In 1982, WXON began carrying ONTV programming on weekend afternoons and soon faced challenges from In-Home Theatre ( which aired 24 hours a day on what is now WPXD in microwave relay, utilizing the frequencies of the former Instructional Television Fixed Service ( ITFS ) used in schools in the 1970s ).
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The DIRECT's core stage would have remained at the existing diameter of the Shuttle's " Pegasus " barge used to transport the tank from Michoud to Kennedy Space Center, the existing work platforms in the Vehicle Assembly Building, the existing Mobile Launcher Platforms and Crawler-Transporters, and parts of the structure of the existing Fixed Service Structure and Flame Trenches at Launch Complex 39 could be used without major modifications.
