File No. 96078 ICTN Salisbury State

University, 1101 Camden Avenue,

Salisbury, MD 21801. Signed By: Dr.

Nelson Butler, Interim President. Funds

Requested: $151,300. Total Project Cost:

$201,762. A consortium of three State

higher education academic institutions

would interconnect their three

campuses to form a distance learning

system to serve Maryland’s lower

eastern shore. The three are Salisbury

State University, the University of

Maryland/Eastern Shore, and Wor-Wic

Community College. The project would

construct a duplex microwave system

linking the three campuses and an STL

system that would interconnect with an

existing ITFS transmission site near

Salisbury. The project would also install
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a video classroom at Wor-Wic

Community College and receive sites at

high schools in 12 area communities.

File No. 96189 CTB Maryland Public

Broadcasting Comm., 11767 Owings

Mills Boulevard, Owings Mills, MD

21117. Signed By: Dr. Archie Buffkins,

Interim President/CEO. Funds

Requested: $1,016,000. Total Project

Cost: $2,032,000. To upgrade the

broadcast operations of WMPT–TV,

Channel 22 in Annapolis, Maryland, by

replacing the 22-year-old transmitter

and the antenna/transmission line

system.

File No. 96201 ICTN Chesapeake

Regional Network, Inc., 39 Old Hilltop

Rd., Conowingo, MD 21918. Signed By:

Mr. Douglas Donley, President. Funds

Requested: $60,685. Total Project Cost:

$84,285. To establish an Instructional

Television Fixed Service (ITFS) to

provide instructional programming to

rural Cecil County, located in Maryland

between Baltimore and Philadelphia,

PA.

ME (Maine)

File No. 96014 CTN Pleasant Point

Passamaquoddy Tribe, P.O. Box 339,

Perry, ME 04667. Signed By: Ms. Pamela

Francis, Executive Director. Funds

Requested: $30,118. Total Project Cost:

$46,335. To extend the cable television

community access channel of the

Passamaquoddy Tribe of Pleasant Point

to the entire Passamaquoddy

Reservation. At present, the channel is

cablecast only to approximately 25% of

the Reservation, to an area known as the

Old Pleasant Point Reservation.

File No. 96080 PTB St. John

Plantation, RR 3 box 410, Fort Kent, ME

04743. Signed By: Mr. Fernald Jandreau,

First Selectman. Funds Requested:

$7,500. Total Project Cost: $7,500. This

is an ineligible application. The

applicant is a commercial station,

WFKT–TV, channel 4, in Fort Kent ME.

Its basic purpose is to strengthen the

broadcast capability of commercial

television station WAGM–TV, channel

8, which evidently is owned by the

applicant and to extend local

broadcasting capability of WFKT–TV to

surrounding communities. In the time

pressure we have, there is no point in

spending any more time on this

ineligible project.

MI (Michigan)

File No. 96003 ICTN Alpena-Mont.-

Alcona Ed. Srvc. Dist., 2118 U.S. 23

South, Alpena, MI 49707. Signed By:

Mr. Thomas Lanway, Superintendent.

Funds Requested: $433,750. Total

Project Cost: $870,250. To install cables

for voice, video, and data transmission

into every classroom and library in four

Michigan counties. The project would

also purchase 40 personal computers in

each school building or library in order

to allow those facilities to interconnect

with the Internet. The project is a joint

effort between the applicant and the

Iosco Intermediate School District.

File No. 96066 CRB Central Michigan

University, 3965 East Broomfield Road,

Mount Pleasant, MI 48859. Signed By:

Dr. Leonard E. Plachta, President. Funds

Requested: $321,991. Total Project Cost:

$429,322. To activate a repeater station

operating at 95.7 MHz to bring the first

public radio signal to approximately

51,501 residents in and around Oscoda,

MI. The new station will repeat the

programming of public station WCMUFM, 89.5 MHz, Mt. Pleasant, MI, which

presently serves a population of about

291,577.

File No. 96068 CTB Detroit

Educational Television Fndn, 7441

Second Boulevard, Detroit, MI 48202–

2796. Signed By: Mr. Steve Antoniotti,

President and General Manager. Funds

Requested: $149,887. Total Project Cost:

$299,775. To improve the operation of

public television station WTVS, Ch. 56,

Detroit, MI, by replacing a worn-out and

obsolete switcher and by acquiring an

emergency power generator for the

station’s transmitter. WTVS serves a

population of about 4,500,000.

File No. 96134 IPTN Lansing

Community College, 528 N. Capitol,

Lansing, MI 48933. Signed By: Dr.

Valerianna Moeller, Executive V. Pres./

Provost. Funds Requested: $75,300.

Total Project Cost: $105,750. To explore

the feasibility of various technologies

that could be appropriate for an

interactive distance learning system in

southeastern Michigan, among Lansing

Community College, and the K–12

schools in the Livingston County

Educational Service District and the

Ingham County Intermediate School

District.

File No. 96144 CTB Michigan State

University, 84 Wilson Road, East

Lansing, MI 48824–1212. Signed By: Mr.

Daniel Evon, Asst Dir, Grants Admin.

Funds Requested: $549,925. Total

Project Cost: $1,099,851. To improve the

quality and reliability of the signal of

public station WKAR–TV, Ch. 23, East

Lansing, MI, by replacing its failing 18-

year-old transmitter, STL, and the

associated control, monitoring. and test

equipment. The station serves a

population of about 2,069,000.

File No. 96185 CRB Northwestern

Michigan College, 1701 East Front

Street, Traverse City, MI 49684. Signed

By: Mr. Timothy Quinn, President.

Funds Requested: $39,055. Total Project

Cost: $52,073. To upgrade noncommercial radio station WNMC, 90.9

MHz, Traverse City, MI, by increasing

its power, moving its antenna, and

changing its frequency to 90.7MHz. The

station currently serves a population of

about 63,000. The project will add an

estimated 60,400 persons, who have

access to public radio service from

another station.

File No. 96224 CRTB Northern

Michigan University, Northern

Michigan University, Marquette, MI

49855. Signed By: Dr. Michael J. Roy,

VP/Finance and Administration. Funds

Requested: $53,620. Total Project Cost:

$107,240. To improve public station

WNMU–TV, Ch. 13, and WNMU–FM,

90.1 MHz, Marquette, MI, by replacing

failing audio recording equipment,

upgrading their tower lighting, and

acquiring equipment for descriptive

video, closed captioning, and FCCmandated Emergency Alert Notification.

The stations serve a population of about

200,000.

File No. 96226 CRB Northern

Michigan University, Northern

Michigan University, Marquette, MI

49855. Signed By: Dr. Michael J. Roy,

VP/Finance and Administration. Funds

Requested: $8,513. Total Project Cost:

$17,026. To extend the signal of

WNMU–FM, 90.1 MHz, Marquette, MI,

by activating a translator to operate at

107.3 MHz in Stephenson, MI, bringing

the first public radio signal to about

13,000 residents of the south-central

Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The

project will also enable the re-activation

of an existing translator on 91.3 MHz in

Marinette, WI, that had to be shut down

when a new full-power station overroad

the signal from WNMU–FM. This

translator serves a population of about

15,518.

File No. 96237 ICTN Hillsdale Co.

Intermed School Dist, 3471 Beck Road,

Hillsdale, MI 49242. Signed By: Mr.

Gary Moore, Superintendent. Funds

Requested: $847,191. Total Project Cost:

$1,129,588. To establish a fiber opticsbased, interactive distance learning

system which will interconnect the

eight schools served by the Hillsdale

County Intermediate School District,

located in extreme southern Michigan.

File No. 96238 CTB Grand Valley

State University, 301 West Fulton

Street, Grand Rapids, MI 49504–6492.

Signed By: Ms. Jean Enright, Secretary,

Board of Control. Funds Requested:

$104,679. Total Project Cost: $209,358.

To improve the operation of public

station WGVU–TV, Ch. 35, Grand

Rapids, MI, by replacing obsolete and

worn-out video tape recorders. The

project will also benefit WGVK–TV, Ch.

52, which repeats the programming of

WGVU–TV in Kalamazoo, MI. The
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stations serve a population of about

1,274,200.

MN (Minnesota)

File No. 96056 CTB West Central

Minnesota ETV CO, 120 West

Schlieman Avenue, Appleton, MN

56208. Signed By: Mr. Ansel Doll,

General Manager. Funds Requested:

$176,310. Total Project Cost: $352,620.

To extend the service of KWCM–TV,

operating on Ch. 10, in Appleton, MN,

by activating a first signal repeater

station, operating on Ch 69, in Fergus

Falls, MN, an area of west central

Minnesota not now served by public TV

and containing a population of

approximately 50,714 potential viewers.

File No. 96104 CTN Asian Media

Access, Inc., 730 Henepin Avenue, #

812, Minneapolis, MN 55403. Signed

By: Mr. Virendra Ratnayake, President

of the Board. Funds Requested:

$844,380. Total Project Cost: $1,125,850.

To construct the first Asian-American

production studio in the United States

that will serve as a media center for

Asian American communities and will

produce Asian Lanuguage news,

magazine shows, documentaries and

educational programming.

File No. 96137 CRB Red Lake Band of

Chippewa Indians, Tribal Headquarters

Building, Red Lake, MN 56671. Signed

By: Mr. Bobby Whitefeather, Tribal

Chairman. Funds Requested: $617,725.

Total Project Cost: $823,725. The

purpose of this project is to construct a

new public radio station to serve the

Red Lake Indian Reservation and

surrounding areas in northern

Minnesota, providing the first signal for

approximately 7,000 residents within

the coverage area. The station, if funded,

will operate on 91.4 MHz with a power

of 100 KW, ERP.

File No. 96206 CRB Minnesota Public

Radio, 45 E 7th Street, St. Paul, MN

55101. Signed By: Mr. Dennis Hamilton,

Vice President. Funds Requested:

$206,194. Total Project Cost: $412,389.

To improve the Minnesota Public Radio

Network of 16 network stations by

replacing an old C-Band portable uplink

with a Ku-band uplink based at St. Paul,

replacing cart machines at the 16

network stations, and also in South

Dakota and Michigan. Additionally, this

project requests backup STLs for MPR

stations in Rochester and Duluth, MN.

This network serves approximately

4,547,000 potential listeners.

File No. 96236 CRB White Earth Land

Recovery Project, Box 327, White Earth,

MN 56591. Signed By: Ms. Roxanne

Struthers, Chairperson. Funds

Requested: $407,528. Total Project Cost:

$543,370. The Niijii Broadcast

Corporation, a subsidiary of the White

Earth Land Recovery Project, in White

Earth, MN, is requesting funding to

activate a first signal public radio

station for the White Earth Ojibwe

Indian reservation in Northern

Minnesota. A PTFP Planning grant

awarded in 1995 enabled the applicant

to conduct a community needs

assessment and site review, and to

prepare a FCC construction permit

application which have resulted in the

project. The proposed station will

provide first service to approximately

9,200 listeners.

MO (Missouri)

File No. 96010 CRB University of

Missouri, 8001 Natural Bridge Road, St.

Louis, MO 63121. Signed By: Mr.

Douglas Wartzok, Assoc Vice Chan.

Dean of Grad. Funds Requested:

$25,860. Total Project Cost: $51,720. To

improve the production facilities of

public radio station KWMU, 90.7 MHz,

St. Louis, MO, by replacing worn-out

and unreliable equipment, including a

console, CD players, microphones, and

microphone processors. The station

serves a population of about 2,734,900

persons.

File No. 96013 CRB Curators of the

Univ. of Missouri, 8001 Natural Bridge

Road, St. Louis, MO 63121. Signed By:

Mr. Douglas Wartzok, Assoc. Vice Chan.

Dean of Grad. Funds Requested:

$28,675. Total Project Cost: $57,350. To

improve the operational reliability of

public radio station KWMU, 90.7 MHz,

St. Louis, MO, by acquiring a back-up

power generator and an Uninterruptable

Power Supply. The station serves a

population of about 2,734,900.

File No. 96027 CRB New Wave

Corporation, 915 East Broadway,

Columbia, MO 65201. Signed By: Mr.

Brian Mann, Interim General Manager.

Funds Requested: $8,125. Total Project

Cost: $18,250. To improve the

production capability of public radio

station KOPN, 89.5 MHz, Columbia,

MO, by replacing an obsolete, 15-yearold on-air audio console. The project

will also acquire the equipment for the

Emergency Alert System, which the FCC

requires all stations to activate. KOPN

serves a population of about 250,000

persons.

File No. 96041 ICTN University of

Missouri/St. Louis, 8001 Natural Bridge

Rd., St. Louis, MO 63121–4499. Signed

By: Dr. Douglas Wartzok, Assoc. Vice

Chancel./Research. Funds Requested:

$775,131. Total Project Cost: $1,700,275.

To construct a two-way, interactive

telecommunications system—to be

called St. Louis EdNet—linking diverse

educational and cultural institutions

throughout the greater St. Louis area.

This includes locations in Illinois as

well as in Missouri. The proposed

system’s design is based on

interconnecting three large networks

that are already established: the St.

Louis Community College Network; the

University of Missouri/St. Louis’s

existing network; and the cable TV and

ITFS networks associated with the

Cooperating School Districts (the latter

consists of 28 K–12 public school

districts in the area).

File No. 96160 ICTN Ozarks

Technical Community College, 1417

North Jefferson, Springfield, MO 65802.

Signed By: Dr. Norman Myers,

President. Funds Requested: $184,421.

Total Project Cost: $245,895. To

construct an ISDN, telephone-line-based

distance learning system to permit

Ozarks Technical Community College to

transmit its instructional programming

to schools and the general population

throughout its service area of southwest

Arkansas. Specifically, the system will

reach five school districts—i.e.,

Republic, Strafford, Rogersville, Nixa,

and Reeds Spring—all of which are to

be found in a three-county area; the

counties are Greene, Stone, and

Christian.

File No. 96187 CTB Public Television

19, Inc., 125 East 31st Street, Kansas

City, MO 64108. Signed By: Mr. William

T. Reed, President & CEO. Funds

Requested: $250,835. Total Project Cost:

$501,670. To improve the facilities of

public television station KCPT, Ch. 19,

Kansas City, MO, by replacing seven

worn-out, obsolete video tape recorders

and test equipment, and by acquiring a

second master control switcher and a

video ‘‘cache’’ system. KCPT serves a

population of about 1,900,000 persons.

MP (Marianas Protectorate)

File No. 96069 IPRTN Northern

Marianas College, P.O. Box 1250,

Saipan, MP 96950. Signed By: Ms.

Agnes McPhetres, President. Funds

Requested: $24,275. Total Project Cost:

$24,275. To conduct a study and

develop the design for the use of

technologies in a distance learning

system to be established as the Pacific

Technical Education Network, between

Honolulu, Hawaii and Saipan, Northern

Marianas Islands.

MS (Mississippi)

File No. 96172 CRTB Mississippi

Authority for ETV, 3825 Ridgewood

Road, Jackson, MS 39211. Signed By:

Mr. Larry Miller, Executive Director.

Funds Requested: $88,242. Total Project

Cost: $176,484. Replace FM radio

modulation monitoring equipment, FM

exciters, and the radio and television

high speed RF monitoring system at

transmitter sites throughout the state of
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Mississippi, to improve FM stereo

performance, ensure compliance with

power measurement requirements, and

protect transmitters from potential

damage.

MT (Montana)

File No. 96034 CRB Montana State

University—Billings, 1500 North 30th

Street, Billings, MT 59101–0298. Signed

By: Dr. Ronald Sexton, Chancellor.

Funds Requested: $42,815. Total Project

Cost: $92,815. To purchase a Ku-band

satellite uplink system for KEMC–FM,

operating on 91.7 MHz in Billings. The

satellite system would place downlinks

to provide programming to six existing

facilities operated by KEMC–FM.

Downlinks would be provided at a

repeater station serving Bozeman, MT

and translators serving Havre, Helena,

and Miles City, MT, as well as Cody and

Sheridan, WY.

File No. 96177 CRB Bd of Regents,

MT University System, 330 Strand

Union Building, Bozeman, MT 59717.

Signed By: Mr. Philip Charles, General

Manager. Funds Requested: $30,495.

Total Project Cost: $52,995. To improve

the facilities of noncommercial radio

station KGLT–FM, operating on 91.9

MHz in Bozeman, MT by purchasing a

new FM antenna, exciter and related

equipment. The applicant has lost its

lease at its current transmitter site and

the new equipment will ensure

continued service to 47,000 people. The

transmitter will be relocated to a higher

elevation and the new antenna will

permit a power increase from 2 KW to

68 KW.

NC (North Carolina)

File No. 96032 CRB Wilkes

Community College, Collegiate Drive,

Wilkesboro, NC 28697. Signed By: Dr.

Gordon Burns, President of WCC. Funds

Requested: $36,999. Total Project Cost:

$49,332. To provide first public radio

services to approximately 47,000

residents of northwest North Carolina

by upgrading WSIF–FM, operating on

90.9 MHz in Wilkesboro, from a Class D

station to a Class A radio facility. WSIF–

FM will change frequency to 94.7 MHz,

increase power and change the antenna

system.

File No. 96046 CRB 95100. Better Life,

Inc., 230–B Roanoke Avenue, Roanoke

Rapids, NC 27870. Signed By: Mr.

George Campbell, Executive Director.

Funds Requested: $91,500. Total Project

Cost: $122,000. To upgrade its services

and extend its coverage to provide first

public radio service and first radio

reading services to approximately

46,000 residents of northeast North

Carolina and southeast Virginia, WZRU,

operating on 88.5 MHz in Roanoke

Rapids, NC, will relocate its antenna to

a higher tower and will install a digital

STL system.

File No. 96074 ICTN College of the

Albemarle, 1208 North Road St.,

Elizabeth City, NC 27906. Signed By: Dr.

Larry R. Donnithorne, President. Funds

Requested: $136,000. Total Project Cost:

$181,500. To construct a two-way

distance learning video classroom at the

College of the Albemarle to allow the

College to offer and receive instructional

programming via its ITFS channels and

the North Carolina Information

Highway.

File No. 96231 CTB Univ. of NC

Center for Public TV, 10 T.W. Alexander

Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC

27709. Signed By: Mr. Tom Howe,

Director & GM. Funds Requested:

$1,574,523. Total Project Cost:

$4,890,000. To improve broadcast

operations and extend its coverage area

to include approximately 779,000

potential new viewers in the state’s

northeast region by the replacement of

critical transmission equipment and

construction of a taller tower at WUND–

TV, Channel 2, in Columbia, SC.

File No. 96242 CTB Gospel &

Deliverance Ministry, Inc., Rt. 1, Box

171–E, Shannon, NC 28386. Signed By:

Mr. Gerald Locklear, President. Funds

Requested: $680,000. Total Project Cost:

$1,115,000. To construct a low-power

television station on Ch. 47 to serve the

educational and training needs of the

community, specifically the Native

American population of Robeson

County.

ND (North Dakota)

File No. 96141 CRB Dakota Radio

Information Service, Liberty Mem.

Bldg., 604 E. Blvd., Bismarck, ND

58505. Signed By: Ms. Marcella

Schmaltz, President. Funds Requested:

$5,156. Total Project Cost: $6,875. To

acquire 125 SCA receivers for use by the

print-impaired in western ND. The radio

reading service receivers would be

distributed in areas covered by six new

FM radio translator stations which were

funded by PTFP in 1995. Since this is

the first time 90.1 MHz has been used

in this area, there is no inventory of

receivers available for distribution. The

service provides the only locally

originated service in ND. It broadcasts

on the stations licensed to Prairie Public

Broadcasting.

NE (Nebraska)

File No. 96018 CTB University of

Nebraska, 60th & Dodge Streets, Omaha,

NE 68182–0022. Signed By: Dr. Delbert

Weber, Chancellor. Funds Requested:

$38,000. Total Project Cost: $80,000. To

improve public television station KYNETV, Ch. 26, in Omaha, by acquiring two

camera control systems that will allow

the use of two PTFP-funded field

cameras in the studio during

productions which require more than

three studio cameras. Station provides

service to more than 600,000 people.

File No. 96081 ICTN A DEC,

University of Nebraska-Lincoln,

Lincoln, NE 68583. Signed By: Dr. Janet

Poley, President/CEO. Funds Requested:

$1,364,587. Total Project Cost:

$2,729,175. To purchase five additional

C band uplinks, convert 12 existing

uplinks from analog to digital, and

equip 174 existing downlinks with

digital reception equipment. Uplinks

will be placed at Delaware State

University, Florida A&M University, the

University of Illinois, Kansas State

University and West Virginia

University.

File No. 96096 CRB 95148. Sunrise

Communications, Inc., 941 ‘‘O’’ Street,

Suite 1025, Lincoln, NE 68508. Signed

By: Mr. Dick Noble, General Manager.

Funds Requested: $84,612. Total Project

Cost: $112,816. To improve the facilities

of public radio station KZUM-FM, 89.3

MHz, in Lincoln by acquiring new and

replacement equipment for the on-air

control and production control rooms as

well as a C-band satellite downlink.

Station serves approximately 214,000

people.

File No. 96142 CTB Nebraska Educ

Telecomm Commission, 1800 N. 33rd

Street, Lincoln, NE 68501. Signed By:

Mr. Jack McBride, Secretary. Funds

Requested: $152,032. Total Project Cost:

$304,065. To improve the production

facilities of the state’s public television

network by replacing old, obsolete

origination equipment. Items to be

acquired include: a remote unit audio

console, 7 mini-disk recorder/players, 7

mini-disk players, a digital audio

workstation, color and black/white

monitors as well as waveform monitors

and vectorscopes test equipment. Much

of the equipment being replaced is in

excess of 20 years old is a maintenance

problem. The network serves about 1.5

million people.

File No. 96147 CRB Nebraska Educ

Telecomm Commission, 1800 N. 33rd

Street, PO Box 8311, Lincoln, NE 68501.

Signed By: Mr. Jack McBride, Secretary.

Funds Requested: $23,212. Total Project

Cost: $46,425. To improve the facilities

of the state’s public radio network by

acquiring production equipment to

replace old, obsolete equipment that is

no longer operating properly. Requested

equipment includes: a digital audio

workstation, a telephone hybrid for onair call-ins, mini-disk recorder/player

and 4 mini-disk players. The state’s

public radio network serves
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approximately 872,000 people in NE

and parts of KS and WY.

NH (New Hampshire)

File No. 96031 CRB New Hampshire

Public Radio, 207 North Main Street,

Concord, NH 03301–5048. Signed By:

Mr. Mark Handley, President. Funds

Requested: $40,422. Total Project Cost:

$80,845. To improve WEVO–FM,

operating on 89.1 MHz, in Concord, NH,

by upgrading the station’s program

origination from tape to digital/audio

production and automation, which will

result in upgrading production both in

the studios and in master control.

File No. 96240 CTB University of New

Hampshire, Route 155A, Mast Rd., PO

Box 110, Durham, NH 03824. Signed By:

Mr. Steven Bernstein, Sr. Grant &

Contract Officer. Funds Requested:

$130,000. Total Project Cost: $260,000.

To improve originating station WENHTV, operating on Ch 11, in Durham, NH,

by replacing the studio production

control switcher and field ENG Kit for

production of local programming. This

state network originating station serves

the entire state of New Hampshire,

totaling 1,109,252 potential viewers.

NJ (New Jersey)

File No. 96070 CTB New Jersey Public

Broadcasting Auth, 25 South Stockton

Street, Trenton, NJ 08625. Signed By:

Mrs. Elizabeth Christopherson,

Executive Director. Funds Requested:

$118,600. Total Project Cost: $237,200.

To improve the network originating

station, WNJT–TV, operating on Ch 52,

in Trenton, NJ, by upgrading two 3⁄4′′

format Analog Videotape Editing

systems with two Non-Linear Digital

Systems, and upgrading a 40 unit Video

Cart Playback System in Master Control

with a Digital Video Server. This

originating station provides service

state-wide to approximately 7,730,188

potential viewers.

NM (New Mexico)

File No. 96001 CTB Univ. of NM &

Albuquerque Schools, 1130 University

Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87102.

Signed By: Mrs. Ann Powell, Dir.Rsch.-

Admin. Univ. of NM. Funds Requested:

$400,000. Total Project Cost: $800,000.

To improve public television station

KNME–TV, Ch. 5, in Albuquerque.

Project will replace three studio

cameras, a still store, and editing

equipment with new non-linear editing

equipment. KNME–TV serves about 1.1

million people.

File No. 96007 CTN Mescalero

Apache Tribe, 101 Central Street,

Mescalero, NM 88340. Signed By: Mr.

Wendell Chino, President. Funds

Requested: $767,119. Total Project Cost:

$1,022,825. To install a cable-fiber optic

interconnection system that will,

initially, extend the Mescalero Apache

Reservation’s public television signal to

an additional 820 Reservation homes.

Over-the-air signal transmission to these

homes is blocked by terrain. Via

translators, the Mescalero Tribe receives

the public television service of station

KENW–TV, Portales, NM. The cable will

also be connected to the Mescalero

hospital, the Mescalero public schools,

and the Tribal and Federal Government

offices.

File No. 96020 CRB Alamo Navajo

School Board, Inc., P.O. Box 907,

Magdalena, NM 87825. Signed By: Mr.

George Apachito, President. Funds

Requested: $13,781. Total Project Cost:

$18,375. To improve the facilities of

public radio station KABR–AM, 1500

kHZ, in Magdalena, by replacing old

equipment in the on-air control room

with equipment that will upgrade its

ability to automate part of the broadcast

day. This will permit an increase in

broadcast hours without increasing the

staff size. Most of the station’s

equipment is original and was

purchased in 1983 when it went on the

air. KABR–AM serves approximately

11,000 people in west central NM.

File No. 96060 CRB Northern NM

Radio Foundation, 116 West Buena

Vists, Santa Fe, NM 87501. Signed By:

Mr. William Sims, President. Funds

Requested: $88,332. Total Project Cost:

$117,777. To activate a new public radio

station on 89.5 MHz, in Las Vegas.

Station would be a Rocky Mountain

Alternative Station (RMAS) that would

repeat the signal of KANW–FM,

Albuquerque. In addition, local

programming would be provided by the

RMAS station staff. Proposed 100-watt

station would be located on the campus

of the Luna Vocational-Technical

Institute and would also be used to

instruct students in broadcast skills.

Station would provide the first local

origination service to about 18,254

people in Las Vegas and surrounding

Miguel County, NM.

File No. 96163 CTB Eastern New

Mexico University, 15th and Avenue O,

Portales, NM 88130. Signed By: Mr.

Duane Ryan, Director of Broadcasting.

Funds Requested: $49,230. Total Project

Cost: $98,460. To improve the facilities

of public television station, KENW–TV,

Ch. 3, in Portales, by replacing an

obsolete character generator and test/

monitoring equipment including a

waveform/vectorscope, a signal test

generator and a modulation monitor.

KENW–TV serves about 350,000

residents of eastern NM and west TX.

File No. 96168 CTB Eastern New

Mexico University, 15th and Avenue O,

Portales, NM 88130. Signed By: Mr.

Duane Ryan, Director of Broadcasting.

Funds Requested: $101,335. Total

Project Cost: $202,670. To improve the

facilities of the existing microwave

interconnection system between the

three state public television stations:

KENW–TV, Ch. 3, in Portales, KNME–

TV, Ch. 5, in Albuquerque and KRWG–

TV, Ch. 22, in Las Cruces. The system

also connects four public radio stations:

KUNM–FM and KANW–FM in

Albuquerque; KRWG–FM, Las Cruces,

and KENW–FM, Portales. Project would

replace existing hetrodyne microwave

receiver/transmitter equipment, replace

analog audio subcarrier units with

digital equipment and add video

synchronizers at microwave endpoints.

System serves about 982,000 people in

NM.

File No. 96175 ICTN Hispanic Educ’l

Telecom. System, Woodward Hall,

115C, Albuquerque, NM 87131–4016.

Signed By: Dr. Richard Peck, Chair of

HETS Board. Funds Requested:

$840,606. Total Project Cost: $1,120,808.

To expand participation in the Hispanic

Educational Telecommunications

System (HETS) project by constructing

VSAT satellite terminals and origination

classrooms at seven colleges serving

Hispanic students: Kings River

Community College in California; the

John Jay College of Criminal Justice in

New York State; Florida International

University and Miami Dade Community

College in Florida; and the University of

Puerto Rico, John Jay College of

Criminal Justice and the Ana Mendez

University System in Puerto Rico.

Origination classrooms will also be

constructed at the University of TexasBrownsville in Texas, and Lehman

College in New York State, which

currently have HETS VSAT equipment.

File No. 96179 ICTN No. New Mexico

Network for Rural Ed, PO Box 640,

Bernalillo, NM 87004. Signed By: Mr.

Hank Dominguez, President. Funds

Requested: $445,719. Total Project Cost:

$891,438. To establish a distance

education network serving schools and

colleges in 14 rural counties in Northern

New Mexico. C-band VSAT satellite

uplinks and origination studios will be

placed at Northern New Mexico

Community College in Espanola and

New Mexico Highlands University at

Las Vegas, NM. Satellite C-band

downlinks will be placed at 10 sites, 15

sites will receive both a C-band and Kuband downlink, and 18 existing

downlinks will be upgraded to received

compressed digital satellite signals. The

project also includes a mobile VSAT

terminal for program origination

throughout the region.
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File No. 96248 CRB Southern New

Mexico Radio Fdn., 1505 Crescent

Drive, Alamogordo, NM 88310. Signed

By: Mr. Robert Flotte, President. Funds

Requested: $174,039. Total Project Cost:

$232,052. To activate a new FM public

radio station on 91.7 MHz, in

Alamogordo to provide first local

origination to approximately 55,000

people. Proposed new Rocky Mountain

Alternative Station (RMAS) will repeat

the signal of KRWG–FM, Las Cruces,

and will also have local origination

capability. Studios will be located on

the Alamogordo Branch campus of New

Mexico State University.

NV (Nevada)

File No. 96234 CTB Clark County

School District, 4210 Channel 10 Drive,

Las Vegas, NV 89119. Signed By: Mr.

Thomas Axtell, General Manager. Funds

Requested: $484,100. Total Project Cost:

$818,600. To extend and improve the

services of KLVX–TV, Channel 10 in Las

Vegas by activating 3 new translators to

serve approximately 12,000 residents of

Beatty, Goldfield, Mercury, Nevada Test

Site, Oasis Valley, Silver Peak and

Tonopah. KLVX–TV will also install a

new microwave system and replace

obsolete and worn out origination

equipment including the main routing

switcher, two production cameras and

test equipment.

NY (New York)

File No. 96009 CRB 95108. State

University of NY, Oswego, 14 Lanigan

Hall, Oswego, NY 13126. Signed By: Mr.

William Shigley, Station Manager. Total

Requested: $62, 293. Total Project Cost:

$124,586. To improve WRVO–FM,

operating on 89.9 MHZ, in Oswego, NY

by replacing an old and wornout

transmitter and related equipment. This

station serves approximately 549, 000

listeners. This project is a reactivation

from last year.

File No. 96012 ICTN Rochester

Institute of Technology, 91 Lomb

Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623.

Signed By: Mr. Stanley D. McKenzie,

Provost & VP. Funds Requested:

$383,581. Total Project Cost: $558,937.

To establish a distance learning network

in collaboration with Genessee Valley

Board of Cooperative Education

Services (BOCES) and five area

community colleges located in the

Rochester-Syracuse-Binghamton area of

New York State. The project would

purchase multi-point, desk-top video

conferencing technology and software to

provide diverse educational services

and training opportunities to students

who are, for the most part, located in

remote rural sites.

File No. 96022 CRB Colleges of the

Seneca, Hobart & William, Smith

Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456. Signed By:

Mr. Richard Guarasci, Dean, Hobart

College. Funds Requested: $26,500.

Total Project Cost: $53,000. To improve

WEOS–FM, operating on 89.7 MHz,in

Geneva, NY, by replacing the Cart

Machine, and upgrading the studio

editing system by adding the NonLinear editing system, the Audio Hard

Disc and the Dat Cassette Recorder. The

station serves approximately 83,000

listeners.

File No. 96039 CRBN WNYC, One

Centre Street, New York, NY 10007.

Signed By: Ms. Laura Walker, President.

Funds Requested: $6,000. Total Project

Cost: $12,000. To improve WNYC–FM,

operating on 93.9 MHz, in New York

City, by upgrading the master control

room control station console due to the

addition of new equipment required for

satellite operations. Applicant serves

approximately 750,000 potential

listeners and operates WNYC–AM on

frequency 820 Khz.

File No. 96047 CRTB 95122. WMHT

Educational Telecommunications, 17

Fern Avenue, PO Box 17, Schenectady,

NY 12301. Signed By: Ms. Elizabeth

Hood, WMHQ Station. Total Requested:

$330,300. Total Project Cost: $660,600.

To improve WMHT–TV, CH 17 and

WMHT–FM, 89.1 MHz, in Albany, NY

by replacing the routing systems

interconnecting its television and radio

stations, replacing its Master Control

Console, Automation System, and

Monitoring equipment, and by replacing

the master control switchers for its two

TV stations, WMHT–TV and WMHQ–

TV. This project will help to improve

the Public Radio and TV to

approximately 2,225,550 people in

eastern New York, western

Massachusetts, Connecticut, and

Vermont.

File No. 96071 ICTN 95064. WXXI

Public Broadcasting Council, 280 State

Street, Rochester, NY 14614. Signed By:

Mr. Norm Silverstein, President and

CEO. Funds Requested: $97,461. Total

Project Cost: $198,900. To construct a

Ku-band satellite uplink to permit

public television station WXXI–TV,

operating on Ch. 21 in Rochester, NY, to

distribute programming nationwide.

The uplink would permit the timely

distribution of programming such as

‘‘Assignment: The World’’ after the

demise of the New York Terrestrial

Distribution System, which

interconnected all New York State

public television stations with an uplink

in New York City.

File No. 96149 CRTB Pub Bdcstg

Council of Central NY, 506 Old

Liverpool Rd., Box 2400, Syracuse, NY

13220–2400. Signed By: Mr. Richard

Russell, President & CEO. Funds

Requested: $73,600. Total Project Cost:

$147,200. To improve WCNY–TV, Ch 24

and WCNY–FM, 91.3 MHz, in Syracuse,

NY, by replacing Channel 24’s STL, the

six-foot microwave transmit antenna

and dish, 400 feet of microwave

transmission line, a six-foot microwave

receive antenna and dish with 200 feet

of transmission line at the Pompey

transmitter; by replacing for WCNY–FM

the STL, and adding 500 receiving units

for the applicant’s Radio Reading

Service. The applicant, with its 2 TV

stations and 2 FM stations, serves

approximately 1,775,000 people, a TV

and Radio in Syracuse and two Radio

stations, one in Utica and one in

Watertown.

File No. 96157 CRB WSKG Public T/

C Council, 601 Gates Road, Vestal, NY

13850. Signed By: Mr. Michael Ziegler,

President & CEO. Funds Requested:

$123,750. Total Project Cost: $165,000.

To expand the coverage of WSKG–FM,

operating on 89.3 MHz, in Vestal, NY,

by activating full power repeater

transmitter in Hornell, NY, which will

provide first signal to approximately

47,975 listeners.

File No. 96194 IPTN Niagara County

Community College, 3111 Saunders

Settlement Road, Sanborn, NY 14132.

Signed By: Mr. Gerald Miller, President.

Funds Requested: $78,292. Total Project

Cost: $127,221. To assess the applicable

technologies that could potentially be

appropriate to address distance learning

needs in Niagara County, New York and

surrounding areas, and develop a

telecommunications implementation

plan for distance learning and training

services.

File No. 96203 CTB WSKG Public

Telecomm Council, 601 Gates Road,

Vestal, NY 13850. Signed By: Mr.

Michael Ziegler, President & CEO.

Funds Requested: $824,625. Total

Project Cost: $1,099,500. To expand

WSKG–TV, Ch 46, in Vestal, NY, by

establishing a full power repeater TV

station in Corning, NY, which will

provide first signal to approximately

250,000 viewers. WSKG–TV now

operates a TV translator on channel 30

at a power of 1 kilowatt in the Elmira,

New York area. This one kilowatt

translator is on the same channel as the

full power unused allocation in

Corning. The coverage provided by the

new Corning allocation will also

encompass the present coverage of the

channel 30 translator, which will reduce

the total amount of first service.

OH (Ohio)

File No. 96023 CTB Public Bdcstg

Fndn of NW Ohio, 136 Huron Street,
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Toledo, OH 43604. Signed By: Ms.

Shirley E. Timonere, President &

General Manager. Funds Requested:

$561,060. Total Project Cost: $1,122,120.

To improve public station WGTE–TV,

Ch. 30, Toledo, OH, by replacing wornout and obsolete transmission

equipment, including the transmitter,

antenna, transmission line, and remote

control system. The station serves a

population of about 3,583,000.

File No. 96057 CTB Bowling Green

State University, 245 Troup Street,

Bowling Green, OH 43403. Signed By:

Dr. Louis I. Katzner, Assoc Vice

President, Research. Funds Requested:

$130,750. Total Project Cost: $261,500.

To improve the operation of public

station WBGU–TV, Ch. 27, Bowling

Green, OH, by replacing items of wornout and obsolete production equipment,

including a routing switcher, an editing

system, a lighting control system, and

lighting fixtures. The station serves a

population of about 1,300,000.

File No. 96114 CRB The Ohio State

University, 2400 Olentangy River Road,

Columbus, OH 43210. Signed By: Mr.

Dale K. Ouzts, Dir of Telecomm & Gen

Manager. Funds Requested: $219,225.

Total Project Cost: $292,300. To extend

the signal of public station WOSU–FM,

89.7 MHz, Columbus, OH, by activating

a repeater station on 91.1 MHz in

Marion, OH. The new station will

provide the first public radio signal to

about 19,061 persons, and the first

nighttime public radio signal to nearly

130,000 persons. WOSU–FM serves a

population of about 1,574,00.

File No. 96128 CRB Ohio University,

9 South College Street, Athens, OH

45701. Signed By: Dr. Carol Blum,

Associate Vice President. Funds

Requested: $138,298. Total Project Cost:

$276,596. To improve the operation of

public station WOUB–FM, 91.3 MHz,

Athens, OH, by replacing worn-out and

out-dated items of production

equipment, including audio consoles,

DAT recorders, CD players, jack panels,

distribution amplifiers, an audio editing

system, microphones, and an audio

switcher and by acquiring a hard-disk

audio storage system. The station serves

a population of about 853,284.

File No. 96136 CTB The Ohio State

University, 2400 Olentangy River Road,

Columbus, OH 43210. Signed By: Mr.

Dale K. Ouzts, Dir, Telecomm Ctr & Gen

Mgr. Funds Requested: $257,219. Total

Project Cost: $514,438. To improve the

operation of public station WOSU–TV,

Ch. 34, Columbus, OH, by replacing

worn-out and obsolete items of

production equipment, including video

tape machines, camera pedestals, and a

file server, and items of test equipment.

The station serves a population of

1,866,000 in central and southern Ohio.

File No. 96146 CRB Public Bdcstg

Fndn of NW Ohio, 136 Huron Street,

Toledo, OH 43604. Signed By: Ms.

Shirley E. Timonere, President &

General Manager. Funds Requested:

$63,265. Total Project Cost: $126,530.

To improve the operation of public

station WGTE–FM, 91.3 MHz, Toledo,

OH, by replacing items of worn-out and

obsolete equipment, including its

transmitter, master control console, CD

players, and DAT recorders, and by

acquiring a hard-disk audio storage

system and digital audio workstations.

The station serves a population of

1,101,300.

File No. 96200 CTB ETV Assn of

Metropolitan Cleveland, 4300

Brookpark Road, Cleveland, OH 44134–

1191. Signed By: Mr. Jerry Wareham,

President/General Manager. Funds

Requested: $405,050. Total Project Cost:

$810,100. To improve public television

station WVIZ, Ch. 25, Cleveland, OH, by

replacing worn-out and unreliable video

tape machines with a hard-disk video

server and a robotic digital tape storage

system. The station serves a population

of about 3,700,000.

File No. 96229 CTB Greater Dayton

Public TV, Inc., 110 South Jefferson

Street, Dayton, OH 45402. Signed By:

Mr. David M. Fogarty, President and

Gen Manager. Funds Requested:

$99,449. Total Project Cost: $198,898.

To improve the operation of public

television station WPTD, Ch. 16,

Dayton, OH, by replacing various items

of worn-out, obsolete equipment,

including a routing switcher, a character

generator, and monitors, and by

acquiring a non-linear tape editing

system and an Emergency Alert System.

The station serves a population of about

2,632,738.

OK (Oklahoma)

File No. 96061 CTB Oklahoma

Educational TV Authority, 7403 North

Kelley Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK

73113. Signed By: Mr. Robert Allen,

Executive Director. Funds Requested:

$350,000. Total Project Cost: $700,000.

To improve the facilities of KOET–TV,

Channel 3 in Eufaula, and KWET–TV,

Channel 12 in Cheyenne by upgrading

the transmitters to provide stereo

broadcast and SAP services to the

community. In addition, the Network’s

production center in Oklahoma City

will replace 17-year-old studio cameras

and 16-year-old videotape recorders.

File No. 96115 ICTN Oklahoma St.

Univ./Technical Branch, 1801 East 4th

Street, Okmulgee, OK 74447. Signed By:

Dr. Robert Klabenes, Provost. Funds

Requested: $114,206. Total Project Cost:

$228,412. To install two compressed,

interactive video classrooms as well as

associated interconnection equipment to

allow Oklahoma State University/

Technical Branch/Okmulgee to provide

graduate education to Okmulgee County

and, via the OneNet system, to

disseminate technical education

programming throughout the State.

File No. 96195 ICTN Oklahoma State

University, Stillwater, OK 74078.

Signed By: Dr. Harry Birdwell, VP for

Bus. & Ext. Rel. Funds Requested:

$130,901. Total Project Cost: $261,802.

To install a compressed video classroom

and video bridge on the main campus of

Oklahoma State University. The

classroom will originate instructional

programming to be transmitted

statewide. The course work will be in

the areas of Health Care Management,

Engineering Management, Teacher

Certification, Educational Specialist,

and Telecommunications Management.

File No. 96211 CRB 95198. University

of Central Oklahoma, 100 North

University Drive, Edmond, OK 73034.

Signed By: Mr. Carl Reherman, Director

of Outreach. Funds Requested:

$118,215. Total Project Cost: $157,620.

To provide first public radio service to

over 40,000 residents of Pittsburgh

County, KCSC–FM, operating on 90.1

MHz in Edmond, Oklahoma, will

construct a repeater station in

McAlester, operating on 91.9 MHz.

OR (Oregon)

File No. 96216 CTB 95097. Oregon

Public Broadcasting, 7140 SW Macadam

Ave, Portland, OR 97219. Signed By:

Mr. Maynard Orme, President/CEO.

Funds Requested: $158,875. Total

Project Cost: $317,750. To replace the 30

year old broadcast antenna,

transmission line and tower of public

television station KOAC–TV, operating

on Ch. 7 in Corvallis, OR. The project

will enable the station to continue

service to 220,000 residents of the

Willamette Valley and coastal

communities in western Oregon.

PA (Pennsylvania)

File No. 96052 CRB WQED Pittsburgh,

4802 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA

15213. Signed By: Mr. H. Melvin Ming,

Chief Operating Officer. Funds

Requested: $59,029. Total Project Cost:

$118,058. To expand and improve the

service of public radio station WQED–

FM, 89.3 MHz, Pittsburgh, PA, to the

Johnstown, PA, area by replacing a

translator with a full-power repeater

station. An estimated 168,102 persons

in western Pennsylvania will receive

their first public radio signal from the

proposed new transmitter.
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File No. 96067 CTB Public

Broadcasting of NW PA, Inc., 8425

Peach Street, Erie, PA 16509. Signed By:

Mr. F. Brady Louis, President and

General Manager. Funds Requested:

$54,898. Total Project Cost: $109,797.

To improve the production capability of

public television station WQLN–TV, Ch.

54, Erie, PA, by replacing obsolete and

worn-out cameras. The station serves a

population of about 713,000 persons.

File No. 96077 CRB West

Philadelphia Ed Bdcst Corp, Inc, 3901

Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104.

Signed By: Sis. Atikah Bey, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $35,000.

Total Project Cost: $70,000. To improve

radio station WPEB, 88.1 MHz,

Philadelphia, PA, by replacing

unspecified items of studio equipment.

File No. 96094 CTB Lehigh Valley

Pub. T/C Corp., 123 Sesame Street,

Bethlehem, PA 18015. Signed By: Mr.

James Baum, President & General

Manager. Funds Requested: $164,240.

Total Project Cost: $328,480. To

improve the production capability of

public television station WLVT, Ch. 39,

Bethlehem, PA, by replacing its wornout and obsolete production switcher

and acquiring a local insertion server.

The station serves a population of about

4,500,000 persons.

File No. 96121 IPTN Philadelphia

Enterprise Center, 4601 Market Street,

Suite 4000, Philadelphia, PA 19139.

Signed By: Mrs. Della Clark, President.

Funds Requested: $57,150. Total Project

Cost: $114,300. To develop a plan for

the use of appropriate technologies that

would be feasible to establish a

telecommunications center, Project

M.A.N. (Minority Alliance Network)

that would provide a distance learning

and training service to an underserved,

low-income, minority population in

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

File No. 96145 CRB Pennsylvania

State University, 202 Wagner Building,

University Park, PA 16802–3899. Signed

By: Mr. Robert Killoren, Director of

Sponsored Programs. Funds Requested:

$30,447. Total Project Cost: $60,895. To

improve the operation of public radio

station WPSU, 91.5 MHz, University

Park, PA, by acquiring equipment

necessary to permit unattended

overnight operation. The project will

also acquire the Emergency Alert

System equipment necessary to replace

the old Emergency Broadcast System, as

required by the FCC. WPSU serves a

population of about 366,196 persons.

File No. 96156 CTB WQED Pittsburgh,

4802 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA

15213. Signed By: Mr. George Miles, Jr.,

President & CEO. Funds Requested:

$30,912. Total Project Cost: $61,913. To

improve the service of public television

station WQED–TV, Ch. 13, Pittsburgh,

PA, by acquiring the necessary

equipment to implement descriptive

video for an estimated 65,000 sightimpaired persons in the station’s

coverage area, which included

approximately 3,250,000 people.

File No. 96164 CTB Pennsylvania

State University, 202 Wagner Building,

University Park, PA 16802–3899. Signed

By: Mr. Robert Killoren, Director of

Sponsored Programs. Funds Requested:

$28,533. Total Project Cost: $57,066. To

improve the service of public television

station WPSX, Ch. 3, University Park,

PA, by acquiring the necessary

equipment to implement descriptive

video service for sight-impaired persons

in the station’s coverage area, which has

a population of about 1,365,627 persons.

File No. 96190 CTB Pennsylvania

State University, 202 Wagner Building,

University Park, PA 16802–3899. Signed

By: Mr. Robert Killoren, Director of

Sponsored Programs. Funds Requested:

$60,576. Total Project Cost: $121,152.

To improve the production capability of

public television station WPSX, Ch. 3,

University Park, PA, by replacing its

outmoded and worn-out off-line video

editing stations with a non-linear

editing system. The station serves an

area with a population of about

1,365,627 persons.

File No. 96239 ICTN Lancaster Co.

Area Vo-Tech Schools, 1730 Hans Herr

Drive, Willow Street, PA 17584. Signed

By: Dr. Richard Burley, Executive

Director. Funds Requested: $318,881.

Total Project Cost: $637,762. To

purchase the equipment for three

electronic classrooms and one video

production studio—as well as the

associated mixing routing, and

switching equipment—all to be part of

a private, fiber optics-based distance

learning system in Lancaster and

Lebanon Counties in south central

Pennsylvania. The system will

interconnect 22 school districts, four

area vocational schools, one

intermediate unit, four colleges, the

public library system, a local hospital,

and area businesses/industries.

PR (Puerto Rico)

File No. 96038 CRB University of

Puerto Rico, Ponce de Leon Ave. &

Pastrana St, Rio Piedras, PR 00931.

Signed By: Dr. Efrain Gonzalez-Tejera,

Chancellor. Funds Requested: $56,849.

Total Project Cost: $113,698. To

improve WRTU–FM, operating on 89.7

MHz, Rio Piedras, PR, by upgrading and

replacing production equipment for 2 of

its 3 studios. The items include two

stereo consoles, 22 stereo line inputs, 4

cardioid microphones, stereo cassette

deck, 4 CD cart machines, direct drive

turntable, console furniture, 2 stereo

record/play cart machines, 4 reel to reel

record machines, 2 multi effects

processors, 4 studio monitor speakers, 2

digital work stations, and 4 Dat record/

play machines. WRTU–FM currently

serves approximately 2,400,000

listeners.

File No. 96065 CRB University of

Puerto Rico, Ponce de Leon Ave. &

Pastrana S, Rio Piedras, PR 00931.

Signed By: Dr. Efrain Gonzalez-Tejera,

Chancellor. Funds Requested: $167,623.

Total Project Cost: $335,246. To provide

first public radio service to

approximately 475,000 residents of the

west coast of Puerto Rico by

constructing a new FM station in

Mayaguez, operating on 88.3 MHz.

SC (South Carolina)

File No. 96092 CRB 95295. South

Carolina State University, 300 College

Street, Orangeburg, SC 29117–0001.

Signed By: Dr. Leroy Davis, Interim

President. Funds Requested: $123,020.

Total Project Cost: $164,030. To

improve and upgrade the facilities of

non-commercial radio station WSSB,

90.3 MHz, Orangeburg, SC, by replacing

analog control room and production

equipment with digital and by acquiring

a satellite downlink to gain access to

nationally distributed public radio

programming. The station serves a

population of 114,730.

File No. 96155 ICTN South Carolina

ETV Commission, 1101 George Rogers

Boulevard, Columbia, SC 29201. Signed

By: Mr. Ronald Schoenherr, Senior Vice

President. Funds Requested: $359,296.

Total Project Cost: $718,592. To

construct a locally-programmed, fourchannel ITFS distance learning system

to serve Williamsburg County, in

eastern South Carolina. The system will

primarily serve the educational needs of

the elementary, middle, secondary, and

vocational schools in the county, a total

of 15 schools and over 7,000 students.

The system, however, will also offer

adult education courses to benefit the

entire population of the county. The

proposed system will be part of the

South Carolina Educational Television

Commission’s expanding statewide

telecommunications network.

File No. 96245 ICTN HorryGeorgetown Technical College, P.O. Box

1966, Conway, SC 29526. Signed By: Dr.

D. Kent Sharples, President. Funds

Requested: $85,600. Total Project Cost:

$269,855. To assist Horry-Georgetown

Technical College in interconnecting its

three campuses with a T–1-based

distance learning system. The project

would purchase the basic multi-point

interconnection equipment for the

College’s whole system and a video
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classroom for the Myrtle Beach campus.

The College’s other two campuses are in

Conway—the main campus—and in

Georgetown. The equipment would help

the College participate in the South

Carolina Technical College Distance

Learning Network, which will permit

the exchange of course work among the

16 technical colleges statewide.

SD (South Dakota)

File No. 96119 CRB Dakota Nation

Broadcasting Corp., BIA, Rd. 7

Tekakwitha Complex, Sisseton, SD

57262. Signed By: Mr. Mike LaBelle,

Station Manager. Funds Requested:

$42,788. Total Project Cost: $61,725. To

upgrade and improve the broadcast

operations of KSWS–FM, 89.3 MHz in

Sesseton, South Dakota, by replacing the

worn-out and obsolete transmitter,

constructing a new 197 ft. tower in a

new location and purchasing audio

storage equipment.

TN (Tennessee)

File No. 96049 CTB 95069. Mid-South

Public Com. Foundation, 900 Getwell

Street, Memphis, TN 38111–1880.

Signed By: Mr. Michael LaBonia,

President & CEO. Funds Requested:

$83,100. Total Project Cost: $166,200.

To upgrade the facilities of WKNO–TV,

Channel 12 in Memphis, by replacing

worn-out and out-dated 3/4 inch video

tape machines used daily in production,

editing and on-air operations.

File No. 96084 CTB Metropolitan

Board of Public Educ, 161 Rains

Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203. Signed

By: Dr. Richard Benjamin, Director of

Schools. Funds Requested: $200,000.

Total Project Cost: $533,200. To upgrade

the facilities of WDCN–TV, Channel 8 in

Nashville, by replacing 20-year old field

cameras, monitoring and related

equipment.

File No. 96120 CRB Cossitt Library,

1850 Peabody Avenue, Memphis, TN

38104. Signed By: Ms. Judith Drescher,

Director of Libraries. Funds Requested:

$231,361. Total Project Cost: $308,481.

To extend the signal of WYPL–FM,

operating on 89.3 MHz in Memphis, to

provide Radio Reading Services to an

additional population of approximately

600,000 residents of Tennessee and

surrounding communities in

neighboring states.

File No. 96170 ICTN The University

of Tennessee, 615 McCallie Ave.,

Chattanooga, TN 37403. Signed By: Dr.

Frederick Obear, Chancellor. Funds

Requested: $96,537. Total Project Cost:

$193,074. To extend the compressed

video distance learning systems of the

University of Tennessee/Chattanooga to

Marion and Rhea Counties by

constructing video classrooms in

strategically-located sites in each of

those counties. It is hoped that the

project would eventually serve residents

of Hamilton, Bledsoe, Sequatchie, and

Grundy Counties as well. The project

would be accomplished as a partnership

with The Southeast Tennessee Private

Industry Council, an employment and

training agency established to deliver

education and job training to a sixcounty area of southeast Tennessee. The

project’s distance learning classrooms

would be part of the Council’s planned

One-Stop Career Centers in Rhea and

Marion Counties.

File No. 96197 CTB East Tennessee

Pub. Comm. Corp., 1611 E. Magnolia

Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917. Signed

By: Mr. Richard Meschendorf, ChairBoard of Trustees. Funds Requested:

$190,302. Total Project Cost: $380,604.

To upgrade the facilities of WSJK–TV in

Sneedville and WKOP–TV in Knoxville

by replacing obsolete Master Control

equipment and adding other nonexistent equipment to meet current

broadcast standards.

File No. 96227 CRB University of

Tennessee, 615 McCallie Avenue,

Chattanooga, TN 37403. Signed By: Dr.

Frederick Obear, Chancellor. Funds

Requested: $36,759. Total Project Cost:

$73,519. To improve broadcast

operations and ensure dependable

coverage, WUTC–FM, operating on 88.1

MHz in Chattanooga, will relocate its

antenna and replace the transmitter.

TX (Texas)

File No. 96017 CTB El Paso Public TV

Foundation, Education Bldg. Room

#105, El Paso, TX 79902. Signed By: Mr.

Robert Munoz, President & General

Manager. Funds Requested: $412,275.

Total Project Cost: $549,701. To

improve the facilities of public

television station KCOS–TV, Ch. 13, in

El Paso, by replacing its old 18-year old

RCA transmitter and related equipment.

The replacement equipment will permit

KCOS–TV to broadcast in stereo and

have SAP capabilities. KCOS–TV serves

approximately 650,000 people, 65% of

which are Hispanic.

File No. 96059 CTB University of

Houston, 1600 Smith Street, Suite 3400,

Houston, TX 77004. Signed By: Mr.

James Crowther, General Counsel.

Funds Requested: $333,954. Total

Project Cost: $742,120. To improve

public television station KUHT–TV, Ch.

8, in Houston, by replacing its aging and

outdated on-air routing switcher and onair videotape machines with digital

equipment. In addition, KUHT–TV will

acquire test equipment to allow it to

maintain its digital broadcast

equipment. KUHT–TV serves

approximately 4.2 million people.

File No. 96099 CTB North Texas

Public Broadcasting Inc, 3000 Harry

Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75201. Signed

By: Mr. Donald Boswell, Acting

President. Funds Requested: $25,000.

Total Project Cost: $54,000. To improve

the facilities of KERA–TV, Ch. 13,

Dallas and KDTN–TV, Ch. 2, Denton, by

replacing an 11-year old master control

still store. This piece of equipment is

essential to both stations since they

share origination facilities, personnel

and studios. The stations provide

service to approximately 4.6 million

people.

File No. 96108 CTB Central Texas

College, 6200 W. Central Texas

Expressway, Killeen, TX 76542. Signed

By: Dr. James Anderson, Chancellor.

Funds Requested: $27,000. Total Project

Cost: $54,000. To improve public

television station KNCT–TV, Ch. 46, in

Killeen by replacing aging industrial

grade on-air U-Matic videotape

machines with a digital hard-disk

storage retrieval system. KNCT–TV

serves approximately 460,000 people.

File No. 96133 CTB Alamo Public T/

C Council, 501 Broadway, San Antonio,

TX 78215. Signed By: Ms. Joanne Winik,

President & General Manager. Funds

Requested: $82,526. Total Project Cost:

$165,052. To improve public television

station KLRN–TV, Ch. 9, in San Antonio

by acquiring off-line editing facilities,

multi-channel digital audio recording

and editing capability. KLRN–TV would

also replace two 10-year-old, worn out

3⁄4′′ videocassette recorders. Market is

55.6% Hispanic. New equipment will

facilitate second language versions of

programming. KLRN–TV serves

approximately 2 million people by overthe-air broadcasts and cable.

File No. 96165 ICTN Texas State

Technical College, 300 College Drive,

Sweetwater, TX 79556. Signed By: Dr.

Clay Johnson, President. Funds

Requested: $125,751. Total Project Cost:

$251,502. To assist in the establishment

of a distance learning network

interconnecting the main campus of the

Texas State Technical College at

Sweetwater with its three extension

campuses at Abilene, Breckenridge, and

Brownwood. The project would equip a

sophisticated lecture video classroom at

the main campus; this classroom would

have complementary tape production

and editing capabilities. The project

would also install video classrooms at

the three extension campuses. The

system will use V–Tel equipment to

allow the College’s network to

interconnect with the V–Tel-based

Texas VIDNET system and the network

of the Southwest Center for Advanced

Technological Education (SCATE). The
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College’s system will use T–1 telephone

interconnection.

File No. 96184 CTB Capital of Texas

Public T/C Council, 2504–B Whitis

Street, Austin, TX 78705. Signed By:

Mr. Bill Arhos, President. Funds

Requested: $89,034. Total Project Cost:

$178,068. To improve public television

station KLRU–TV, Ch. 18, in Austin by

acquiring a Local Insertion System (LIS)

and the accompanying digital audio and

videotape support systems. The LIS will

eliminate the need to create a daily dub

reel in order to make quality station

breaks. This process will permit a more

efficient use of station equipment and

personnel. KLRU–TV serves in excess of

1 million people and is a producer of

nationally distributed programming.

File No. 96209 ICTN INFO–NET, PO

Box 838, Star, TX 76880. Signed By: Mr.

James Ethridge, Superintendent. Funds

Requested: $394,330. Total Project Cost:

$569,330. To extend the INFO–NET

distance learning system to four

additional schools districts in central

Texas. The new INFO–NET members

would be the Evant, Lometa, Richland

Springs, and San Saba Independent

School Districts. The INFO–NET system

currently consists of eight rural Central

Texas schools districts: Brady,

Cherokee, Goldthwaite, Lohn, Mullin,

Priddy, Rochelle, and Star. With the

additional districts, the INFO–NET

systems would serve the following

counties: McCulloch, Mills, San Saba,

Coryell, Hamilton, and Lampasas.

UT (Utah)

File No. 96011 CRB Utah State

University, 745 N 1200 E, Logan, UT

84322. Signed By: Mr. M.K. Jeppesen,

Director, Contracts & Grants. Funds

Requested: $14,160. Total Project Cost:

$18,880. To extend the signal of public

radio station KUSU–FM, 91.5 MHz, in

Logan by establishing three FM

translators at the following locations:

Huntington (Green River/Rural Emery

County), on 90.9 MHz; Panquitch, on

88.7 MHz; and Price, on 91.5 MHz. The

translators will provide a first public

radio service to about 2,400 people and

will strengthen and improve the signal

to others.

File No. 96183 CTB University of

Utah, Media Svcs, 101 Wasatch, Rm

193, Salt Lake City, UT 84112. Signed

By: Mr. Ted Capener, VP for University

Relations. Funds Requested: $148,424.

Total Project Cost: $260,352. To

improve and extend the signals of

KUED–TV, Ch. 7, Salt Lake City and

KULC–TV, Ch. 9, in Ogden, by replacing

the following 8 television translators:

K38CJ, Teasdale/Bicknell; K30CW,

Maryvale/Piute Co.; K40AH, Torrey/

Teasdale; K63BY, Milford/Rural Beaver

Co.; K62BR, Virgin/Hurricane Mesa;

K47AK Rural Washington Co.; K42AJ

Richfield/Monroe; K60BU, Orangeville/

Rural Emery Co. Project also includes a

microwave tv relay system connecting

Ford Ridge to Tabby Mountain and the

replacement of an aging video tape

recorder for KUED–TV. Project would

permit approximately 21,300 people to

receive a first or improved public

television signal.

File No. 96213 ICTN Utah State

University, Eccles Conference Ctr., Rm.

102C, Logan, UT 84322–5035. Signed

By: Mr. M. K. Jeppesen, Director,

Contracts & Grants. Funds Requested:

$608,345. Total Project Cost: $1,240,848.

To establish a video compression-based

distance learning network that will

interconnect 47 sites of the Utah State

University system. The network will

feature ten origination sites. It will use

full-motion video with extension

computer networking.

VA (Virginia)

File No. 96015 CRB James Madison

University, PO Box 1292, Harrisonburg,

VA 22801. Signed By: Mr. Henry

Schiefer, Assistant VP for Finance.

Funds Requested: $10,400. Total Project

Cost: $20,800. To upgrade the

production facilities of WMRA–FM,

operating on 90.7 MHz in Harrisonburg,

Virginia, by establishing a digital editing

studio.

File No. 96035 ICTN Southside VA

Community College, 109 Campus Drive,

Alberta, VA 23821. Signed By: Dr. John

Cavan, President. Funds Requested:

$200,000. Total Project Cost: $300,000.

To purchase the equipment for a hub

site, with associated connectivity

equipment, that will allow the

Southside Virginia Telecommunications

Network to extend its distance learning

systems to eight public high schools,

one community college, and one fouryear senior institution. The system will

feature an integrated voice, video, and

data network.

File No. 96042 IPRTN Public Service

T/C Corporation, 5203 Leesburg Pike,

Falls Church, VA 22041. Signed By: Dr.

Louis Bransford, Chief Executive

Officer. Funds Requested: $95,660.

Total Project Cost: $95,660. To explore

and determine the available time and

potential capacity that may exist at

satellite uplink facilities in the

Washington, D.C. area and possibly

other areas in the United States, so that

national educational organizations and

associations may be able to consider

more cost-effective and efficient ways of

sharing these resources for distance

learning and training services.

File No. 96085 ICTN Old Dominion

University, Education Building, Room

228, Norfolk, VA 23529–0526. Signed

By: Dr. Robert Ash, Vice President/

Research. Funds Requested: $867,138.

Total Project Cost: $1,734,277. To

purchase varied equipment that would

allow Old Dominion University to

expand its distance learning service to

the hearing-impaired. The project would

also obtain electronic field production

equipment and state-of-the-art editing

equipment so that the University might

incorporate pre-produced on-location

programming segments into televised

courses. In addition, other equipment

purchased by the project would permit

the University’s faculty to use voice,

data, and video programming in their

on-campus courses.

File No. 96097 PRB Clinch Valley

College, 1 College Avenue, Wise, VA

24293. Signed By: Dr. L. Jay Lemons,

Chancellor. Funds Requested: $10,430.

Total Project Cost: $26,865. To conduct

planning activities for the establishment

of a local public radio station that will

serve the programming needs of

approximately 35,000 residents of the

City of Norton, Virginia, and of rural

communities in Wise, Russell, Scott and

Dickenson Counties.

File No. 96100 PTB Greater

Washington Educ. T/C Assoc., 3620

South 27th Street, Arlington, VA 22206.

Signed By: Mr. Joseph Widoff, Sr. V.P.,

Operations & Admin. Funds Requested:

$275,065. Total Project Cost: $550,130.

To help public television station WETA

plan for the development of the first

fully digital Advanced Television (ATV)

site in the United States. The project

would prepare an HDTV/ATV

implementation model to assist both

public and commercial television

broadcasters in making the transition to

ATV. WETA-TV operates on Ch. 26

throughout the greater Washington, D.C.

area.

File No. 96126 ICTB Hampton

University, 607 Orchard Road,

Hampton, VA 23668. Signed By: Dr.

William Harvey, President. Funds

Requested: $1,116,496. Total Project

Cost: $1,488,663. To construct a

noncommercial educational television

station on the campus of Hampton

University to operate on Ch. 55. The

objective of the new station would be to

broadcast telecourses to the

communities of Hampton, Norfolk,

Virginia Beach, Portsmouth,

Chesapeake, Suffolk, Newport News,

Williamsburg, Yorktown and the lower

eastern shore of Virginia.

File No. 96169 ICTN Amer. Indian

Higher Ed Consortium, 121 Oronoco

Street, Alexandria, VA 22314. Signed

By: Ms. Margarette Perez, President,

AIHEC. Funds Requested: $300,000.

Total Project Cost: $400,000. To
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establish satellite distance learning

facilities at four additional tribal

colleges which are members of the

American Indian Higher Education

Consortium. VSAT terminals and

instructional classrooms will be placed

at Cheyenne River Community College,

Eable Butte, SD, College of the

Menominee Nation, Keshena, WI, Fort

Berthold Community College, New

Town, ND and United Tribes Technical

College, Bismarch, ND.

VT (Vermont)

File No. 96148 ICTN 95257. The

University of Vermont, 322 South

Prospect Street, Burlington, VT 05401–

3505. Signed By: Ms. Regina White,

Director, Sponsored Programs. Funds

Requested: $558,074. Total Project Cost:

$1,116,147. To provide a Ku-band

satellite uplink, master control and

classroom production equipment for the

University of Vermont. The project will

provide for the satellite distribution of

advanced placement and college degree

programs to sites throughout the state.

WA (Washington)

File No. 96026 CTB Bates Technical

College, 1101 S Yakima Avenue,

Tacoma, WA 98405. Signed By: Mr.

William Mohler, President. Funds

Requested: $437,829. Total Project Cost:

$583,773. To provide first public

television programming services to

approximately 175,000 residents of the

north Puget Sound region of

Washington State, KBTC–TV, Channel

28 in Tacoma, will activate a repeater

station (Ch. 34) with a transmitter to be

located on Mt. Constitution in Orcas

Island.

File No. 96040 CRB 95290. Spokane

Public Radio, 2319 N. Monroe Street,

Spokane, WA 99205. Signed By: Mr.

Richard Kunkel, General Manager.

Funds Requested: $18,480. Total Project

Cost: $24,640. To provide first public

radio service to about 9,100 residents of

Boundary County, Idaho, KPBX–FM,

operating on 91.1 MHz in Spokane,

Washington, will activate a repeater

station in Bonners Ferry, ID, operating

on 92.1 MHz.

File No. 96101 CRB Spokane Public

Radio, 2319 N. Monroe Street, Spokane,

WA 99205. Signed By: Mr. Richard

Kunkel, General Manager. Funds

Requested: $115,710. Total Project Cost:

$154,280. To improve and upgrade its

broadcast facilities, KPBX–FM,

operating on 91.1 MHz in Spokane,

Washington, by replacing worn-out and

unreliable equipment, including a 16-

year-old transmitter, a 7-year-old STL

system, two main control boards and a

DAT machine.

File No. 96102 CTN City of Tacoma,

747 Market Street, Tacoma, WA 98402.

Signed By: Mr. Ray E. Corpuz, Jr., City

Manager. Funds Requested: $308,822.

Total Project Cost: $411,763. To

purchase the equipment for a remote

video production studio, to be placed in

a van, that would improve the

capabilities of the City of Takoma, WA,

to provide coverage of significant

community events for transmission over

the City’s government access cable

television channel.

File No. 96116 CRB Washington State

University, Administration Road,

Pullman, WA 99164–2530. Signed By:

Ms. Carol Zuiches, Dir., Off of Grant &

Rsch Dev. Funds Requested: $233,149.

Total Project Cost: $310,866. To bring

public radio service to approximately

120,000 rural residents of western and

north central Washington State plus

about 180,000 residents of southern

British Columbia, WSU will activate

repeater stations in Omak (90.1 MHz.),

Chehalis (88.9 MHz.) and Port Angeles

(90.1 MHz).

File No. 96153 CTB KCTS Television,

401 Mercer Street, Seattle, WA 98109.

Signed By: Mr. Burnill Clark, President

& CEO. Funds Requested: $507,905.

Total Project Cost: $677,207. To provide

first public television service to over

237,000 residents of northwest

Washington, KCTS–TV, Channel 9 in

Seattle, will construct a repeater station

in Bellingham, Washington, operating

on Channel 34.

File No. 96204 CTB KCTS Television,

401 Mercer Street, Seattle, WA 98109.

Signed By: Mr. Burnill Clark, President

& CEO. Funds Requested: $193,571.

Total Project Cost: $297,802. To

improve and upgrade the broadcast

facilities of KYVE–TV, Channel 47 in

Yakima, Washington, by replacing the

antenna, which was damaged by

lightning, and adding stereo processing,

transmission and monitoring

equipment.

File No. 96247 ICTB Northwest Indian

College, 2522 Kwina Road, Bellingham,

WA 98226. Signed By: Dr. Robert

Lorence, President. Funds Requested:

$210,726. Total Project Cost: $280,968.

To purchase 12 satellite downlink

terminals which will extend the

applicant’s distance learning offerings to

additional sites in Washington State,

Oregon and Alaska. Northwest Indian

College currently provides service to 4

tribal communities via satellite and

participates in the American Indian

Higher Education Consortium’s satellite

distance learning project.

WI (Wisconsin)

File No. 96005 CRB White Pine

Community Bdcstg, Inc, 303 W.

Prospect Street, Rhinelander, WI 54501.

Signed By: Mr. Robert Fiocchi,

President. Funds Requested: $14,719.

Total Project Cost: $29,437. To improve

WXPR–FM, operating on 91.MHz, in

Rhinelander, WI, by adding 4 tape

recorders, 2 cart emulators, 4 SCSI

audio drives, the main CPU, the system

peripheral interface, and the Radio

Systems DDS. WXPR–FM currently

serves approximately 66,000 listeners.

File No. 96054 CTB State of

Wisconsin, 3319 West Beltline

Highway, Madison, WI 53713–4296.

Signed By: Mr. Thomas L. Fletemeyer,

Executive Director. Funds Requested:

$421,020. Total Project Cost: $935,600.

The originating and distribution station

of the Wisconsin 6 station TV network,

WHA–TV, operating on channel 21, is

requesting replacement of the worn-out,

obsolete master control equipment. This

will replace two electromechanical

program origination devices with an allelectronic multichannel video library

system incorporating file servers and

videotape machines. The network

provides full service for approximately

5,160,000 viewers.

File No. 96064 IPTN Cooperative

Educ. Service Agency 7, 595 Baeten Rd,

Green Bay, WI 54304. Signed By: Dr.

James Coles, Administrator. Funds

Requested: $154,849. Total Project Cost:

$520,238. To design an interactive

regional telecommunications network

for distance learning and training,

through the North and East Wisconsin

Alliance for Distance Education

(NEWADE) which includes four

technical colleges, two University of

Wisconsin system colleges, a museum,

environmental center, library system,

and 27 K–12 school districts in the

Cooperative Educational Service Agency

7 in a seven-county area surrounding

Green Bay, Wisconsin.

File No. 96072 ICTN Western

Wisconsin Technical College, 304 North

Sixth Street, La Crosse, WI 54602–0908.

Signed By: Dr. Lee Rasch, President.

Funds Requested: $31,750. Total Project

Cost: $63,500. To construct a video

conferencing system that will extend

nursing educational and instructional

programming to the Western Wisconsin

Technical College campuses in

Independence, Black River Falls,

Mauston, and Viroqua.

File No. 96103 IPTN Project Bootstrap

Inc., 210 South Brooks Street, Madison,

WI 53715–1562. Signed By: Mrs. Joanne

Griffin, Executive Director. Funds

Requested: $10,475. Total Project Cost:

$17,915. To plan for methods of

enabling At-Risk high school and

middle school students in

disadvantaged areas of Dane County and

particularly Madison, Wisconsin,
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participate in distance learning

opportunities through the use of various

technologies in an interconnected

classroom system.

File No. 96150 CRB Back Porch Radio

Brdcstg, Inc., 118 South Bedford Street,

Madison, WI 53703. Signed By: Mr.

Terry O’Laughlin, President, Board of

Directors. Funds Requested: $21,000.

Total Project Cost: $42,687. To improve

WORT–FM, operating on 89.9 MHz, in

Madison, WI, by replacing the

transmitter and accessories and adding

a dial-up remote control unit. The 16

year old transmitter is in constant need

of repair. The station provides service to

approximately 390,000 listeners.

File No. 96199 CTB University of

Wisconsin, 2420 Nicolet Drive, Green

Bay, WI 54311. Signed By: Ms. Cheryl

Gest, Administrative Officer. Funds

Requested: $85,000. Total Project Cost:

$170,000. To improve one of the 7

Wisconsin Public Television Network

stations, WPNE, Ch 38 in Green Bay, by

replacing 3 digital VTRs, an Editing

Controller and 3 Waveform Monitors.

WPNE–TV serves approximately

488,000 viewers in its coverage area.

WV (West Virginia)

File No. 96055 CRB WV Educational

Brdstg Authority, 600 Capitol Street,

Charleston, WV 25301. Signed By: Ms.

Rita Ray, Executive Director. Funds

Requested: $7,499. Total Project Cost:

$9,999. To provide first public radio

service to about 17,000 people in the

rural communities of Logan and

Bluefield, WVPN–FM, operating on 88.5

MHz in Charleston, West Virginia, will

install a translator in Logan, operating

on 91.9 MHz., and all necessary satellite

equipment.

File No. 96191 PRB U.N.I.T.Y.

Communications, Inc., 1560 Jackson St.,

P.O. Box 5605, Charleston, WV 25361.

Signed By: Mr. Charles Blackmon,

President. Funds Requested: $989,789.

Total Project Cost: $989,789. To conduct

a needs assessment and to develop a

plan for the establishment of a public

radio station that will serve the AfroAmerican community of Charleston,

West Virginia, by providing educational

programming and training facilities in

the field of radio broadcasting.

Bernadette McGuire-Rivera,

Associate Administrator, Office of

Telecommunications and Information

Applications.

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