NAEB Newsletter (January 1, 1964)

PLACEMENT PERSONNEL AVAILABLE (For information, write Miss Julie Hunt, Placement Service, at the NAEB office in Washington.) January I—Production manager, 27-year-old male, with 7 years of educational TV experience wishes to be located with a TV station or production unit that is part of or near a college or university. Majored in TV and would like to work and finish education at the same time. Would like to settle in the Southwest or Southeast, but will ac¬ cept other offers. Salary $9,000. One year of commer¬ cial TV experience and 2 years of commercial radio ex¬ perience. Would also be interested in a P-D position working with new teachers, which he has specialized in for the last two years. Has ITV and community ETV work experience. January 2—Position wanted with educational station. Has ex¬ perience as script writer, continuity writer, announcer, newscaster, and audio producer and director. Married male, 29. Holds B.A. in sociology and B.A. in radio and TV, both from Indiana University. Prefers salary $475 to $500 a month. Will consider any location. January 3—Chief engineer of ETV station desires position with station or network offering greater challenge and re¬ sponsibility. Five years engineering experience in com¬ mercial and educational television. Successfully planned and carried out extensive improvements in an expanding ETV operation. Male, 23, married. Location open. Salary range, $9,500-$12,000. POSITIONS AVAILABLE (In order to be considered through these channels, the reader must be an Individual Member of the NAEB, with credentials on file with the NAEB Placement Service. Non-members can save time by sending the $10 annual dues and $5 Placement registration fee at the time of inquiry.) Jan. I University ETV station in northeastern U. S. seeks tech¬ nicians capable of operating TV control room equip¬ ment and doing necessary switching. Extensive training not required; will be provided after employment. Salary open, dependent upon background and experience. Open immediately. Jan. 2 Associate or full professor to serve as head of academic program in radio-television at major Midwestern univer¬ sity. Will teach undergraduate and graduate level cours¬ es, direct graduate study and research, exercise general supervision over teaching staff and academic program and coordinate classroom work with station operation. Ph.D. and college level teaching experience required. Salary open, depending upon training and experience. Positions Jan. 3, Jan. 4, and Jan. 5 are with a new communi¬ cations arts department in the Southwest. Salary and rank are dependent upon degree and/or experience. Jan. 3 Full-time engineer capable of maintaining and operat¬ ing a television studio containing equipment for educa¬ tional and instructional television; also maintaining oper¬ ation on a school AM-FM radio transmitter. Applicant must be able to maintain equipment without outside contractual help. Require minimum of B.A. degree and experience in either educational television broadcasting or equivalent professional broadcasting. This is a non- professorial position; member of staff. (For list of equip¬ ment mentioned above, contact NAEB Placement Serv¬ ice). Jan. 4 Producer-director capable of working with university professors in formulating ITV program for on-campus use; also necessary that he have background to accomplish imaginative cultural ETV programs for community con¬ sumption. Full-time position. Should have some academic teaching experience in order to accomplish one or two three-unit upper-division courses in production and di¬ rection for students in communication arts department. Jan. 5 Television and film writer capable of teaching senior year and/or graduate level courses in creative writing for television and film. Should have at least an M.A. or equivalent professional experience plus higher educa¬ tional teaching experience. % Asian Broadcasting Union to Begin July, 1964, will see the inauguration of the Asian Broadcasting Union, with headquarters in Tokyo. All broadcasting organi¬ zations of national character in independent countries in Asia and the Pacific region are eligible for membership. Draft statutes were studied at the Fifth Asian Broadcasters’ Con¬ ference in Seoul, Korea, last fall. Schedule Set for International Conference The Japan Broadcasting Corporation will host the second in¬ ternational school broadcasting conference April 9 to 15, 1964, in Tokyo. The organizing committee met in Rome under the sponsorship of the European Broadcasting Union, to decide upon the schedule for the conference. Invitations were dispatched to 160 broadcasting organiza¬ tions of 125 countries at the end of October. Working lan¬ guages to be used will be English, French, and Japanese. Proposed subjects for the sessions include the fundamental purposes of school broadcasting and the individual character¬ istics of radio and television with special attention to audi¬ ence organization and assessment of results; essential re¬ quirements for starting a school broadcasting service; assist¬ ance and information to developing countries with special at¬ tention to the training of personnel; radio and TV in the fight against illiteracy and in fundamental instruction of adults; radio and TV in teaching history and geography for promotion of international understanding; teaching of science and mathematics through radio and TV; teaching languages through radio and TV; and correspondence courses in asso¬ ciation with radio and TV. UNESCO Seeks Candidates for Paris Positions 1. Chief of radio and visual information, department of mass communication. Responsible for activities designed to pro¬ mote knowledge of aims and activities of UNESCO and the organizations of the U. N. system through radio broad¬ casting and visual information media of all forms. Qualifi¬ cations and experience required: university degree or equivalent attainments; substantial professional experience in the field of radio and visual information as director of production or producer, and knowledge of radio and visual information organizations in countries with different cul¬ tural traditions; administrative experience relevant to di¬ recting and supervising the work of a group of radio and visual information producers and technicians of several nationalities; perfect knowledge: reading, writing and speaking, of English or French and good working knowl¬ edge of the other; familiarity with other languages an addi¬ tional asset; knowledge and appreciation of the aims and activities of the organizations of the U. N. system. Closing date: February 15, 1964. Salary, $10,650 per annum. 2. Chief of press division, department of mass communica¬ tion. Under the general directives of the director of the department, this person is responsible for planning and executing activities designed to promote knowledge of the aims and achievements of UNESCO and the organizations of the U. N. system through news agencies, the daily and periodical press and other publishing enterprises. Qualifi¬ cations and experience required: university degree or equivalent attainments; substantial professional experience as a writer or editor in a news agency and/or newspaper or periodical, preferably also with a national or interna¬ tional public information service; knowledge of the press in countries with different cultural traditions desirable; administrative experience relevant to directing and super¬ vising the work of a group of journalists and press officers of several nationalities; perfect knowledge: reading, writ¬ ing and speaking, of English or French and good working knowledge of the other; familiarity with other languages an additional asset; knowledge and appreciation of the aims and activities of the organizations of the U. N. sys¬ tem. Closing date: January 31, 1964. Salary: $10,650 per annum. Both positions are two-year appointments. Persons interested in these positions should contact Mr. John Sauls, Office of International Administration, Room 5321, Department of State, Washington, D.C. at the earliest possible date. NEWSLETTER