| Title |
Lester Erbes, Moab, Utah, Uranium History Series |
| Alternative Title |
Lester Erbes, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Erbes, Lester |
| Contributor |
Guttman, Steve |
| Date |
1970-08-12 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Moab, Grand County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Erbes, Lester--Interviews; Moab (Utah); Broadcasters--United States |
| Description |
Transcript (40 pages) of an interview by Steve Guttman with Lester Erbes, on August 12, 1970. From tape number 40 in the Uranium History Series |
| Abstract |
Steve Guttman interviewed Erbes, a broadcaster, in Moab. Subjects: personal background, recreational activities, television station, Moab as tourist center, poverty, politics, problems in Moab, future of Moab, Canyonlands (40 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
23 pages, 49 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Rights Holder |
For further information please contact Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah at spcreference@lists.utah.edu or (801)581-8863 or 295 South 1500 East, 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6fb78x2 |
| Topic |
Broadcasters; Utah--Moab |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1056188 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fb78x2 |
| Title |
Page 29 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1056171 |
| OCR Text |
Show LESTER ERBES /11 SG: No. LE: But he's one of the few. I know of very few people who do not have TV. Of course, I don't know everybody in town, and it's possible that some of the low income people that I don't even know, or some of the old, old people who are living very frugally don't, because this cable TV costs you money. There's a monthly charge. SG: Do you know what kind of pressures the cable TV has, the local station here, in terms of what type of things are broadcast? Are you involved in this at all? LE: No. The channels are ABC and NBC and Columbia. And they have the educational channel out of Salt Lake City, and the weather channel. SG: So, therefore, they would cover everybody's taste? LE: Yeah. They brjng the networks in. So whatever you can get in some other city, you can get right here, as far as networks are concerned, because we get it from Salt Lake. Everything they get up there right here. SG: In terms of your own show now, you pay the television station a fee? LE: Yeah. SG: So your profit comes strictly out of the advertising? LE: That's right. I use the channel twice a day, and I rent it on a monthly basis. I get my own sponsors, and they've been the same ones all the ti.me I've bee on. I run a 25 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fb78x2/1056171 |
