NAEB Newsletter (Sept 1957)

tions. “One group of stations,” he concludes, “the na¬ tional, can broadcast what it believes should be broadcast from a cultural point of view while the other group provides the opposite side of the picture.” This combination, he feels, serves to maintain “a freedom of expression and a standard of values over the air.” Presently Australia has 55 national and 108 com¬ mercial radio stations with approximately two million listeners. TV LITERATURE More than two-thirds of the world’s 63 million TV sets and well over half of the world’s 900 TV stations are in the United States, according to the 25th semi¬ annual edition of Television Factbook, just published by the trade newsletter, Television Digest, Washing¬ ton, D. C. The 476-page publication contains information on every station in operation, including detailed data on U.S. and Canadian stations. Other, leading countries in terms of stations and receivers, according to the Television Factbook, are Great Britain, 21 stations, 7,450,000 sets; Canada, 40 stations, 2,658,000 sets; West Germany, 39 stations, 1,100,000 sets; USSR, 30 stations, 3,000,000 sets; Italy, 90 stations, 575,000 sets; Japan, 16 stations, 650,000 sets; Cuba, 18 stations, 300,000 sets; France, 19 stations, 600,000 sets; and Mexico, 10 stations, 300,000 sets. The book reveals that Iron Curtain countries fall behind the west in TV progress. Western nations (excluding the U.S.) have 325 stations and more than 15,000,000 sets, as compared with 52 stations and 3,236,600 sets in the Communist world. Altogether, 43 countries have TV. In addition to its station directories, the Television Factbook contains directories of manufacturers, pro¬ gram syndicators, statistical tables on TV time sales, and set and tube production information. The price of the book, including a TV wall map, is $5. NEWS OF MEMBERS GENERAL Speakers at the funeral services for CBS Vice Presi¬ dent Ralph W. Hardy, held on Aug. 9 in the Assembly Hall on Salt Lake City’s famed Latter Day Saints Temple Square, included Richard Evans, director of KUED-TV, Salt Lake City, a member of the Church Council of 12 Apostles. The services were attended by high officials of the broadcasting industry, the Latter Day Saints Church and the federal government. y Equipment valued in excess of $68,464 was re¬ ceived as a gift by the Detroit Educational Television Foundation, operator of station WTVS, from com¬ mercial station WJBK-TV, Detroit, owned' by the Storer Broadcasting Co. Consisting of projectors, TV receivers, lighting fix¬ tures, studio cameras and other TV equipment, the gift will aid WTVS in its planned program expansion this fall. y A five-fold increase of its operating power from 55,000 to 275,000 watts beginning Sept. 3, was re¬ ported by ETV station WTTW, Channel 11, Chicago. The power boost is expected to extend the station’s signal radius from 55 to about 70 miles. y With studio remodeling underway and its trans¬ mitter almost completed, KOAC-TV, an outgrowth of KOAC-AM, Corvallis, Ore., expects to make its “on the air” debut by Oct. 1, according to Dr. James M. Morris, program manager of the two stations. The dedication of the new station has been planned for Oct. 21. Programming of the TV station will be handled by the existing KOAC radio staff and by newly-hired key ETV personnel including William F. McGrath, assis¬ tant professor and production supervisor; Tess M. Williams, coordinator of radio and TV programs; Charles O. Callaci, producer director; Robert Richter, producer; and John MacKenzie, instructor and producer-announcer. PERSONNEL y Troy Crowder, former publications editor for the ETRC, Ann Arbor, Mich., has been named assistant to the organization’s president. Crowder will as¬ sume administrative staff duties and perform new functions in the Center’s public relations program. y For the forthcoming academic year, the Boston University School of Public Relations and Communi¬ cations will add to its faculty Roderick D. Rightmire as instructor in radio. Rightmire received both his B.S. and M.S. degree from Boston University. 4 NEWSLETTER