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Educational TelevisionChanges Are AnnuncedBeginning today, educational television will reach Cache Valley by means of a “translator” on Channel 12.Last January the State Board of Higher Education adopted a operates set of recommendations for ETV the powlt; in Utah which had been prepared by the Utah Joint Committee on Educationalhas been completed and Cache Valley viewers will be able tocontinue receiving ETV programs by tuning to Channel 12. The translator, however,Television. Among the recommendations was one calling for the discontinuance of KUSU-TV as an originating transmitting station, and that Cache Valley would instead receive educational television through a VHF translator carrying the Channel 7 schedule of programs.Also recommended, however, was that Utah State University would continue to function as a first class production center for educational television programs which would be fed into thestatewide system by means of ywmicrowave.Installation of the translator• output of the present transmitter; hence, an outside antenna will be necessary in order to pick up the signal, according to Dr. Burrell Hansen, director of Radio-Television atUSU.Those viewers who are at present receiving the Salt Lake City television stations directly by means of VHF antennas should have no difficulty picking up the Channel 12 translatorsince it is located on Mt. Pisgah on a direct line between Logan and the Salt Lake transmitters. For those viewers who are getting the Salt Lake City channels via the UHF translators, however, a new outsidenecessary.During the time KUSU-TV has been on the air a specially prepared program schedule was regularly mailed to viewers. Since the Channel 12 translator will henceforth carry the entire KUED schedule, no further KUSU-TV Program Guides arebeing published. Viewers may follow the KUED printed schedules in newspapers and magazines, or they may write to KUED, Salt Lake City for their monthly printed guide.“The telephone calls, the letters and personal comments from the Cache Valley friends of Channel 12 during the past six years that KUSU-TV has been on the air have been a genuine and abiding source of encouragement to the staff,” said Dr. Hansen.‘‘It has been a greatsatisfaction to all of us to havebeen a part of the developmentsin ETV over these years, and to observe how viewer interest and support has grown. We shall surely miss our direct television contact with our many friends in this area. We are happy, however, that the translator makes possible a continuing service of public television here, and that those who enjoy the many splendid programs which are now a constant offering of our public and educational television system may continue to benefit from them via a new and translated Channel 12,” he added.
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The Herald Journal
Logan, Utah, US
Sun, Nov 15, 1970
Page 4
Full Page
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