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University Daily Kansan, March 25. 1983
Nationwide telecast possible WTBS looking at KU football
By ANDREW HARTLEY Staff Reporter
Superstation WTBS, a nationally distributed cable television station based in Atlanta, is considering broadcasting at least one KU football game next season, aWTBS spokesman said yesterday.
Rodney Triplet, writer, researcher and statistician in the WITS intercollegiate broadcast department, said that KU's Sept. 10 game against Texas Christian University is one of several schools offering Saturday night prime-time broadcast
THE GAME will be played in Fort Worth, Texas, and is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
Triplette said that the decision of which games to broadcast on WTBS will be made by the sports department. The announcement is unveiled until the beginning of August.
WTBS is owned by Ted Turner, who also owns the Atlanta Braves, Cable News Network and the Turner Broadcasting System.
Head football coach Mike Gottfried
said, "I'm very happy to hear about it.
The exposure from those games is really good because you're the only one on at that time of night.
"I hope and think we'd be a very good prospect for maybe two or three games
LAST SEASON, the KU game against Kansas State University was broadcast across the country on a Saturday night BTW telecast. KU lost that game 36-7.
Athletic Director Monte' Johnson, who is in charge of television contracts until a new information director was reached and could not be reached for comment.
The money that WTBS would pay to telecast a KU football game, an estimated $300,000, would go to the Big Ten and eventually contribute 20 percent of the money.
Triplett said that WTBS' marketing analysts and advertising sales representatives would now try to determine which of the games would attract the most viewers and make the most money.
The television contract that other networks have with the National Collegiate Athletic Association also
enters into the decision of whether to negotiate a contract, he said. The NCAA lines the number of times a team would be on a regional or national broadcast.
Because the Jayhawks appeared on two CBS regional broadcasts last year
two CBS regional broadcasts last year — Tulsa University and TCU — KU's chances of appearing might be decreased. Triplett said.
THE FRONT-RUNNER for the Sept. 10 WTB telecast is Boston College against the University of West Virginia, he said. However, that game is not expected to have a high score, both teams would have to agree to move the game date.
"Although it is at the top of our list right now, it is really a longshot," Triplett said.
On the record
A BURGLAR STOLE A stereo, valued at $415, from a Lawrence resident's home in the 1500 block of Lynch Road, police said yesterday.
A Board of Regents official yesterday condemned Gov. John Carlin's $1.5 million proposal for high-technology research at universities in the state, said the state's universities needed the money for operating expenses
High-tech research
Stanley Koplik, Regents executive officer, told the Senate Ways and Means Committee that Carlin's proposal would simply throw out $1.5 million to the Regents universities, instead of putting the money to better use by buying new teaching materials and equipment.
Legislative Roundup
"I don't see a whole lot of merit in reducing other operating expenses and then going off in this new area," he said.
The Ways and Means committee heard testimony yesterday on the Regents budget and should take final action today.
However, he said, the Regents would prefer that the money be used to increase faculty salaries in 1984
The House and Senate conference committee on school finance could not approve the budget.
School finance bills
elementary and secondary schools
eesterday, nor could it agree on a way
to provide more money to increase the
salaries of math and science teachers.
Because the committee could not reach an agreement, it accepted a request to have a second committee appointed.
The committee chairman, State Rep. Don Crumbaker, R-Brewster, said he expected the second committee to compromise of the budget limitations.
PIK grain levy debate
The Senate Agriculture and Small Business Committee plans to discuss whether the grain given to farmers under the payment-in-kind program will fall under the tax on grain that supports Kansas agriculture programs.
The money from the mills levy helps support programs such as the International Grains Program in Manitoba and the University Wheat Commission in Hutchinson.
Under the federal PIK program, farmers agree to leave their land idle in exchange for surplus grain from other farms. The agreement does not fall under the mill levy, the
Vehicle inspections
agriculture programs will lose 30 percent of their revenue.
The House Transportation Committee agreed yesterday to continue the state's motor vehicle inspection program and to raise the charge for
Gov. John Carlin proposed eliminating the program, and the Senate has already passed a bill that would have accomplished that. But the House committee amended the bill so that the program would continue.
State law requires the seller of any used car to have the car inspected before its sale.
Guide dogs in zoos
The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee voted to kill a bill that would have allowed zoos, under certain circumstances, to deny access to guide dogs accompanying blind people.
If the zoo would have provided a free kennel for guide dogs and free guides for blind people, the bill would make the zoo to deny the guide dog access.
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