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By VALCOOPER Farmington city councilmen appeared satisfied Tuesdaynight that officials are doingeverything possible to eliminate problems that developed on the cable system with the arrival of the newKIVA television station, after officials of both organizations appeared at the parley.The KIVA signal is received on Channel 10 onTeiePrompTer's cable visionAt tho lut comet] mooting it was reported that complaints had been received about the quality of the KIVA picture on the cable and about program interruption. It alao had been reported that petitions were being circulated protesting thereception for presentation atTuesday night's meeting, but none were.Jerry Proctor, manager of KIVA, laid both complaints in the lap of the cable company. Proctor also brought to the meeting what he called probably a “cheaper (tv) set than any of you (councilmen) have in your homes, with rabbit ears, and got what councilmen called a “very good picture,” on Channel 12.Proctor said he bought the set to see if Councilman Jimmy Drake could tell the men from the girls, chiding Drake for a negative comment he made to that effect about the new station at the last meeting.“That's good,” Drake shot back when the picture came on, I can even almost tell the men from the women on my set now.Proctor went on to say that of the nearly 350 people who attended an open house at KIVA over the weekend, not a single person complained about the reception on Channel12, but there were numerous complaints from people viewing It on ChanMl \0.T1he cable people have boon working very hand to dear upthe problems,” said Proctor, they are not deliberately degrading our system. We are both working very hard to correct” the problems.Dick Pecotte, manager of the cable station and John Taylor, chief engineer, agreedwith Proctor and said in mostinstances, it’s a problem of fine tuning on the cable sets. Pecotte said in the last two days “fantastic progress had been made in attempts to bring the cable vision signal up to standard. He also took the responsibility for interruptingnetwork programs on Channel 4 and said he had given orders that once the program had started, it was not to be blanked out. The blanking out of Channel 4 network programs presently is being done manually, Pecotte explained, until automated equipment, which has been on order months, arrives.Mayor Boyd Scott displayed a letter in which he said thewriter wanted to know why the city let an out-of-state television firm locate in Farmington. He replied that the city has no licensing power or authority over either KIVA or TelePrompter, except for the franchise the latter has for use of the city power poles. He went on to explain that the Federal Communications Commission controls the airwaves and the signals that go out over them.Whtta the city has no jurisAction over the tv stations, Mayor Scott said the council meeting was a “good fmim to try to get the people informed.”Proctor explained that the FCC has a non-duplication requirement that cablevision must blank out a network program being carried by a local station, upon request of the latter. Proctor said five unsuccessful requests were made of KOB (Channel 4) in Albuquerque for permission to rebroadcast their network signal, making it necessary to go the more costly route of bringing the signal in from Denver. Consequently, Proctor said, some of the programs are now received in a little different order than they used to be on Channel 4. One of them about which many calls had been received, Proctor said, was “Days of Our Lives, which used to be seen on Channel 4 at 12:30 pjn., and is now seen on Channel 10 at 2:30 p.m.(Related story on Page 3.)
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Farmington Daily Times
Farmington, New Mexico, US
Wed, Dec 13, 1972
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