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SCHENECTADY
SACC studies possible move from Broadway
Cable TV home too big, costly
BY MICHAEL LAMENDOLA Gazette Reporter

    SACC-TV may vacate its 115 N. Broadway home for a smaller facility that is cheaper to operate, according to the president of the nonprofit’s board of directors.
    Gary McCarthy said the board established a committee to investigate selling the building, forming a partnership with another organization to share operation costs, or remaining in the facility. “It’s big building with a small use,” he said.
    McCarthy said the Broadway building is expensive to operate and maintain, averaging about $2,000 per month. The station spends a further on payroll for three employees, equipment upgrades and other variable costs, for a total annual budget of $120,000, he said.
    SACC-TV uses a small portion of the building’s 20,000 square feet, spread equally over two floors. Its studio, offices and equipment rooms occupy only the fi rst floor. The second floor is vacant. SACCTV officials in May asked the floor’s two tenants, Schenectady Theater for Children and Schenectady Light Opera Company, to leave because of dangerous conditions there. They had used the space for storage.
    At the time, McCarthy said the cost to fix the second floor was between $500,000 and $750,000, which the public access station could not afford. SACC-TV gave up rental income when the tenants left.
    Elmer Bertsch, a former SACCTV board president and host of a show on Channel 16, said he once suggested the station move to an empty drug store on Brandywine Avenue and State Street.
    SACC-TV receives $80,000 through a cable users’ subscription fee charged by Time Warner, fundraisers and fees for use of the studio, McCarthy said. He said the Time Warner fee goes through the city, and the turnaround time is often slow.
    SACC-TV bought the 115 N. Broadway building, the former Goldstock’s store, for $35,000 in 1996. Over the years, the station has experienced financial troubles and was only able to.................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....amp;EntityId=Ar01102

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The second floor is vacant. SACCTV officials in May asked the floor’s two tenants, Schenectady Theater for Children and Schenectady Light Opera Company, to leave because of dangerous conditions there.

So who will have to pay for making this building 'safe' so it can go up for sale? Cause if it's in that bad of shape, it will be yet another empty building on State Street.
And you'd think that will all of the vaccant space on State Street, there would be 'somewhere' they could rent.

The County sheeple will be forced to pony up for the failure (AGAIN!) of these Krats. They can't run the County, they can't run the City, they can't run a TV station.

     This was supposed to be part of the "renaissance" of Downtown. HA-HA. Another empty building on N. Broadway near the permanently closed Parisi's Steakhouse. And no BT, they will not rent anything-they will purchase another empty hulk, with taxpayer and Time Warner largess-just like the horrible DSIC. Time to pull the plug on all Krat TV-16?

They will buy the SACCTV building for full price then turn around and sell it to a developer to rehab for $1 and the taxpayer will get the shaft again.