NAEB Newsletter (June 1, 1965)

of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS VOL. 30, NO. 6 WASHINGTON, D.C. JUNE, 1965 NAEB Comments on Translator Proposal In comments concerning the FCC proposal to liberalize its rules regarding authorized power and available frequencies for TV translator use, the NAEB expressed general support for the principles and aims of the proposal. However, the NAEB filing also explored some doubts about certain aspects of the plan. The proposal would permit secondary use by high-power (up to 100 watts) TV translators on all unoccupied unreserved assignments in the Table of Assignments. The NAEB questioned the wisdom of linking the proposal to the present Table of Assignments when a modified Table is currently being considered in another docket. The NAEB proposed that the FCC resolve the over-all UHF docket pro¬ ceeding first, and then provide opportunity for additional com¬ ment in the current proceeding in light of those conclusions. ECS Enters Design Phase Under a new contract with the U. S. Office of Education, the NAEB ECS project will design three model systems to test the feasibility of furthering academic cooperation by multipurpose electronic networks. One system will emphasize intra-state cooperation, one will be regional, and one will con¬ centrate on use of non-university resources such as leading cultural and research institutions. The USOE contract will support the 18-month design phase at a cost of nearly $145,000. NAEB-NER Receives Grant For the second year, the National Home Library Foundation has awarded funds to NAEB’s educational radio stations. NER will use the $30,000 grant for production grants-in-aid; to distribute programs from domestic and foreign sources, with emphasis on literature and drama; and to provide program consultation services. In making the grant announcement, NHLF officials indi¬ cated that they were pleased with the use to which the funds granted last year were put. The initial grant made possible the production of more than 100 programs, which are being released via NERN this year. Attention Speakers, Consultants, Evaluators! The NAEB is developing a list of outstanding professional resource personnel for ETV, to be published in a “Personnel Resource Guide” for members, educators, and laymen. The guide will not be exclusively a speaker’s guide. It will include names of people who can serve as consultants, evaluators, and specialists as well. This will not be exclusively a source for free assistance. Where expenses and/or honoraria are required, the guide will so indicate. The committee of NAEBers working on the project is asking for recommendations. Please submit names and the topic area or areas in which each can best serve to NAEB Washington by August 1, 1965. Sole Radio Peabody Award Goes to WRVR-FM Two "firsts" were established recently with the awarding of the 1964 George Foster Peabody Award to WRVR-FM, Riverside Church station, New York City. It was the first time in the 25- year history of the awards that an entire radio station received such recognition, and it was also the first time that only one radio award was made. In the photograph, Jack D. Summerfield (center), WRVR general manager and chairman of the NER Board of Directors, accepts the award from John F. Drewry, dean of the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady School of Journalism, which, with the Peabody Board, administers the annual awards. Paul Porter, Pea¬ body Board member and former FCC chairman, looks on. Summerfield expressed appreciation to the affiliates of NERN and to the NAEB, as well as to those directly involved with WRVR. The Peabody was WRVR's ninth award in thirteen months. The citation noted that "Riverside Radio WRVR-FM has be¬ come one of the most influential factors in the expanding use of FM radio. It not only serves the discriminating metropolitan New York listeners, but its tapes have been used by 105 radio stations from Alaska to Florida, and by networks abroad. This process of cross-fertilization is lifting the entire moral, intellectual and cul¬ tural levels of radio." Among the 1964 television winners were NET's "The French Chef" and "Intertel." 1