NAEB Newsletter (May 1956)

Record Details:

Title:
NAEB Newsletter
Date:
May 1956
Publisher:
National Association of Educational Broadcasters
Volume:
NAEB news letter (May 1956)
Leaf #:
0003
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
{"Western Reserve","Blum, Eleanor","Bidlack, Cecil S."}
Sponsor:
National Endowment for the Humanities
Coordinator:
Maryland Institute for Technlogy in the Humanities
Description:
The official newsletter of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) -- the predecessor to NPR, PBS, the CPB. Led primarily by faculty and staff at large Midwestern universities, the NAEB envisioned uses of broadcasting to improve society and educate both children and adults. The newsletter chronicles the NAEB's activities in advocating to the FCC for educational stations to obtain greater access to the public airwaves, coordinating the distribution of educational recordings, and planning the production of ambitious programs, such as 'People Under Communism' and 'The Jeffersonian Heritage,' which starred Claude Rains as Thomas Jefferson. This newsletter was digitized as part of the 'Unlocking the Airwaves' project, a collaboration among the University of Maryland, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Wisconsin Historical Society, with funding from the NEH. -- Stephanie Sapienza & Eric Hoyt, 2019.
Date Added:
October 27, 2022
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-3- BROADCASTING AROUND THE WORLD (Excerpted from the DuMont Dispatch, CBC Times and Other Sources) The U. S. Television industry in January took a step to¬ ward achieving standardization on a much-discussed, but still developmental shallow TV picture tube when a committee of the Radio-Electronic-Television Manufacturers Association decided to omit from future consideration a projected 120-degree de¬ flection tube. Instead, it was decided to concentrate on a proposed 110-degree deflection tube with a small tube neck. Most tubes being made today are 90-degree tubes. In the indus¬ try^ earlier days, 70-degree tubes were standard. In Chicago, experimental work in teaching by television was given another vote of approval when the public schools appropriated a $40,000 budget for 1956. Programs will go out over Chicago educational station WTTW, at special hours with study programs, by top science and mathematics teachers, for high school students. ***** Prominent Germans and Americans paid tribute to the U.S. Information Service station RIAS — Radio in the American Sector — on the occasion of its 10th anniversary, February 5. The station, at which Dr. Harry J. Skornia, NAEB Executive Director, was a consultant in 1948-1949; has proved a potent weapon for the West in broadcasting on eight frequencies to an audience estimated at several million. *****