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Show ew Radio Station 0 Open at Provo On September 21 lans are complete for the open's open-'s of -.KOVO, central Utah's new - o station, broadcasting on a 1 e length of 1210 kilocycles, acting ac-ting to Arch L. Madsen, station '''lager. Studios and transmitter ; finished, the entire station staff ' been selected, and plans are jii up for the inaugural program. ie studios, located at 108 West ;er street in Provo, present the 7' last word in studio' construc-": construc-": and decoration, according to on A. Tolboe, owner and build- No expense has been spared ;r in the building or equipping i- :oVO. The latest type high ity reproducing and broadcast-equipment broadcast-equipment is being installed in the studios and transmitter, -vidio furnishings and decorations especially designed for KOVO make the station one of the L attractive in the entire west. Ij ter weeks of rigid auditioning O's staff has been announced the successful candidates al---,r assigned to their respective ions. Applications for staff 1 lations were received from 38 m,i, Canada, and Mexico. Appli-from Appli-from as far as Mexico were , ioned. Those named to the ar staff are: George Killian, .geville, chief announcer; David 0(er, Pleasant Grove, production ,ger; Gerald Peterson, Salt Br: City, chief operating technic-p.Harold technic-p.Harold Goates, Logan, technic-"lack technic-"lack Davies, Spanish Fork, and f,.' Black, Provo, announcers and dlliuity writers. vard Johnson, Salt Lake City., i .. ef engineer at KOVO and will M!:e all technical work. Station and builder Clifton A. Tolboe preside over the board of direc- irL-rVO will go on the air Septem-jilc'i, Septem-jilc'i, at 5 p. m. with a musical m interespersed with station fications until 7:30 p. m. when fficial inaugural program will Dadcast. Arrangements have ... made with Brigham Young J -sity to broadcast the inaugural ,im from the stage of College P!l n order that the public might I and to provide the room il.jary for the many entertainers nests that will appear. , ing those to greet KOVO on j laugural show will be his Ex-:y Ex-:y the Governor of Utah H. Blood, Earl J. Glade, man-director man-director of KSL, and the may- (all Utah county communities. for the evening following augural broadcast include an tion of the studios by visiting u-ies, and a KOVO Open broadcast during which sta-xecutives sta-xecutives and staff members e introduced over the air. will remain on the air after """)en House program until 1 a. fesenting variety recordings. rrz'O will broadcast every day eut'l a- m- t0 11 P- m- O |