Formal Dedication of New Public Broadcasting Center. Part 2

Stay with us. One thing about public television, it's flexible so we'll put it back on. [no words] We don't have to get that commercial on right at the hour. We'd like to take a few minutes right now to do something completely different. And show you some parts of this new building. Those of you at home, we hope you'll be coming down and visiting us but we would like to take a couple minutes and show you around the building. So, State Street in Rochester next to the Rochester Button Company and across from the Kodak office building. It's 40,000 square feet in a two storied precast concrete and tinted glass building. This is the main entrance and the reception area. Diane Wilkins is usually there to greet you. Beyond the reception to the left is the administration area, bookkeeper, business manager and the ogre who always says no to anything that costs more than $5. A large, open office landscape area is occupied by the Instructional Television Department. Television

Programming, Television Production and Special Projects. Department heads have offices along one side of the open office space. This is a large attractive area and a delight to work in. We are indebted to Ruth Sillons who selected the furniture and colors and did the layout for this area. The Art department is also light and cheerful with a window facing State Street. Sue Wright, here, is our staff artist. For the first time, we have our own film processing and film editing facilities. Jerry Pullia, cinematographer, is at work here viewing film on the moviola. The videotaping room houses six large recording and playback machines and forms the backbone of all our television production. Our film and slides on television originate from an area called tele-cine.

And the camera controls and titling devices for television are also in this part of the Master Control Room. The engineer responsible for keeping us on the air is isolated in a room of his own. But he has good visibility into the video tape room seen just beyond here on the tele-cine room. On the second floor of this new building. There is office space for all our development programs which include Promotion, Advertising and Membership and very important to our existence work-space for friends of WXXI and Auction volunteers. This is the radio reception area and includes offices, engineering, maintenance and a record library. We hope that WXXI FM 91.5 soon becomes as much of a household word as Channel 21. One of the most popular programs on our new FM station is Sounds Like Fun hosted by Mitzi Collins.

Our wire service room and network lines on the second floor are immediately adjacent to the working space for the radio and news staff. Five WXXI reporters are daily covering local stories in-depth for radio and television broadcasts. The staff you see here are Nydia Rivera, Dan Tasciotti, Jack Rotholtz, and Mary Flynn. Our greatest luxury, a lunch room for staff and volunteers overlooking the television studios. And this is Studio B where most of our news and public affairs programs originate. The control room for Studio A is where the director is now directing this program. It has switching equipment, remote lighting controls, and audio control for all microphones and other sound sources. We complete our quick tour back here in Studio A. This is the space where we hope to continue our large community participation programs like town meetings and open hearings as well as

televise large performing arts groups. And there we are back - it's all magic as you can see. We are going to have "The Bottom of the Bucket, But" in just about a minute. I regret we don't have an opportunity to introduce many out of town guests that came great distances tonight Good morning. One or two people who helped make this all possible, the architect of the building, Mr. Dan,? your all of Titans row?? would you stand up and stand remain standing so we can all see you. A contracting firm with John Luther Company and the president was Bill Sermon. Bill would you stand up and remain standing for a minute? We have many other managers from other public television stations in New York State. So I will introduce one manager and one chairman from another station Would that be good balance, Frank? Bob Hanrahan from Watertown from WNPE the Public

Television station. And we have someone from the network level here also Michael J. Collins, J. Michael Collins I beg your pardon standing back there. Get into a light Mike. And Mike is the President / General Manager of the Buffalo station and he's also the president now the board of managers of the Public Broadcasting System, an important national position. In closing let me assure the board of trustees of RAETA and the greater Rochester community that the staff does not feel that we have arrived because of our beautiful new surroundings rather we view this dedication as a beginning. Harold Hacker only touched on the blood, sweat and tears that went into the development of WXXI over the past 17 years. We will not forget the sacrifices that individuals, some of whom are gone now, and organizations have made to ensure that this community has been provided with this in public - with this important public broadcasting service. You have a

dedicated staff. They have never known an eight hour day a five day week. Their commitment is inspired by the community's commitment. And I can tell you that they have worked around the clock during the past several months to ensure that this facility was ready for you tonight. While this is a beautiful structure and it will be equipped with the state of the art electronic equipment our work has just begun. It remains for us to use these facilities, both radio and television and possibly cable television capability for program origination so that all the people of the greater Rochester area will derive some benefit. As in the past, we will continue to need your participation. No, we're not going to ask you to call and make a pledge of support. We'll need your participation to make sure the nuts and bolts do something to enrich our lives. We would not have come to this far if thousands of people had not worked so hard to make it happen. As with any new and growing organization

many individuals over the years provided the leadership just at the right time. I hope I have the pleasure of welcoming each of you into our new facility on State Street. You helped make it possible. Thank you. And now for the benediction, Father Lavry. Friends in the studio and in the audience, Bill did not appeal for memberships and I'm not the Bottom of the Bucket. May the Lord bless us and keep us. May he let his face shine upon us and be gracious to us. May the Lord look upon us kindly, and grant us peace. And may he inspire each of us and all the friends of Channel 21 to seek the vision of unlimited truth and beauty that are the possession of God, and may we find a glimpse of these gifts through the wonders of radio and television here at Channel 21. Our new Public Broadcasting Center is at 280 State Street in Rochester, next to the

Rochester Button Company and across from the Kodak Office building. Its 40000 square feet in a two storey precast concrete and tinted glass building. This is the main entrance and the reception area. Diane Wilkins is usually there to greet you. Beyond the reception to the left is the administration area, bookkeeper, business manager, and the ogre who always says no to anything that costs more than $5. A large open office landscape area is occupied by the Instructional Television Department. Television Programming, Television Production and Special Projects. Department heads have offices along one side of the open office space. This is a large attractive area and a delight to work in. We are indebted to Ruth Sillems who selected the furniture and colors, and did the layout for this area. The Art Department is also light and

cheerful with a window facing State Street. Sue Wright, here, is our staff artist. For the first time, we have our own film processing and film editing facilities. Jerry Puglia, cinematographer, is at work here viewing the film on the Moviola. The videotaping room houses six large recording and playback machines and forms the backbone of all our television production. Our film and slides on television originate from an area called Tele Cine. And the camera controls and titling devices for television are also in this part of the master control room. The engineer responsible for keeping us on the air is isolated in a room of his own. But he has good visibility into the video tape room, seen just beyond here, on the Telecine room. On the second floor of this new building there is office space for all

our development programs, which include promotion, advertising and membership and very important to our existence, workspace for friends of WXXI and Auction volunteers. This is the radio reception area and includes offices, Engineering, Maintenance and a record library. We hope the WXXI FM 91.5, soon becomes as much of a household word as Channel 21. One of the most popular programs on our new FM station is Sounds Like Fun, hosted by Mitzi Collins. Our wire service room and network lines on the second floor are immediately adjacent to the working space for the radio and news staff. Five WXXI reporters are daily covering local stories in-depth for radio and television broadcasts. The staff you see here are Nydia Rivera, Dan Tosciatti Jack Ratholtz and Mary Flynn. Our greatest luxury, a lunch room for staff and volunteers overlooking

the television studios. And this is Studio B where most of our news and public affairs programs originate. The control room for Studio A is where the director is now directing this program. It has switching equipment remote lighting controls and audio control for all microphones and other sound sources. We complete our quick tour back here in Studio A. This is the space where we hope to continue our large community participation programs like town meetings and open hearings as well as televise large performing arts groups.