Educational screen & audio-visual guide (c1956-1971])

Budget for Midwest Program On Airborne Television Instruction Covering the Period Fall, 1959, Through May, 1962 The budget of the Midwest Program has been broken down into major categories, witli the costs for each category indicated on the same line. 1. Aircraft and Transmitting Equipment Design, installation and operation of transmitting equipment $2,100,000 Design, installation and operation of narrowband experimental equipment 400,000 Operation, maintenance, handling, and hangaring of aircraft 1,150,000 Engineering planning and consulting services 200,000 Total $3,850,000 2. Preparation of 28 Courses of Instruction Planning and producing or purching 28 courses $1,820,000 Purchase of magnetic tape 340,000 Operation of tape processing center to receive, duplicate, and prepare tapes for placing on plane 250,000 Total $2,410,000 3. Professional and technical assistance to schools and colleges Support of Resource Institutions, Area Coordinators, and Regional Advisory Commission $330,000 Conferences and teacher workshops 140,000 Total $470,000 4. Public Information Salaries, wages, social security, travel, consultants, conferences, and clerical services $ 60,000 MPATI brochure, quarterly newsletter, and other publications and displays 50,000 Total $110,000 5. Program Evaluation 6. Physical facilities (Rent, utilities, telephone and telegraph, office supplies, postage and mailing, publications, printing and duplicating, and other office overhead ) 7. Administrative Costs (Salaries, wages, travel ) 8. Consultants and Professional Services 9. Special Conferences and Workshops 10. Contingency TOTAL PROJECT COSTS* $7 80,000 125,000 380,000 110,000 25,000 190,000 ,750,000 ' The purchase price of the aircraft was not included in the above data. Financing of the purchase of the aircraft was handled outside the budget and their disposition at the end of the project will also be handled as a non-budget item. of the aircraft operating expenses should 1 multiplied by 1 1/3 to allow for the use of oi spare aircraft for each three operational aircrai Certain of the operating expenses, howevc should not be multiplied by the 1 1/3 facte since tlie cost would he incurred only in whic ever single aircraft was operating. The operatii cost summaries are shown in Table B. In addition, a 26-station microwave rel; system, providing 650 miles of microwave circu would be recjuired to link the 14 broadcastii stations comprising the ground-based facilitit The total annual operating cost of this 26-stati( microwave relay system is estimated as follow Three operators Travel— one circuit per week average of 650 miles/week x $0.10/mile x 50 weeks= Maintenance, tubes, power, etc. qi $200/yr. per station $22,500 ) 3,250 ) 5,200 $30,950 J The comparable total for ground-based faciliti is thus $809,390 a year ($778,440 plus $30,950 The figures shown in Table C reveal a thre fold difference in capital costs in favor of ; airborne systein as well as a slight edge for a; borne television with respect to operating cost It will be a function of the economic evaiu tion of the Midwest Airborne project to provi( sufficient data to detail fully the significa differences in cost between airborne education' television and other methods of instmction. Mrs. Geraldine Workman of Kansas City, the first selected to produce courses for will teach world history and geography. Mo., 0111 MPATI. S 20 Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — January, 19*