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88 three of those amnesty many who amnesty by for Douglass, Peggy U-M. the Dan- Keith Thurston of Church will a the the as effort the selected group, age City In Line For TV Station By Dan McLeister (Business Labor Reporter) A commercial television station has been reallocated to the Ann Arbor area — Chan nel 31 on the Ultra High Fre quency band.' The News has learned. The local area has not had its own station since Channel 20 (WPAG) on the UHF band was on the air from 1954 to 1958. A local company had peti tioned the Federal Communi cations Commission to reallo cate a station. Wolverine Morningstar Broadcasting Co. intends to file for the alloca tion before the spring of 1974. President Gershom Morning- star told The News. The earliest the station would be on the air would be February or March of 1975, according to Morningstar. Al location of station to a par ticular company is usually made from three to six months after filing. The construction of a trans mitter and antenna lakes from four to six months, the president said. He said sever al sites are under considera tion for the tower and the studio. "We will be a very powerful station with more power than the average UHF station and with a higher antenna than the average UHF station. ” Morningstar said the station will have a regional signal that is expected to cover 50 per cent of the state's popula tion by reaching into Wayne, Livingston. Ingham, Jackson, Hillsdale. Lenawee and Mon roe counties as well as Washt enaw The signal should go as far as Lansing. Jackson and Toledo, Morningstar said "Our intention is to engage in heavy community service programming as the financial situation permits once we get rolling. Ann Arbor needs a voice which reaches every body in the area, the people’s voice through the power of TV. All people have a right, radical and reactionary. “While it is obvious that no commercial station can exist on a total diet of community service programming we will serve as an effective voice of the community," Morningstar said. Other types of program ming will include substantial amounts of entertainment and sports, he said. “We have resisted the ap proaches of two networks be cause we felt it might sacri fice community service pro gramming," the president said. Morningstar said he could not divulge the sites under consideration for the tower at this time. "We are not shov ing anything down anybody's throat. Too many times a bus iness approaches a communi ty with a sense of arrogance. We are doing it with a sense of humility. Our watchword is service not dictation.” There was no VHF (Very High Frequency) allocation available in this area but the distinction has become virtu ally meaningless, according to Morningstar. The UHF indus try became profitable in 1972. he said. The local businessman said no one else had sought a sta tion for Ann Arbor in recent years because nobody be lieved it could be done. The problems in finding a station and having it reallocated are complex, Morningstar said The situation with the new station now will be different than the previous local effort because there is better than 911 per cent UHF saturation now compared to the 11 per cent when WPAG Channel 20 went off the air, he said. Morningstar described the company as a locally owned and operated communication and commercial broadcasting production company. It has no operations at this time. The vice president is James Mulli- son, a broadcast engineer. The other officer is Richard Huggard. a human relations consultant. Morningstar is a syndics consultant (study of creative processes applied to groups). fect sion. is Hospital was and mobile phen had 1,000 Tuesday causes back classification and Abbeduto conclusion will new the said 343 for 3.365 township. re-elected getters followed lips, Weaver, Schenk, his four-year who 264 years. cilman Ann Arbor’s nonreturnable beverage container ordinance, which has been in a state of legal limbo for more than five months, was to go to trial to day in Washtenaw County Cir cuit Court. The results of the trial may determine the fate of the con troversial ordinance, ostensi bly intended to reduce the vo lume of public litter and re fuse but attacked as a "thinly disguised form of prohibition" against the use of all disposa ble soft drink and beer bottles and cans in Ann Arbor. Judge Edward D. Deake will hear the case, scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. today and expected to take from three to five days for testimo ny from witnesses and attor neys' arguments. Approved by City Council in March, the ordinance was to take effect on June 1. But a lawsuit filed by a group of re tail grocers in the city chal lenging the legality of the lo cal law halted its implementa tion pending the outcome of the trial. Based on the allegations contained in the suit. Deake signed a temporary restrain ing order against the ordi nance preventing it from yet being implemented The suit contends that the ordinance merchants the nance Michigan. the illegal businesses suit nance to turn containers for lected sold, tainer dealer. containers some Bottle-Can On Circuit
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- Ann Arbor News
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Nov, 7 1973 - Page 3