NAEB Newsletter (January 1, 1964)

^ Community Television of Southern California announces that it hopes to move into its new quarters in Hoh> ,,'ocd early this month. The schedule calls for a test patt'.rn on the air for the Los Angeles ETV station by May 15 and full programing in September. Early in December, Ray Stanley, director, ETV Facilities Program, and John Brugger, of HEW, visited CTSC for an inspection prior to the granting of federal match¬ ing funds for construction and equipment. ^ WBKY, University of Kentucky FM station, installed a new transmitter during the Christmas holidays. The transmitter, a lOOOw Collins 830D-1A, will maintain the station’s 3000w ERP service to central Kentucky. It is push-button controlled and capable of stereo broadcasts, which WBKY plans to in¬ stitute in the near future. INSTRUCTION ^ In Bogota, a six-month, two-station pilot ETV project now being conducted by Peace Corpsmen and Colombian students is to be expanded in August, 1964, into a regular schedule of in-school programing that will immediately reach 1500 schools throughout Colombia. Last August, KUON-TV, University of Nebraska, and KNME-TV in Albuquerque, New Mexico, gave corpsmen their intensive training. ^ Daniel Turner, professor at Northwestern, looks past an “ITV obsession” in his article, “Television and Learning,” in the December, 1963, Teachers College Record. He says that our use of ITV has been obsessed with the notion of reach¬ ing more students with fewer teachers. He suggests that we have been both short-sighted on this score and insensitive to the potentiality of the medium to “bring the world into the schoolroom.” The same issue has a 27-page section, “Creativ¬ ity Appraised,” written by Richard de Mille of USC, Eliza¬ beth Drews of MSU, and Minnesota’s E. Paul Torrance. The Record’s address is Columbia University, 525 West 120th Street, New York 27. State and Regional ^ Ohio’s ETV Network announces that two new ETV sta¬ tions will be on the air during 1964 in the state. Bowling Green’s WBGU-TV is scheduled to begin programing early this year, while Cleveland’s Channel 25 will be activated later in the year. The state’s ETV stations plan an early exchange of programs via tape prior to actual interconnection by micro- wave. ^ The Arkansas ETV Commission expects to have its first station on the air this spring, in Hot Springs. ^ Maryland has under way an engineering survey for a state-wide ETV network. ^ In Illinois, the office of the superintendent of public instruc¬ tion and the Illinois School Problems Commission are co¬ sponsoring nine conferences in various parts of the state on ETV this spring. The governor has designated the superin¬ tendent of public instruction as the state’s ETV agency. ^ The Wisconsin legislature adjourned in November without acting on the governor’s special appeal for ETV. The proposal would have appropriated $570,000 in state funds, to be matched by a smaller amount in federal aid, to establish a station in the Green Bay area, another in the Eau Claire-Colfax area, a pro¬ duction studio at Stout State College, and the necessary link¬ age between those points and also Milwaukee. ETV pro¬ ponents are hopeful of action at a proposed April session of the legislature. Graduate Assistantship for 1964-65 Western Michigan University is offering a graduate assistant- ship in mass communications for 1964-65. Applications must be in by March 1. The stipend is $1,000 for ten months andi remission of local fees. Obtain forms and more information from Robert Paul Dye, Director of Broadcasting, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 49001. NAEB Headquarters: Suite 1119, 1346 Connecticut Avenue, N. W„ Washington, D. C., 20036. Phone 667-6000. Area Code 202. New Institutional Members RADIO STATION DIVISION C. W. Post College, Station WCWP (FM), Greenvale, Long Island, New York. NETWORK Station WKSU, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. Indiana College Radio Stations Elect Members of the Indiana Collegiate Broadcasting Conference elected officers and advisers at their second meeting at Butler University October 26, 1963. The group of college radio sta¬ tions organized at a meeting at DePauw University last May. Its purpose is “to better acquaint the personnel of Indiana college broadcasting stations with each other, to discuss prob¬ lems of common interest, and to explore the possibilities for an Indiana College Network or similar organization.” Officers are: President—Jerry M. Douglas, WAJC, Butler University; vice president—Ray M. Williamson, WGRE, De¬ Pauw University; secretary—David A. Rent, WBST, Ball State Teachers College; treasurer—Kathy Hegg, St. Mary- of-the-Woods. Advisers are: R. LeRoy Bannerman, Indiana University; Joseph T. Duncan, Indiana State College; and Irwin Starr, Earlham College. Member colleges are: Indiana State Teachers College, St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Evansville College, Notre Dame, De¬ Pauw University, North Manchester, Indiana University, Pur¬ due University, Ball State Teachers College, Indiana Central College, Franklin Central, Butler University, Earlham Col¬ lege, Valparaiso College, and Wabash College. THE PRESIDENT The December Newsletter went to press on the grim day following the President’s funeral, and I could think of no comment that seemed appropriate for this type of publi¬ cation. Now, a month later, I still feel a need to say some¬ thing here in acknowledgement of the national tragedy. Perhaps other NAEBers found themselves remembering, during the days following the assassination, the NAEB convention a year ago—when the Cuban crisis broke . . . when many of us gathered in one of the hotel meeting rooms to see and hear the President’s speech on the large screen. I remember feeling at that time a great pride welling up inside me—pride in country, in the Presidency, and in the man filling the job. It was a silent, sober crowd that left the room that evening. Little did we know then of the sillent, sober, and sad crowds to be filing through the Capitol Rotunda and lining the streets of Washington little more than a year later. Yet this sad time had its elements of solemn pride, too— in the continuity of the office of President ... in the brave dignity of Mrs. Kennedy ... in the unity of our people ... in the broadcast industry which alone could have sustained such unity as our nation watched and listened . . . and in a small boy’s salute, more expressive than any words. —BMcK. * * * Among the expressions of sympathy from other nations were two addressed to William Harley and the NAEB— cablegrams from the European Broadcasting Union and from Radiodiffusion-Television Francaise. The Congressional Record for December 3 commends the broadcast media for their coverage of the events, which, to quote the insert, “was particularly memorable because of the dedication, accuracy, and good taste of those from the broadcasting industry who worked long and often under difficult circumstances.” JANUARY 1964 3