NAEB Newsletter (Mar 1957)

NETWORK NEWS —Bob Underwood As you read this the mass duplicators are turning out programs for the second quarter offering. This of¬ fering has quite a bit of “meat” to it, we believe, and we will be pleased to receive any comments you may have about it. We now are plugging away trying to get the opening and closing lines for all programs in this of¬ fering. These will be mailed to you as soon as pos¬ sible, but the times for all programs are not yet avail¬ able. We’re making progress on the new cue sheet system: this quarter we’ll have all the openers and closers in a bundle, and who knows what the next quarter will bring! After a few mental struggles the tape inventory sheets have been completed and mailed out. This in¬ ventory statement covers the time from Issue #50, 1956 through Issue #7, 1957. You may wish to retain these inventory sheets for keeping your future records on tape shipments; just remember not to charge your¬ self for any tapes until their release date. For your information, the tape inventory balance as of Issue #7 was minus over four thousand tapes. We do not believe it takes four thousand tapes to keep the network stations supplied for one, two or even three weeks, and we certainly could use another thousand or so tapes around here. Twice during the past month the production staff has had to find something else to do because our supply of tape had been exhausted. And I don’t have to tell you who represents our largest source of tape, do I? Please return tapes as soon as possible after broadcast. And all you stations who go off the air during the summer—don’t forget to clean off your shelves before you leave. We can use the tapes! Also, we could use some submissions, particularly in the in-school division of network activity. The time is drawing near when the School Committee will select the series for the next in-school offering, and the Committee welcomes the opportunity to re¬ view your submissions. Let us hear from you in this regard. Submissions for the regular offering will also be received gladly. —NAEB— A national 14-member Advisory Committee of prom¬ inent commercial and educational broadcasters is assisting in planning Ohio State University’s 1957 IERT. The annual 4-day conference, oldest and larg¬ est of its kind in the nation, has been scheduled for May 8-11 at the Deshler-Hilton Hotel in Columbus. DIRECTORY CHANGES p. I 121 Active Members 77 Affiliate Members, 288 Total Members 11 TV Only Members (I) ... These 121 members operate . . . 154 stations p. 5 WETV V-12 kw„ A-6 kw. (was WABE-TV) p. II WTVS (TV) Delete: William Wood Add: Henry D. Brown WKAR (AM) Change phone number EXT. 2272 p. 18 Delete WQED p. 25 Loyola University Delete: Boyd W. Fellows Add: Stan Szydlik p. 32 University of Pittsburgh Delete: William Tacey Add: Tom Coleman p. 38 Under Illinois Delete: Sheldon Fisher (Urbana) Add under Indiana: Sheldon Fisher Radio Station WTHI Terre Haute, Indiana p. 42 Columbia University Miss Marjorie Fiske Address is: 605 W. I 15th Street New York 25, New York p. 45 Under Tennessee Add: Motion Picture Laboratories Frank M. McSeary 1672 (Memphis) Union Ave. Memphis 4, Tenn. p. 53 Delete: WQED REPORT FORM PARIS Keith Engar NAEB Fvlbright in Paris The French Broadcasting System has just completed its latest series for NAEB. As designed by Madame Magdeline Paz, the series, titled “French Ways of Life,” features French leaders in several fields who are interviewed in English in an informal situation. You’ll be as astonished as I was with the critical self-examination these brilliant men and women give France. The result is a first-rate, almost brutally frank evaluation of the French way of doing things in varied fields of the arts, education, housing, health, etc. Among those interviewed are Jules Romains, Andre Maurois, Jean Sarailh, and equally distin¬ guished men and women, perhaps not as well known to Americans. After hearing the programs, I feel they could well be kept as part of an audio library, at least if one wants to understand the France of today. These interviews provide the kind of incisive insights only a Frenchman could give. If I may add a personal re¬ flection, one also is given additional standards with which to evaluate his own country. —NAEB— IDEA FOR NAEB COMMITTEEMEN The IERT meeting, May 8-11 at Ohio State University will be a good time to get together, with all members of your NAEB com-, mittee that will be .there. Why not try to sandwich in a small NAEB committee meeting during the regular course of events? NEWSLETTER Page 3