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miiiiii'iiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiwiiiiiiiiTi mr imintiinirim iniiiiiiiniiiiiiiriiiiiiiMiiiiiiiMitiiiiMnnwwiiiMiiiiitiMiMOTiiiMWiiiiirwiiiitii mi inii nnmniwr MtiiniiiiiitiiiMiiiiiiit'iMimiiiiTMiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiMMiiiinMiiiMiriiiriiiiiiniiiiiiiic=KBLU-TV Request To Hike Visual Power Is OpposedTele\ ision station Kl\ A has til* elt;\ another petition with the Kelt;l* oral Communications Commission lt;FCCi in opjMsition to a l'\f appli-ration by KBLC-TV Hie new a|plication beinj4 protected seeks! permission to raise the visual |ow-jer of KB1 Af*TV fn»m kilowatts to 1122 kilowatts.Prev iouslv KIV A has tiled prtv• 4k ’tests to KBIJ f-TV * applications for a 50 per cent change in ownership, anti for additional time in which10 construct the new station.In the present petition, KIVA says, *\ . .the added revenue ho|ed\e obtained as a m uh of this increase would intensify the ruinous economic competition with which Valley Telecasting Company (KIVA* is threatened and would therein accelerate KIVA s demise/ 1tree felevisit*nTht proiest pi'edict* tht end of I and unexpected. Wt (eel that for ly in he hand* lt;d ’he FO» sn the\ Dina area, if KIU.I^IV t1 le^ertBroadcasting* is granted greater ]power. Iiecatise of tht* restricted eov erage of Desert * promised station, say s the protest ‘1) e s e r t would not have access to thoserevenue sources which barely support KIVA. Therefore, the demiseof I k s ert s television station wouldoon follow. I'hus ultimately the tirant ot the instant application wt*uld eventually cause the deprivation ot die entire Yuma area ol all Itnal television service/*Bob Crites. who will manage KBLlTV, said today, 4 I feel thatT- * •” Q/r fthese protests are most unfair, coming not at tlie time we first applied for the station permit, butat a time when we are readv tobuild. The financial burden at this moment *of the protests and the delay thev eau^et is l*th la rueValley Teletasting Company, which operates both KIVA arid the cable TV sn stern, to stand in theway ol new, free television Nation is m»t in tlit* interest of thet oimnumtvIi Kl\ A were tiit* only businessconducted by Valley Telecasting wt* could better understand a pix test. But it is ob\ious that the sue* cess of the cable TV svsteni is ha set I on a lumtetl amount of 1 ret* TV Immiii* available to the viewers With two ‘fret* TV Ma-tiins on the air w II no daibt le harder to sell subscriptions to the cable system. But we do not propose to le in competition with the cable. We will compete with KIVA for advertising revenue. Weusuccessful on!v e i *something for sale that i* neededHe said the matter is complete*
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Yuma Sun
Yuma, Arizona, US
Thu, Jun 06, 1963
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Sammi B.
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