NAEB Newsletter (May 1, 1961)

NEWSLETTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS VOL. XXVI NO. 5 MAY 1961 n NAEB Sends Team To Sudan Dr. Sydney W. Head, on leave from his duties as director of the division of communications services at the University of Miami, is heading a three-man team of broadcasters in the Sudan. The contract be¬ tween the NAEB and the International Cooperation Administration was signed last month. Dr. Head is already in the Sudan, and two en¬ gineers will join him this month. Clarence D. Phillips, chief engineer of the television center at the State University of Iowa, will be the studio engineer, act¬ ing as consultant and also training native personnel in basic electronics and in operating and maintaining studio and control room equipment. A transmitter engineer is yet to be named. He will serve as consultant in installation, operation, and maintenance of transmitters and antennas—and will train native personnel in these functions. Dr. Head will serve as program advisor. Purpose of the project is to aid the Sudanese Government in its program to improve the technical and programing operations of its official radio broad¬ casting facility, to get an acceptable and competent countrywide coverage. Programs will be in Arabic, English,' and in local native dialects. Both medium and short wave facilities are to be expanded, and the program content is to be improved to compete favor¬ ably with outside broadcasts now being beamed into the Sudan. Minow To Speak At NAEB Convention FCC Chairman Newton M. Minow will be the keynote speaker at the NAEB convention. He will speak on Monday, October 23, at 8:30 p.m. Because the Willard Hotel could not handle the convention exhibits (because of lack of power), the site has been changed to the Marriott Motor Hotel, “Twin Bridges.” This hotel is near the Washington Monument. Room rates are guaranteed at the follow¬ ing prices: singles, $12; doubles, $16; and twins, $17. NAEB Board Actions Following are the highlights of the Board meeting in Columbus, Ohio, following the IERT: • R. Edwin Browne was elected secretary of the Board. • The Board ratified the new “charter” of the Joint Council on Educational Broadcasting (successor of. the JCET) and agreed that NAEB will continue as a constituent member. • Approval was given for the expenditure of up to $9,000 for remodeling some equipment and buying new Ampex “slave” equipment for the Network. • Plans were approved to have a summer seminar for Board members and key committee chairmen. This will be an association self-examination type of seminar — a look at what was planned at the Aller- ton seminar ten years ago, what has been done, and what the future should be. Planning committee for the seminar (July 16-20 at the University of Wisconsin) consists of R. J. Blakely, Vernon Bronson, Larry Frymire, Harold Hill, Keith Nighbert, Edward Rosenheim, and Harry Skomia. PROGRAMING FROM WASHINGTON TO CONTINUE The Board also approved continuation of the NAEB Network radio programing from Washington. At the present time, this consists of a 15-minute weekly re¬ port and 30-minute “specials” from time to time. As of September 1, someone will be needed to handle the job, as Leonard Press’s leave from the University of Kentucky will have expired. Please write to Harold Hill at the Washington office if you know of anyone who will be in Washing¬ ton on a special assignment and who might be able to handle this half-time programing job as well. Are You "Packaging" Instructional Materials? The National Education Association is studying the impact of technology upon education—and as part of the study, they are examining the development of “packaging” of materials. This means combining of media and materials into an instructional package or system of materials, to teach part or all of a course. Members of the NAEB are urged to cooperate in 1