PREC Scholarships Awarded

NPR Distribution is happy to announce that John Mackey, chief engineer at KBOO-FM Community Radio in Portland, Oregon and Julianne McGinness, general manager of KTNA 88.5 FM in Talkeetna, Alaska have received scholarships to the Public Radio Engineering Conference (PREC), April 4-5, 2003 in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is the first time that NPR Distribution has offered a scholarship to the PREC.

"Both John and Julianne presented excellent reasons why the PREC scholarship would be valuable to themselves and their stations," says Fredessa Hamilton, manager of Technology Training.

"Julianne is actively involved in establishing a regional engineering cooperative program for the six sister stations of Community Radio of Alaska, to serve remote rural stations. John expressed an urgent need to know more about distribution technology, HD Radio and cascading/transcoding issues to assist his community radio station. These folks represent the kind of stations at which we hope to have significant impact through the Technology Training Initiative," Freddi added.