NAEB Newsletter (May 1, 1964)

News Notes PROGRAMS ^ WMSB, Michigan State University, has presented a four- program series called “Film Experimental,” which examines new techniques in filmmaking. Talented filmmakers presented samples of their work and then joined host Arthur Weld, as¬ sociate professor of TV and radio, in discussing the reasons and symbolic meanings of their films. y Abilene (Texas) Christian College has produced several award-winning radio programs recently. A special program prepared for the Mutual Broadcasting System during the Christmas season won a first-place award in the honors com¬ petition of the Southwest District of the American College Relations Association. Another program, “The Story of Our Flag,” produced and announced by Lowell G. Perry (direc¬ tor of radio and TV at the college) over a local commercial station, was awarded a George Washington Honor Medal by the Freedoms Foundation in Valley Forge. Norman Jeff¬ erson, a student at the college, prepared a program for the American Foundation for the Blind, and in competition his program was awarded a $100 cash prize and designated first- place in the documentary division. ^ Auburn University’s TV studio is producing a once-a-month, hour-long, original drama, using faculty members and wives. ^ The University of Connecticut received an American Foun¬ dation for the Blind citation and award for a half-hour radio documentary, “Twenty over Two Hundred.” Donald E. Nel¬ son, director of the university radio-TV center, produced the program, which analyzed the problem of legal blindness. ^ TV Theatre, Wayne State University’s live TV drama se¬ ries, recently presented “A Merry Death,” a harlequinade writ¬ ten originally for the Russian stage by Nicholas Evreinov. Student husband-and-wife team Werner and Karen Harten- berger produced and directed. ^ As an aid for listeners who want to plan week-end reading, movie attendance, and theater-going, Philadelphia’s WUHY- FM is providing a weekly program of criticism each Thurs¬ day evening. Called “Critic at Large,” the program will fea¬ ture Bruce J. Bloom as the reviewer. GENERAL ^ Boston University has changed the name of its PR and communications school to the School of Public Communica¬ tion. ^ KQED, San Francisco, has started a group travel plan for its members. So far nineteen flights are scheduled during 1964-65. On April 5 KQED celebrated its 10th anniversary. ^ NAEB Industrial Associate Adler has announced that the FCC has granted Adler official acceptance for its 2500mc TV transmitter, making it the first and, so far, only, such trans¬ mitter acceptable for authorized use ill the 2500mc educational field. ^ Stanford University has developed a film on its flexible scheduling system for high schools. The system breaks away from the traditional 55-minute, 6- or 7-period school day, and class times range from 20 minutes to 2 hours or more, depending on the subject. A computer is used to organize each school week. Some 6,000 students in five high schools have been studying under flexible scheduling since September. ^ On May 28, WNAS will celebrate its 15th anniversary. On that date, 1949, WNAS, the first 10-watt FM station in the schools of America, broadcast the commencement exer¬ cises of New Albany High School, Indiana’s oldest public high school. After seven years of successful low-power oper¬ ation the station increased its power to 850 watts. Vernon McKown, director of A-V education for the New Albany- Floyd County Schools, says he is proud of the fact that in 1948 they decided to start with a student staff and that “we have letters in our files showing that our method of opera¬ tion was studied and successfully used from Long Island to Hawaii and from New Orleans to Huntington, Indiana.” He also wants to say “thank you” to the more than 275 former WNAS staff members, one of whom is now a highly re¬ garded CBC Network producer and award winner. ^ Ampex Corporation ieports that it has delivered more than a million dollars’ worth of VR-1500 portable videotape TV re¬ corders in the first three months of production and has a growing backlog of orders presently in excess of two and a half million dollars. ^ WCET, Cincinnati, is telecasting on Sunday afternoons for the first time in its nine years of operation. Good drama, opera, symphony concerts, jazz, feature documentary films, and ballet provide the program content. ^ The ETV Association of Metropolitan Cleveland will soon file for a CP for Channel 25 and for a grant under the ETV Facilities program. The group hopes to have the station on the air this fall. ^ RCA has announced a new portable AM-FM classroom radio for high-fidelity reception. ^ Indiana State College, Terre Haute, will soon receive a used FM transmitter from the Wabash Valley Broadcasting Corporation, parent company of commercial WTHI-AM-FM- TV. WTHI will have a new transmitter. Indiana State, which currently has a CP for WVIS (FM), will also have its an¬ tenna side mounted on WTHI’s 549-foot Channell 10 tower in downtown Terre Haute. ^ Melvin A. Goldberg, vice president for research of NAB, was the principal speaker for Indiana University’s annual radio-TV banquet April 30. ^ The Milwaukee Radio TV Council has launched its first fund drive, in its 20th year. This year the council has or¬ ganized 10 teleclubs in which young people meet regularly with adult discussion leaders to exercise judgment of TV pro¬ grams. WNYC, New York, will carry regular broadcasts from the World’s Fair. ^ Commercial WJR, Detroit, has donated a campus radio station to Northwood Institute, Midland, Michigan. The news release from Northwood says that the campus station “will provide facilities for the further development of the advertis¬ ing curriculum in the broadcast area.” ^ WFSU-TV, Florida State University, has installed a new EMI all-transistorized vertical interval switcher. ^ The New York Times for Sunday, March 8, carried a fea¬ ture about WRVR (Riverside Church FM station) called “Station with a Civic Conscience.” The article states that the documentary “Birmingham: A Testament of Non-Vio¬ lence,” produced by WRVR staffers, served to catapult the station from a relatively obscure position to one of national prominence. Critics have called the documentary, which has been distributed by the NAEB Radio Network, a significant milestone in radio journalism. ^ The governor of Pennsylvania proclaimed April 1 as WQED Day in honor of the Pittsburgh station’s 10th birth¬ day. ^ WMUK (FM), Western Michigan University, has a new phone number: 383-1921 (area code 616). ^ WHYY-TV and WUHY-TV-FM have moved from Chest¬ nut Street to 4548 Market Street, Philadelphia. 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 —Michael Ambrosino, EEN, 238 Main St., Cambridge, Mass. Region II —Shirley Ford, WUOT, University of Tennessee, Knox¬ ville. —Lou Peneguy, AETC, 2151 Highland Ave., Birming¬ ham, Ala. Region III —McCabe Day, WVS'H, School City of Huntington, Ind. Region IV —Richard Vogl, KTCA-TV, 1640 Como Ave., St. Paul, Minn. 2 NEWSLETTER