NAEB Newsletter (April 1, 1965)

GENERAL ^ KFME, Fargo (N.D.), has in production the first locally produced college credit course. The series is being used by students on the Moorhead campus and the North Dakota State campus as well. Because KFME has no studio facilities, arrangements have been worked out with a local commercial station, WDAY, to record the course in their studios. ^ More than 50 of the country’s top TV and advertising executives will explore the medium’s potential during the next decade at a three-day seminar sponsored by Stanford University under a grant from TV Guide magazine. The April 25-27 meetings will include lectures by outstanding speakers, plus group discussions. Under a USOE grant, researchers at the University of exas are exploring TV viewing as a means of continuing education for Spanish-speaking families. ^ Plans are nearing completion for the extension of ETV to all the elementary schools in Monterrey, Mexico, using morn¬ ing time donated by a commercial station. ETV in the city has grown under a Ford Foundation grant and with the tech¬ nological help from the University of Texas. (The project was reported in the July-August 1964 NAEB Journal.) ^ Station Manager Colby Lewis, of Mic hig a n State Univer- sity’s WMSB, in a recent program bulletin appealed to read¬ ers to let the station know what types of programs they would like. ^ Media is the name of the new monthly 24-page program guide listing offerings of Oregon’s KOAC-AM-TV and KOAP-FM-TV. The booklet is an enlargement of the former guide published for the radio stations. ^ WJCT, Jacksonville, has acquired a new location to serve as combination station and fund-raising center. The new building provides space for a studio sixty feet square, as well as a smaller studio and ample office space. ^ Pennsylvania State University’s new station, WPSX-TV, began broadcasting last month with on-air hours of 10-3 :30, Monday through Friday. Later this year an evening schedule will be added. Construction of a studio is scheduled to begin this year, but local production of programs will precede its completion, as a mobile recording unit will be delivered earlier. ^ As of July 1, Boston University’s WBUR-FM will be transformed into the “Boston University Magazine of the Air,” featuring variety, depth, and responsiveness to the in¬ terests of an intellectually demanding audience. ^ Ron Polcari, station manager of WERS, Boston, reports an interesting phone conversation. A man called the station to find out where to 'locate WERS on the dial. Upon being told that it was an FM station, he said, “You mean you’re not on the regular radio?” After an explanation that AM uses some airwaves and FM others, Polcari says that the man seemed satisfied, b ut left him feeling that he was managing some kind of weird operation not on regular radio. ^ KWSC-TV, Washington State University, is studying re¬ quests from school districts and universities in the eastern part of the state, asking KWSC to relay its programs to those areas via microwave. If adopted, the new service would bring the signal into some ten large and small cities not now served by ETV. ^ William McCarter, of WETA-TV, Washington, assem¬ bled and hosted a presentation last month of 16 ETV pro¬ gram segments for viewing by 150 persons, mostly FCC per¬ sonnel—for a better understanding of ETV. ANNIVERSARIES 15th —March 1, Boston University’s WBUR (FM). 10th —January, WUNC, Chapel Hill, N. C., and WAIQ, University, Ala.; April, WB1Q, Birmingham; August, WTHS, Miami. NAEB Headquarters: 1346 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Wash¬ ington, D.C., 20036. Phone 667-6000. Area Code 202. TWX 202- 965-0299. RADIO STATIONS EXPAND BROADCAST HOURS ^ KUT-FM, University of Texas, has extended its broad¬ cast hours until midnight, seven days a week. Program Di¬ rector Bill Giorda has scheduled a two-hour “Jazz Nocturne” each night from 10 p.m. to midnight. ^ The Wisconsin State Radio Council hopes for a return to Saturday broadcasting. The hopes were sparked at a re¬ cent finance committee hearing on the 1965-67 Council budget. ^ WGUC, University of Cincinnati, has extended its time on the air three hours every week day to provide more classi¬ cal music. The station is now on the air from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. week days and 12 :30 to 7 :30 p.m. Sundays. The operating staff volunteered to take on the extra 18 hours without extra pay. ^ Michigan State University began separate FM radio pro¬ graming March 1. Instead of duplicating WKAR-AM fare, the new WKAR-FM programing features a wide variety of cultural offerings—serious music, drama, contemporary jazz, folk music, news, opera, Broadway and avant-garde music. PROGRAM NOTES ^ John Henry Faulk, author of Fear on Trial, appeared as a guest on the WTTW (Chicago) Book Beat series. ^ KUED, Salt Lake City, was one of six stations to give a regional report on the anti-poverty program' - KUETD dealt with the depressed economic conditions among the Indians, showing three types of poverty conditions: Indians on iso¬ lated small reservations, those on larger reservations (such as the LTte-Ouray), and those in satellite living circumstances near cities or towns. ^ Museum of the Plains is a six-program series produced at a unique South Dakota museum by KUSD, Vermillion, for distribution on the Midwest ETV Network. ^ WJCT, Jacksonville, won a citation from the local Cham¬ ber of Commerce for a 12-program series, Management TV Journal. The format featured films provided by the American Management Association telecast at 4:15 p.m. for viewing and subsequent discussion by supervised “in-industry” study groups. At 10 p.m. the film was repeated for the study groups and the general public. Following this showing, a panel of three local business leaders answered and discussed questions that had been telephoned to the station by the study groups and the public. ^ Alabama’s ETV series Americanism vs. Communism has been selected to receive a 1965 Freedom Award by the Free¬ doms Foundation at Valley Forge. ^ In the first major production effort in the new Radio-TV Center studios, Indiana University TV personnel have pro¬ duced a two-hour full-scale videotape recording of the Puc¬ cini opera Madame Butterfly. ^ An hour-long self-portrait of Durand, Michigan, was heard on WUOM Ann Arbor and WVGR Grand Rapids recently. Ralph Johnson produced the radio program about the town which was a key division point on the Grand Trunk Western Railroad at the turn of the century. He hopes to produce other such programs about other towns and cities. ^ WBAA, Purdue University, and a local newspaper and symphony society are sponsoring Music Memory Contest. Mem¬ bers of the symphony society choose the selections, for which program notes are printed in the paper, and which are broad¬ cast on WBAA. Students who pass preliminary tests at their schools will go to the Purdue campus for a final test on May 2 . ^ The Eternal Quest is the name of a new TV series about Jewish history scheduled to debut April 4 on Chicago’s NBC outlet, WMAQ-TV. Studs Terkel will host the series, which is presented by the broadcasting commission of the Chicago Board of Rabbis. Almost a year in the making, the series is said to represent one of the most ambitious programs of tele¬ vised education ever undertaken by a religious organization. ^ KWSC, Washington State University, is preparing broad¬ cast reports on the progress of two young teachers in their new school assignment in Zambia. The teachers, formerly of Washington State, are employed by the American Friends APRIL, 1965 3