Television digest with electronic reports (Jan-Dec 1959)
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Telemundo ' s CMAB-TV in Havana televised 41^ consecutive hours of news and interviews during the eventful hours beginning 7 a.m. Jan. 1 — which Bernabei thinks probably set a world record for a TV news show.
Majority of the other Cuban TV stations, including third network CMBF Cadena Nacional (CMBF-TV, Havana), told us through their representatives that they anticipate no disruption in pattern of telecasting. There was unanimity that the new regime would force no changes in their contractual relations with U.S. sponsors, programmers or networks.
FLORIDA'S STATEWIDE 'VIDEO CAMPUS': Biggest educational TV project by far is now
well under way in Florida which, with 4 independent vhf educational stations (including 3 new outlets added last fall), is No. 1 among all states.
While others talk about "experiments" in teaching by TV, Florida — faced with rapidly growing population and shortage of top teachers — is pushing ahead on program to interconnect all tax-supported colleges and junior colleges with a network of at least 5 educational TV stations. Every one of the institutions will be equipped with facilities and circuits for origination and reception (open or closed circuit) of classroom TV instruction.
Aim is to complete network in 1961, so that every one of state's 18 colleges will have access to what is taught in any of the others. "Eventually," says an ETV prospectus issued by the state, "the network will make it possible for specific telecourses to be produced by the institution or institutions having available the best facilities and personnel in a particular subject field, and transmitted to all institutions for use by resident instructors who will follow up with in-classroom discussions, answers to questions, experiments, tests, etc."
Under TV-minded Gov. LeRoy Collins, Florida is becoming the showcase of TV in higher learning — a sort of Hagerstown with a college education.
The 7-member Florida Educational TV Commission is charged by state law to "establish a TV network" of all educational stations and institutions. Unlike Alabama's TV Commission (which operates 3 stations), Florida's body doesn't own stations — 2 are run by non-profit civic organizations, one by a county school board, one by a university. As new stations are built locally, they will be interconnected.
Commission is building its own microwave links in some instances, using common carrier in others — whichever is more practical. Due to open this month is first link connecting St. Petersburg Jr. College studios with WEDU-TV, Tampa (Ch.
3). A 2-way link under construction will interconnect WJCT, Jacksonville (Ch. 7) with WUFT, Gainesville (Ch. 5). By June, Miami's WTHS-TV (Ch. 2) will be hooked up with local colleges for campus originations, and WUFT is scheduled to be interconnected by a 2-way hookup with a new Ch. 11 outlet at Tallahassee.
This year's interconnections are being made under a |600,000 appropriation (Vol. 13:32); Commission is asking, and is expected to receive, $1,200,000 more to complete entire statewide closed and open-circuit network.
State ETV network has been operating in Alabama since 1956, connecting stateowned stations at Andalusia, Birmingham & Munford. Florida officials say they hope to tie in their net with Alabama's when Georgia gets going on its TV plans. These two networks are actually first 2 stages in $22,500,000 16-state ETV network proposed by Southern Regional Planning Board to serve 309 schools (Vol. 13:31,35).
For more details about Florida's dynamic educational TV system and personalities behind it, see story on p. 5.
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