NAEB Newsletter (Feb 1958)

visitor wants and try to give it to him. An educa¬ tor and a Hi-Fi fan will be interested in different ^ things. 2) Help the visitor understand something about your over-all goals. Don’t just open the door for him to look at gimmicks and gadgets; tell him what you are trying to accomplish. 3) Never hurry a visitor. Invite questions and make sure you provide the answers. 4) Recognize the visitor’s major interest, try to give him something appropriate to take when he leaves: a program schedule, brochure, dial card, teachers manual, or even the annual report. 5) Recognize the opportunity of pictures and press releases when you have a distinguished visitor, or a group-tour. 6) Make it a point to mention your NAEB affilia¬ tion. This helps all of us. How do you attract visitors in the first place? Some inevitably appear out of nowhere. Others re¬ quire invitations. Try a spot announcement some¬ time. Keep in touch with the program chairmen of campus and civic groups, Faculty Wives club, PTA, historical society, etc. Some of you have had good results with visita- tions. Send us a couple of paragraphs telling how you went about it, and we’ll let others share your exper¬ ience through this column. r N PLACEMENT SUPPLEMENT February I — Male, single, 39, M.A., 2 years radio experi¬ ence and 4 years as teacher, desires position in ETV direction or programming. Interested in joining a new and growing station or school system for development of programs. Licensed teacher. Location open. $4,500. February 2 — Male, 29, single M.S. experience as chief of operations of commercial VHF station, is seeking a re¬ sponsible position in ETV. Background includes teach¬ ing and educational radio-TV. Interested in use of TV in schools. Location open. $7,000. February 3 — Radio program and 16mm motion picture pro¬ ducer seeks opportunity to put 13 years experience to work for educational broadcasting. Background com¬ prises all phases of radio announcing and program production, managing of educational FM station, in¬ struction of students and production of sound-color campus motion pictures. Male, single, 36, A.B. Location open. $5,200. February 4 — Quality writer, international background, cre¬ ative, imaginative, strong on ideas, outstanding credits include stage plays, major Hollywood studios, 80 documentary film and radio scripts for U. S. Army, Air Force, U. S. Information Agency, Voice of America and industrial film companies, seeks challenging posi¬ tion in educational TV as writer, but also additional duties as assistant to producer, program director etc. Location open, $8,400 minimum. NAEB SEEKS SAFEGUARDS IN FCC BOOSTER PLANS The NAEB, through its attorney Leonard H. Marks of Cohn and Marks, has filed comments with the FCC in response to a recent Commission proposal to sanction nationwide VHF booster station opera¬ tion. The comments call attention to the potential danger of a licensed booster system to the effective¬ ness of ETV stations because of possible interference, particularly to those stations which are not yet using maximum power. The NAEB’s interest in the matter is “to insure that the Commission takes no action which would have the effect of inhibiting the future growth and expansion of educational television services to the American public.” Copies of the comments are, presently available at NAEB Headquarters. NEWS OF MEMBERS GENERAL ► WBOE, the Cleveland (Ohio) Board of Education station, has announced that it will carry the non¬ commercial programs of Cleveland radio station WERE-FM. The event came about with the silencing of WERE-FM’s signal so that the station could double its voice to 40,000 watts, making it one of the most powerful stations in the country. Cooperative efforts between officials of both sta¬ tions have brought about a vertical program pattern aired over WBOE for approximately 30 days, the time it will take WERE-FM to engineer its power increase. Targeted for a three-hour period each evening from approximately 7 until 10 p. m., the pre¬ sentations originate in the studios of WERE-FM and are fed by line to the facilities of WBOE. \ To aid the many Eastern Massachusetts school systems which are planning the installation of TV receivers and antennas for in-school programs, WGBH-TV, Channel 2, will telecast its test pattern each weekday from 10 to 5:30 p. m. during the entire month of February. Home viewers can take advantage of this op¬ portunity to have their home receivers adjusted for the best reception of the channel. \ One hundred and seventy-seven New York Uni¬ versity students who just completed a course in com- FEBRUARY, 1958 3