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% #fc-c1!I*1This is the artist’s conception of how the Street and 3rd Avenue. Transmitter will be kept at the old« • • « t i i rtn j i • # i • « « i • it. *THE „ look. The station is being moved location eight milesand will be located at the southeast comer of 13thKIVA To Pack BagsAnd Move to YumaKIVA,whose studios have.perched in the desert wastelands iof California for the pa^t eight years, is coming to Yuma. |Feeling like they were another industry arriving here, station executives announced plans to build their new studio and offices at the j intersection of 13th Street and 3rd Avenue. The building, containing some 9,000 square feet of floor space, will be on the southeast comer and will face the Highway Patrol headquarters.Bruce Merrill, who became pres-' dent of Valley Telecasting 'KIVA' earlier this week, stated that work was expected to start soon andj construction will take approximately s'\ nvnths. The presentstudios eight miles west of here will he retained as the transmitter. Program^ from the new studiowill he beamed to the tranmitter I via microwave.The new building will he a combination of KIVA and Antenna vis-on with space being provided for the four microwave channel.s be-! ing brought into Yuma for cable TV! Merrill explained that “ . weire commg in to better serve the Yuma community from a central location and make our studios m »re accessible to the public. Roger Van Duzer. vice presidentKite hell-Phillips of Phoenix. There will be ample parking facilitieswith the lot stretching 200 feetalong 3rd Avenue and 130 feet on 13th Street. The new studio is to be one-third as large as the old one and other departments are especially designed for the needs of KIVA.ENTER NOW!No purchoto nKiiwryto win,Nothing to think up.SWEEPSTAKES. . a booutifyl chtjtnyf colt1000 2ND PRIZESWtttinghowt* 7-Trontittor Portobia RADIOSand general manager of the station. stated that the new facilitie*ASX ABOUT (Rexali)would be one of the finest and mo*\ modem TV' and antennavis-ion plants in Arizona.Design of the new building Is by Donald T. Van Ess, architect, of Scottsdale. The contractor will beSUPER PLENAMINSlo'gttt Sttt'fipVriamif-MintrafProdwcffwoopitoktt iml
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Yuma Sun
Yuma, Arizona, US
Sun, Mar 12, 1961
Page 9
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