Rick Hicks

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  The station upgraded its transmitter and raised its antenna from 700 feet to 1,000 feet last year, said HPPR executive director Richard Hicks.
  
  The signal isn't quite as strong as the 92.9 translator signal was.It can be picked up clearly on car radios and newer stereos, but people indoors or with smaller radios might have difficulties with the signal.
  
  "Service is available; it's just not as convenient as it was," Hicks said.
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  The spectrum is quite crowded in Dodge City," Hicks said.
  
  He said the network has little choice but to wait for another filing window to open at some point in the future.
  
  "When another filing window opens is really anybody's guess," Hicks said.

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  Richard HicksExecutive Director,HIGH PLAINS PUBLIC RADIO

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  Richard Hicks Executive Director

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  "The accusation of liberal bias is overstated," HPPR Executive Director Rick Hicks said."It's usually made by those with loud voices," he added.
  
  Hicks said that conservatives for years have sought to produce a "smoking gun" that proves without a doubt that public radio tilts too far to the left."They haven't found one," he said, adding that the staunchly conservative one-time head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Kenneth Tomlinson, looked high and low - without success - for left-leaning bias before he quit CPB under fire in November 2005.
  
  "We don't get complaints here in the Panhandle about programming," Hicks said.

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  Richard HicksExecutive Director

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  Rick HicksExecutive Director

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  Rick Hicks, Executive Director of High Plains Public Radio, drove the trailer across the plains where you could always see at least 5 miles in every direction.

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  "This is a huge deal for us," said Rick Hicks, executive director of HPPR."It will allow us to provide the very first public radio service for some people in the Amarillo area and improved service for a lot of our existing members."
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  The purchase of the new station is only one part of a long-term plan meant to bring full-service National Public Radio to Amarillo, Hicks said.
  
  "This will bring the full NPR schedule to the Amarillo area effective next week," Hicks said."Our longer-term goal is to be able to originate programming here in Amarillo, so the cultural assets of Amarillo can be shared throughout the Panhandle."
  
  The switchover plan calls for The Breeze to go silent early today with HPPR going live on 105.7 early next week, most likely Tuesday.
  
  Hicks said HPPR officials are considering converting the lower-powered translator stations that have been relaying public radio in the area to a secondary use.
  
  "A few months or a year off, I'd like to have primary service - with the NPR core schedule - on the main station and use these other transmitters to provide a second service," Hicks said.

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