NAEB Newsletter (November 1, 1963)

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for the Division of Continuing Education of the Oregon State System of Higher Education, in Corvallis. ► Ben Yablonky, radio-TV specialist of the University of Michigan journalism department, was in Quito, Ecuador, for two weeks in October, on a visiting lectureship at the invitation of the International Center for Higher Studies in Journalism in Latin America. The center was conducting an eight-week seminar for sixty leading Latin-American journalism educators ► F. Gerald Bench has joined the staff of KOET, Ogden Public Schools (Utah), as producer-director. He was formerly a di¬ rector at commercial KSL, Salt Lake City. ► Allan S. Timms, former IT A Electronics sales manager, has joined the Adler Electronics staff as a field sales engineer. He will cover New York and New England. ► Vic Christenson is the new director of the Nebraska Council for Educational Television. He was formerly the superintendent of schools at Royal, Iowa, and has twelve years of teaching experience, as coach, classroom teacher, principal, and superintendent. ► The Wayne State University department of speech has two new members — Robert K. Tiemens, assistant professor of speech, and Charles R. Clardy, instructor in speech. Tiemens comes to Wayne from Northern Illinois University and has worked at commercial KTIV-TV at Sioux City. Clardy has worked at commercial stations in Texas and Oklahoma, as well as Miami University and the University of Houston. ► WUNC (FM), University of North Carolina, announces the return of Robert L. Hilliard to his position as director of radio and associate professor of radio, television, and motion pictures. He had been on leave as consultant on TV in higher education for the New York State education department. Donald B. Upham, who acted as director during Hilliard’s absence, has been named director of operations for WUNC and a member of the teaching faculty. Frost Branon, a senior, is student station manager. ► The University of North Carolina department of radio, TV, and motion pictures announces the following: Wesley Wallace has been appointed chairman of the department for a five-year period. John Ehle is on leave to serve as cultural and educa¬ tional advisor to the governor; he is replaced by a guest professor, William Hardy. Earl Wynn has returned from a summer of working with and studying new motion picture tech¬ niques. John Clayton is involved in the production of radio and TV materials for the North Carolina Tercentary Commission and for the Civil War Centennial Commission. Eric Salmon, British actor-producer-director is a guest professor. ► Samuel D. Estep of the University of Michigan Law School is in Geneva, Switzerland, attending the International Tele¬ communications Union Extraordinary Conference on Space Frequency and Radio Astronomy Allocations. He is an author¬ ity on space law, and terms the conference a “key meeting in the field of space research.” Being determined are such matters as legal regulations of space communication satellites. After the six-week conference, Estep plans to visit several Western European capitals to meet with broadcasting officials and gov¬ ernment personnel in regulatory agencies similar to the FCC. ► Robert Blakely, former vice president of the Fund for Adult Education, and dean of extension at the State University of Iowa, has joined the staff of the Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults for a nine-month period as consultant. ► Herbert A. Seitz, associate professor of radio-TV at Indiana University, has received a grant from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Westinghouse Broad¬ casting Corporation to study the problems of converting a Broadway play to a TV drama. ► Raymond C. Giese has been named general manager of WOSU-TV, Ohio State University, replacing Raymond J. Stanley, who resigned to become director of the ETV Facilities Program with the USOE. Stanley was also acting director of the IERT, and Richard B. Hull, director of the OSU Tele¬ communications Center, will assume the IERT directorship. NAEB Headquarters: Suite 1119, 1346 Connecticut Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C., 20036. Phone 667-6000. Area Code 202. GENERAL ► Mary Anne Franklin, TV consultant for the Richmond (Va.) Public Schools, writes that the committee which has been campaigning since May for money to activate the city’s allo¬ cated Channel 23 has raised enough for a station. September, 1964, is the on-air target date. The Richmond Federation of PTA’s has inaugurated a campaign for studio funds. Last month, school officials (superintendents, directors of instruction, and school board members) met for an all-day session to explore programing needs, both in-school and community, and to esti¬ mate the extent of possible participation. ► KOET (TV), Ogden Public Schools, and KUSU-TV, Utah State University, are investigating the possibility of installing special microwave equipment to link the two stations; this would mean expanded coverage for both stations. ► Among the talks at the Audio Engineering Society’s con¬ vention in New York last month was one on attempting to communicate with beings from other worlds, based on a linguistic analysis of language and mathematics. New York University’s Associate Dean Russell F. Smith gave the speech. ► WUNC (FM), University of North Carolina, reports equip¬ ment changes during the summer. The 50,000-watt transmitter was overhauled and an 800-foot antenna installed. A new multi¬ plex unit was installed; the studio was rebuilt, and now in¬ cludes a newly installed Western Electric dual-channel board. A new production studio has been added for news and special events. The department of radio, TV and motion pictures has a new half-million-dollar home this fall. In addition to class¬ rooms, auditorium, and offices, the new addition to Swain Hall has a 42x52-foot TV studio, control room, engineering facilities room, radio studios, recording laboratory, and extensive facilities for the photo lab and motion picture production. ► This fall Oregon’s ETV stations KOAP, Portland, and KOAC, Corvallis, have moved to a full broadcast day — from 9 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. ► Boston University is offering an evening course on the broad¬ cast commercial, aimed at advertisers and advertising students. ► Wilbur Schramm, director of Stanford University’s Institute for Communication Research, says that what the world needs is a good $5 battery radio. In a paper for a U. N. conference, he said the developing countries could “jump the barriers of illiteracy and powerlines” with such a radio as they could with no other device. ► New York University’s School of Education has received a USOE grant to support a new linguistics demonstration center. The major project of the center will be the production of a TV series for NET. Neil Postman, associate professor of English education at NYU, will direct the center. ► In October, its first anniversary month, KUAC-FM, Uni¬ versity of Alaska, increased its broadcast day — now to be from noon to midnight. Charles Northrip, station manager, says the increase is in direct response to listener requests for FM radio in the late evening hours. ► On November 17, WUFT, University of Florida, celebrates its fifth year on the air. ► Lampasas, Texas, schools are receiving programs from KLRN-TV, Austin-San Antonio, on an experimental basis through facilities of Tele-Vue of Lampasas, a TV cable cor¬ poration. Tele-Vue put sets in the school free of charge for thirty days of observation. ► WMHT, Mohawk-Hudson Council on ETV, is broadcasting now at twelve times its former power. With the installation of the new transmitter, Donald Schein, station manager, said vir¬ tually every home and classroom in northeastern New York should be able to receive a good picture and good sound. ► The College of San Mateo is scheduled to be on the air in February, 1964, with KCSM-TV. Its FM operation is planned for this fall. The ETV outlet will serve as an ITV center with programs for college credit. The hope is for a full “College of the Air” eventually, with a full curriculum leading to the bachelor’s degree. Deyrol E. Anderson, operations manager, writes that he would like to extend a welcome to NAEBers arriving in San Francisco for the NAB convention next winter. He says the stations are unique in that they were built as an November, 1963 3