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Show Wireless Moves Ahead musical survey. "People wanted to hear everything from jazz to country to California surfer music." Results of the music and the community problems survey will be used by the station in formulating programing. At the same time, to assure the broadest possible input, the siaiion's organization has been structured to represent all segments of the community. According to Feulner, the corporation by-laws provide for designated seats on the board of trustees from eight different groups. Additional members of the board will be elected by the general membership at a meeting held this summer, before the station goes on the air. Furthermore, Feulner stated, the bylaws also provide for a 25 member programing advisory board, the majority elected by the general membership, to geirerate ideas and produce programs. "As I see it, the bottom line is that over ninety percent of the people on the air will be volunteers, and that means anyone who has something to say will have the opportunity to get involved," he concluded. Following several months of wading through federal paperwork, paper-work, Community Wireless of Park City is nearing completion of an application to construct and operate a non-commercial FM radio station in Park City. According to spokesman Blai Feulner, the group expects r file several hundred pages o engineering, program proposals, propo-sals, financial and legal statements state-ments with the Federal Communications Com-munications Commission within three weeks. With luck, he stated, the community operated station could be on the air this fall. Since holding a fundraiser in January, at which 250 residents contributed well over $1,000, the group has been concentrating concentrat-ing on the license application which, among many items, requires a survey of community problems and interests. Members of the group's board of trustees were out tjiis week asking residents to list the major problems facing Park City. "People were real interested when I explained what we were doing," commented Dan Wilcox, Wil-cox, who conducted interviews for the survey in front of the Park City Post Office. Wilcox also, in conjunction with the survey, asked residents what type of music they preferred. "It was pretty much like you'd expect," he said of the |