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UPR going digital
by end of the year
By Riki Richards
September 6, 2007 | Utah Public Radio (UPR) has been
informed it will receive grants allowing the Logan-based
station to start broadcasting in a digital signal.
UPR has been approved for two grants from the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting that will total about $85,000
each, said Cathy Ives, general manager of Utah Public
Radio. She said one of the grants will be for KUSU and
the other will be for KUSR, which are the two translators
that serve Cache Valley. The grants require a match
for half of the total amount. The Associated Students
of Utah State University (ASUSU) provided the match,
which will be about $20,000 now and about $20,000 later,
said Ives.
When all of the paperwork is completed, Ives said
UPR will be able to use three additional streams for
separate broadcasts as well as continue its regular
broadcasting in analog signal.
She said the first stream, HD1, will be the same programming
now broadcast on KUSU and KUSR, which is news in the
morning, classical music at midday and news in the evening.
The second new stream, HD2, will be "counter programming"
for the first stream, said Ives. It will include classical
music in the morning, news during midday and classical
music again in the evening, she said.
The third stream, HD3, will be a student-run broadcast
that, Ives said, is something students have been wanting
for a long time but haven't been able to afford. She
said a basic radio course, "Special Topics: Radio,"
is being taught this fall in the department of journalism
and communication at Utah State.
Ives said she hopes the paperwork will be finished
and the station will be able to start broadcasting by
the beginning of next year. The only way will to pick
up the digital broadcasts is through an HD radio.
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