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Channel 3Blank AfterMarion Quits!No immediate plans are being made to replace Marion Channel 31 (Cable 3) on the Logans-port Cable system, according to Manager Frank Delia.WTAF-TV in Marion suspended. its broadcasting activities last week Mowing a meeting of stockholders. The station then wired the Federal Communications Commission asking per-, mission to suspend operation of the station temporarily. It halted operation at 5 p.m. Friday.In seeking the approval to halt operation the station said it, “can not do justice to our new network affiliation and local program service need with present physical facility.” It also stated, “operating losses impair the ability of the licensee to operate in the public interest.”The station filed a voluntary!!1tpetition under a chapter of the Federal Bankruptcy Act on Feb. 26 in the Fort Wayne Court. The petition asks the court to deter-jt mine a solution to the petitioner's financial difficulties.Delia said the local cable company would have to look into the matter before making a decision on whether to add another station to the local system.” “This all comes as a complete surprise to all of us,” Delia said. “We’ll just have to wait and see.”It has been reported that it could be from six months to a year before any action could be taken on getting channel 31 back (a on the air. 1l
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Logansport Pharos Tribune and Press
Logansport, Indiana, US
Tue, Mar 18, 1969
Page 11
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