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Start Free Trial NowTitle: UHF station may go back on air, selectmen are told
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three-hour meeting with an as tion, prefacing it by conceding long-overdue discipline Wash- UHF station may go back on air, selectmen are told REHOBOTH, MASS. - A number of persons are interested in putting Providence’s first UHF television station back on the air, Harold Arcaro, Providence attor ney and owner of the former station WNET told the Board of Selectmen last night. At the same time, he denied allegations that his UHF tower on Pine Street is in dangerous condition or that he has no Federal Com munications Commission license for it. Arcaro appeared before the board in response to its request for a report on his plans for .the old tower, which stopped send ing out a TV signal about 16 years ago when the short-lived station went off the air The selectmen had written Arcaro after receiving a com- LNG plant endorsement is scored FALL RIVER, Mass. - City Councilor John Medeiros yester day filed a resolution asking the council to condemn the Chamber of Commerce's recent endorse ment of a planned New England Liquefied Natural Gas Co. plant off Bay Street in the South End. He described the Chamber’s position as "callous, supine and totally unconcerned for the lives and safety of thousands of Fall plaint from Art Bone, chief engi neer of station WPRI, whose TV tower is located not far from Arcaro's. Bone had said the UHF tower is a navigational hazard because it has no lights, it is rusty, its guy wire bolts are coming loose, and there is no fence around it to keep the public out. Bone also had said there was no license for the tower, and that it was therefore not subject to federal inspection. Arcaro said he had been ill and was upset to learn of Bone’s statements about the tower's be ing unlicensed and dangerous because they were not true. He said his permit to operate a UHF station had never been revoked although the FCC had changed his assigned frequency from Channel 16 to Channel 64 after assigning 16 for use as an FM citizen's band. He offered to furnish the board with evidence of his license. In answer to a question, he said he was uncer tain whether the FCC had in spected the tower lately When WNET first went on the air as Providence’s only UHF station, he said, few people could receive UHF and programming for the limited audience was Equal billing sought on bills for city taxes NEWPORT — Councilwoman Lillian R Gee believes the School costly. As a result, the station folded and the owners lost $340,000, he said. In 1965, he took over all the assets, including the station and 14 acres of land, located with the tower on Pine Street. Since then, he said, he had acquired another 10 acres from an abutter, making a total of 24 acres at the site. Now many people own sets equipped to receive UHF, and a number of persons have ex pressed to him an interest in taking over his UHF facility and operating it, he said. Asked later about the possibility of the sta tion’s going back on the air, he declined to elaborate except to say his UHF outlet might func tion as a satellite station to one of the Kaiser UHF stations now operating in Boston Regarding the condition of the tower, Arcaro said he had in spected it and noticed rust but found "absolutely no danger." “I’ll back you up on that," said Selectman Joseph F Carter, who said he too had inspected the tower. But Carter added the board was concerned about the hazard posed by the tower for small planes in the area. Arcaro said that the UHF property had been plagued by vandals and he had difficulty finding qualified people.to work on the tower but that he was attempting to arrange for a Bos ton firm to take on the job.
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- Evening Bulletin
- Providence, Rhode Island
- May, 10 1977 - Page 8