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- 5 - r* TELEVISION REPORT—EXPERIMENTAL STATION W-X-B-V--KAN SAS ST AT'. 7 ! COLIEGE Kansas State College in Manhattan, one of the few pioneers among American colleges in the field of television, is in the midst of a project that will be of wide inter¬ est in the television field. Realizing that the cost of construction and operation is one of the factors in the development of television, Kansas State T s department of Electrical Engineering, headed by Prof. R. G. Klooffler, is testing the feasibility of providing television service with a low power transmitter to a small community, at a reasonable cost. With this objective in mind, members of the Electrical Engineering faculty and graduate students in the department have built the transmitting and pick-up equipment of the College ! s experimental television station, WXBV, from war surplus and college gift material. In addition, the station provides research projects for graduate students in Electri¬ cal Engineering. And it provides laboratory facilities for use with a four-hour television course offered by the department. WXBV is licensed to operate with a peak power of 400 watts, but the maximum power is not being utilized at this time. The effective radius of its signal is about seven miles, •-Operation thus far has been limited to experimental work; lost programs televised have been aimed at specific audiences and have been quite informal. One such pro¬ gram was presented recently as a demonstration for a group of Kansas newspaper editors meeting at Kansas State. Plans calls for the addition in the immediate future of a movie projector so that 16-mm educational films can be added to the live programs. Journalism and radio speech departments at Kansas State are studying the possibilities of adding courses in television programming and television news to acquaint students with television techniques. The Kansas Extension Scrvj.ce plans to experiment in the field of adult education work through the video medium, Kansas State first began work in television as a project of its Engineering Experi¬ ment Station and the work has continued to date as a project of this branch of the college. Construction of equipment was among the early projects of the Electrical Engineering department in that field* In 1932, the college was granted an experi¬ mental license and began television programs in that year, continuing until 1940* The war brought a halt to activities temporarily, but construction of a, new station was begun after V-J day and in February, 1940, a new experimental license was granted. Professor K. H. Martin, now associated with the Applied Physics Laboratory '.at John Hopkins University, was in charge of the recent television work, and did much of the original construction and design of the situation. The current work on WXBV is being conducted by Kenneth Hewson, Robert Dennison, Wga, R. Ford, and Prof, J. Edmond Wolfe, all of the Electrical Engineering Staff. —Robert D. Hilgondorf Program Supervisor, Station KSAC TELEVISION WITH YOUR BUS RIDE, TRAIN TRIP, OR CROSS" COUNTRY FLIGHT is predicted by John Craig, TV manager of Croslcy Division of AVCO, as excellent means of eljminating passenger monotony and fatigue. Experiments thus far in railway coaches and airliners have proven successful as well as TV tests on inter-city busses.