NAEB Newsletter (Sept-Oct 1952)

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ST. LOUIS SCHOOL BOARD INCREASES USE OF RADIO STATION Increased and more effective use of the St.. Louis, Mo., Board of Education's FM Radio Station, KSLH, is being made this year, public, school principals wer.e ; told at a- conference recently by Superintendent of Public Instruction Philip J. Hickey. It was made plain at the meeting that KSLH is regarded as an important audio-visual aid which will continue to receive more attention and which will not be displaced bj the expected local, educational TV station. MIAMI UNIVERSITY’S RADIO-TV CHAIRMAN RESUMES POSITION Professor Sydney W. Head has,resumed chairmanship of the Radio and Television Depart ment of the University of Miami after a year leave of absence to work on his Ph.D. Professor Head has completed his course work in mass communications at New York •University under Prof. Charles Siepmann. He expects to complete his thesis by the end of 1952. His thesis is in the area of the sociology of mass communications and deals specifically with a content analysis of the social aspects of television drama In addition to supervising the instructional, and program'production work of the Radi and Television Department, Prof. Head will teach "Survey of Broadcasting," conduct e senior seminar in "Communications "and Society," and direct research, special proj¬ ects, and internships. During Prof. Head’s absence, 0. P. Kidder, Jr., associate professor of Radio-TV, was acting chairman in charge of academic phases of the department, and Oliver Griswold, program coordinator, handled administration. TV Programs Back on the Air ' The University of Miami Radio and.Television^ Department has been asked by WTVJ to return all of its TV programs to the aid this fall. w Lee Ruwitch, vice-president and general manager of WTVJ, has written Oliver Griswold. Radio-TV Department program coordinator, that each university program has added prestige to the schedule. "Naturally, we want to make sure that the University of Miami will be represented again this year," Ruwitch wrote. "All of the programs presented by the University during the past three years, have been well-received by the viewing public and we at WTVJ are proud.to have had the facilities for.their presentation. Each new Univer¬ sity program has added prestige to our schedule." The Radio-TV Department starts its Television Workshop Series of programs on Sunday, Oct. 26, with a "Science Show Window," featuring Allan McNap,,Director of the Lowe Gallery, interviewed by Oliver Griswold in a demonstration Of "Art Records the Progress of Science." >. :„ • * FCC GRANTS FM CHANNEL CHANGE TO U. OF MICHIGAN The University of Michigan was recently given authority by the FCC to transfer Its non-commercial, educational FM station WFUM in'Flint from channel 209 to commercial channel 296.- The. station will continue non-commercial operations. The change waS made to eliminate some interference in Flint .to reception of television station WJIM-TV in nearby Lansing.