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Dermot ColeBIG CHANGES are in store for KUAC radio and TV over thenext year.First off, starting on Oct. 18,Alaska Day, KUAC-TV plans tobegin its statewide Alaska One broadcasting service. The officialstartlirsdieihileil Mov: 1.The TV signal from UAF will be carried in Juneau and Bethel and be available via satellite throughout rural Alaska, said station manager Jerry Brigham.The “Alaska One” broadcast day will start at 6:15 a.m. with amorning exercise show followed by a morning business report, then by shows for kids at lt;a.m.The station will have a new logo with the service, which was developed in response to budget cuts from the state Legislature. This will be the first statewide TV broadcast operation based inFairbanks.Before long any community inAlaska will be able to put up a small dish and a transmitter or a translator station and have bothpublic radio and TV from the satellite.Starting early in 199b, Brigham said, KUAC hopes to begin ‘24-hour TV service, broadcasting a variety of university telecourses in the early morning hours. The idea is that people can use VCRs to tape the classes, so they can be awake when theywatch them ___ON THE RADIO SIDE, a$178,000 federal grant will give KUAC-FM a much more powerful signal by late next summer when a new transmitter tower and antenna is to be installed on Ester Dome. It will be about 800 feet higher than the old low-land tower and carry a signal of 38,000 watts, up from 10,000. With that increase, people as far away as Fort Yukon and beyond Nenana should beable to hear KUAC directlyAs part of that change, KUAC will shift its frequency from 104.7 to 89.9 on the FM dial, a frequency more commonly used bypublic stations.In the meantime, KUAC radiois already rebroadcast during certain hours in Valdez. It is to soon to be picked up in I alkeetna, McGrath, Galena and perhapsother communities.Brigham said the new approach to public broadcasting inAlaska is not what he would have preferred because it means a loss of local programming for the stations elsewhere, but KUAC will be at the heart of the “most updated and technologically challenging system in the wholenation.”
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Fairbanks Daily News Miner
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Mon, Sep 25, 1995
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