Show The KREX-TV Controversy IS Tine FIRST TIME that The Vernal Express has seen fit to comment editorially on the attempt of Western Slope Broadcasting to establish a satellite television station in the Vernal Up to this time we were content to fulfill our role as reporters of the local scene and tell what other people and thought of this HE HAVE APPARENTLY been dragged into the dispute and labeled the prime to the establishment of this Vernal therefore we feel it is time to set the record THE FIRST STATEMENTS we take exception to are contained in a communication to the Federal Communications Commission dated June 1 by Western Slope The communication is an to the petition to deny filed by attorneys representing Duchesne counties and Duchesne WESTERN SLOPE IS CONCERN LEST the station might at some future date take some advertising revenues from existing media now serving in the area STRONG ANTIPATHY has evidently been generated among members of the upon incomplete PETITION THEN CLAIMS that when an official presented the proposal originally no time during the visits did any officer or member of the Vernal Chamber of Commerce raise any question or voice any THE REPLY THEN WINDS UP by saying that the objections indicate the lack of objectivity on the part of counsel for the THEN DAILY NORTHWEST Colorado in its publication of June 14 dispute is apparently a matter of newspaper versus television competition over TO START AT THE Roy H. secretary-treasurer of the appeared at Vernal Chamber of Commerce meeting to explain his company's He painted a very interesting picture but nevertheless questions WERE raised at the THE MOST SIGNIFICANT question was the proposed transmitter interfere with existing ADAMSON ASSURED the Chamber audience that it would not interfere with either the cable or the community system but would be SUBSEQUENT INVESTIGATIONS have that very serious interference would be even to the elimination of the three present leaving only the satellite THIS IS CRUX OF the Will the proposed local TV station interfere with the present excellent reception of the three Salt Lake channels Mounting evidence indicates that it RIO UINTAH and Duchesne who have invested substantial sums of money in local television have hired an attorney in Washington to Investigate what action can be taken to oppose this possible damage to TV enjoyment LOCAL TELEVISION ENGINEERS have pointed out that a powerful local transmitter would presently received channels unless expensive equipment were installed to filter out and even then nothing could be THE PICTURE NOW IS FAR different from that originally presented by the broadcasting It bears Vernal |