NAEB Newsletter (March 1, 1964)

News Notes PERSONNEL y Phi'llip A. Jacobson, long-time NAEBer, is now manager of ITV sales for Westinghouse. y Hugh Greene has been appointed project coordinator for the Texas Educational Microwave Project. Greene, of the Univer¬ sity of Texas, was in on the beginning of ITV at the univer¬ sity and at TEMP. y Darrel W. Hold has joined the staff of the University of Kansas radio-TV-film department as an assistant professor. He is finishing his Ph.D. at Northwestern and has been in commercial broadcasting for 12 years. y Glenn Wilson has become television engineer at Northern Illinois University. He will assist Blanche Owens, the coor¬ dinator of ETV, in the design of closed-circuit and broadcast TV facilities. y Thomas H. Welch of the Columbus, Ohio, public schools has just been hired by WOSU-TV, Ohio State University, as a producer-director. y George Dooley has been appointed station manager of Dade County (Florida) WTHS-TV and WSEC-TV. Dooley will be in charge of the two TV stations, as well as the radio sta¬ tion, WTHS. Cliff Mitchell, general manager of WTHS-TV and director of radio and television education for the county school board since 1960, has been promoted to the position of administrative assistant to the superintendent of Dade County schools. y Ohio State’s Richard B. Hull has been chosen one of Co¬ lumbus’ Top Ten Men of 1963 by the Columbus Citizen-Jour¬ nal for his work in ITV. y James W. Case, former program director and assistant ex¬ ecutive director of ETV station KRMA, Denver, has taken over as director of programing at Los Angeles’ new educa¬ tional Channel 28. James Loper has been named director of educational services. Loper leaves the post of director of tele¬ vision at Los Angeles State College. y Boston University Associate Professor Sidney Dimond is leaving school broadcasting to work full-time on his “sounds on tape and record” company, Creative Associates, Inc. y Two new WKNO-TV, Memphis, staffers are Jim Long- staff, producer-director, coming from WCCO radio, Minne¬ apolis, and Allen Bates, children’s director and host of daily series, formerly a local actor. y Howard Holst, WKNO-TV, Memphis, managing director, is doubling as Memphis State University speech and drama department instructor in TV production. STATE AND REGIONAL y A $100 savings bond will be awarded the winner of a con¬ test for the design of a new identification emblem for the Ohio Educational Television Network. The Special Projects Committee of the Columbus Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is providing the award. Ohio now claims more ETV broadcast stations than any other state in the nation: 7. y “ETV for South Dakota,” a survey and report prepared for the South Dakota ETV Association, has been completed by ETV Associates of St. Paul. The report was presented to the state Joint House-Senate Committee on Education for further study by the Legislative Research Council. After an exten¬ sive “grass roots” publicity and promotion effort, tentative plans hope for initial legislative action in January, 1965, at which time the legislature might appropriate funds to operate the first phase of a state-wide network outlined in the study. y In preparation for the Arkansas ETV Commission’s final development plans, Director Lee Reaves and Commissioner E. T. Sheffield, Lakeshore Schools Superintendent, spent three days studying the Alabama ETV Commission and its opera¬ tion. The Arkansas Commission plans to pattern its organi¬ zation after the Alabama setup. y Eight CATV systems outside the Alabama ETV network’s coverage now are providing their subscribers with Alabama’s programs. INSTRUCTION y TV teachers from KLRN-TV, Austin, Texas, are meeting with classroom teachers who are using their television pro¬ grams in a series of evaluatory workshops. y At eight schools throughout New York City, special pro¬ grams utilizing portable TV units are helping pre-service stu¬ dent teachers and in-service regular and substitute teachers to develop skills in classroom routines, discipline, and pupil- teacher relationships. The units employ a single camera which projects—with the aid of monitor, microphones, and audio¬ video “mixers”—a classroom demonstration lesson to a num¬ ber of other rooms in the school building where teachers and supervisors view it on receiving screens. y WKNO-TV, Memphis, says its telecourses are being used by 80,000 pupils this year. GENERAL y James Hagerty, vice president of ABC, and Robert E. Lee, FCC Commissioner, will keynote the 25th annual Intercollegi¬ ate Broadcasting System’s national convention March 21 at Columbia University. y WQED, Pittsburgh, is running a Miss ’QED contest among city college students. The winner will help the station campaign for funds. y University of Florida’s WUFT (TV), in a recent program bulletin, asked viewers to keep postal cards near the set, and to write the station immediately about programs they either liked or did not enjoy. y For the first time in its nine years of operation, WCET, Cincinnati, is telecasting on Sunday afternoons, with good drama, opera, jazz, classical music, ballet, and documentary films. y Chicago’s commercial WGN is opening a four-man bureau in Washington, D.C. y Dickinson College has become actively associated with “Romper Room,” an ETV program seen by millions of pre¬ school children in seven countries. The Dickinson faculty will participate in the creation, development and periodic review of all segments of the telecasts. y Tele-Measurements, new owner of radio station WACE, Chicopee, Massachusetts, says it will be pleased to make its facilities available to educators in the Massachusetts area. y KLRN-TV, University of Texas, has been chosen by NET to act as production agency for the first nationwide TV ap¬ pearance of the Houston Symphony Orchestra. y KUSD AM-TV and the University of South Dakota were hosts to the third radio-television workshop for religious broadcasting sponsored by the South Dakota Council of Churches, January 27-30. Consultants for the workshop were provided by the staff of KUSD AM-TV and the division of radio-TV of the United Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. y KUSD is broadcasting a series of 15 lectures recently de¬ livered by a military team of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at a national security seminar in Sioux City, Iowa. y GE and Westinghouse have agreed to guarantee installation and maintenance of TV equipment for schools to receive MPATI telecasts. Bill Fall, MPATI’s director of technical NAEB Newsletter, a monthly publication issued by the Na¬ tional Association of Educational Broadcasters, 119 Gregory Hall, Urbana, III. 61803. $5.00 a year, $7.50 including Washington Re¬ port. Editor: Betty McKenzie. Editorial assistant: Skip Robinson. Phome 333-0580. Area Code 217. Reporters: Region I Region II Region III Region IV —Michael Ambrosino, EEN, 238 Main St., Cambridge, Mass. —Shirley Ford, WUOT, University of Tennessee, Knox- viNe. —Lou Peneguy, A'ETC, 2151 Highland Ave., Birming¬ ham, Ala. —McCabe Day, WVSH, School City of Huntington, Ind. —Richard Vogl, KTCA-TV, 1640 Como Ave., St. Paul, Minn. 2 NEWSLETTER