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Deborah Proctor, General Manager
William Woltz, Media Liaison
phone:
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will@wcpe.org

For Immediate Release:

Great Classical Music moves to new channel on satellite Galaxy 5

The Classical Station, WCPE, has moved to a new location on satellite Galaxy 5.

Beginning July 1, 2004, you'll find WCPE's unscrambled audio signals on C-band satellite Galaxy 5, Transponder 15, at 5.58 and 6.12 MHz (for our discrete left and right audio channels.)

Please note that these are the same audio frequencies that WCPE has, until now, occupied on Galaxy 5, transponder 7. Note also that transponder 15, like transponder 7, utilizes horizontal polarization.

This is great news for anyone who has been acquiring WCPE from transponder 7 on Galaxy 5. All one must do to continue receiving Great Classical Music, without interruption, is to switch the channel setting on his receiver to transponder 15. All other settings remain unchanged. (4DTV users having difficulty should click here.)

We hope this makes your transition to our new location as smooth and convenient as possible.

WCPE must leave transponder 7 because the main signal on that channel -- WGN television from Chicago -- is converting to digital carriage.

As always, WCPE remains committed to providing the finest in classical programming, commercial-free, for radio stations, cable TV systems and other program distributors, as well as owners of home C-band satellite receivers. We still offer blanket permission for any legally authorized program provider to use our programming free of charge.

In addition to our analog signal, WCPE offers a digital signal on satellite AMC 4. This feed is unaffected by the move on Galaxy 5. We also hope we can soon provide an additional digital signal in the DVB format on a Ku-band satellite, offering you another downlinking option.

WCPE, a completely listener-supported radio station, has provided Great Classical Music to listeners in North Carolina for 26 years. We've been on satellite since 1998, as part of our mission to make this music available to everyone, everywhere. That mission also involves streaming our programming on the Internet in five distinct formats.

For more information about our satellite program, or about WCPE in general, please call 1-800 556-5178, or write wcpe@wcpe.org

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