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WTJU, WUVA Join Resources
To Provide Election Coverage

By CINDI STUART

CD/Mike Powell

DEBATE—

University radio stations WUVA
and WTJU simultaneously broadcasted an
election debate in the South Meeting Room in
Newcomb Hall at 8 last night. Representing
the three major party candidates were
Seventh District Coordinator Phil Chabot,
University Republican Chairman Alex Simon
and Eric Royce, Executive Director for
Students for Schmitz. Following the debater's
opening remarks concerning their prospective
candidates, they answered questions from the
general audience and members of the press.

The WTJU and WUVA
radio staffs will cooperate in a
"gigantic pooling effort"
tonight in coverage of election
returns. Beginning at 6 p.m.,
the broadcast is the result of
many weeks of preparation by
members of both stations.

In addition to reporting
election returns, the program
will feature side reports and
commentaries by Professors
Norman A. Graebner and
William H. Harbaugh of the
history department, and
history graduate student Bill
Olsen, who has worked for
some of Charlottesville's radio
stations.

Edwin Carlisle of WUVA, a
College fourth-year student,
planned the joint program. He
has taped actualities of the
election throughout the year in
preparation for tonight's
broadcast.

Joe Bourdow, WTJU
station manager, is the
coordinator and will direct the
show on the air. The
anchormen, those reporting
events as they occur and
conducting interviews, will be
Wyatt Andrews, the president
of WUVA, and Mike Leech.

Eighty-five newsmen from
both WUVA and WTJU will be
dispatched to various state
headquarters for state and local
coverage. Lee Wilder, director
of special features at WTJU,
and Brad Face are the editors
for the Virginia election.

In addition to the special
features and reports, state and
local coverage will be
immediately available due to
posted newsmen. National
coverage will originate from
UPI reports and from
monitoring television
networks. It will be reported
on air as soon as it comes in.

The network will be
broadcast on WUVA at 89
cable fm and 640 am, on
WTJU at 91.3 fm, and on
WAYB, a Waynesboro station.
The program will also be
presented through audio signal
on Charlottesville's Channel II.
This will allow citizens to both
see and hear the local returns
on this station.

Although this is not the
first joint effort of the
University's radio stations, this
one is "being done more
efficiently than ever before,"
noted Mr. Wilder of WTJU. Mr.
Andrews of WUVA added that
the key note is cooperation in
working together to produce
the newscost.