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★ ★ ★ there and function conditions. I affairs °as business—in way. even must the has some job in However, continue with board Banks, Director. Carlsbad date Mexico's TOWER LOCATION SOOGHTBY STATE From Page One jections by interested parties. If no valid objections are raised by July 15, the channel assign ment will become final and the education department will be free to proceed with construc tion of the transmitter. > “Our staff will be working closely with the school superin tendents, Sam McConnell and Bennie Carmichael, and other school and civil "leaders who share goi interest in finding the best possible site for the tower and studio," Ward declared. McConnell is superintendent of Hamilton County schools and chairman of the Tristate ETV Council, which has worked for years dor establishment of an educational television station at Chattanooga. The Bike of the area to be served by the Chattanooga sta tion can’t be determined until the tower site is selected, Warf declared. “A month’s engineering will be involved to determine the full broadcasting . range," he said “The engineer has to figure into his calculations such things as the site, the antenna height, the power the station will operate on, and the antenna gain.” A number o& steps are in' volved in clearing the way for a transmitter and tower con struction. The site and height of the .tower must be approved by the Tennessee Aeronautics Commission and the Federal Aviation Agency. After that has been obtained, the education department must go back to the FCC for a con struction permit. Meanwhile the education de partment will apply for a fed eral grant as soon as cost esti mates on the Chattanooga sta tion are complete. Federal assistance is avail able to the states under the edu cational TV faculties act, which provides grants for purchase of certain types of equipment. The money is offered on a dollar- for-dollar b§sis up to $1 million for each state. Tennessee already has re ceived grants totaling $512,296 for stations, leaving a maxi mum $487,704 available for con struction of stations at Chatta nooga, Cookeville and Lexing ton. In authorizing the education al TV network in 1963, the Tennessee Legislature appro priated $1,500,000 for sites, con struction and equipment. A bal ance of $930,000 remains from this appropriation, and the 1965 legislature added $1,750,000 for construction and equipment purchases during 1 the" two-year period which began Thursday. The first Ferris wheel high lighted the 1893 Chicago Exposi tion.
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- Chattanooga Times Free Press
- Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Jul, 2 1965 - Page 12