Tape Network, 1950-1953 (1) (1950-1953)

Network Report— 4 1 half-time worker , desk worker (A full-time worker devoting approximate¬ ly half of her time to Network, half to NAEB work) 1 full-time worker devoting approximately half-time to desk work, half to physical processing. In short. Network Headquarters (as distinguished from NAEB National Headquarters) has five full-time workers, the equivalent of one of whom does the desk work in¬ volved. Obviously, this is inadequate bo the present still-expanding operation. The Network Headquarters therefore recommends that additional help be made avail¬ able as needed. In the meantime, one half-time worker will be moved from physical to clerical work, and Network Headquarters will attempt to make use of NAEB Head¬ quarters* clerical personnel. But the most helpful advance that could be made—and we consider this the main point of this report—would be a careful, realistic redefinition of Station-Network' committee relationships and responsibilities and an insistance on orderly standard¬ ized procedure by all parties. This redefinition should be complete down to "who writes what letters." Standard procedure cannot comprehend every conceivable sit¬ uation, of course, but it can and should be made to comprehend the greater part of them. To help this redefinition, the Network submits the following suggestions, which will be considered activated unless countermanded: STATIONS must submit an adequate number of Program Submission Forms for each pro¬ gram or series they wish the NAEB to consider for possible distribution over the Network. (Six copies for programs submitted for the Network Acceptance Committee; eight copies for programs submitted for the In-School Program committee.) Stations are responsible for the complete editing of programs for general distribution and will have edited programs at Network Headquarters at least five weeks before they are to be released on the air. (The In-School Program Committee has in the past said that editing of their programs for Network distribution was unnecessary be¬ cause stations would edit them in adapting them to their own use.) See Appendix B for Program Format Requirements. THE. NETWORK ACCEPTANCE COMMITTEE and THE IN-SCHOOL PROGRAM COMMITTEE will decide the acceptance and rejection of all programs except those which are in any way so timely as to render committee action impossible or those to which the Network is committed through other authorized agents. In the former cases the decision must be left to the Executive Director of NAEB and /or the Network Manager. Committee votes should be submitted to the r espective chairmen who will forward the results to the Network Manager. Whether letters of acceptance or rejection should be handled by the committee chairman, the Network manager, or the Executive Direc¬ tor is debatable. It is the opinion of the Network manager that these letters should proceed from the committee chairmen, who can write them as impersonal commi- tee form-reports. If they are to be sent from Headquarters, the chairmen should render explicit committee decisions and any evaluations should be advanced as im¬ personal, quotable committee reports. When submissions involve such large quantities of tapes as io render the submission of great numbers of duplicated forms and tape recordings for individual committee members impractical, the chairman of the proper committee may call a meeting to review the submission. NETWORK HEADQUARTERS will confine itself to its function as a distribution center