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New, more powerful WUNC - FM is hack on the air By Pete Ivey High quality broadcasts via frequency modulation radio be came available this week to 1, 500,000 North Carolina people living within 100 miles of Chap el Hill. A boost in wattage, from 15, 000 to 50,000, made possible by A new transmission system—a $20,000 gift by Merck, Sharpe & Dohme Drug Co.—brings static free broadcasting programs of superior cultural and public service value to North Carolin ians. Owners of FM sets may tune in at 91.5 on the radio dial. The best programs from over the world are available. British Broadcasting System (BBS) mu sical. lecture and other events will be heard, as well as network programs from Canada, France and Israel. The United Nations Radio ties into WUNC. „ Sunday, for example, WUNC brings a program of classical mu sic, “The Dinner Hour” at 6 p.m.; BBC program, “Canterbury Hour” at 7; a broadcast from Palestine. “Vistas of Israel” at 7:15. There will be a concert at .8. News will be interspersed throughout the evening. Outstanding programs on Mon day and Tuesday evenings in elude “Masterworks from France” at 7 p.m.. Monday;' artd “A Roundup of British Weeklies” 'Scouting Skies' is the new show at Planetarium “Scouting the Skies,” a pro gram designed to depict the re wards of family participation in the study of astronomy, opened at ' the Morehead Planetarium here Tuesday night. It will run through Feb. 12. The demonstration also is the | Planetarium’s annual tribute to Boy and Girl Scouts at this season, “We want to help all youngs ters and .Scouts who are inter ested in obtaining merit badges j in astronomy,’’ Planetarium Di rector Anthony F. Jenzano said today. "At the same time we are providing in this new pro gram some very elementary but - basic ideas that might well be used by teachers and parents and all those who are trying to help youth understand the sky.” For instance, bright stars and constellations now in view are described and named, and the astronomical concept of sizes, speeds and distances of plaets _Is, ^explained. la addition, _ the phenomena of horizon, sunrise, j sunset and circum-polar stars is | detailed. The program also highlights j and reproduces the approaching most peculiar combination of the planets which will be visible only out in the Pacific Ocean on Feb. 5. j “A total eclipse of the Sun will reveal the visible planets of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn grouped with the moon around the constellations of Capricorn and Aquarius,” Jenzano explained.. j IC-£f?d5 & ~ ' at 10:15 Monday; “Dutch'.Ligh! Music” Tuesday at 7:15. On Wednesdays at 10:30 p.m. “Some Come to Sing,” a folk music pro gram featuring local talent will regularly be heard. The new WDNC antenna has been installed at the top of the 825-foot WUNC-TV tower on Terrell’s mountain, seven miles west of Chapel Hill and 1500 feet above average terrain level The pharmaceutical firm of Merke, Sharpe, and1 Dohme con tributed equipment expenses and paid for the costs incurred in the changing of transmitter sites. WDNC in Durham gave the station a microwave transmitter and receiver set which allows WDNC to send their signal from the Swain Hall offices on the campus to the Terrell mountain site without the use of telephone wires. WDNC programs will be re ceived in these cities along the 100-mile periphery: Kannapolis, Concord, Luinberton, Kinston, j Greenville, Elizabeth City, Roan oke Rapids, Emporia, Va., Mar tinsville, Va.. and other North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia cities. WUNC is operated by the De partment of Radio, TV, versity of North Carolina, , of which Earl Wynn is chairman. Dr. Robert Hilliard, assistant pro fessor in the department, is the director of radio The station is staffed entirely by students, about 46 of them, with Reno Bailey, from Clifside, N. C., a senior, as station manger. He has organized the station ihto twelve departments, all headed by stu dents. Programming will concentrate on classical musib, drama and documentary films, and news and activities of the UNC camp ms, colleges, schools, institutions and divisions. Station Manager- Bailey stated that soon the WUNC station .jnay j be able to receive live programs, also from the Educational Radio 1 Network, The ERN is composed of educational stations from Can* is scheduled for completion in ada to Washington, D. C. A link from Washington to .Chapel Hill the next year or so. 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