NAEB Newsletter (Feb 1957)

of Coleman’s in-school telecasts over the Alabama ETV Network. Prof. Coleman’s course “Parlons Francais,” is shown three times weekly to high school viewers. y The 10th annual Western Radio and TV Confer¬ ence will be held on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, February 14-16, 1957. There will be talks by the new Governor of the state of Oregon, Robert D. Holmes, who has had a long career as a commer¬ cial broadcaster, Dr. H. K. Newburn, president of the ETRC, and a session on the Bell Telephone Com¬ pany’s new “Science Series” for TV. y Gertrude Broderick’s recently revised “List of Educational AM & FM Radio and TV Stations by State and City” is out. Copies have been sent to each station, but additional copies are available on re¬ quest from the Department of Health, Education & Welfare Office of Education, Washington 25, D. C. y WGBH-TV, Boston, got a tremendous build-up and coverage of activities in Jack Gould’s column in the January 13th New York Times. This is the third occasion in a few weeks that Gould has raised the torch for educational broadcasters. He praised NBC’s step in aiding ETV men and fought for WNYC when it faced the prospect of suspending its evening pro¬ grams. Never let it be said educational broadcasters don’t appreciate this influential friend. These articles do much to bring our problems to public attention. y The English course for illiterates presented over WKNO, Memphis, had an excellent write-up in the January 28 issue of Life magazine. As mentioned in the January Newsletter (p. 6, 2nd col.) this is the first in a series of articles in national magazines about WKNO’s project. y WILL-TV, University of Illinois, won the law¬ suit that has been pending against them for more than two years when the Illinois Circuit Court de¬ cided the University of Illinois was legally entitled to use state funds for support of the TV station. The plaintiffs, two taxpayers, argued that the University has no right to use tax money for a TV station that benefits only a small part of the state’s population. Their suit was financed by the Illinois Broadcasters Association, an organization of Com¬ mercial broadcasters. PERSONNEL y Frank D. Jacoby, formerly executive producer of Products Service,, Inc., has joined the Metropol¬ itan Educational TV Association, Inc., as director of production. y The appointment of Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review, to the Board of Directors of the ETRC has been announced. The appointment is effective immediately. The Center’s Board of Directors met February 1 and 2 in New York City. y For the 5th consecutive year Rob Downey, news editor of the Michigan State radio WEAR and WKAR-FM, has been re-elected executive secretary for the Radio TV News Directors Association. Downey was re-elected by a unanimous vote of the Board of Directors of the RTNDA at its annual convention. PROGRAMS Y The first TV coverage of Harvard University’s famed Godkin Lectures was presented by Boston’s WGBH-TV, January 8, 9, and 10. British Labour Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell delivered this year’s lectures on “The Challenge of Co-existence” before live WGBH-TV cameras and simultaneously over WGBH-FM. y Also, WGBH-TV broadcast live the CBS nation¬ wide network Odyssey production “Satan in Salem” January 27. The broadcast was specially arranged by the Essex County Tourist Council which contri¬ buted the cost of broadcast lines from WNAC-TV to WGBH-TV, as well as the WBGH-TV operating costs. “Satan in Salem” showed the habits of mind and character traits that lay behind the Salem witch¬ craft trials. The trials themselves were re-enacted, based word for word on existing records. y Illinois Senator James O. Monroe was interviewed over WILL, University of Illinois, on its “Illinois Editorial Review” program January 25. Senator Monroe answered questions on probes facing the cur¬ rent session of the state legislature, his career, and his belief in personal journalism. y WILL-TV is presenting a new series of 14 pro¬ grams intended to help interpret the uniqueness and problems associated with each major college on the Champaign-Urbana campus. The programs feature the deans of different colleges in informal interviews. y WNYC, New York, is expanding its live music programming at a terrific rate. The “German Fes¬ tival of Light Music” series, which started January 7, features contemporary compositions of some of the finest of post-war Germany’s artists and musical groups in concerts ranging from jazz to chamber music. NEWSLETTER Page 7