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Page 8/The Battalion/Wednesday, May 9, 1984
Television
Local viewers to get low-power option
By Catherine Campbell
Reporter
The Bryan-College Station
area will get a new television sta
tion within a year. This will be
the third local television station
to serve the Brazos area.
A New York-based, non
profit organization that special
izes in television production.
Global Village Video Resource
Center, has been awarded a
construction permit by the Fed
eral Communications Commis
sion to build a low-power tele
vision station (LPTV).
The television station will
broadcast a variety of commer
cial programming on Channel
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12, the executive director for
Global Village, John Reilly said
Thu rsday.
Global Village is best noted
lor its series and individual pro-
grams produced for public tele
vision, PBS.
Reilly said the station plans to
offer the community some al
ternatives to programming al
ready offered in the area.
*‘We have yet to decide the
exact mix of programming,”
Reilly said, “but we plan to take
a survey of the community to
find out what type of program
ming is already serving the
community.
“The fancy word in broadcast
is ascertainment which means
we go in and do research (in the
community) to find out what it
is that people want to watch.”
Reilly said there are two gen
eral prinicipals behind the
LPTV stations: to give a sense
of local identity by committing
to a set number of broadcast
hours and to examine the
schedules of other stations in
the community before deter
mining what type of program
ming to committee to.
Reilly said the LPTV pro
grams span a wide range of
choices and that these choices
determine the look of the sta
tion, either a local style or a net
work finish. Reilly said the
range also includes music pro
gramming and that Channel 12
could take on music television
format similar to MTV but with
a local flavor specializing in lo
cal concerts.
“I’d like to stress one point
and that is to give the station a
local identity,” Reily said. “That
would be the one overriding
consideration — to give people
what it is they want to watch.
“Alternative programming is
programming that’s different
from what is being offered right
now,” Reilly said. “And what we
plan is tp be willing to take more
chances in terms of new formats
and new ideas.”
There is a possibility that
Channel 12 could become a net
work affiliate with either ABC
or NBC, Reilly said, although
no definite steps have been
taken to make the station a local
affiliate. Reilly speculated that
perhaps in three or four years,
it might become a network af-
fliate.
Unlike traditional television
stations, LPTV stations offer a
limited transmitting power and
as a result reaches a smaller au
dience but a much lower cost.
LPTV station signals can
cover areas of 10 to 25 miles,
depending upon the area’s ter
rain. And an LPTV station costs
about $100,000 to put on the
air, rather than the $1 million
or more it would cost a tradi
tional station.
An LPTV staff ranges be
tween 10 and 15 people, Reilly
said. The position of station
ill
manager will probably be filled
by someone from Global Vil
lage, Reilly said, but it is possi
ble that station manager could
be hired from Bryan or College
Station.
Reilly said he wants fill the
staff by hiring local broadcast
professionals and students.
Reilly said anyone interested in
applying for positions at Chan
nel 12, should send their re
sumes to: John Reilly, Global
Village, 454 Broome st., N.Y.,
N.Y., 10013.
Harry Gillam, general man
ager for KBTX-TV (Channel
3), said he thinks the scope of
coverage available to Channel
12 will be limited because LPTV
stations have limited access.
Gillam said he thinks the
Bryan-College Station-area will
present a real challenge to the
new station because the area is
so heavily cableized.
“There’s the challenge
these low-power stations is
to
to
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competing with otherssiiiapilointed las
like to think we offeralte: dfjeers to h
programs.”
Chastain said he
LPTV station is going tol
the community be beterstij
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going to he better servedB
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serve them.” |K /
Reilly, who is alsothehcB
the National Institute forll
Power TV, predicts thattfl United Pr
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time. Instead of selling Hcks the ti
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First Brigade has set garters ol
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