NAEB Newsletter (October 1, 1966)

NEWS NOTES WMVS, Channel 10; WMVT, Channel 36 moved to larger quarters. Dedication of new facilities will take place this month. “The Pleasure Horse and You”, 5-pro¬ gram series demonstrating various riding techniques made its debut on WMHT, Channel 17, Schenectady. Fifth station in the Georgia network all set to cover the Central Savannah River area. Will program on a regular schedule, Monday through Saturday. Chicago City College’s Television Col¬ lege curriculum offers two forty-five min¬ ute lessons each week in Beginning Ger¬ man, Child Psychology, Data Processing, In¬ troduction to Poetry, National Government, Physical Science, Problems in Philosophy, Social Science, Speech Fundamentals. Held at Columbia University by the Board of Foreign Scholarships, which has statutory supervision of educational ex¬ change programs conducted by the State Department and HEW, a symposium on the progress of exchange programs in the last twenty years and future developments boosted by recent government initiatives. Membership drive for KRMA, Channel 6, Denver, is one month old. R. L. Ricken- baugh is honorary chairman. An NAEB-National Home Library Foundation supported WHA Radio Series, Meet Mr. Emerson, will be distributed na¬ tionally and broadcast by NER’s 125 mem¬ ber stations. Ruth Plakias was author and narrator. Actors include Karl Schmidt, Ken Ohst, Cliff Roberts, Steve Markstrom, Ken Larvick, Norman Michie, and Jim Collins. University of Wisconsin has begun tap¬ ing a new closed-circuit instructional se¬ ries, planned by the Research and Devel¬ opment Center for the children’s division of the Psychiatry Department. Programs will focus on paraschizophrenic twins, re¬ cord continuing diagnosis, therapy and evaluation at three to four month inter¬ vals. Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, has divided the department of philosophy and religion. Dr. Harry F. Booth named chairman of the new department of religion; Dr. Frederick Ferre to head the depart¬ ment of philosophy. A recent survey revealed that WQED, Channel 13, is viewed in 70% of the homes in the metropolitan Pittsburgh area, one- fourth of the audience Watching at least once a week. Some favorite programs— Open End, Play of the Week, The French Chef, WPIAL Sports. “Have You Read . . .” celebrates its fifth season on WCBS, Channel 2, New York University. Teacher, NYU’s Dr. Floyd Zul- li. Reading list this series includes Dreiser’s The Titan, Bernard Malamud’s Magic Bar¬ rel, William Styron’s Lie Down in Dark¬ ness. Yearbook/Directory This year, for the first time, a compre¬ hensive listing of individuals, institutions, associations, agencies and suppliers involved in educational broadcasting will be made available. To be released annually at the time of the NAEB Convention, the Yearbook/Di¬ rectory will include all institutional and in¬ dividual members of the NAEB as well as ETV networks and program libraries, statewide ETV authorities and commis¬ sions, government agencies administering and supporting educational radio and tele¬ vision, instructional television fixed service facilities, related associations in the field of educatonal broadcasting and industrial as¬ sociates of NAEB. The Yearbook/Directory will include ad¬ vertisements from suppliers of educational broadcasting materials. Persons with full convention registrations will receive a com¬ plimentary copy. Otherwise, the Yearbook/ Directory will be available, $5.50 per copy. WCNY Credit Courses Fall began with an educational innovation in central New York State—television col¬ lege credit courses broadcast on WCNY, Channel 24. The State University of New York, through Onondaga Community Col¬ lege and The State University College at Oswego, is offering Eye on the Universe and History of Latin America I. Dr. Harry E. Crull, planetarium director and professor of astronomy at State Uni¬ versity of New York, Albany, will help viewers delve into problems of the solar system; Dr. Harold F. Peterson, professor of history, State University College, Buffa¬ lo, along with guest specialists, will trace political and cultural evolution of South American nations. WNAS-FM NY Wins Award Junior Navigator, an instructional se¬ ries produced by WNAS-FM, New Albany, tied for first place award with WCCO-AM Minneapolis in the annual radio-television competitions sponsored by the Women’s Auxiliary of the American Legion. The shows were written by Jenny Pineur while she was a New Albany high school student last year. Miss Pineur is now a communi¬ cations major at the University of Indiana. WNAS director Jerry Weaver, was nar¬ rator of the series; Mike Huber and Rita Riggs, staff members, were featured an¬ nouncers. Kuht-Houston Report The Gulf Region Educational Television Affiliates (GRETA), a cooperative organi¬ zation established by the University of Houston to provide ITS, estimates that nearly 68,000 additional students this semes¬ ter will be served by KUHT, Channel 8. Ten public and seven parochial schools joined GRETA this past summer, raising school membership to 76. Telecourses will reach an approximate total of 381,694 stu¬ dents in the metropolitan Houston area. GRANTS From HEW, awarded under the ETV Facilities Act: $229,806 to the Milwaukee Board of Vo¬ cational and Adult Education, to enable WMVS, Channel 10 and WMVT, Channel 26 to produce, transmit in full color. $835,599 to Board of Governors of West Virginia University to establish first ETV outlet in the State. Will activate a new sta¬ tion on Channel 24, Morgantown. $65,000 to KUAC FM, University of Alaska, to expand public service program¬ ing to Fairbanks, and through a new tape duplicating system, to the entire State. Awarded under the Higher Education Act of 1965. From the Dog Care Division Ralston- Purina Company of St. Louis, $3,200 to WMVS, Channel 10, Milwaukee, to help produce a dog obedience training series. From the Carnegie Corporation, $60,000 to the University of Denver for a project dealing with development of ITV for non¬ classroom purposes. These requests for appropriations award¬ ed under the ETV Facilities Act were re¬ cently filed with HEW by: Blue Ridge ETV Association, Inc., Vir¬ ginia, to activate a new station on Chan¬ nel 15, Roanoke for $1,071,924. Clark County School District, Nevada, to activate a new station on Channel 10, Las Vegas, for $696,720. The Oklahoma Educational Television Authority to expand KETA, Channel 13, Oklahoma City—$487,288; KOED, Chan¬ nel 11, Tulsa—$120,498. Duluth-Superior Area Educational Television Corporation, Minnesota, to improve WDSE, Channel 8, Duluth, for $254,498. State Board of Directors for Educational Television, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, to activate a new station on Channel 9, Rapid City; KUSD, Channel 2, Vermillion, $328,206 and $487,539, respec¬ tively. Kentucky State Board of Education, Frankfort, seeks new stations on Channel 35, Madisonville—$440,315; Channel 21, Murray; Channel 23, Elizabethtown; Chan¬ nel 52, Owenton—$328,242 each. Mississippi Authority for Educational Television, Jackson for a new station on Channel 29, Jackson—$1,478,676. Arizona Board of Regents, Arizona State University, Tempe, to improve KAET, Channel 8, Phoenix—$177,419. NAEB Newsletter, a monthly publication is¬ sued by the National Association of Education¬ al Broadcasters, $5.00 a year. Editor: Udell S. Ehrlich. NAEB Headquarters: 1346 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C., 20036. Phone 667- 6000. Area Code 202. 2 NEWSLETTER