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KORK-TV resumes Tuesday, March 14, 1972—Las Vegas Review-Journal-r5 full broadcasting ByNedra Joyce R-J Stall Writer Rising like the mythical Phoe nix from the ashes after a dis astrous $3 million fire just one week ago to the day, KORK-TV, Channel 3, returned to the air waves Monday. Beginning with partial NBC network programming and a local newscast in the evening, the station was expected to resume full broadcasting Tuesday from facilities leased at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. KORK General Manager Bob Ordonez praised the round-the- clock efforts by 50 employes, plus help from dozens of other indivi duals and firms. As KORK was once more beaming into the homes of thou sands of viewers, Ordonez said plans for rebuilding the station at Desert Inn Road and the Boulder Highway were already under way. The Board of Regents Friday had approved thelease of a studio on the first floor of the newly- completed Humanities Building, where station personnel installed a $25,000 lighting system. The system will remain with the uni versity as KORK’s payment after the lease runs out Aug. 15. The station went bade on the air through the use of a remote unit bus, leased from Mobile Color Inc. of Austin, Tex. The bus, Delta is your fastest way to Atlanta and all the Southeast TRANSMITTER—KORK-TV-3 went back on the air Monday thanks in part to a new transmitter installed in this trailer near the undamaged tower at the burned- out Desert Inn Road building. A bus containing control room equipment operates just outside the new studio at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. standing just outside the new studio, contains the control room and other equipment. Channel 3’s key piece of equip ment — the transmitter — was destroyed by the blaze. A new transmitter, purchased in Springfield, Mo., was installed in a trailer near the tower at the bumed-out Desert Inn building. The tower was not damaged. KORK has also leased three color cameras from Mobile Color, because it lost all but one camera in the fire. The amazingly quick rebirth, after earlier predictions that the station might remain black for several weeks, was attributed by Ordonez to “a great’team spirit.” “It was totally unbelievable the fire could have ever happened,” he said. “But it’s equally unbelie vable people could do so much to get us back on and never com plain.” “We’re grateful for every body’s help,” Ordonez said. “The response to our needs have been overwhelming, both locally and across the nation, by other broad casters. He thanked the regents and UNLV for permitting KORK to use its facilities, and singled out Central Telephone Co., the Asso ciated Press and Nevada Power Co. for installing needed equip ment so rapidly. “They had to do the impossible . and they did it,” he said. Other assistance had come from engineers flown in from Ft. Smith, Ark., home of the Donrey Media Group, and the sister sta tion, KOLO-TV in Reno, he said. Channel 10, the school district educational television station, had also helped by assisting in cleaning and drying two com plete filmlibraries, Ordonez said. Ordonez noted the situation had not been without humor, pointing to a message sent over an NBC teletype which read: “Please check fire ex tinguishers — KORK and KVIQ (a Eureka, Calif, station which also recently sustained a less costly fire). Matter of fact, all stations, please check fire ex tinguishers. Can’t afford to lose anymore stations. Ratings are bad enough now.” Ordonez said the night of the fire the station's answering serv ice was beseiged with calls such Channel 3 listed KORK Channel 3 pro gramming schedules appear in Tuesday’s TV log, page 18. UntO KORK returns to full program scheduling the log is subject to change without no tice. as that from one woman, who, having been told the station was off because it was burning, res ponded: “Well, then why don’t they announce it on the air? ” The cause of the fire was listed by firemen as stemming from hot air trapped in a second-story storage room where combustibles such as films and scripts were kept. With a population of 618,000, North Dakota is the 15 th most populous state. In 1950 it ranked 41st.
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- Las Vegas Review-Journal
- Las Vegas, Nevada
- Mar, 14 1972 - Page 5