General Manager's Report for BoD 25 September 2003 John K Muir TU Student Levy; For the first time in more than ten year we received an information page with the first draw of the levy. This is wonderful. Unfortunately there is a miscalculation on the page based on the student numbers indicated. from the information sheet Trent Radio - Student Levy of $15.00 per student Calculation of Levy Cheque for September 2003 Installment Estimate of the number of full-time Peterborough students only: 4,935 (Excludes nursing students, graduate students & f-t students studying abroad) [Our calculation $15.00 per student x 4,935 = $74,025.00] Estimate of the number of full-time Peterborough nursing students only:296 [Our calculation $7.50 per nursing student x 296 = $ 2,220.00] [Total of our calculations: $76,245.00] "Estimated 2003AY revenue based preliminary student count estimates from above" from TrentU Finance Office information September 2003: $71,805.00 Difference of the Sum above and TU Finance Office estimate: $4,440.00 New tower for CHEX-TV On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 I received a phone call and followup email from Paul Ward at CHEX. *** Subject: New Tower Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:07:06 -0400 From: "Paul Ward" To: CC: "Larry Cameron" , "Ron Johnston" John: This E-mail is to inform you that we at CHEX are going to build a new 1000' tower on TV road. The tower is to be completed by January 2004. The New tower will allow for growth in the future as new technologies come to commercial broadcasting. You should at this point be aware that the old tower will be disassembled after Jan /04 and you will need to move your transmitter to the new tower by that time. We would be happy to help in any way we can to make the transition as easy as possible. Please keep me informed of your plan in this regard. Yours truly, Paul Ward CHEX-TV *** Gary Hooper of HPS Services is ready, willing and able to do what is necessary to set us up on the new tower. The cost could be anywhere from $5,000 to $20,000 depending on what and how we make the installation. In addition, the new location may require a new technical brief to be filed with Industry Canada. Some of the issues to consider are; a) do we deinstall our current antenna and remount it on the new tower OR de we obtain a new antenna so that the switch can be done more quickly, b) do be wish to go higher, increasing coverage and reducing power. We may wish to consider that CHEX may start to charge us for electricity at some point in the future. Trillium Studio C Project The report was filed, signed by President, and sent on 10 Sep 03. As of 24 Sep 03, 11,137 CDs have been processed, creating 124,071 files. There are about 1,700 CDs remaining to be encoded. Evan Prentice from reBoot North is working on the finding aid. Pablo Carbajals (former TRadio programmer and Computer Studies Student) is working on a review of available software to meed our need in regards to keeping track of programmers and programming. He will be paid $320.00 for this. Students from a TrentU Computer Studies course are considering developing a music sheet reporting system for their project this year. Kinya Fujiwara has found matching funding from the Trent International Programme to work on Spoken Work ingest this academic year.