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(Continued from page I) broadcast in Anchorage. McConnell said becoming a translator would be expensive, would result in the loss of federal funds and might hurt the station’s ability to raise money.For television, the Alascom tariff for sending a signal from Anchorage to Fairbanks for a 10 hour-day would be $36,000 per month, or $432,000 a year. McConnell esti mated that it would cost an addi tional $160,000 per year for prog ram rights fees paid to distributors, principally the Public Broadcasting System. As a translator station KUAC also no longer would be eligible for federal funds, meaning a loss of $300,000 for the television station.“KUAC has had the highest per capita prime time viewing audience of any station in the country for four consecutive years and KUAC-TV’s annual festival produced double the amount of money per viewing house than any other station in the country,” Barsdate said. “Judging from that kind of support, eliminating KUAC will have an extreme impact on the community.”The task force found that KUAC-TV is a high-quality PBS broadcasting station but does not necessarily serve as a university TV station.“Shutting down KUAC because it does not provide enough instruction would be like taking all the books out of the library that aren't textbooks,” McConnell said.Public television as part of a university is not new, McConnell said. KUAC is one of 53 colleges and universities in the country that have public broadcasting stations.
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Fairbanks Daily News Miner
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Wed, Jul 30, 1986
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