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New Television Station In City Sought By Price BY JOSEPH KNOX Daily News Staff Writer Greensboro may expect to have a new television station by the end of this year -if an application, filed recently by a local company, is approved by the Federal Communications Commission without delay. The applicant is Piedmont Triad Television Inc. of which Ralph C. Price, former presi dent of Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co., is board chair man, chief executive officer and principal stockholder. The station will broadcast on Channel 48 in the Ultra High Frequency range, and whl be one of the few UHF stations operating in North Carolina. Studios are being tentatively planned for downtown Greens boro on Commerce Place, and the transmitter with a 797-foot tower is to be located on a 211- acre site just off Highway 220 north of Summerfield. * * * THE STATION, expected to have about 20 employes, will operate independently of the networks and will concentrate on local programming, accord ing to Carroll Ogle, president of the corporation who will serve as manager of the sta tion. Construction of the station, for which call letters have not been chosen, should begin by late August, and it should be on the air by December if the FCC Raleigh Prison Moved area he a was assumed local that features house as “The night the he Salis of Dies 13- moving and enclosing the house would amount to $750-to-$l,000. “But,” he added, “if it doesn’t cost over $1,000 to keep you folks happy, it is worth the cost. “The work-release program is turning out to be very satis factory,” Harris said. “The men are screened to the' ninth degree, and the pro gram reduces the costs on the taxpayer a great deal. But at the same time we are try ing to protect our boss — the public.” * * * HARRIS WAS in Raleigh conferring with Bounds and other officials on the agenda of today’s meeting of the state prison commission when he suggested the change in the original plan to let the prisoners live in the house presently located a few dozen yards outside Prison Camp 064. Last week residents of the area around the prison camp voiced hearty disapproval of the plan to let the work re lease inmates, most of them honor grade prisoners, live in a house not enclosed by a fence and not guarded except for 30-minute bed checks at night. One of the residents of the Tax Refund May Be Due Government BY BENJAMIN TAYLOR Dally News Staff Writer ASHEVILLE—A recent fed eral court ruling could result in the State of North Carolina having to refund millions of dollars in sales taxes which were collected from the fed eral government, State Sen. Ed Kemp of High Point said here Tuesday. Sen. Kemp raised that possi bility during the 59th annual convention of the North Caro lina Association of County Commissioners. He said the refund, if re quested, would be necessary because the state has been col lecting sales tax from contrac tors who purchase for the fed eral government although 1961 legislation made them exempt. “The money we’re talking about could well run into the millions of dollars. And if the state has to refund that much, it’ll mean that much less for local government,” Kemp said. * * * KEMP SAID the 1961 legis lation allows the state to charge 3 per cent sales tax to cities, counties, churches and non-profit organizations. The state then refunds the tax where appropriate under the law. “That bill closed up about (Continued on Page Six) approves the application prompt ly, said Ogle. He said FCC records indicate that no other firm has made application for Channel 48. Greensboro also is assigned UHF Channel 61 for which no one has sought the franchise. Programs, said Ogle, will largely be local in origin, and will employ use of a mobile type unit. There is hope, he continued, that many local sports activities on the high school level will be covered. “Nobody’s doing this, and that’s why we think the success of UHF television lies within local programming,” he said. Ogle is presently president and manager of radio stations WEAL and WQMG-FM, largely owned by Price. * * * OTHER OFFICERS in Pied mont Triad Television are Jack Brown, vice president, a real estate executive and principal owners of a Greensboro cable television company; and Elton Edwards, secretary, a Greens boro lawyer. According to the FCC appli cation, Price and Brown will account for more than $200,000 of the $540,000 estimated for construction of the station. The application estimated the annual operating cost at $250,- 000 and revenues of the same amount. The station, with a radiating power of 526,000 watts, will pro duce signals throughout the Tri- City area, and should be effec tive as far north as Martins ville, Va., and as far south as Salisbury, said Ogle. Locally, it probably will be tied to the cable television sys tem recently approved by the City Council, he said. AT THE PRESENT time, there are only two UHF TV sta tions operating in North Caro lina—one in Charlotte and an other in Asheville. Raleigh, Hickory and Dan ville, Va., have been approved for stations, and applications are being considered by the FCC from companies in Fay etteville and Charlotte. The FCC has designated channels 14 through 83 for UHF broadcasts. Under federal law, all new television receivers roust be manufactured with tuning selec tors for UHF stations. Older sets can be equipped with an adapter for UHF reception. Date Is ovia and been cupancy er on Co., steel talk window, by you done, all interior ing and
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- Greensboro Daily News
- Greensboro, North Carolina
- Jun, 15 1966 - Page 15