NAEB Newsletter (July 1952)

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-6 - . Kansas . v . , The Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science on June 30 applied for a construction permit to build a £0,800 watt non-comnercial educational television station on reserved VHE channel 8, Manhattan, Kansas* A joint television operation is planned in cooperation with the University of Kansas (the University is now preparing an application to build a station on channel 11 at Lawrence)* Filing of the Kansas State application and the pending application of the University of Kansas culminate several months of joint planning by the two institutions* Programs will be designed to provide adult education for the citizens of Kansas* Funds are expected to be made available by the legislature which meets in January* The State Board of Regents, which controls the college, has already approved the plan to construct a television station* Kansas State College estimates construction costs at $362,62lt and programming costs at $332,800* Texas The University of Houston and the Houston Independent School District on July 8 filed a joint application to construct a station on VHF channel 8, reserved for edu¬ cation at Houston* The educational station at Houston will begin operations with a program schedule of k hours a day, to be expanded to 8 hours a day as soon as feasible. The schedule will include programs for public school viewing, informative programs for young peqpl% instructional programs at the college level, and general cultural programs* The total construction cost of the station is estimated at $600,000, with ex¬ penses for the first year estimated at $lf?0,000* Funds are on hand to begin con¬ struction as soon as the FCC grants the construction permit* In addition to these 9 applications for non-commercial educational television stations, the FCC reports that Michigan State College, East Lansing, and the Uni¬ versity of Missouri, Columbia, have filed applications for authority to construct television stations* Commercial Application from Missouri The U. of Missouri at Columbia'recently filed application with the FCC for a commercial TV permit; andrtiile the school's board of curators didn't disclose how the project would be financed, a spokesman said it wouldn't be necessary to ask for funds from the State Legislature* Curators stated they hoped that at least £0$ of the TV time would be devoted to public service programs, and that,profits would be used for improvement of the sta¬ tion's programs. Initial cost was estimated at $1,006,880, operating costs at $302,000 annually and the station was expected to show a profit in its second year* University's plans also call for a $1*80,000 TV studio on the cairpus and erection of a 796-foot tower four miles south of tie town. One hitch may upset the plans as the application seeks channel 8, the same being asked for by the Missouri Farmers Assn.'s insurance division for station KMfO at Marshall, a radio station it owns* •ft##-*#-******##* * * AT DEADLINE TIME, the FCC ha§, authoriz'ed non-commercial educational TV stations at Manhattan, Kansas, and at Albany, Rochester, and Buffalo, New‘York* It has delayed action on the Lindsay Hopkins Vocational School application*