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Christian family TV sought for Cities

UHF CH. 29 APPLICATION Christian family TV sought for Cities non-profit religious corporation will battle it out with a commercial television station chain for the right to operate a Twin Cities' area television station the ultra high-frequency (UHF) channel 29. A day before the Dec. 1 deadline, Faith Broadcasting Network Inc., filed an application with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a license operate Christian family station" the UHF channel. The other applicant is Bufford Television Inc., of Minnesota, of the Bufford Group of Tyler, Tex., which owns four stations In Tyler and Lubkin, Tex., Smith, Ark., and Mitchell-Sioux Falls, S.D. THE FCC has set aside UHF channels for commercial évision in this area - 23 and The FCC in 1969 granted a license to Viking Television Inc., St. to operate on channel 23. It been n delayed in going on air by tower location problems, and the earliest it could broadcasting would be about year from now, according to ing W. Beaudoin, president. Both the Viking and Bufford interests are seeking to offer scription TV as well as the mal commercial variety on the UHF channels. Since only one subscription tion will be permitted in this "FREEDOM KINDLED BY THE FLAME OF THE SPIRIT** PLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Nicellet at Nineteenth Willmar on Thorkelson Viking has gone to the FCC, asking it that part of Bufford's application. Viking is seeking g exclusive right to subscription TV. Subscription TV is broadcast over (VHF) airwaves as a coded signal that can be received by a standard antenna. But a viewer can't see the program unless he has a special decoder box on his set to unscramble the signal. Broadcasting, tion gets the license it will cast family-oriented programs well as spiritual messages. He said his organization has commitments from the Christian TV networks, including the Christian Broadcast Network of Norfolk, Va.; the Praise Lord Club of Charlotte, N.C., Trinity Broadcast Network, Angeles to furnish programs the proposed station. In addition, Life said, his would set aside time for RICH LIFE, Fridley, an evangelist who is president of Faith said that if his 10:30 A.M. "'LENGTHENING OUR SIGHS INTO SONGS" 2. 0 Come, O Come, Emmanuel The Rev. Elaine Marsh 4:00 P.M. "Music in the Guild Hail" with Janis Hardy, alto Welcome the on part - Fort two tel29. Paul, has the a Irv- subnor- two staarea, his station would be "to bring the message of Christ to the more than 3 million people in this area." He said a. 1,000-kilowatt transmitter is being proposed for his station. Life said he is "looking" for $1.3 million to get his station going. As an initial fund-raising event, he has rented the Minneapolis Auditorium for 7 p.m. Dec. 18 for what is billed as "a holiday celebration to herald the coming of a full-time Christian family television station for the Twin Cities." Among the persons and groups participating, he said, will be Minneapolis Mayor Charles Stenvig; Al Palmquist and his Midwest Challenge choir; several Gospel music entertainers, and author Marie Chapian. The Rev. Floy Cox, who participates in a network of Christian TV ministries, will be master of ceremonies. Admission to the event is free. stabroad- as already major the and Los for station "local ministries" such as church services. Life maintained that the area needs a "Christian" station because of the amount of crime and violence in programs on existing stations. He also intimated that pornographic movies might be shown if Bufford won the license and the right to offer subscription TV. HOWEVER, in an 1 interview with The Star, Jeff Bufford, vicepresident of the Bufford Group, denied that it would do this. Besides movies, subscription TV could offer children's programs, symphony concerts and sporting events not shown on other TV channels, Bufford noted. Life said the main reason for RICH LIFE LIFE IS A former president of Life Educational Productions, a St. Paul film company. Other officers of Faith Broadcasting besides him are Ron Morey, a Phoenix evangelist, vice-president, and Robert. Nelson, a rancher and businessman, secretary-treasurer. The 10 member board includes Palmquist, a Minneapolis police officer engaged in an evangelistic and anti-drug ministry. Life said he sent letters to about 1,100 local clergymen to attend a meeting Tuesday night at the SilCamp, New Brighton, to hear plans for the proposed Christian station. He indicated disappointment that only about 70 came. However, he said, he is counting on the community at large -- not churches - to help finance the station. It may take several months before the FCC sets a hearing on the two channel 29 applications.
Article from 04 Dec 1976The Minneapolis Star(Minneapolis, MN)
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