The 116 grant recipients are noncommercial telecommunications organizations located in 44 states and Puerto Rico. One of the grants was awarded to the University of Hawaii for PEACESAT.

TELEVISION AWARDS

• Fifty-nine public television grants (52 for digital conversion, 7 for basic equipment replacement) were awarded.

 
• Funds were awarded to support the digital television conversion of statewide systems in 20 states:

Alabama Arkansas Iowa Kentucky Maine Maryland Nebraska New Hampshire New Jersey North Dakota

New Mexico Nebraska Oklahoma Oregon Rhode Island South Dakota Texas Vermont West Virginia Wisconsin

The two largest television awards, each for $1.8 million, went to the Iowa Public Broadcasting Board and the Texas Public Broadcasting Association for digital conversion of stations in their respective states.

• Digital television conversion projects also support individual stations in 17 states:

Alaska California Florida Illinois Kansas Michigan Minnesota Missouri New York

Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Tennessee Virginia Washington

RADIO AWARDS

• Fifty-two pubic radio grants were awarded.

 
• Thirty-seven awards to help stations replace basic equipment.

 
• Fifteen awards to extend public radio signals to more than 514,000 unserved residents of:

Quincy, CA Sutter, CA Ouray, CO Mitchellville, IA Corbin, KY Farmington, MO Austin, MN Brainerd, MN

Cass Lake, MN (planning) Grants, NM (planning) Norwalk, OH Tillamook, OR Johnstown, PA Bushland, TX Aberdeen, WA

• The Ouray, Colorado grant is for the establishment of a low-power FM (LPFM) station, which will bring first local radio signal to 1,000 people.

 
• Largest radio grant is $220,568 to Southeast Missouri State University to provide first public radio service to 70,000 people in Farmington, MO.

• Four distance learning grants were awarded.

 
• The largest distance learning federal award of $404,047 is being awarded to the St. Clair County Intermediate School District, Port Huron, MI, to extend its distance learning system to each of the county's elementary and middle schools.

 

• In addition to the above 116 projects, NTIA awarded three grants, for a total of $3,269,265 in Federal funds from a special supplemental appropriation, to three stations in New York City-WNET-TV, WNYC-FM, and WKCR-FM. These grants are helping to re-establish the stations' transmission facilities that were destroyed by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.