Television digest with electronic reports (Jan-Dec 1959)

bills for sovt. ethics, 3:6, 5:5, 8:3. 12:4 18:3. 21:4, 23:3, 24:3, 30:2; FCC’s Doerfer summarizes effects of bills on his agency, 42:9; Sen. Carroll moves to ban •'influencing” of PCC & other agencies. 44:9 bill giving FCC cabinet status, 3:6 bill exempting small TV & radio stations from wage-hour law, 3:6 bills for federal fair trade law, 3:14, 8:4, 9:4, 11:18, 12:18, 13:20. 18:21. 20:21, 30:19 bill for Office of Federal Admin. Practice, recommended by American Bar. 4:5, 20:4, 44:9, 47:14 bill to open House hearings to TV & radio, 4:6 ratings inquiry by Senate, 4:6, 19:7. 47:6 & 8 House legislative oversight subcommittee, 4:7, 5:5, 7:4, 8:3, 9:4, 15:4, 20:5, 21:4, 22:4, 26:2, 29:6, 39:4 Senate & House committee membership, 4:7, 5:6, 21:4, 35:4 bill proposes ham network as auxiliary to military communications, 5:5 Senate Judiciary Committee investigation of admin, practices, 7:4, 10:5, 28:5, 47:13 House Commerce communication & power subcommittee study of radio spectrum, 8:3, 9:4, 10:3, 11:4, 13:3, 14:7, 19:3, 22:4, 24:4 bill for FCC regulation of networks, 9:4 costs of TV-radio investigations, 10:5 Radio & Television Gallery new name for old radio gallery, 10:10 critical of possible fraudulent advertising, 10:11 code of ethics printed for govt, agencies. 11:4 Rep. Evins critical of White House influence on regulatory govt, agencies, 12:4 TV time-selling practices investigated by House Small Business subcommittee, 12:4 investigation of foreign TV & movie production asked by Hollywood unions, 14:7. 19:3, 25:16, 39:14, 40:13: bill prohibits use of foreign-made sound tracks, 23:3 bill to expand operating time of daytime radio stations, 18:3. 19:11 Sens, Douglas & Proxmire demonstrate non-skid wax for news cameras, 20:4 Senate rules on TV-radio coverage, 21:4 resume of status of TV-radio legislation, 22:1 bill to relax appeals from rulings by FCC and other agencies, 23:4 “Ex parte” rules asked by FCC-industry panel convened by Rep. Harris’ subcommittee, 25:2 bill making criminal offense of malicious damage to communications facility, 28:5 advisory council on admin, problems of regulatory agencies formed by Rep. Harris, 29:6. 30:5 fines & jail terms provided by law to back up FTC cease-&-desist orders, 29:21 bill providing for TV-radio station ownership by Russia in U.S. and vice versa, 31:5 quiz show investigation. 31:5. 32:2. 33:4, 34:4, 37:3, 40:1. 41:2. 42:1, 43:1, 4 & 8, 44:1. & 4, 45:2, 48:3: report in ‘Life,’ 46:8, 50:6 Senate Commerce Committee approves 7 FCC procedure revision bills, 32:6, 33.3, 34:4 admin, agencies’ need for revision pointed out in letter by Louis Hector, resigning from CAB, 39:2; rebuttal by FTC’s Kintner, 46:5 resolutions calling on Hollywood to keep from misrepresenting u.S. in exported movies, 33:4 Senate Commerce Committee gets historic NBC microphone. 35:6 Congressional TV coverage proposed in resolution. 36:4 “Freedom of speech” Senate watchdog committee, 38-3, 39:4, 42:10 House Small Business Committee checking complaints that small advertisers can’t get prime time, 40:11 payola investigation, 44:2, 45:1, 46:8, 47:6 & 17, 48:1, 50:6 Sen. Magnuson tells bcstrs., FCC & FTC to "clean up” programming, 47:5. 48:1 House Ways & Means Committee hearings on tax law revisions, 49:13 bill requiring TV & radio sets with foreign parts to be marked as to producing country, 49:20 review of 1959 activities, 52:1 “DO YOU KNOW THAT . . ” (see Personnel) EDUCATIONAL TV "Continental Classroom.” 1:4, 3:8. 11:7, 13:6, 16:17. 17:7, 22:11. 29:22, 36:12, 38:6 “Reading Program” to curb illiteracy in Carolinas by Charles Crutchfield stations, 1:8 Cal. Teachers Assn, decries all-TV closed-circuit film Instruction at Compton (Jr.) College. Los Angeles, 2:8; students also opposed. 25:11; 'Wall St. Journal’ report. 37:5 Hagerstown Md. study, 2:8, 13:5, 25:11 used to Improve “slow learners” at Ft. Gordon, Ga„ 2:8 future expansion seen as source of business for equipment suppliers, 2:8, 8:11, 19:9, 31:24 Florida plans network, 3:4 U. of North Carolina’s Master of Arts in Communication degree, 3:10 audio-visual re.search funds under National Defense Education Act. 4:11. 10:18, 11:13, 13:5, 22:11. 28:8, 35:19, 45:23, 49:23 Ohio ETV network plans, 4:11 Educational TV & Radio Center, 4:11, 14:11, 23:5 NAEJB officers, 5:9; TV-radlo research grants, 10:10, 11:13; Industrial members, 29:13 Ch. 12, Wilmington, Del. for ETV. 6:4, 21:7 important tool, but no teacher substitute, concludes NEA seminar, 6:15 N Y. ETV appropriation. 6:15, 16:17, 35:19 Venezuelan experiment, 6:15 John P. Cunningham, pres, of Cunningham & Walsh, urges adv. & bestg. assns. to lead crusade for more ETV, 7:3; reactions, 10:17; at Ohio State U. Institute, 19:9 students learn better with TV than by conventional methods, 7:5, 11:13, 23:5. 27:12, 31:24 Motorola’s “Classroom 21” set. 8:11 specifications for classroom sets outlined by two experts in field, 8:13 cities with in-school TV listed, 8:13 M. A. & Ph.D degrees offered by Syracuse U. in TV, only U.S. graduate school, 9:11 Mass Communications History Center, Madison, Wis„ 9:11 Cortland County, N.Y. experiment, 11:13 Kan. legislation, 11:13, 13:5 “Lamp of Knowledge” WBZ-TV, Boston, project. 11:13 network for NE U.S., 13:5. 31:24 Washington conference of National Educational TV & Radio Center, 13:6, 14:11 improved TV teaching subject of 3 Boston pilot films, 15:20 One N.Y. station going non-commercial by 1964, predicts John F. White, 15:20 META programming on WPIX, N.Y., 16:17, 19:9; review of 1st year, 23:5; 2nd year, 37:5 CBC programs on WGBH-TV, Boston. 16:17 beginning Russian on WTOP-TV, Washington, 16:17, 35:19 homework vs TV viewing survey in Mahtomedi, Minn., 17:7 U. of Mich, film programs, 17:7 Sioux City, la. sociology class, 17:7 Gilbert Seldes heads U. of Pa.'s Annenberg School of Communications, 17:12 spelling bee on WSFA-TV, Montgomery, 17:12 Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, N.Y., 17:14, 18:6 Ohio State U. Institute, 19:9 college credit courses, 21:9, 35:19, 36:12, 37:5, 38:6, 39:20, 45:23, 46:9 how, not if, is question now, joint report by Ford Foundation & FMnd for Advancement of Education says, 22:11 KQED, San FYancisco, fund-raising, 23:5; school use, 47:24 U. of Texas tape series for commercial stations “Science Close-up,” 23:5 Boston U.’s School of Public Relations & Communications scholarship. 23:11 medical & dental courses. 25:11 video tape equipment lor all ETV outle’s to be provided under Ford Foundation grant. 26:5; ETV tape network. 33:3, 37:4, 39:20, 44:24 Va. ETV commission. 26:6 Lon? Island Agricultural & Technical Institute finds ETV unsatisfactory, 26:6 radio grants by NAEIB-NET, 26:6 illiteracy attack, 27:12, 38:6 electronic test grading machine, 27:22 Fund for Adult Eklucation’s “Public Responsibility” program. 28:8 Kansas City test, 28:8 Neb. TV-correspondence study program. 28:8 business aspects of bestg. should be taught broadcasting students says FYank Tooke, WBC, 29:10; college bestg. course on TV. 37:8 Fund for Adult Education grants, 29T3: Fund for Advancement of Education grants, 48:11 NAEB gets grant from Kellogg Foundation, 29:13 NYU Center for TV teaching. 31:24 need for educational stations outlined by Rep. McDowell, 31:24 upper Midwest regional ETV network study by NAEB, 31:24, 48:11 12-program pilot of Fund for the Advancement of Education. 34:9 ’Sunrise Semester,’ 34:9 N. Y. City Planning Commission holds ETV hearings, 35:19 electronics seen replacing textbooks by prof. John H. Chilcott in “The High School in 1985,” 35:19 NAEB criteria for grants. 35:19 director-producer functions subject of NAEB meeting, 35:19 study of ETV effectiveness in urban & rural schools, 35:19 central Pa. network for language instruction dropped for lack of funds. 35:19 300% increase in audience response to KFMBTV. San Diego, ’TV Classroom,’ 35:19 WBOC-TV, Salisbury, Md. carries ETV courses lor Delmarva schools, 35:19 Washington ETV network meeting, 36:12, 37:4 NAEB convention, 37:5; membership & program, 40:20. 47:24; constitution. 45:23 KIRO-TV programs 30-min. Kindergarten when budget eliminates class from Seattle schools, 37:5 TV installations at medical schools, reported by Council on Medical TV, 37:7 European trip by John F. White, pres, of NET&RC, 38:6 Hoffman’s classroom receiver, 38:6 Mrs. Roosevelt on ’Prospects of Mankind’ program. 38:7, 39:20 Canadian in-school programming. 38:7 beginning German taught on closed-circuit by U. of Texas, 39:20 NBC's “Briefing Session” on 42 ETV stations, 39:20 solves space problem for large UCLA enrollment, 39:20 subscription ETV advocated by ex-Sen. William Benton. 40:20 most effective ETV programming for children, subject of study by National ETV & Radio Center and 6 stations, 40:20 U. of Utah translators to originate most of own programming. 40:7 broadcast training inadequate in colleges says RAB’s Warren Boorom. 41:9 stratovision for inter-state network planned by Midwest Council on Airborne TV Instruction, 42:3, 47:24. 29:20 & 23, 52:14; bandwidth reduction also to be tested, 43:20, 44:24 teacher talent search, 45:23 Ore, high school seniors told of TV-radio job opportunities, 43:11 NAEB convention told TV opens way to massive upgrading in quality of education; other highlights, 44:24 Adler asks FCC to change rules to permit multitranslator ETV use, 44:24 U. of Ala. communications scholarship, 45:13 amount of programming on commercial stations, 46:3; commercial station leading in amount of ETV programming. 49:8 abstract science programming difficult. 46:9 national network envisioned by RCA's Gen. David Sarnoff, 47:24 French taught on CBC-TV, 47:24 1959 activities reviewed, 52:5 awarding degrees for home TV students foreseen by Dr. John E. Ivey, 52:14 ELECTRONICS. GENERAL, Non-TV 1959 output predicted, 1:12, 20:1, 22:21 “gadgetitis” in electronics design criticized by EIA pres. David Hull, 3:14 $15 billion plus sales in 1959, predicts RCA pres. John L. Burns, 4:14 100 top military contractors, 4:14, 31:20 $11.5 billion factory sales in 1965 says H. Leslie Hoffman, 11:19 EHectronics Small Business Council, 11:19 $350,000 000 1960 contract budget of National Aeronautics & Space Administration. 12:19 7 firms with over billion of 1958 sales, 13:20 govt, survey of production capacity of electronic end equip. & microwave components, 16:20 “soaring sixties” foreseen by Sylvania’s Don G. Mitchell, 18:19 Renegotiation Act amendments on govt, contracts, 18:21 govt, restrictions hampering defense work by industry. 19:21 Greenbaum financial report, 20:2 Japanese imports, 20:19; total electronics output, 39:15, 41:16 “Innovate & automate” to meet threat from Jap imports, says GEs Ralph (Jordiner. 20:20 electronics production census. 22:21 Star Valley Electronics Inc. formed, 27:21 House Armed Services subcommittee studies emp’oyment of retired officers by electronics firms. 29:20 Videograph duplicating system made by A. B. Dick Co.. 29:21 molectronic devices seen leading to sweeping changes in industry, according to ’Business Week.’ 31:20 100 largest foreign firms. ’Fortune’ ranking, 32:17 1959 output predicted by Commerce Dept., 34:16 industry wage survey by Labor Dept., 35:15 Russian electronics industry. 39:15. 40:16 noise power amplifier developed by Electronics Development Inc., Tampa, 48:18 Federal Machine Tool Co. sold to Houston Fearless Corp., 48:19 1960-70 predictions by Motorola execs., 49:20 facsimilie business growth. 49:21 1959 & 1960 record years says ETA, 51:13 $27 billion in 1970 says Sylvania’s B. K. Wickstrum, 51:14 ELECTRONIC INDUSTRIES ASSN. (EIA) multiple TV set promotion, 12:17, 14:16 parts div. reorganization. 13:21 magnetic tape section, 13:21 membership, 13:21 Buying Index of Distributors, 16:22 committees. 17:22. 21:1 & 16. 30:19 National Missile Industry Conference, 18:20 convention, 20:20, 21:1 & 17; officers, 21:18 consumer products div. to form TV. radio, phono & other sections. 22:23 semiconductor standards & marketing data collected in collaboration with NEMA. 32:17 fall meeting. 37:15. 39:15, 16 & 18. 40:17; winter meeting, 49:20, 50:17 standards for electronics. 38'21; for hi fl, 39:15 PR campaign to clear up confusion over stereo under consideration, 48:17 “Buy American” campaign. 49:20 Industrial electronics marketing conference, 49:21; first conference on selling electronic equipment systems, 52:1$ 4