Rosts increasing
miMU-TV needs more local donations to stay on the air
THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1979
Page 5
By LEIGH McLEROY
r • ■ Battalion Reporter
It takes local support, and a lot of
it J keep a public broadcasting
television station on the air and
Texas A&M University s KAM U-TV
option.
-TV is partially funded by
rom the Corporation for
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$80 000 this year, and Jean
Herbert-Wiesenburg, promotion
and development coordinator for
the station, says program costs are
increasing. “Shows that cost $50,000
last year are now costing $70,000 to
$75,000,” Wiesenburg said.
With increasing costs and a tight
budget, local donations are vital to
KAMU. “At this point, KAMU is
not acquiring the full Corporation
for Public Broadcasting funds we
could be getting, because local do
nations are low and the 50 percent
rule must be adhered to,” said Mel
Chastain, director of the Univer
sity’s educational broadcast serv
ices.
KAM U-TV programming is seen
on Channel 15 on the UHF dial and
cable in Brenham, Bryan-
College Station, Caldwell, Hearne,
Lyons, Madisonville and Some
rville. It reaches an estimated
29,000-30,000 television households
with daily newscasts and a variety of
PBS programs, aside form the sta
tion’s teaching functions.
Battalion photo by Clay Cockrill
talked about streamlining their duties and in
tensifying efforts to increase Mexican-
American and black voter registration.
retary of State George Strake Jr. spoke
Wednesday to a district and county clerk’s
seminar at Texas A&M University, where he
^Legislature should streamline
pjJounty clerk duties, Strake says
The University budget supplies
money to pay salaries of station per
sonnel who, in addition to teaching,
act as producers, directors,
cameramen and technicians. Little
money from the budget is applied to
the daily operation costs of the sta
tion, however. Therefore, the pub
lic’s help is needed.
A lot of attention has been fo
cused recently on the $29,000
needed by Aug. 31 to keep
KAM U-TV radio on the air. The sta
tion is well on its way to that goal,
with $21,000 so far.
“We’ve come a long way toward
our goal for the radio station. But, at
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this time, we need funds for televi
sion as critically, if not more criti
cally, than we do for the radio,”
Chastain said.
In an attempt to raise funds to op
erate KAMU, the station is planning
the first KAMU TV Auction,
scheduled for three nights of prime
time television, April 1-3.
The auction will sell items that
have been donated and apply the
revenue from the sales to the opera
tion of KAMU. Proceeds from the
auction and Festival ’79, two weeks
of special programming aimed at
creating greater interest and sup
port for local public television, will
go toward both FM and TV.
Viewers phone in their pledges for
KAMU during the programming
scheduled for Festival ’79.
The auction has already collected
over $3,000 worth of merchandise,
including a large collection of art
and antiques which will be au
ctioned separately the first night,
April 1.
Donations and workers are still
needed for the auction. Anyone
wishing to help or contribute should
contact Jean Herbert-Wiesenburg
at 845-5611. In addition to the auc
tion, two benefits have been
scheduled for late April.
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Te\as Secretary of State George
_ Jitrab Jr. told a district and county
clerks seminar Wednesday he in
tends to “streamline” their licensing
TION .duties and intensify state efforts to
I homef e 8 ister black and Mexican-
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tor W(|Bi ra k e to ^ gathering at Texas
{_jp S A&M University he is urging the
vouIB 186 of a bill that would move the
licensing of notaries public from the
county level to the secretary of
'ORATK state’s office.
’) Bfefore the Legislature this ses
sion are several bills that would
ikends c ^ an K (: the licensing procedures for
notaries, each one proposing a
.. .y digktly different method.
^B'esently, the licensing of
noiSi H s public is done by county
IIV clerks.
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county clerks will still be involved in
£|§V ^Bprocess, but to a lesser extent.
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lUSeS, Screened by the clerks before
rid, the y apply to the state.
f |B ra ke said the terms for notaries
Hid be increased from two years
to four years under one of the bills.
An informal vote of the delegates
at the seminar backed Strake’s pro
posal.
Sixty-six percent of all eligible
citizens are registered to vote,
Strake said, up from 55 percent in
1965, but the number of blacks reg
istered is still low.
Other than the increased adver
tising, little more can be done to
lure people to register, the secre
tary of state said, adding that the
present system, including registra
tion drives and postage-free regis
tration cards, is often abused.
Strake said there are numerous
fraudulent claims in statewide voter
registration.
He said there are three occasions
with consistently large voter turn
out: presidential elections, bond
elections and elections involving
some form of scandal.
A presidential preference primary
would be one method of drawing
voters to the polls for key state elec
tions, Strake said.
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