NAEB Newsletter (July 1, 1964)

high school students commented upon the network show, Mr. Novak, immediately after watching it. y KRMA-TV, Denver, has hit the halfway mark in its pro¬ duction of The Glory Trail, a 10-part panorama of the Amer¬ ican West. KRMA is producing the series for NET, and the first broadcast is scheduled for March 14, 1965. Denver Post columnist Jack Guinn is writing the series, and Manny Al- bam, jazz arranger and composer, is writing the music scores. Tom Mossman, director, and Bob Heskett, producer, are both KRMA staffers. Red Fenwick, narrator, is also a Post col¬ umnist. y WTTW, Chicago, is broadcasting Hear the Whistle Blow, a 13-program series on America’s railroads, from the 1831 steam engine to the proposed Levatrain, a passenger train which wil'l glide on a cushion of air at speeds up to 500 mph. WTTW film director Robert C. Seipp produced the series. ^ KLRN-TV, San Antonio-Austin, last month presented a series about the gauchos of Latin America, filmed by Edward Larocque Tinker. The films were lent to KLRN by the Tinker Foundation. ^ Survivors of the atom-bombing of Hiroshima and Naga¬ saki were interviewed locally on WMHT, Schenectady, May 25 in a program, “Ambassadors of Peace.” y The Faces of Self is a series just presented by KLRN-TV, which will be available later to other TV stations. Marye Benjamin wrote the scripts for the programs dealing with mental health principles as they pertain to daily life. She also produced the series, with Bill Moll directing and Beulah Hodge narrating. y Emphasis on live telecasting of athletics of high schools in seven counties and St. Petersburg Junior College drew en¬ thusiastic viewer mail approval for WEDU, Tampa, which plans additional coverage next year. y WHA-TV is videotaping for playback this fall a series of 20 half-hour Piano Master Classes currently being con¬ ducted for promising Wisconsin students by Paul Badura- Skoda, visiting Brittingham Professor of Music this semester. ^ To aid teachers in teaching principles of Communism, WDCN-TV, Nashville, is telecasting a series based on an institute at Vanderbilt University last summer on the Nature of Communism. PERSONNEL y Robert D. Squier, TV program director for the University of Texas and KLRN-TV, is taking a six-month leave of ab¬ sence to join the NET staff in New York City as production manager of the public affairs program “At Issue.” ^ New personnel at WFSU-TV, Florida State University, are Eddie Mitchel Franklin, art director; Gene Thaxton, assist¬ ant art director; and John A. Roberts, production assistant. Richard Puckett, former art director, has left WFSU to become director of the LeMoyne Art Foundation in Tallahas¬ see. y Emanuel L. Strunin has been appointed manager of adver¬ tising and public relations for the Amecom division of Litton Industries. He was director of public relations for Adler Electronics prior to its acquisition by Amecom. y William Mellown, Jr., former school principal, has joined the staff of the Alabama state education department’s ITV coordinator office as assistant to the director. ^ Louis Lyons, retiring from his Harvard University post last month, will continue his news broadcasts over WGBH, Bos¬ ton, and will join the station staff. Nashville’s WDCN-TV reports two new staffers: Harold owery, from the Alabama ETV network, to become a pro¬ ducer-director, and Peter Bretz, from a commercial station in Columbia, Missouri, camera crew chief. y Judy Haubens has resigned as community-program pro¬ ducer at WMHT, Schenectady. She is now living in Herki¬ mer, New York, with her new husband, the Reverend Vernon A. Austin. NAEB Headquarters: Suite 1119, 1346 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20036. Phone 667-6000. Area Code 202. ^ Jerry Madden, WHA-TV producer-director, will leave the University of Wisconsin at the end of the summer to become director of television at Evanston Township High School, Evanston, Illinois. y Dale Lewis has been engaged as film director for the Birmingham studio of the Alabama ETV network. y Samuel Gould, president of WNDT, New York, has been appointed president of the State University of New York, ef¬ fective September 1. His successor at WNDT has not been named. y Werner J. Severin, assistant in TV research at the Uni¬ versity of Wisconsin for two years, has been named assistant professor of journalism at the University of Alaska. y Another Wisconsin research assistant, Craig Eben, assumes new duties this summer as supervisor of A-V instruction in the Wheaton (Ill.) public schools. TRAINING y WTTW joined with Chicago-area firms employing sales¬ men to present a 10-week course in sales training recently. The Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry pre¬ sented the series, designed to enable firms with small sales forces to train their men with the same degree of profession¬ alism that large companies can afford. GENERAL ^ Chicago Area School Television, Inc. (CAST) has been formed to replace the Tri-County ETV Council. CAST’s purpose is to make available to all schools in the area class¬ room utilization of TV and to provide the programs at the lowest possible cost. y WQED, Pittsburgh, expects to reach its community cam¬ paign goal ($250,000) for the first time in its 10-year history. y Texas has a new TV advisory committee organized to standardize technical equipment to be used by tax-supported agencies in the state, so that interchange of videotapes and other equipment will be possible. ^ CBS has contributed $100,000 to the 1964 operations of New York’s WNDT. ^ In surveying its viewers, WQED-TV, Pittsburgh, found that they came from a broad occupational and educational range. The study was conducted in cooperation with a NET nation-wide programing survey. ^ On May 18 the first transmission of medical information via subscription TV was shown over Channel 18, Hartford. The first program was videotaped at the Mayo Clinic. Also included was a sequence videotaped especially for the pro¬ gram at a hospital in Glasgow, Scotland. ^ An experimental series of two-way FM radio programs was conducted in Utah in early May. The radio system was established between the University of Utah medical college and several hospitals in the state, at which physicians con¬ gregated to take part in the discussion. The system was used in combination with KUER (FM). ^ With its grant under the ETV Facilities Act, Utah pfians to extend the KUED signal throughout the state via a trans¬ lator network, the first of its kind in the U. S. With this system, 100% of the schools and 99% of the population will receive an ETV signal. ^ WFIU, Indiana University, expects to have installed by the end of the summer its new RCA lOkw FM transmitter. The unit will be equipped for possible future stereo broadcasting. ^ Concordia Lutheran College has announced that it will join the Texas Educational Microwave Project beginning in the fall. ^ Former FCC Chairman Newton Minow has been elected to the Chicago ETV Association board of trustees. y For the first time, WHYY-TV, Philadelphia, this year will continue broadcasting throughout the summer. y A University of Michigan study reports a rise in the num¬ ber of radio-TV editorials, with 54 of the state’s 132 stations reporting the use of editorials. In 1949 only 1 station pre¬ sented editorials, 3 in 1956, and 17 in 1960. JULY 1964 3