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Silakkuagvik Communications, Inc. To replace worn-out and obsolete studio production and operations equipment at public radio station KBRW (AM), which operates on 680 kHz in Barrow, AK, and which brings the sole public radio service to 8,400 residents of the North Slope area of extreme northern Alaska. The most notable items to be purchased would be four tape recorder/players, two mini-disc recorder/players,two portable mini-disc recorder/players, an 8-channel console, and an unattended record & play operations system.
CoastAlaska, Inc. CoastAlaska, Inc. comprises five public radio stations located in the southeast section of Alaska, called the "Alaskan Panhandle": KTOO (FM), Juneau; KCAW (FM), Sitka; KSFK (FM), Petersburg; KSTK (FM), Wrangell; and KRBD (FM), Ketchikan. The project would place a digital storage and retrieval system at KSTK (FM), Wrangell, and equip KSTK (FM) with a telephone hybrid system.
Kotzebue Broadcasting Inc. To improve the facilities of public radio station KOTZ(AM), operating on 720 kHz in Kotzebue, AK, by replacing obsolete production equipment. The project would provide digital audio storage and editing equipment, an audio console, digital cart machines, and audio processing, monitoring and test equipment. The station offers the sole public radio service to 8,500residents of northwest Alaska.
Arizona Board of Regents in behalf of Northern
Arizona Univeristy To improve public radio station KNAU-FM, 88.7 MHz, in Flagstaff, by replacing its 15-year old transmitter, antenna and transmission line. KNAU-FM serves about 133,600 people in northern AZ.
White Mountain Apache Tribe To improve public radio station KNNB-FM, 88.1 MHz, in Whiteriver by replacing obsolete and worn out origination equipment that has been in use since the station began broadcasting in 1982. KNNB-FM broadcasts in the Apache language and covers about 22,000 people.
Rural California Broadcasting Corporation To expand the signal of KRCB-FM, operating on 91.1 MHz in Rohnert Park, California, by activating a translator in Santa Rosa, operating on 90.9 MHz. The project will provide first English-language, public radio services to about 120,000 residents of Santa Rosa in Sonoma County, California.
Round Valley Unified School District To plan for the activation of a public radio station in Round Valley, California, which will provide first public radio services to about 2,500 residents of the area.
Radio Bilingue
Denver Educational Broadcasting, Inc To improve public radio station KUVO-FM, 89.3 MHz, in Denver, by replacing its 13 year old transmitter, master control and production boards. KUVO-FM, a Hispanic-controlled station, currently serves about 85,000 people.
Nathan B. Stubblefield Foundation To improve the facilities of WMNF-FM, operating on 88.5 MHz in Tampa, FL, by replacing obsolete consumer-grade master control and studio equipment with new equipment including CD and Minidisc players, digital audio cards, and digital console. The station will also replace the failing STL system.
WJCT, Inc.
Kekahu Foundation To extend the service area of public radio station KAQA(FM) operating on 91.9 MHz serving the island of Kauai, by constructing an booster station to serve Kilauea Town. The booster will operate on 91.9 MHz and serve an additional 1,000 residents of the island of Kauai.
Idaho State Board of Education To improve the operation of public station KBSU-FM, 90.3 MHz, Boise, ID, by replacing its transmission antenna, which was damaged by ice storms. The station serves a population of about 409,100 persons.
The University of Kansas To improve public radio station KANU-FM, 91.5 MHz, in Lawrence by upgrading its transmitter, replacing its transmission line and related transmission equipment. KANU-FM serves approximately 1.2 million people in KS and MO.
Board of Supervisors, LA State University
Agricultural & Mechanical College To return public radio station KBSA-FM, 90.9 MHz, in El Dorado, AR to full service after its antenna and transmission line were destroyed when the tower collapsed during a severe storm on 2/10/98. Project would also replace the damaged microwave interconnection between KBSA-FM and the network signal at KDAQ-FM, Shreveport, with satellite interconnection. KBSA-FM provides the only public radio signal to about 121,000 people.To improve the operation of public station KBSU-FM, 90.3 MHz, Boise, ID, by replacing its transmission antenna, which was damaged by ice storms. The station serves a population of about 409,100 persons.
University of Michigan
Northern Michigan University To improve the operation of WNMU-TV, ch. 13, and WNMU-FM, 90.1 MHz, Marquette, MI, by replacing items of worn out and obsolete production equipment, including -- for television -- a character generator, transmitter remote control, video playback machine, and digital audio recorders and an editor; and -- for radio -- a master control console, routing switcher, and audio recorders and editors. The stations serve a population of about 250,000 persons.
Minnesota Public Radio To improve the operation of Minnesota Public Radio, St. Paul, MN, by replacing the worn out and obsolete transmitter at station KCCM, 91.1 MHz, Fargo/Moorhead, MN, and by replacing a worn out and obsolete audio mixing console at network headquarters used for such national productions as "A Prairie Home Companion" and "Saint Paul Sunday". Minnesota Public Radio's owned and operated stations serve a population of about 4,894,800.
Double Helix Corporation To improve the service of public radio station KDHX, 88.1 MHz, St. Louis, MO, by replacing its worn-out transmitter. The station serves a population of about 2,500,000.
Northern Cheyenne Tribe To plan for the first public radio station to serve the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, based in Lame Dear, MT. The proposed station would serve 10,000 people.
Friends Of Public Radio, Inc. To extend the signal of public radio station WHQR-FM, 91.3 MHz, in Wilmington by increasing the station's power, increasing the antenna height and using a directional antenna. WHQR-FM will add first public radio service to about 69,000 people.
The Board Of Trustees Of The University Of North Carolina
At Chapel Hill To extend public radio service to the Outer Banks area of North Carolina by constructing FM translators in three communities: Manteo, operating on 90.9 MHZ; Buxton, operating on 91.1 MHZ ; and Waves, operating on 90.1 MHZ. The facilities will provide the first public radio service to 12,983 people. The three new translators will rebroadcast the statewide service of public radio station WUNC(FM), Chapel Hill, through a satellite interconnection.
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska/Univ. of
Nebraska at Omaha To improve public radio station KVNO-FM, 90.7 MHz, in Omaha by replacing its 25-year old transmitter,antenna, line and associated equipment. KVNO-FM provides service to about 607,292 people.
New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority To construct a repeater FM transmitter which will extend public radio service to an additional community in New Jersey. WNJM(FM), operating on 88.9 MHz in Manahawkin will provide first public radio service to 35,512 people.
Nevada Public Radio Corporation To extend the signal of public radio station KNPR-FM, 89.5 MHz, in Las Vegas by constructing a new station in Lund, 88.7 MHz, and an FM translator in Ely, 89.5 MHz. The Lund station will repeat KNPR-FM but will have local origination capacity located at the Lund High School. The two new facilities will provide first public radio service to about 7,000 people.
Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service, Inc. To improve the program production capabilities of Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service, which serves the print-handicapped residents of Western New York. The project will replace worn-out and failure-prone studio equipment, including a control console, tape decks and CD players.
WAMC
Pacifica Foundation To improve the facilities of WBAI-FM, operating on 99.5 MHz in New
York City, by replacing equipment in its on-air studio which has been in constant use for
over 20 years. The equipment items include a mixing console, digital cart system, DAT
recorders, router/switcher, CD players and a digital audio work
WNYC Radio To replace aging and unreliable analog cart machines with a hard-drive based digital audio system that will enable WNYC-FM, 93.9 MHz, in New York City to produce radio programming for national distribution.
WMHT Educational Telecommunications To replace outdated and poorly functioning audio record/play
equipment used by public radio station
Public Broadcasting Foundation of Northwest Ohio To extend the signal of public radio station WGTE-FM, 91.3 MHz, Toledo, OH, by activating a repeater on 91.9 MHz in Defiance, OH. The new station will bring the first public radio service to about 66,962 persons. WGTE-FM presently serves a population of about 1,040,500.
Miami University To improve the operation of public radio station WMUB, 88.5 MHz, Oxford, OH, by replacing its worn out and obsolete STL and selected items of production equipment, including a networked hard disc audio recording and editing system, an audio console, CD players, and microphone processors. The station serves a population of about 312,302.
The Ohio State University To improve the operations of public radio station WOSU-AM, 820 KHz, Columbus, OH, by replacing two worn out and obsolete audio consoles and associated equipment and the remote control and antenna monitor for the station's nighttime signal. The station serves a population of about 1,010,000.
The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma To plan for a new public radio station which will provide first service to western Oklahoma.
Tillicum Foundation To improve the facilities of public radio station KMUN(FM), operating on 91.9 MHz in Astoria, OR. Replacement of the station's transmitter, antenna, studio-transmitter link, audio consoles, routing switcher and related equipment will ensure continued service to 75,000 residents of northwest Oregon and southwest Washington state.
The University Of Tennessee At Chattanooga To improve the facilities of public radio station WUTC-FM, operating on 88.1 MHz, in Chattanooga, TN by purchasing a propane backup electric generator. The project will ensure continued public radio services to over 1 million residents of eastern Tennessee and adjacent areas of North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama.
University of Houston System To improve public radio station KUHF-FM, 88.7 MHz, in Houston by relocating to a different tower. KUHF-FM is being displaced from its current tower due to the digital television conversion by the commercial licensee who owns the existing tower. Project will acquire a new transmitter, remote control, dummy load, rigid transmission line and related dissemination equipment. KUHF-FM serves about 3.7 million people.
Utah State University of Agriculture and Applied Science To extend the signal of public radio station KUSU-FM, 91.5 MHz, in Logan by activating a new translator on 91.5 MHz in Vernal/Uintah. Project would provide first service to about 15,470 people.
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications
Association To expand the service area of WETA-FM, 90.9 MHz in Washington, DC, by activating a repeater station in Leonardtown, Maryland, operating on 91.7 MHz. The new facility will provide first public radio services to over 100,000 residents of St. Mary's county, Maryland.
Vermont Public Radio To relocate and replace the transmitter, antenna and STL of WVPS-FM, operating on 107.9 MHz in Colchester, Vermont. The project is considered to be of an emergency nature, because WVPS-FM must complete its relocation by August 1999. On its present tower, the station cannot meet the new FCC Radio Frequency Radiation guidelines. Attempts to resolve the radiation situation by alternative means have not been successful, thus necessitating the equipment relocation.
Northwest Communities Education Center To improve the facilities of KDNA-FM, operaing on 91.9 MHz in Yakima, WA, by replacing the obsolete and failure-prone 18-year-old transmitter.
KSER Foundation To improve and extend the broadcast signal of public radio station KSER-FM, operaging on 90.7 MHz in Snohomish County, WA, by relocating the transmitter and antenna and increasing the power from 1000 to 5750 watts. KSER will also install microwave equipment to link the transmission site to the radio station.
Confederated Tribes & Bands Of The Yakama Indian
Nation To plan for the construction of a radio station serving about
13,600 people in and around the Yakama
Back Porch Radio Broadcasting, Inc. To improve the facilities of WORT(FM), operating on 89.9 MHz in Madison by replacing a 5 year old analog STL system with a digital system. The project will ensure continued service to 390,000 residents of the Madison area.
Wisconsin Educational Communications Board To extend Wisconsin Public Radio to Ashland by constructing a
translator operating on 102.9 MHz. or
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