Longview News-Journal from Longview, Texas • Page 233

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1983, Longviiw Morning Journal 13-11 Staff photo bj Ricky, Rumll SITE OF NEW TELEVISION STATION'S OFFICES, STUDIOS I Old elementary school will be renovated, used as broadcasting facility. Longview's new TV station due on air in summer as CBS affiliate Builder Members Of The East Texas Builders Association Are Helping Longview To Grow By Building Quality Homes With Quality Workmanship! Associate Members Of The East Texas Builders Association Offer Great Home Products And Services! would result in coverage from Diboll in Angelina County north past the Red River into Oklahoma. In addition to the counties served by Longview-based KLMG, counties served by the other stations would include Delta, Fannin, Franklin, Hopkins, Lamar, Red River, Titus, Trinity, Collin, Cooke, Denton and Grayson in Texas, as well as Bryan, Johnston, Love, Carter, Choctaw, and Marshall in Oklahoma. Other officers of KLMB-TV Iiic. include Vice President Mel Lewis, vice president and resident manager of E.F.

Hutton in Longview and Kilgore; Secretary Ste-phen McDaniel, attorney with Sharp Ward Ross McDaniel and Starr; and Treasurer Marjorie Wolff of (Builder and Associated Working Oogetlier Longview. HEMITEMnE to Officers 1 Longview's first television station in almost 30 years -KLMG-TV, Channel 51 will go on the air this summer as a network affiliate of CBS Inc. Officials of the proposed UHF station reached an agreement with CBS in late December, saying they planned strong emphasis on local and regional news as well as offering network programming. The station received a boost in November when the Longview City Council approved some $6 million in tax-free revenue bonds to fund constructipn of KLMG's facilities. According to Mrs.

Clara McLaughlin, president of KLMB-TV the station's parent company, Channel 51 will be housed in the former Rollins Elementary School building on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The structure offers 18,000 square feet of studio and office space and will require some $300,000 to renovate the building for use by KLMG. "We are looking forward to joining the number one network in presenting the best possible combination of local, regional and network news, sports, and entertainment," said Mrs. McLaughlin, who formerly hosted a talk show on a Houston TV station.

In February 1982, the Federal Communications Commission granted a construction permit for Channel 51, which will serve 20 counties in Northeast Texas. Included in the station's service area will be Gregg, Harrison, Upshur, Panola, Smith, Anderson, Angelina, Camp, Cherokee, Henderson, Houston, Hunt, Marion, Nacogdoches, Rains, Rusk, Shelby. Van Zandt and Wood counties. The Longview station's tower site is located near Arp in Smith County, and will be 1,749 feet above mean sea level. According to figures supplied the City Council, KLMG's cost for equipment, land and improvements is $5.7 million.

Initially the station will have 41 employees, including 15 in news, 12 in operations, seven in sales and seven in administration. In announcing its agreement with CBS station Directors fflHEAHTY 202 Mart Highway 10 Whit Oak 1974011 President Vice President Secretary-Treasurer Executive Officer Jim Heslep Glen Berry Sid Clyburn Jimmie Dunagan David Yowell Carroll Harris Jim Gartrell Dee Gray Paul Strickland Bob Stricklin Roger Lockridge Larry Bennett Robert Harper Don Morgan James Kilpatrick Qrowincj witk Jlonqview a 1 the Surrounding area. Jhanh jou for helping to. make our first near a tremendous Suc- officials also revealed plans for a proposed "East Texas Television Network that would see KLMG af filiate with three other East and North Texas TV sta EAST TEXAS BUILDERS ASSOCIATION 2810 Bill Owens Parkway 759-9410 tions with a potential audience of 428,900 families in cess. 37 Texas and Oklahoma counties.

Directors of KLMB-TV Inc. have obtained a signed agreement to purchase FCC permits from three pro posed stations Channel 19, an NBC station in Nacog doches, Channel 20 in Sherman-Denison, and Channel 42 in Paris. The directors are seeking FCC approval an network affiliation for all the stations. Cobb's Southwest Electric Inc. Proudly Announces Completion of the Following Projects Vm MWVVf Mill.

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