The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 161

To meet the expense, the committee suggested that KET get two per cent of all Minimum Foundation funds each year. The suggestion was given a cool reception by most state educators. "Their attitude hit at the heart of the problem," says a committee member. "The school people want KET, but don't want to pay for it. They want to milk the cow, but want Frankfort to feed it." The Minimum Foundation suggestion is not popular with Press, either.

"That might give us more money to work with," he says, "but we would still be tied to annual budgeting, and what we need is assurance of funds for two or three years ahead, so we can do long-range planning. When we start a three-year film production, we keep our design people busy the first year, then our lion going to pay bonded debt, $1.1 million for matching funds for equipment in schools, and $4.2 million to operate the network. I THINK the future looks sound, says Press. "There is no resistance to our programs. I think we've gotten over the original awkwardness with Frankfort.

Our public affairs programs Kentucky Magazine, Comment on Kentucky, Distinguished Kentuckians and others are growing in audience. "We have to avoid stagnation. We've got to make sure we're constantly improving the programs we take into the schools. We're still reaching just about half of the students. We have to do twice that well before we consider our program well begun." production people, then others.

But if we don't know that we can afford to go from one project to the next, we can't keep our people busy, and have to let them go as soon as one job is done, and then hope to get them back when another job is ready and financed. It's an awful waste of money and talent." There are other money needs. Two years ago, the Kentucky Association of School Administrators urged Press to expand his services to high schools, and to give more attention to maintenance of equipment in the schools. Reception is often poor in deep hollows, and there are seldom enough repairmen on hand to get receivers working quickly. Today KET has 13 transmitters and six translators that pick up the transmitted signal and rebroadcast it.

Each transmitter is maintained by three full-time engineers who use Jeeps to travel over the rough terrain in Kentucky. The system is connected by microwave links leased from the Bell Telephone Co. Theoretically, the network reaches Kentucky's 3.5 million people; in practice, fewer than a third have ever seen a KET program, partly because not all TV sets get the UHF (ultra-high frequency) signal, partly because there are areas of poor reception that current transmitters don't reach. The KET operation is run by 160 employees, 41 of whom are assigned to transmitters in the field, and another eight of whom are constantly conferring with teachers and school officials. For the current two-year period, KET has a budget of $10.3 million, with $1.2 mil Knotted Braid and a Fashion Wedge Well-heeled Rope 'n leather Uj fcf.

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