Washington report (July 22, 1964)

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INSTRUCTIONAL TV "FIXED SERVICE" APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED FOR FILING BY FCC Three new ITV fixed service applications were recently accepted for filing by the FCC. These are: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn in Brooklyn, a CP for a new station on Channels F-l, F-2, F-3, F-4, 10 watts; The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn in Jamaica, a CP for a new station on Channels C-l, C-2, C-3, C-4, 10 watts; Union Free School District #10 at Mineola, New York, a CP for a new station on Channels G-l, G-2, 10 watts. FIVE MORE ETV GRANTS APPROVED Approval of a $200,000 grant to help activate educational television facilities in Hershey, Pennsylvania, was recently announced. The grant is made to South Central Educational Broadcasting in Hershey to activate reserved Channel 65* Total cost of the project will be approximately $419,552. Coverage will include Harrisburg, and Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Juniata, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry and York Counties in Pennsylvania, serving a population of over 1.1 million. The Board of Education in Ogden City, Utah received a grant for $56,297 to acquire two television tape recorders for station K0ET, Channel 9- The recorders will improve service to some 400,000 persons, including an estimated 130,000 students enrolled at 180 educational institutions. Total cost of the project will be $75,067* A grant for amplifiers to improve transmissions of station KETC-TV, has been awarded to the St. Louis Educational Television Commission, for $100,092. KETC serves an area that includes 2-J- million persons, including 608,000 students in 1,092 schools. Total cost of improvements will be $133,457* A grant for $307,40/ to the University of Washington at Seattle was made to acquire a transmitter, tower, antenna, and other equipment for station KCTS-TV. The improvements will enable KCTS-TV to provide new service to 150,000 rural residents and better transmission to 60 per cent of 84l schools within the area. The additional power will extend service to 138 more schools and to a total of half million students over 11,944 square miles. Total cost of these improvements is $4l8,401. A giant for $71,606 to the Board of Public Instruction in Dade County, Florida, applies to station WSEC, Channel 17, and WTHS, Channel 2 in Miami. The grant will provide new equipment to improve service to nearly T| million persons, including 342,800 students at 332 institutions in Dade, Broward, Balm Beach and Collier Counties. WTHS ms the first educational television station in Florida and one of the first in the country. Total project cost will be $95,475* This brings to thirty-four the total number of grants approved since funds first became available in May, 1963* Thirty-five additional grants requesting a total of $7,689,051 have been accepted for filing and are awaiting further action. HEW APPLICATION ACCEPTED FOR FILING An application from the Board of Regents of the Universities and State College of Arizona for $148,860 has been accepted for filing under the Educational Television Facilities Act. Funds will be used to expand facilities of Channel 8 at Tempe, Arizona. Total cost of the project is $198,480.