Broadcasting Telecasting (Apr-Jun 1957)

EDUCATION Northwestern, NBC to Conduct Summer Symposium on Color Tv A COLOR TV symposium offering regular college credit will be conducted by Northwestern U. this summer in cooperation with NBC and its o&o WNBQ (TV) Chicago. The symposium, which will be held June 24-Aug. 3, is to acquaint working tv personnel and students with special color television problems. Sessions will be part of the university's School of Speech courses and include lecture-demonstrations, with WNBQ staff members serving on the faculty. In addition to regular graduate or undergraduate work credits, NBC and Northwestern U. will offer a six-week internship program for a limited number of students who will spend 30-40 hours observing various departments of WNBQ operation. Nine quarter-hours of credit will be granted. WGBH-TV Increases 'Live' EDUCATIONAL WGBH-TV Boston has doubled its Sunday schedule of live network programs starting April 20 and now telecasts live more than 70% of its air time Sunday through Friday. The expansion was made possible because the Boston Record American and Sunday Advertiser joined the Boston Globe as a contributor to the station in defraying the costs of network connections and station operation. Both NBC-TV and CBS-TV shows are made available with WBZ-TV and WNAC-TV, Boston outlets for the respective networks, cooperating. Telecast are live national programs not seen regularly in the area, including such shows as Meet the Press and Zoo Parade (NBC), Odyssey and Camera Three (CBS) and others. Noble Foundation to Make Grants Of $2,000 Yearly to Graduates GRANTS to assist college graduates with leadership potential will be made by the Edward John Noble Foundation, it was announced last week by Edward J. Noble, founder of the philanthropic organization. The foundation will make grants of $2,000 per year to selected college graduates who wish to pursue their studies further in graduate schools. Mr. Noble is the founder of Life Savers Corp. and American Broadcasting Co. He currently is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Beech-Nut Life Savers Inc. and a director and chairman of the finance committee of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres Inc. The grants are designed to encourage college graduates of leadership caliber to pursue careers in business, law, medicine, teaching, government, the mininstry and other fields. In selecting candidates, Mr. Noble said, the foundation "will not undervalue the importance of scholarship but is well aware that the factor of leadership potential does not necessarily follow high scholastic standing." It is expected that about 200 grants will be made annually. Fellows Tells Education Group Radio-Tv Promote Free Thought THE American system of broadcasting and the press will remain free so long as school teachers support the nation's standards of individual liberty, NARTB President Harold E. Fellows said Wednesday in addressing the Business-Education Day celebration in Portland, Ore. Outlining the principles of uncensored broadcasting in America, Mr. Fellows said the industry "is a companion piece of the American way of life — as a business, as a party of the second part in the profession of teaching and as an instrument of freedom." He cited the educational contributions of radio-tv to the American scene but added that "broadcasting is a mass medium reflecting the mass taste in programming." He added that broadcasters share with teachers the duty of improving the public taste but noted that the two media "can only supplement, not supplant, education." Mr. Fellows paid tribute to contributions by the nation's 25 educational tv stations and noted that Portland commercial telecasters "have contributed substantially to the plan for an educational station in the city." Referring to tv and radio self-regulation efforts, he said, "I believe that fairminded teachers possessed of an opportunity to evaluate the medias' progress in this area over the past few years would give broadcasters a passing grade, although they might not consider them as yet qualified for election to Phi Beta Kappa or the National Honor Society." NAEB Names Grant Recipients Of $17,000 for Tv Workshops NAMES of institutions and educational stations receiving 1957 grants-in-aid for educational tv workshops have been announced by Dr. Harry J. Skornia, executive director of the National Assn. of Educational Broadcasters, Urbana, 111. More than $17,000 in funds provided by the Ford Foundation was divided among: U. of New Mexico, $3,000; Purdue U. and U. of Nebraska (KUON-TV Lincoln), each $2,500; Michigan State U., $1,700; Florida State U., WKNO-TV Memphis, Tenn., and East Carolina College, $1,500 apiece; U. of Miami, $1,356; KTCA-TV Minneapolis, $875, and Toledo Public Schools, $675. Purpose of the workshop grants-in-aid, NAEB said, is to insure the best possible professional training for staffs and management of U. S. educational tv stations. EDUCATION SHORTS Edwin T. Meredith Foundation (endowed by Meredith Publishing Co.), Des Moines, Iowa, is offering six four-year scholarships in journalism or business in cooperation with National Merit Scholarship Corp. and its search for talented high school graduates. Educational Television & Radio Center moves to 2320 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor, Mich. Telephone: Normandy 3-2476. Page 114 • April 29, 1957 Broadcasting • Telecasting