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1T,.CiCC C,:lNU TUESDAY, SE:'TEP,:BE.R 30 1936 page four C. Dow -;;at cont. Nary mentioned 1-ow she would like to brinC down our :�tro ngest cable services to Minnetonka and put them beside the off air channels. She has also been talking with WC("0 Engineers about Dlicrowave hook-up. If the regional channel becomes a reality it means that Vlary needs to pick up a microwave signal. You have to have a direct line of site with the signal that has been sent so the reception can be received in the mic -)wave receiver. The receiver is $24,000 expenditure for on. ;zead-end. To service all the surrounding communities she would have to have 3 receivers for 3 head -ends, which is very costly. She r,ould need all of these from an engineer's view point. Marys point is to do all these alignments, but it is costly. She is in the process of looking at channel line up, to see what we can do. She did a survey on two financial programs, FNN (Financial news network) and Dow Jones. The question is whether or not we need both, only 3 out of 25 watched Dow Jones. Now the question is should they keep Dow Jones? I,:ary would like to get the discovery channr', it is a good channel for all ages. They :annot get it now because of channel space. Mary would like to open up a least one access channel and combine it with community announcements. She would like to take the .leased channel 21 which is reraating channels 19 and 8. She would like to open up the leased channel for another ser- vice. One thing requested was CVN (Cable Value Network) shopping service. To date there has not been a home shopping service. Money for that service comes from the cable indus- try itself. The local provider is COI0. CVN has offered to provide head end equipment so we could :gut this on channel 21. She claims local business may not like it, this could be a problem. Based on the offer frcm CVN, Dow -Sat will probably be testing this program. Holly thinks we should look at the value of giving up a channel, would there be a loss of local channel r,_ acity? Would we be giving it up permanently? Dean Johnson. .sked what it would cost to open another channel? Mary stated it depends, an off air channel could possibly cost a couple thousand dollars and a satellite channel, depending on the actual service itself could r- looking at 10 to 12 thousand dollars. W,zat abou� opening leased access on a presently assigned channel? It would cost about two thousand dollars to change it, same as off air. Holly asked if channel six needs three microwave receivers? Mary stated the WCCO Engineer Said the best way to pick up channel six is by microwave. Our present three head ends are not in a line of sight with the Pillsbury tower.. We :could have to build ver 200 feet higher. Instead of building a new tower, is looking, for a different tower hi�-h enough to .�)ut m,_ro•;.ave on it. A problem wit}_ this, is severe radiation which comes from N:,P. Radiatiorjust r:eans electrical problems, from NCP, they are doing their best to control it. Lary will be making; changes, she vill let the Commission knov,