Kingsport Times-News from Kingsport, Tennessee • 7

1 I' 'u i Sunday August 10 1969 KINGSPORT TIMES-NEWS 7-A New TV Station Hopes To Be Airborne Aug 15 A survey made in Preston Woods and portions of Ridgefields showed that there will be a few homes that cant pick 1 us up on channel 19 with an antenna viewers who may have difficulty in getting a strong signal because of interference from high elevations a special translator mi Bays Mountain will be used 1 am Monday through Friday from 8:25 am until 1 am Saturday (until the new network season starts- in September when more time will be added) and from 8:25 The station will provide as much live programming this fall as the other Tri-City stations Ratliff said Local programs will be Street studios to the transmitter on Holston Mountain WKPT and WKPT-TV are owned by the publishers of the New Brunswick Home micro-waved from' the "new Newsin New Brunswick-N tower above the Commerce The translator A signal Ratcliff said Howeverrwe am until 11:30 pm on Sunday at the location for severaP months and technicians and engineers are now installing cameras and other equipment necessary for the operation of a television station in the same location- wherq the -company also operates AM and FM radio Ratcliff said the station wilP have some 90 per cent of its local programs in color while those originating from ABC will all be in color The station will come ln on Channel 19 in most homes using aerials but for the convenience of Kingsport WKPT-TV1 goes on the air r- Aug 15 from studios at 222 Commerce St in Kingsport 1 Robert I Ratcliff vice president and general manager said that barring unforeseen difficulties network programs will be telecast on that date and local programs probably will be too Workmen have been busy be received on Channel 70 George DeVault operations manager for WKPT-TV said this would improve reception in homes shielded by Chestnut Ridge or Bays Mountain However the miniature re-broadcasting station on Bays Mountain will not be in operation for several more weeks A feel that every Kingsport home should be able to get a perfect signal from thdir own station-For that reason-we haye purchased the channel 70 translator to serve the few homes which would not be able to get perfect reception on channel 19 Television sets on cable service will be able to get the new station on channel 9 in Kingsport and Elizabeth ton channel 8 in Bristol and channel 12 in Johnson City Initially WKPT-TV will operate from 11:55 am until Twist her around your finger: with "Enlace Zales bridal sets that reach her heart fw Inin 'ft 'W HOW TO GET THE PICTURE WKPT-TV will broadcast on Ultra High Frequency channels rather than the Very High Frequency channels used by other TV stations In the area How to get UHF reception? If you are using an antenna-and your television set was built before June 1964 you will need to have a converter Installed by your TV dealer or repairman If your set was built after June 1964 it already has -UHF -capability- but you will have to install an all-channel antenna or a UHF antenna -probably on the same "mast that holds your VHF antenna If you are on the cable system you will not need either a converter or a special antenna The cable system converts the UHF signal to VHF and brings It to your home in the same manner it carries other TV programs If you are on the cable it wont matter whether your set was built before or after 1964 ing how to handle a camera as well as a pencil tTimes-News 'Photo- Charles Dean) RADIO NEWSMAN Bill Freehoff will be seen well as heard when "WKPT-TV gets into operation in Mid-August And Freehoff is learn Zales Qustoni Open Yours Today $175 Cable TV Station May Go Color j- tltk li xfl SrvV-i'? r4 4 vey 1 1 'mi? SALES JEWELERS Were nothing without your love WETV Sears said KUTI will not telecast any network programs Studios are at 235 East Gharlemont Street in Kingsport The company is owned by United Utilities parent corporation of United Inter-Mountain Telephone Co i KINGSPORT aw mt stmt BRISTOL sa sun sir JOHNSON CITY 6953 lllutirotiontEnlorgeJ COTpOrttiOft 1969 early morning hours but Sears doesn't anticipate such a change for several months Although "KUTI officials' havent purchased any color equipment yet it definitely will become a color station within a year according to Sears He said he has bee? looking into it for some' tune and said one of the biggest holdups is the fact that color movies are prohibitively expensive Sears said the station has been improved only this week with the installation of more than $10000 in new equipment Since the cable corporation offers nine network channels and educational channel Kingsport already has one local television station KUTI-TV which is operated by -United Transmissions Inc-here KUTI available only to cable subscribers limits telecasts to local news and features and closed-circuit movies Since we operate only in Kingsport" said manager Bruce Sears we emphasize only local happenings The station goes on the air at 8:30 am and shuts down about 2:30 or 3 a the next morning although only a portion of this time is utilized for programming Eventually-it may become a 24-hour station showing movies in the SH0P7IL9 NIGHTS! GOING UP High above the WKPT building on Commerce Street a workman perches on the new Channel 19 TV microwave relay tower The tower will transfer signals from the studio to the main transmitter on Holston Mountain ALWAYS FIRST QUALITY Special Buys! scholarship material Taxes On Their Minds Taxpayers Tell Quillen FASHION CORNER PRINTS Pick your favorite print and start sewing Silky blend of Avrll rayon and cotton In small and large florals geometries 47V 36" wide REGULATED PLUS PRINTS You'll find so many things to make of our polynosic rayon blend They're crease resistant Sanforized Plus need little or no ironing 36 wide 5Cyd tax break Quillen remarked during the Open Door I think its time we reversed the trend and gave the people honest-to-goodness tax relief Quillen pointed out again that one of the best ways to reduce taxes is to stop the flow of American money out of this country in the form of foreign aid It seems to me that leaving some of that tax money in the pockets of the American people is more important and more necessary than trying to buy friends throughout the world Quillen said A foreign government that can be bought by the United States can be bought back by Russia In the end all we gain from the transaction is another increase in taxes and weve already had too many of those Im afraid too many of the decision makers in the Federal government have forgotten the old saying charity begins at home Quillen added Saturdays Open Door in Dandridge was Quillens last for the month of August His next Open Door session is September 6 at the Hawkins County Courthouse in Rogersville The need for tax relief continues to be one of the most-talked-about subjects during Congressman James Quillens Open Doors and Saturdays (August 9) session in Dandridge at the Jefferson County Courthouse was no exception I think the general consensus among the people Saturday" Quillen said was that prices and taxes cannot continue to vise together or some people are going to be squeezed out Tax relief has never been more necessary or more urgently demanded by irate taxpayers" The First District Congressman said the people who talked to him about high taxes at his Open Door commented favorably on his bill to increase income tax exemptions from $600 to $1200 and expressed hope that the measure would pass Quillen pledged to introduce such a Dili in his first campaign for Congress in 1962 and has followed through by introducing and fighting for the enactment of the bill in each session since without success I have always felt my bill to increase Income tax exemptions would be a major help to the families most in need of a BONDED KNITS NEED NO LINING! 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