NAEB Newsletter (February 1, 1964)

preludes to radio stations with a request that they be played. The new, strictly non-profit, organization now has about 40 members. ^ Educational broadcasting in New York City celebrates its silver anniversary this year. Twenty-five years ago, when the daily school broadcasts began, there were only 62 radios in the city schools. Today there are close to 5,000 radios plus 2,000 television sets. For the future, school officials see two main broadcasting objectives about to become realities. One is the completion of the board’s $2,300,000 TV production center, which is under construction and which will permit the system to produce its own television programs. The other is ac¬ quisition of a television station by the board for transmission of its programs. ^ KVIE (TV) in Sacramento, California, is celebrating its fifth anniversary this February. Support for Central California ETV began a dozen years ago. ^ Among the recipients of this year’s National Safety Coun¬ cil Public Service Awards for exceptional service to farm safety are educational stations WKAR, Michigan State Uni¬ versity, and KUOM, University of Minnesota. ^ The A-V center at Syracuse University has a new name: Center for Instructional Communications. Among the respon¬ sibilities added to the center’s activities in the last few years are operation of a 195-position electronic learning lab, cus¬ tom designing of classrooms for automated instruction, and a program of research and experimentation in programed learning, teaching machines, and computer-based instruction. ^ Educational television tapes compatible with the Ampex VR- 1500 portable videotape recorder are available for ETV sta¬ tions and closed-circuit systems from two major tape libraries. The Midwest Program for Airborne Television Instruction, Inc., in West Lafayette, Indiana, and Great Plains Regional Instructional Television Library in Lincoln, Nebraska, are now offering course material from their libraries on 2-inch tape for use by educational institutions equipped with the Am¬ pex portable videotape recorder. ^ A massive 914-foot polished brass sculpture, created by the noted Minneapolis artist, John Rood, was recently donated to KTCA-TV, the Twin Cities Area Educational Television Station. The sculpture, “From Telstar,” which is now mounted at the entrance to the KTCA-TV studio building and which is believed to be the first artistic creation of its kind inspired by and dedicated to an ETV station, is said to symbolize tele¬ vision as an international cultural and educational force of world-wide significance. ^ KCET, Los Angeles’ long-awaited educational television station, moved into its permanent studios early in January. ^ A member-solicitation letter sent out during recent months by KQED, San Francisco, drew editorial comment from Broadcasting to -the effect that KQED seemed to be “anti¬ commercial” instead of non-commercial. In responding to the trade magazine’s “finger shaking,” KQED Manager James' Da\- said that KQED is not anti-commercial—that it was the intrusiveness, not the commercials themselves, that were ob¬ jected to. He also said, “Significantly, the solicitation letter was the most effective ever sent out by KQED, and prompted some of those solicited to write us ‘fan lletters’ on the letter itself, an almost unheard of phenomenon in fund raising.” ^ Boston University’s School of Public Relations and Com¬ munications has announced the expansion of its undergraduate program from two to four years, with a thorough stiffening of its content. Now during the freshman year, students will begin the program with twice-weekly seminars supervised by eight senior professors. ^ New York City’s Educational Broadcasting Corporation, which operates the ETV station, WNDT, has asked the FCC to assign Channel 14 for educational use. The plan is to oper¬ ate the second UHF station for adult illiterates and high school drop-outs. ^ New headquarters for the BFA have been established at 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City. Sdlveig Sletteland, former station relations director for BFA, has been appointed acting executive director. PLACEMENT PERSONNEL AVAILABLE [For information, write Miss Julie Hunt, Placement Service, at the NAEB office in Washington.) February I Returned Peace Corps volunteer, 26, who was a university lecturer in Journalism (including a course on radio and television) at an African university, desires position either as newswriter, reporter or production as¬ sistant-researcher in public affairs division. Male, single. Master's degree from an Ivy League institution in inter¬ national relations. Wishes to locate in or near large urban center or university town. Has experience in sev¬ eral of the journalistic media; radio ties go back to college days. Salary $90-125 per week depending on cost-of-living in community. February 2 Program director or assistant operations director for radio or television. Seven years experience in radio and television sales, administration, publicity, production, programing, and personnel. For last four years has been operations director for FM station. Experienced public speaker. A.B. in teaching of social studies. M.S. in tele¬ vision production and direction. Both degrees from Uni¬ versity of Illinois. Married. Two children. February 3 Radio-TV engineer. Male, 38, single. B.S. in iV. FCC first class license. Location open; North preferred. Salary: $5-8,000. February 4 Producer/director (British) with long experience of educational television in England would like similar assignment in this country, preferably in the Detroit area. Salary range $150-200 per week. Age 43, female, single. 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.) FEB-I Transmitter-control room operator for Midwestern uni¬ versity radio station. First class radio-telephone license required. Starting salary $4700 per year plus group in¬ surance and hospitalization. Annual increases usual, though not guaranteed. FEB-2 Rad io-TV writer-producer. University-based educational radio and TV station seeks individual with demonstrated ability to write and produce programs for both media. Position includes teaching basic courses in radio-TV. Experience in film and promotion helpful. Position in¬ cludes faculty status. Optional health program and man¬ datory retirement program. One month vacation. Salary $7,200. FEB-3 Producer-director for new ETV station. Must be experi¬ enced in commercial or ETV. Position open June I. Sal¬ ary determined by qualifications. FEB-4 Technician: Experienced man for operating and main¬ taining studio and transmitter equipment in new ETV station. VTR experience desirable. Salary $6,000-$7,000. FEB-5 Middle Atlantic college desires a Ph.D. in radio and television to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in these areas; to develop and supervise a program in these areas. Rank and salary open. Position open Sep¬ tember, 1964. FEB-6 Chief engineer with first class license and audio pro¬ duction background. Salary $6,000 to $6,500 per year. FEB-7 Chief engineer for a large Eastern university. Will be responsible for planning, designing, and engineering the ETV station. Later will aid in electronic learning research. Salary in five-figure bracket. Open immediately. State Department Has Opening for ER Specialist Wanted: Educational radio specialist to assist in Laos with developing and writing course material at the ele¬ mentary level. Should be able to train local educators in both writing and producing radio lessons which will be designed to supplement the instructions presently offered in village schools. Fluency in French required. One year assignment open immediately. Interested per¬ sons should contact Miss Martha Seesa, Department of State, Washington 25, D.C. 4 NEWSLETTER