The Californian from Salinas, California • 5

Thursday, June 21 1 979 SALINAS CALIFORNIAN 5 North County cable TV wins county's blessing SAN LUCAS Two persons were thrown out of their car when it plunged down an enbankment along State Route 198 early Wednesday. Sandy Gail, 23, of Oxnard, a Woman injured vhen plunging car tosses her out passenger, was taken to Mee Memorial Hospital following the 6 30 a m. accident. Driver of the cur. Jack Donald Ward, 21, of Oxnard was uninjured.

The accident occurred two miles west of Pine Valley Road. 1entertainment (WE Of THE GAOS BY CROUP could deliver adequate service. Areas to be served by Falcon include Aromas, Castroville, Las Lomas, Pajaro, I'ruriedale and the Monte del Lago mobile home park between Oak Hills and Cas-troville, according to Marc Nath-anson, president of Falcon Communications, Nathanson said channels to be offered include 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 20 (Spanish), 36, 44, 46 and 54. The basic monthly rate will be $6, with a $17.50 installation charge. Additional outlets for TV or FM will cost $9.95 to install and an extra $1.25 a month Nathanson said Home Box Office will be available at extra charge.

The North County customers will be served by an office in Gilroy. Nathanson said construction would be started immediately, but that signals could not be delivered to homes for six months to a year. Falcon now serves Soiedad and Gonzales, where McDoie said users have complained of poor reception from the Spanish station. Nathanson said the Soledad-Gonzales problems should be solved once the North County system is in operation, since he will no longer have to buy the Spanish station signal from another Most of North Monterey County will bo getting cable TV service for the first time, and Oak Hills residents should get improved cable signals, as a result ol action Tuesday by the Monterey County Hoard of Supervisors. But Oak Hills will have to wait until August to sec which of two competing companies will deliv er cable signals.

The board gave a non-exclusive license to Falcon Cable '1 to operate in North Monterey County, but delayed until Aug, 21 a decision on whether to allow a transfer of the current Oak Hills area license from Cal-Oaks TV to Coastside Cable TV. The two actions followed a hearing in which both Falcon and Coastside claimed they were capable of serving all of North County, and both asked to serve the whole area including Oak Hills. Both County Administrator Richard Andrews and Communications Director Art McDoie recommended Falcon for the North County license, and Andrews recommended awarding the Oak Hills license to Coastside, in view of a sales agreement by Coastside to buy the system from Cal-Oaks TV. Cal-Oaks is operated by Neill Engineers of Carmel, hich also operates the water and sewer companies at Oak Hills. An Oak Hills homeowners' representative told supervisors the cable TV' signal from Cal Oaks has been inadequate.

Gi.bert Neill of Neill Engineers told supervisors the cable TV' field is highly technical and he wants to sell the operation, John McCune, president of the Oak Hills Homeowners called the present reception marginal at best and said the San Francisco channels are fair to mediocre and at times unreceivable. "I would certainly expect it (Coastsides signal) to improve to equal that of Falcon Cable TV, which is going to put in micro-wave, McCune said. McDoie said Falcon has settled on a single, well-engineered method of feeding San Francisco area signals to North County, while Coastside is still considering five options, at least two of which appear somewhat unsound. i would prefer to have one definite, well engineered approach. But he said either of the two companies could provide reliable systems with good quality signals to the North County area.

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Leejon will amend its application and try to obtain the other commercial television frequency in Monterey County, Kesselman said Thursday. The company had planned limited. 8-hour-a-day broadcasts entirely in Spanish Kesselman said the firm may-change its programming plan for Channel 67. LULAC elects new officers New officers have been elected tor the Monterey County Chapter of the League ot United Latin American Citizens LILAC. Creeencio Padilla will be president of the organization for the 1979-81) term.

Also serving as oiti-cers will be Mary Olguin Gonzales. vice president; Herman Pena, treasurer; Guillermo Marquez, recording secretary, Mar-cie Elly at. corresponding secretary. and Sam Beltran, Two broadcast firms reached a compromise Wednesday that cleared the way for a Spanish-language television station in Salinas. Operators of a Modesto radio and television group will obtain local Channel 35 and a former Seaside radio station owner and his partners will ithdraw a competing application.

"We will be on the air sometime next year, said Chester Smith, president of KLOC-TV and radio in Modesto. His stations broadcast Christian programs and a few foreign-language shows. Leejon Broadcasting the rival applicant, will change its application and seek Federal Communications Commission permission to start another station in Salinas. The other commercial frequency is Channel 67. The agreement between the tirms must be approved bv the FCC.

Leejon is owned in part by Leonard Kesselman, publisher of a Spanish newspaper in San Jose. Kesselman sold KZEN-FM in Seaside in 1977 and formed the television station partnership. KLOC officials said they will broadcast Spanish programs and Christian shows daily from 7 a m. midnight. Approval of station construction would seem certain hen Leejon withdraws its rival application, FCC staff attorney Tom Daviason said Thursday.

The commission already has declared that KLOC is qualified to broadcast. Applicants must submit detailed plans about their assets, broadcast plans and hiring practices before the FCC deems them a qualified applicant. Leejon officials have been questioned about assets and the FCC had demanded additional information that as to be presented Monday at a hearing in Washington, D. C. The hearing has been cancelled.

KLOC-TV was the first UHF station in Northern and Central California. It started broadcasting in 1966. Smith. 49, said he will sell KLOC radio, the 5o0-w att AM station his company operates in Modesto The sale is necessary to NOW ttsasony; TV STEREO DEPT. Terms Available "If we soy we'll do It we'll do It!" ciOTOvrif 1 iAiimi 342 Main Street Salinas Phone 424-6421 OPEN DAILY 10 TO 7, SUNDAY 12 TO 5 Rlumb erWorld COMPLETE BEDROOM FURNISHINGS BEDROOM FURNITURE UPTO 40 SAVINGS ON ALL FURNITURE GROUPS NO DOWN PAYMENT FREE DELIVERY UPTO 36 MONTHS TO PAY DRESSER MIRROR 2 NITE STANDS CHEST HEADBOARD 399" FROM MATTRESS SETS KING SET QUEEN SET I FULL SET TWIN SET $249 VALUE I S199 VALUE I $119 VALUE I $99 VALUE eVWvJ.

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