Broadcasting Telecasting (Apr-Jun 1958)

EDUCATION threats and estimated that perhaps another 50 stayed away because of the threats. On Wednesday evening six board members of the Musicians Club, which owns the building and property of Local 47, received telegrams notifying them that they had been suspended from the local pending the outcome of an investigation of the charges that they had aided MGA and were guilty of dual unionism. Mr. Read said that the Musicians Club, a California corporation, is technically independent of control by Local 47, but a requirement that a member of the club must also be a member of the local was used by Mr. Daniel in an "illegal attempt to regain control of the club property" from the Read supporters elected by the club members last month. IBEW, CBS Negotiate Under Threat of Strike Negotiators for CBS and the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers met in Washington last Thursday and Friday in an effort to reach agreement on a new contract, although IBEW New York Local 1212 earlier had voted to reject a CBS offer and had authorized a strike. Neither IBEW headquarters nor the local reported if progress had been made, although a CBS executive believed that IBEW itself would not call a walkout. Seven other locals also voted on the CBS proposal but the final tabulation was not available Thursday. The old contract expired Jan. 31 [Personnel Relations, Feb. 10, 3] and members have continued on the job with the understanding that terms of a new contract would be retroactive to that date. The pact covers technicians and certain other classifications at CBS Radio, CBS-TV and the company's owned stations. A spokesman for Local 1212 reported that the main reason CBS's proposal had been turned down last Wednesday was that it failed to provide "job security and adequate monetary increases." Several weeks ago the National Assn. of Broadcast Employes & Technicians rejected the contract proposals of ABC and NBC. NABET covers technical employes at these two networks. The old contract at NBC and ABC also expired Jan. 31. A network spokesman said that NABET is expected to request a meeting shortly to pinpoint areas of dissatisfaction and he felt that no strike is imminent. In another labor development. Federal Judge Archie Dawson last Thursday denied Local 1212's application to have the National Labor Relations Board vacate an injunction issued last July 1 . The injunction against Local 1212 was issued in connection with WCBS-TV New York's telecast of the Tony Awards [Personnel Relations, April 29, 1957, et seq.], when Local 1212 disputed the right of Local 1, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes to provide lighting for the remote program. The injunction restrains Local 1212 from striking the network in the remote lighting situation. Page 86 • April 7, 1958 14 Broadcasters Get Education Fellowships Fourteen commercial and educational broadcasters are among 40 persons who will share this year's Fund for Adult Education fellowships. Grants total $205,000 and will permit the recipients to study up to a year at universities or public institutions. This is the second year fellowships have been made in the mass communication field. C. Scott Fletcher, president of the fund, announced at the same time the opening of applications for the Mass Media and Leadership Training Awards Program for 1959-60. Filing deadline is October 15 with awards to be announced April 1, 1959. Selection among this year's candidates was made by a national committee under the chairmanship of Edward W. Barrett, former assistant secretary of state, now dean of Columbia U.'s graduate school of journalism. Among 1958 fellows are: Elmer W. Lower, director of special projects (including election coverage), CBS News & Public Affairs Div., who will make a study at Columbia U. of mass communication's role in Presidential elections; Claud P. Mann Jr., news and special events director at KSBW-TV Salinas, Calif., to study mass media at U. of California; Mrs. Elisabeth M. Alford, copywriter-women's director, WCOS Columbia, S. C, who will study at U. of South Carolina and intern in the news department of WCSC-TV Charleston, and Sam L. Becker, director of the radio-tv-film division of State U. of Iowa and research chairman of the National Assn. of Educational Broadcasters, who will do a post-doctoral study on attitudes and motivation at Columbia U., including study with the research staffs of CBS, NBC, Young & Rubicam and McCann-Erickson. Ethelbert A. Hungerford, director of operations, Metropolitan Educational Television Assn., New York, to study education administration at New York U.; Colin D. Edwards, freelance news commentator specializing in Far East, to intern at radio-tv division of United Nations; James W. Sanders, Alabama Polytechnic Institute radio-tv instructor, to do radio-tv doctoral study at Northwestern U.; Sidney Roger, labor editor, commentator on KROW Oakland, Calif., to study communications, especially labor news, at the U. of California; John S. Clayton, director of production, radio-t"-motion nicture dent., U. of North Carolina, to do doctoral study in drama, Yale U.; Wayne M. Carle, journalism instructor, Brigham Young U., to do doctoral study in radio-tv education, Ohio State U.; Richard E. Mansfield Jr., producer-director, WTTW-TV Chicago, to study playwriting-direction, Yale U.; Marine Lt. Dennis A. McGuire, ex-writer, WOWTV Omaha, to study tv direction, Yale U. and TJ. of Southern California; Dorothy E. Miniace, radio-tv coordinator, U. of Wisconsin, to study adult education, Columbia U., and Mrs. Doris Karasov, volunteer community leader, to study tv education at U. of Minnesota and intern at KTCA-TV St. Paul. The fund invites applications from writers, editors, reporters, producers, program directors and others in similar capacities with commercial or educational radio and tv stations, newspapers and magazines and who deal with world affairs, politics, economics and the humanities ("broadly defined"). The amount of money granted is sufficient to meet needs of the candidate, including support of family where necessary while he is on leave from his regular work. The fund is at 200 Bloomingdale Rd., White Plains, N. Y. N. Y. Legislature Okays ETV Funds The New York board of regents has moved closer toward realizing its hope of having its "own" tv channel in New York City. On March 26 the state legislature approved $212,912 to defray part of the cost of backing an etv project. Gov. Averell Harriman has 30 days to sign the bill. An agreement has been reached between RKO Teleradio Pictures Inc. and the regents to utilize WOR-TV New York as an etv station during daytime hours, effective Sept. 1 [Education, March 17]. 100-Station ETV Network Seen By 1968 in New ETRC Report A 100-station live network of educational television stations is predicted for 1968 in a report prepared by the Educational Television & Radio Center, Ann Arbor, Mich., and its affiliated stations. By 1968 the etv network will reach 80% of the country's population, the report forecasts. At the same time the educators call for "vastly increasing support of all types of educational television broadcasting." Some 30 educational tvs that have followed KUHT (TV) Houston, Tex., which pioneered educational television five years ago, now are in a position to give new stations the benefit of their experience, the ETRC report says. With their help, by 1968 etv will be utilizing longer broadcast schedules, more remote pickups, color and improved programming produced by larger staffs. The network will begin first on a regional level, as in Alabama at present, the educators foresee, spreading nationally by the end of the decade. "Such achievements can only be realized through an imaginative approach ... on the part of government bodies, foundations, industry, educational and cultural institutions and the public itself. From these sources the ETRC wants "vastly increased financial support" to develop stronger program service, prompt activation of educational channels and research and evaluation of educational broadcasting. Three New Series Scheduled In NBC's Second ETV Year NBC-TV has announced it is extending its educational tv programming into the second year, effective last month, describing the past year's activities as "an experiment." Once again working closely with the Educational Tv & Radio Center at Ann Arbor, Mich., the NBC Educational Television Project this spring will take up three new series, each lasting 13 weeks. One of these series will be "sponsored" via outside capital, according to NBC Public Affairs Director Ed Stanley: effective today (Monday) and for 12 Mondays thereafter, NBC and the American Heart Assn. (which will provide a portion of the necessary working capital) will air Decision for Research — a series dedicated to attract new research careerists from ranks of school youngsters. The other programs, dealing with foreign policy and jazz, will feature such prominent names as author-critic Gilbert Seldes, jazz authorities Marshall Stearns and Leonard Feather (hosting such stars as Duke Ellington) and Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor. In addition to the 29 ETV stations carrying these programs, 24 regular NBC-TV affiliates will also slot the shows, many via kinescope. Broadcasting