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Show Five-year contract signed SALT LAKE CITY MultiComm Telecommunications Corp. announced last week that its Westar Network Services division has signed a five-year contract with Jazz Basketball Investors for the development de-velopment and operation of satellite communications facilities for the Utah Jazz Radio Network. Jazz Basketball Investors is the owner of the Utah Jazz franchise The contract requires Westar to provide satellite uplink facilities, satellite channel capacity, affiliate downlink receivers and full operations opera-tions and maintenance of the communications network, including network management services, according to MultiComm president Dr. Raymond C. Rask. "The contract with the Utah Jazz Radio Network will allow network net-work personnel to concentrate on developing their programming, affiliate af-filiate relations and, of course, the sale of advertising," Rask said. ' 'No longer will the network have to deal with network distribution problems, equipment failures, installation problems, etc., as Westar will handle all of those problems for the Utah Jazz from our Westar Network Management Center in Salt Lake. The complete turnkey network management service is unique to the radio sports business and is offered only by Westar on a nationwide nation-wide basis, Rask said. |