NAEB Newsletter (Dec 1957)

tions can do the job. “Why,” he asked, “should not the appropriate governmental agencies have power to exercise the right of eminent domain over broadcast time seg¬ ments, taking over, if purchase is not easily pos¬ sible, prime time spots on commercial stations and networks so as to provide program outlets?” NEWS OF MEMBERS GENERAL Ohio University at Athens, operator of WOUI-FM, has now established a 100 watt AM station with call letters WOUB, according to Archie Greer, the Univer¬ sity’s supervisor of broadcasting. WOUB’s operation differs from most other edu¬ cational radio stations in that it is completely student staffed and operated with faculty members acting merely in a supervisory and advisory capacity. In describing the success of this arrangement Greer said, “ . . . students have jumped into this thing with both feet and are doing an extremely good job with it. So far they have shown that they are mature enough and talented enough to operate this as a high quality educational radio station.” ^ A summertime internship program in Hoosier radio and TV stations for Indiana University students was recently announced by the I.U. Radio and Tele¬ vision Service and the Indiana Broadcasters Assn. In a joint announcement, Prof. E. G. Sulzer, head of the I.U. department, and Les Spencer, general manager of WKVB, Richmond, and president of the IBA, said the internship program will start this summer. Students will be placed in summertime jobs in Indiana stations to match their special in¬ terests. Participants are those students who will be graduated the following year. PROGRAMS The Brookfield (Ill.) Zoo and the ETRC have com¬ pleted arrangements for the production of a new TV series of 13 programs titled “Discovery at Brookfield Zoo.” The series, to be produced at WTTW, Chica¬ go, is expected to take millions of viewers in the 26 cities making up the educational TV network on a new kind of safari through the animal kingdom by the summer of 1958. Writer and producer of the series is Mary L. Grimes, whose two preceding “Discovery” series that originated at WGBH-TV, Boston, have made her well known to educational TV circuits. "Discovery at Brookfield Zoo” will be partially financed by a grant from the Chicago Zoological Society. ► In a special program, “The 21 Inch Classroom,” on Nov. 4, WGBH-TV, Boston, informed viewers of the latest developments in school TV and plans for its use in eastern Massachusetts. The hour-long program opened with the back¬ ground of developments of in-school TV and an ex¬ planation of its local use, followed by an outline of how each city and town can play an important part in bringing in-school television about. Then excerpts of films demonstrating how in-school TV is used in other communities across the nation were shown. During the last 20 minutes of the program a panel of local experts in education and in classroom TV answered questions and considered suggestions of¬ fered by viewers. Interested viewers were en¬ couraged to send in questions in advance of the telecast. The program was shown in anticipation that be¬ ginning next spring or fall many elementary schools in eastern Massachusetts will use TV in their class¬ rooms. So far, P-TA groups in that area have shown great interest in in-school TV. ^ In honor of the seventh anniversary of the Univer¬ sity of Houston’s educational FM radio station KUHF, an hour-long stereophonic broadcast was carried simultaneously on KUHF and KUHT, the University’s TV station, Nov. 6. Unlike most stereophonic broadcasts, which use an AM radio station for one channel, this program reportedly was a pure-fidelity broadcast, since only TV and FM sound systems — the only systems cap¬ able of transmitting true high-fidelity — were used. The program, which featured primarily light music, opened with a stereophonic demonstration to familiarize TV viewers with this modern method of sound reproduction. Another seventh anniversary was observed Nov. 15 by the University’s weekly broadcast “University Forum,” Houston’s only local program devoted entirely to discussions of world affairs. Appearing on the program regularly are profes¬ sors from the University of Houston and the Rice Institute, consuls and delegates to the United States from foreign nations, world travelers and political scientists and many famous personalities from gov¬ ernment and allied fields. Originating each Friday as a telecast in the University studios, the program is seen on KUHT and heard on FM radio over KUHF simultaneously at 7 p.m. (CST). A rebroadcast for AM listeners is carried Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m. on KTRH, a CBS affiliate. ^ META, New York, reports the broadcasting of its 50th program since the opening of its production 6 NEWSLETTER