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Page 7-B TIMES, Friday, June 28, 1974 NMSU TV Station Celebrates First Anniversary SS Elllido RESTMMUIT Specials on subjects ranging from New Mexico family living to abortions and voter education have been produced by the student staff at Channel 22. Popular award-winning PBS programs such as "Upstairs and "Sesame Street" have attracted many viewers. Few universities offer journalism students an opportunity to become vitally involved in the production of television for public consump- Downstairs" ev Kinjs With Powdered Gold The Chibcka Indians of Columbia dusted each of their new kings with powdered gold and cloaked him with decorations. He was then rowed to Lake Guatavita, near Bogota, where he disappeared under the water momentarily, washing off the gold as a sacrifice to the god of the lake. tion.

Many of the students who graduate from the NMSU Department of Journalism and Mass Communications are qualified to assume professional duties as cameramen (and women) switchers (operating the complex master control of a television station), producers, directors and newspeople. 8932 GATEWAY EAST 772-0730 Famous for our delicious Mexican Food HOW OPEH 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. JAKE OUT Try our Deluxe Mexican Plate Cabrito al Horno con Salsa Borracha The Lowest prices on the highest quality fireworks in El Paso. ti raso cable viewers receive it on Channel 2.

Establishing an electronic studio, transmitter and antenna and successfully interlocking the three were just a beginning. Staffing a television station with inexperienced student staff proved to be a lesson in patience and humor. Students have held the whole thing together. Time and again, students have worked as much as 18 hours a day to provide technical help and get the "show on the road." Station manager Elizabeth Bailey is one of three women general managers in public television in this country. Her station's commitment to trilingual cross-cultural broadcasting was part of the initial proposal to establish a university broadcasting headquarters.

"Forty per cent of our viewing audience is Mexican-American, and we also reach the Mescalero Apache, the Tortugas Indians, El Paso, Juarez and the last of the Ac-tecs within our broadast area," Mrs. Bailey explained this week. A COMBINATION KRWG-TV broadcasts from 3:50 p.m. to midnight six days a week, Sunday through Friday. Programming is a combination of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) shows and locally originated programs.

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The first year of sailing has been both turbulent and smooth. KRWG-TV Channel 22, public television station at New Mexico State University, notes its first birthday the end of June. The 1.7 million watt UHF station began broadcasting June 29, 1973. It went on the air half an hour late after a transmitter was hastily repaired, and that was just the beginning of an incredible year of mishaps and successes. The small core of professional staff that forms the nucleus for the larger ever-changing student staff has nursed Jhe station through trials and tribulations that would have staggered a bigger station.

Rewards have been as great as the problems, and nostalgia will play a large part in the reminiscences of the KRWG-TV staff this June; TV PARTY A formal observance of the one-year anniversary will include a Friday televised birthday party, complete with cake and candles. Randy Bock, NMSU television student from Carlsbad, N.M., and recent journalism graduate, is staging the "on-the-air birthday party" to be televised from NMSU's Milton Hall patio just outside the station studio. KRWG-TV was a long-time dream of former NMSU journalism head Harvey Jacobs. Jacobs left recently to become editor of the Indianapolis News. He was succeeded by NMSU advertising professor Dr.

Frank Hash. Recalling the past year of ups and downs in the television business. Hash said he felt KRWG-TV had made remarkable progress in one short year. "The station is staffed primarily by students who have learned all they know about television here in this operation," he said. KRWG-TV was the first UHF station in New Mexico and is the only one between Lubbock, and Tucson, Ariz.

It has a potential audience of a half-million people in southern New Mexico, West Texas, and Mexico through open circuit broadcasting. Thousands of additional viewers are reached through cable companies in their cities. Las Cruces area viewers can pick up the station on UHF Channel 22 or Cavle Channel 7. Golden fried cod wnn ranar sauce. REG.

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