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Show Wireless Receives Fed Approval trom trie community are strongly encouraged. Community Com-munity Wireless is expected to " offer a wide variety of interesting programs, ranging from daily news to live, broadcasts of high' school sporting events. "The basic membership is $5," Mr. Feulner said. "For that, you'll be getting 18 hours a day. 365 days a year of good quality f stereo music, daily news (local and national), road and ski reports, radio drama, Park City history programs, children's programs, live broadcasts of high school and community sports, and city council and planning" commission commis-sion meetings.! think that's a pretty good deal for $5V And of course all contri butions are tax deductible. The call letters for Community Com-munity Wireless will be released a few days before the station goes on the air. And when the station goes on the air, Mr. Feuluer said, a big "Sign-On Party" is planned tc include the entire town. Blair Feulner said he was deeply grateful to the residents resi-dents of Park City for their active support and patience. "We'djust like to thank the community, especially the business community for their support over the past year," he said. And so, if $6,000 is raised within the next few weeks, plan to turn on your radio and hear, "Live, from Park City!" that we were going to do it. And we've delivered." The studios are already essentially built, he said, . adding the rest of the station. Itself, still needs to be constructed. Mr. Feulner said twenty to thirty more volunteers volun-teers are needed to go on the air (18 hours a day, 6arn to midnight). Anyone interested in being on the air or who has a suggestion for a specific type of program should call Blair Feulner. 649-7324, or Jay Meehan in Heber at 654-1372. The license doesn't cost anything, but it takes the FCC about six weeks to process license applications. "It's important they apply now." said Mr. Feulner. The Program Advisory Committee is formulating programming schedules at the present time and suggestions For many Park City residents, resi-dents, it's been a long time coming, but the wait is over. If everything goes according to schedule, and if the necessary funds are raised, local residents resi-dents will be able to turn to 91.9 on their FM radio dial probably sometime in May and hear, "Live, from PaTk City!" "After ten months and over two hundred pages of government govern-ment paperwork, we were granted a construction permit for a non-commercial FM radio station," said a happy and relieved Blair Feulner, President of the Board ot Trustees of Community Wireless Wire-less of Park City, Inc., a non-profit corporation. "This approval is the big one," he said; "Everything past this is routine. This is the one we've been waiting for." With the government red tape now out of the way, the . only thing standing between Community Wireless and signing the station on the air is $6,000. In the past year, Mr. Feulner said over $10,000 has been raised to make the radio station a reality. The $6,000 that is needed now will be used mainly for materials, and it's expensive. Mr. Feulner added. For example, the transmission line, a one hundred foot cable, costs $500. The monitors will cost $2,000. , "The material has to be customed for each installation and unlike our studio equipment, equip-ment, almost all of which was donated, the transmission equipment we'll have to buy," expl ained the Commu nity Wireless President. But Mr. Feulner said he doesn't think raising the funds will pose a problem because the community feels confident now that Park City will have a radio station, which will be connected to the cable television televi-sion system. Because of the significant amount of local support in time and money donated. Mr. Feulner said he thinks this will be one of the cheapest radio stations ever built. "I'd be willing to bet," he added. "it's the cheapest station built in Utah." Mr. Feulner told The Record he and the remaining members on the Board of : Trustees were ..excited when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted Community Wireless the long-awaited long-awaited station approval. "When we began this project over a year ago." he said, "there were a lot of people who were awfully skeptical about us being able to do it. We promised the people of Park City at that first fundraiser January 18. 1979, |