NAEB Newsletter (Oct 1958)

gathered by the Chicago Public Schools Bureau of Curriculum in its investigation of what questions trained, certified, and experienced classroom teachers still have regarding the teaching of reading. Registra¬ tion has been limited to teachers in service, but the general public may watch the series. ► Maine recently began a 30-week series of music appreciation broadcasts to make ETV on the class¬ room level a reality for that state. The series is the product of the Maine Secondary Schools Principal’s Association, Maine Educational Television Associ¬ ates Incorporated, the State Department of Educa¬ tion, the Maine Teacher’s Association, and the three stations providing the use of their facilities on a pub¬ lic service basis. The entire project was planned to make music training available in places too small or too remote to engage the services of a music director. About 300 Maine schools fall in this class, but only about half have signified their interest in the TV class. One of the requirements is that each school must be equipped with a TV receiver. ^ Twelve prominent persons who made “news” their business will take part in the University of Michigan radio series, titled “News in 20th Century America.” The series, produced by WUOM-FM is scheduled for completion next spring. Programs will consist of interviews of newscasters, columnists, and commentators who will discuss the problems of slanted news, unbiased reporting, cen¬ sorship, editorializing, adequate informing of the pub¬ lic, and other pertinent questions. The series is made possible through an ETRC- NAEB grant-in-aid and will be distributed by the NAEB tape network. PERSONNEL ^ . David R. Collins, formerly in the radio-television department of an advertising agency, has been ap¬ pointed business manager of the Metropolitan Edu¬ cational Television Association (META) in New York City. ^ Byron Openshaw, a producer, director and an¬ nouncer for 14 years in Utah radio and TV, has been appointed production manager of KUED, University of Utah station. ^ Mr. George Lewin, Chief, Pictorial Engineering Office, Army Pictorial Center, has become the second man in the history of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers to be honored with two awards in one year. Mr. Lewin has been designated as recipient of the Samuel L. Warner Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to sound for motion pictures and the Journal Award for the out¬ standing paper published in the Society’s Journal during the preceding year. Headquarters staff members: bid "goodbye last month to Miss Barbara Stevens, traffic manager, and Miss Jane Lombard, Newsletter editor and placement officer, who both left to be married. Our new ad¬ dition to staff personnel, Mrs. Nancy Whitmore, has assumed the duties of all three positions. ^ This month we have again added three more names to the list of Broadcast Pioneers. These are Luella Hoskins, Consultant on Radio and Television, Association of the Junior Leagues of America, Inc., New York; Mrs. Eleanora Bowling Kane, Specialist, Radio and TV, Department of Education, Baltimore, Maryland; and Roger J. Houglum, Manager KRVM, Eugene, Oregon. If you are qualified to claim pioneering service, (20 or more years in broadcasting, presently with ed¬ ucational) please let us know and we’ll add your name to the list. TV TECHNICAL TIPS —Cecil S. Bidlack All of a sudden summer ends and again we’re plunged into the midst of a busy fall season. School begins, the football season starts, renewed and in¬ creased programming begins on educational as well as commercial stations. Autumn, too, brings a round of technical meetings of value to all radio and TV station personnel. Although two of these meetings will be over before this appears in print, it will give you time to think and plan for next year, since the pattern re¬ peats yearly. The first of these meetings is the annual Fall Symposium of the IRE Professional Group on Broad¬ cast Transmission Systems held at the Willard Hotel in Washington September 27-28. We’d guess that 125 were registered for the excellent two-day pro¬ gram just concluded. While the majority of the papers presented were on television topics, there were also papers on FM multiplex and stereophonic broadcasting. Three papers covered television switching facilities by relays, transistors, and a diode matrix vertical interval switcher. Other topics were precise carrier offset, the chroma-key effects system, and vidicon operating techniques. One afternoon session was devoted solely to video tape recording with descriptions of the NBC-Burbank color installa¬ tion and the CBS-New York facilities, followed by a panel discussion of the uses and problems en¬ countered in VTR operation at individual affiliate and network owned stations. There was a tour of the new four million dollar NBC studios in Washington, which houses the WRC OCTOBER, 1958 See You In Omaha