NAEB Newsletter (Mar 1957)

We hope to meet some NAEB engineers there and will be checking the bulletin board near the reg¬ istration desk to find out how we can get together. * * * * Another date to remember is the NARTB En¬ gineering Conference and broadcast equipment dis¬ play at the Conrad Hilton in Chicago April 8-11. The past two years through the cooperation of NARTB we have provided educational station en¬ gineers who wished to attend with NAEB identifica¬ tion cards. This card entitled them to register for the Placement Supplement The following are persons registered with, us last month. Anyone wishing further information or wishing to register with the NAEB placement Service contact Mrs. Judith Ste¬ vens, 14 Gregory Hall, Urbana, Illinois. March I — Director with commercial station desires ETV position as producer-director. Interested in teaching. Male, 23, M.S. (Syracuse), married. Location open. $85/wk. March 2 — Floor manager and producer of children s shows for large ETV station desires program director posi¬ tion in the same field. Will teach. Is also a speech and hearing specialist. Has been teacher-consultant and talent on network shows. Male, 33, married, M.S. in August 57. Location, salary open. March 3 _ Male, 30, married, M.A. in music, desires a position as music director or in production in educational broadcasting. Has 6 years experience in educational radio, 2 years in commercial transcript field. Also 2 years of courses and broadcast experience in TV. Location open. $5500. March 4 — Production assistant for commercial TV wants switch to ETV. 3 years experience as announcer and has writ¬ ten and produced ETV shows. Male, single, 23, B.A. Location open. $4000. March 5 — Producer-director at commercial TV station desires switch to ETV. Much technical experience-permanently responsible for 5 regular shows. Male, 29 married. Location open. $4500-5000. March 6 — Producer-director and production manager for commercial TV desires changeover to ETV. Trains person¬ nel, often designs and builds his own sets. Male, 28, married. Location open. $7000. March 7 — Control room operator for educational radio station, also does tape recordings, wants a position with more chance for advancement. Male, 35, single. Location open, but prefers East. $300/month. March 8 — Male, 38, married, Ph. D. im radio-TV, now TV coordinator for school system, has much experience or¬ ganizing and directing in-school TV. Wants ETV position where can fully utilize knowledge of medium-producer, in-school broadcasting, etc. Location open. $7500. March 9 — Assistant professor of speech and radio-TV, and producer of numerous ETV shows. Has been in education¬ al broadcasting almost 20 years. Male, 38, married, Ed.D. Prefers West Coast, Florida, New York. $6-7000. March 10 — School audio-visual director with_ many years teaching experience wants ETV position. Has various courses in radio-TV. Male, married, 32, M.A. Location open. $5-6000. Engineering Conference sessions only, and also per¬ mitted entrance to the equipment exhibits by pay¬ ment of a daily or reduced registration fee for the en¬ tire meeting. We hope this privilege will be extended for the April meeting. A further notice will be forthcoming when definite approval of this procedure has been obtained. * * * * We have occasional inquiries about the avail¬ ability of used equipment member stations may have and are not using. This is especially true of used fre¬ quency modulation transmitters. The most recent inquiry asked where a used 10 watt FM transmitter might be obtained. We realize many tax supported stations find it very difficult to dispose of unwanted equipment. But if any of our readers have serviceable equipment which might enable an institution to get on the air, we’d be glad to help buyer and seller get together. * * * * ATTENTION GAIN GRINDERS! Electronic fuel injection for automobiles will mean the end of mechanical linkages for accelerator control (no carburetor). Instead, a potentiometer will accomplish the function of present day accelera¬ tors. Wonder if they’ll ever rate automobiles in dbh (db above one horsepower). * * * * IRE Transactions for February, 1957 contains a paper by Duane Weise, chief engineer of WTTW, presented at the Sixth Annual Fall Symposium of the IRE Professional Group on Broadcast Transmission Systems. It describes the WTTW studio facilities in some detail and contains other practical papers of in¬ terest to TV engineers. Keith Ketcham, chief engineer of WOI-TV, has prepared a resume of a paper by E. D. Good'ale of NBC on “Phase, Amplitude and Aperture Correction in TV systems.” We have reproduced this resume and sent it to chief engineers of ETV stations and pro¬ duction centers. Additional copies are available upon request to NAEB. * * * * We hope more of you will follow Howard Andreasen’s example and drop us a note telling of your plans. The Independent School District of Des Moines was granted a CP for Channel 11 on Dec¬ ember 12, 1956. They plan to operate at their present KDPS studio until their new TV studio is finished in late summer of 1958. Present plans call for regular programming to begin in late September, 1957, with 10 kw ERP. Power will be increased to 50 kw when the new trans¬ mitter site is completed. Page 8 NEWSLETTER