NAEB Newsletter (October 1, 1964)

two years of college and take advanced and graduate courses over this service of the Chicago Board of Education. ^ Beginning this fall, Minneapolis-St. Paul residents will be able to earn University of Minnesota credits for courses to be offered over KTCA-TV, the Twin Cities ETV station. The program offers four freshman-level courses; next fall addi¬ tional frosh courses will be added, as will a series of courses on the sophomore level. ^ WETV, Atlanta, has concluded that its experimental ITV series last semester for seventh-graders on the molecular na¬ ture of matter stimulated student inquiry and excitement. The station now plans more programs of this nature for the coming school year. ^ Five hundred new schools have registered to receive MPATI telecasts this fall. Total membership is now approxi¬ mately 1800 schools enrolling 700,000 students. MPATI is offering 25 courses. ^ The School of the Air of the University of Wisconsin re¬ cently sent out approximately 36,000 radio and 8,000 TV bul¬ letins to schools all over the state, announcing sixteen radio programs (the most in the School of the Air’s 33-year his¬ tory) and ten TV series. GENERAL ^ A choice of four instructional channels plus commercial Channel 7 has been made available at the University of Texas through the installation of a new TV distribution system. In addition to use in nine classroom buildings, the new system will also operate in the Student Union Building. ^ Of the 45 school systems participating in the KLRN (Aus¬ tin) ITV operation, four are newcomers this year: Round Rock, Llano, Burnet, and Taylor. ^ A collection of nearly a thousand historic recordings from more than 40 years of broadcasting has been “placed in de¬ posit” with Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, for research and educational broadcast purposes, by the Crosley Broad¬ casting Corporation. The collection includes transcriptions from historic statements of world figures in major news events of the past four decades plus recordings of WLW per¬ formers who have become major figures in entertainment or news coverage. ^ The Mohawk-Hudson Council ETV station, WMHT, has resumed Sunday programing because of a grant from the Al¬ bany Times-Union and Knickerbocker News. Programs from the Eastern Educational Network, NET, and quality com¬ mercial network shows will be included in the Sunday fare. ^ The University of Illinois Medical Center radio-TV sec¬ tion is currently producing two documentary films. One is on the university’s cooperative program in Chiengmai, Thailand, and the other is cm the work that university ophthalmologists are doing in Haiti for Project Focus. ^ A recent survey shows that TV viewers tend to switch to another channel if a program is sponsored by a religious or¬ ganization. Research teams interviewed persons in Philadel¬ phia, Houston, and Westchester County (N.Y.) in the study conducted by William J. Millard, Jr., a University of Texas research associate. ^ KVIE’s test pattern appeared mysteriously on all three na¬ tional networks recently. While preparing for coverage of the Republican National Convention in San Francisco, a crew was trying to pick up a microwave signal from a helicopter; but each time the attempt was made, the KVIE signal was all that came through. It turned out that the signal was from the microwave transmitter on top of Mt. Diablo used to relay KVIE programs to KQED in San Francisco. KVIE agreed to shut down the network for the duration of the Convention. ^ A new line of professional audio equipment for recording studios, auditoriums, theaters and other installations requir¬ ing high-quality sound reproduction has been announced by NAEB Headquarters: Suite 1119, 1346 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20036. Phone 667-6000. Area Code 202. the RCA Broadcast and Communications Products Division, which will now concentrate its business activity in sound in the professional audio field and no longer will market a broad line of sound items for use in “engineered sound” systems. KUHT, University of Houston, has begun its fall schedule from new studios and with major improvements in equipment. ^ KCET, Los Angdes, has completed work on its Mount Wilson transmitting facilities and was to begin regular broad¬ casting September 28. It has a capital investment of $1,300,000 in its facilities, and a power of 1,200,000 watts ERP. ^ WQED, Pittsburgh, on its tenth anniversary recently, dedi¬ cated a historic marker commemorating its having been the first community-sponsored ETV station in the United States and the first ETV station to bring TV teaching to elementary classrooms. PROGRAMS ^ “The Right to Question—Freedom’s Foundation,” a pro¬ gram produced by the South Carolina ETV Network for the South Carolina Young Lawyers Conference, won a first- place award from the national Young Lawyers Conference. The 30-minute program consisted of a panel discussion on the national system of law and justice between prominent South Carolina attorneys and students from A. C. Flora High School in Columbia. ^ “A Foreign Student—An American Campus,” a documen¬ tary radio program produced at the University of Minne¬ sota’s KUOM, was recently broadcast world-wide by the Voice of America. The 30-minute program, produced by KUOM program supervisor Bob Binkley, portrays the U. of M. as seen through the eyes of a Filipino student, Boni¬ facio Bangcaya, a graduate student in agricultural economics. ^ A 13-program how-to-do-it series, “Home Handyman,” is being shown this fall over WQED and WQEX, Pittsburgh. The series was made possible through a public service grant from the National Lumber Manufacturers Association with materials furnished by the Pittsburgh Lumber Joint Action Committee No. 179. ^ “The Spanish-American Hour,” a KQED, San Francisco, television series aimed especially at the Bay Area’s large Spanish-speaking audience, profiles the artistic and cultural 'life of the Spanish-speaking countries, variously spotlighting ballet, drama, opera, literature, music, painting, and sculp¬ ture. Although titles, commentary, and song are all in Span¬ ish, Berkeley attorney Ricardo Callejo, acting as series host, introduces the programs and annotates the proceedings in English as well as Spanish. The series is derived largely from a regular Mexico City television feature, “La Hora de Bellas Artes.” ^ Milwaukee’s educational VHF station, WMVS, made its first Saturday telecast on the 4th of July to cover the re¬ putedly longest circus parade in the world, part of the cele¬ bration “A Day in Old Milwaukee.” Congratulatory mail about the parade coverage this year was among the heaviest the station has ever received. A year ago the station videotaped the parade for NET’s “What’s New” series. “Information for the Blind,” a new radio series on the 2nd etwork of NHK, Japan, is also drawing very heavy con¬ gratulatory mail. The half-hour weekly program provides both practical and vocational education. In addition, NHK since 1952 has offered its program listings in Braille and has co- operated with schools for the blind on instructional radio. ^ A high school teacher and four German-born professors from the University of California, Santa Barbara, recently discussed “Germany Today” over KCOY-TV, Santa Maria. ^ WHYY, Philadelphia, recently telecast live the first Jesse Owens Olympic Development Track Meet, the first Saturday broadcast in the station’s history. ^ Performing artists in dance, piano and song are being seen this fall over WTTW, Chicago, in a four-program series, “University of Nebraska Artists,” featuring the Ann Lishner Dance Group, pianist Audun Ravnan, and operatic singer OCTOBER, 1964 3