The Times from Munster, Indiana • 26

B-10 THE TIMES Sunday, March 10, 1985 Local public station Talking Tots From: Calvin The QUESTION: What's the Coolidgc School, Lansing best movie you've ever seen? is TV group's goal The full impact of television and WT i vn Jenny Smith Timmy James "The Return of the Jedi' was the movie I liked best. The bad guys kept fighting the good guys but in the end, the good guys got the bad guys." Times interviews By SILVIA ASCARELLI Times Staff Writer Munster's Carol Moore has spent six years working toward one goal: getting a public television station in Northwest Indiana. She is treasurer of Northwest Indiana Public Broadcasting a group working to resurrect the old Channel SO as Channel 56. The still-unnamed station would provide Indiana programming to seven counties: Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Starke, Newton, Jasper and Pulaski. It could go on the air as soon as November, she said.

"This area, which has 800,000 people, has no television station," she said. I'm not just talking commercial no television station." It certainly isn't being served by Chicago stations, for which it makes up less than 10 percent of its audience, she said. "Everybody just chooses to look at us as part of Chicago instead of as part of what we are, which is Indiana," she said. "And we tend to look at ourselves as part of Chicago rather than as part of Indiana. We don't know what's happening in Indiana, we don't know what's happening in the rest of the state and the only time there's a hue and cry is when basketball season rolls around." equipment back to us, and we've filed all the paperwork with Washington to have it transfered to us.

And Washington for some reason is stalling. We think part of the problem is they're getting a tot of pressure from WTTW (Channel 11). For some reason TTW thinks we're going to have a negative impact on their audience. QUESTION: Will you be running the same shows? ANSWER: We're not planning on duplicating their broadcasts. There are three channels of PBS broadcasting coming off satellite.

Any given station can only use one in a 24-hour period. It's just a fact of your time logs. So there is a lot of programming TTW is not electing to pick up and available to us. We had planned on using that for the majority of our PBS programming. There may be a few things that we will use that they use.

For example, I'm sure we'll probably use "Sesame Street," but we'll schedule it at a different time. I works for Northwest Indiana's own TV 9 Megan Hay "I like 'Ghostbusters' best because of the little marshmallow man who flew around and did funny things." ONE ON ONE: The Group Northwest Indiana's former kelevision station, WCAE-TV, "Channel SO, went off the air two years ago. A group of area residents have been working quietly to bring a station back to Indiana, yimes Staff Writer Silvia Ascarelli fpoke with Carol Moore, treasurer of the Northwest Indiana Public Broadcasting to learn bow close they are to broadcasting once again. 5 QUESTION: What's happening with Channel 50? ANSWER: First of all, it's not going to be Channel 50, it's going to be Channel 56. We have signed an agreement f-; 'JSmmTi wmcn is nows'''5rl pending before the FCC (Feder al Communica tions Com i -1 sion) to switch frequencies with a commerical group for a variety of We felt it would be beneficial for us to not have that number, 50, so that we didn't have to overcome all that negative image.

Secondly, 50 is the only frequency remaining in the Chicago market that can go on the Sears Tower, and we can't afford to go on the Sears Tower. Besides, if we did, we couldn't serve our designated Indiana market We couldn't get any of Porter County, none of LaPorte County. How could you justify being an Indiana station if that's the kind of coverage you're going to get? So the group that owns the license for Channel 56 approached Us and asked us what we would -1 showing Indiana programs would' help develop identity Northwest Indiana lacks and help break down! the isolations between com-; muni ties and county lines, Moore said. i "Until people start to recognize! there is a greater good, we're cot; going to get very far," she "That's where I think television, comes in. You start putting across; the message that Lake Comitate; worth something, that we're aot the State of Lake or that we really, do have the same problems Jn? Porter County." The group plans to show high; school and college basketball, the.

Indianapolis-based "Indiana! Lawmakers" and similar local programs it would film. One program already in production and being broadcast on US Cable of Northern Indiana and; Porter County Cable is "There Ought to be a Law," she said, Local, state and federal politicians! are interviewed. Purdue and In-; diana basketball and the state, finals of the girls and boys basket-, ball tournaments also are carried by the cable companies. Moore said the group also hopes to carry Big 10 football on its sta-i tion. The goal is to eventually have at least half of all prime-time shows be about Indiana, she said.

don't forsee us competmg'dh Masterpiece Theater. That would be foolish on our part because they do what they do very well. What they don't do is give any attention to Indiana because we're such a small percentage of viewers. QUESTION: Where wiff ffie studio be? How long will it take to build the tower? uWt ANSWER: From the day we let the bid until the tower is Completed is five or six months: The tower's not a shelf item. It has to be built to your specs.

It takes the same amount of time to get ah antenna. While those things are happening, we'll go ahead and start remodeling the studio building and getting everything ready. We have an option on the building right behind the Lake County Library. It's a little pre-fab building that they were using for something during the construction of their new facility. We're in the process negotiating the lease with them.

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We have applied for a major grant from the Public Television Facilities ProgramNational Telecommunications Information Administration. They're part of the Department of Commerce. QUESTION: How much are you asking for? ANSWER: It's right around a million dollars. That will pay for a new transmitter, all the studio equipment and all the equipment to connect the studio to the tower. QUESTION: Any other grants? ANSWER: No, not actually.

This agency only handles funding for construction. When we are ready to go on the air, we will of course apply to become a member of PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. At that time, we will apply for the normal community service grants that CPB offers to members. It's kind of an exchange of money. They give you dollars.

You in turn hand that money back to PBS to pay for the system's programming. You almost never actually have the money in hand. QUESTION: Where will operating money come from for things like salaries and utilities? ANSWER: We're working on that There's a number of ways to raise money. We have hired a fundraiser. What's she's doing right now is a market research 3 rvi i new Gas TURSO Chris Ganczewski 'Gremlins' was a funny movie.

'Stripes' got a bulldozer that went right through a house." Carol Moore survey, which is part of a preliminary fund-raising plan, to go out and find out what people in the community want to see, what they will watch, what they won't watch and whether or not they will support the kinds of things we think they want to see. We think there is a need for news, sports and service programs strictly Indiana programming We're trying to see if the community feels the same way we do. QUESTION: Any plans for entertainment shows? ANSWER: Those are a little less concrete at this point Until we're a little further along, we're not in a position that we can either tell you who we've been talking to or start producing these kinds of things, because we don't have the resources yet the equipment, thepeople that we need. The thing we want to remember overall is that we want a first-class operation. We don't want something that's schlock.

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