Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1957)

ROLLCALL: 28 ETV'S ON THE AIR $115,050 for teaching and $37,500 for special programs. The $115,050 donation is financing an experimental course in combined tv-correspondence instruction. Twenty-five high schools and 700 students are participating. KUON-TV now has new studios on the campus. The university feeds a total of nine program series to commercial stations — KOLN-TV; WOW-TV Omaha; KHAS-TV Hastings; KHOL-TV Kearney and KVTV (TV) Sioux City, Iowa. Among outstanding examples of commercial help for ETV, a list much too long for this brief report, was the donation of tv equipment, transmitter, two camera chains, film projectors plus studio and tower site to KCTS-TV Seattle by KING-TV that city. Value of the gifts was placed at $185,000. Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. has just announced it will donate its old KDKAFM plant just above Pitt Stadium to WQED. The plant is valued at $200,000. One condition is attached — the plant can only be used for ETV or the site will go to the U. of Pittsburgh. Recently Westinghouse Electric Corp., WBC parent company, donated $10,000 to WQED. During the last few years KDKA-AM-TV engineers have been giving technical aid to WQED, which had been leasing the tower and building for a nominal fee. WQED owns its transmitter, bought with donated funds. WBC has tentatively given a $60,000 amplifier rig to WGBH (TV), Boston ETV outlet, and a plan to let the ETV station use the new WBZ-TV tower is in the discussion stage. WBC has donated fm transmitters to educational aural projects in six cities. The old Westinghouse tv transmitter used in Stratovision tests (tv networking from planes flying in a tight course) was donated to Texas A & M College, along with a camera chain. WBC tv stations make their Encyclopaedia Britannica film libraries available to ETV outlets as well as a recent WBC film, "Adventures in Number and Space." WBC produced three major documentaries during the White House Conference on Education. This pattern follows an active role in educational radio. Storer Broadcasting Co. made available a 5-kw DuMont transmitter for use of the Alabama ETV Commission and its threestation hookup. Land, buildings and use of cameras and studios were included. Storer made other donations in Miami and Detroit, including $43,000 worth of gear in the latter city. An offer of $250,000 in equipment and services, made to the New Hampshire State Commission on ETV, was not picked up by the state because the Storer plan to buy WMUR-TV Manchester, N. H., ran afoul of FCC procedure. A group of Carolina tv stations is cooperating in a 9-10 a.m. classroom project started in September by WSOC-TV Charlotte. Others joining the teaching project are commercial stations in Asheville, and WinstonSalem and in Bristol, Tenn. Seventy-six schools are carrying the programs, including those in South Carolina and Virginia. Programs originate at WUNC-TV Chapel Hill, N. C, U. of North Carolina outlet. This directory of ETV stations was prepared from information supplied by the Joint Council on Educational Television. Data current as of Nov. 1, 1957. Information is in following order: City, call letters, channel, date station went on air, licensee, financial data. ALABAMA Andalusia WAIQ (TV) Ch. 2; 6-25-56; Alabama ETV Commission (Alabama Network; see WBIQ Birmingham and WTIQ Munford). Public funds plus grants and commercial gifts totaled $1.5 million; $400,000 budget supplied by legislature. Studios at U. of Alabama, University; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, and Birmingham Area ETV Assn. Connected by shortwave with WBIQ and WTIQ. Birmingham WBIQ (TV) Ch. 10; 4-28-55; Alabama ETV Commission (Alabama Network; see WTIQ Munford and WAIQ Andalusia). (See WAIQ) Munford WTIQ (TV) Ch. 7; 1-7-55; Alabama ETV Commission (Alabama Network; see WBIQ Birmingham and WAIQ Andalusia). (See WAIQ) CALIFORNIA San Francisco KOED (TV) Ch. 9; 6-10-54; Bay Area Educational Tv Assn. Non-profit corporation formed in Bay area. Public has memberships starting at $10 per year; business, civic institutions provide gifts; profit earned from film and kinescope productions for outside groups. $200,000 capital investment; $200,000-plus annual budget; $317,000 grant from Fund for Advancement of Education (Ford) in conjunction with San Francisco State College for experimental tv instruction. COLORADO Denver KRMA-TV Ch. 6; 1-30-56; Denver Public Schools (Council for Educational Tv, Ch. 6 Inc.). Score of local and state educational groups assist in financing and programming; $410,000 capital from school district and $100,000 from Fund for Adult Education (Ford); $125,000 annual budget financed by council members, Ford and community organizations. FLORIDA Miami WTHS-TV Ch. 2; 8-12-55; Board of Public Instruc DAVEN STANDARD Write for the most complete catalog on attenuators in the world. NOW CARRIED IN STOCK BY YOUR LOCAL JOBBER LIVINGSTON, NEW JERSEY WORLD'S LARGEST MANUFACTURER OF ATTENUATORS Broadcasting November 11, 1957 • Page 101