NAEB Newsletter (October 1, 1964)

Are You Listed Right? Individual Members will be listed in the January-February issue of the NAEB Journal. Anyone who has an address or title different from that on the envelope for this Newsletter should notify the NAEB Urbana office before November 1. Plans are under way for a new Directory of Institutional Members also. Please notify us of changes. NAEB-ETS to Study ETV Financing Funds have been received by the NAEB from the U. S. Of¬ fice of Education Which will enable ETS to begin a study on long-range financing of ETV stations. Frederick Breitenfeld, Jr., has been named project director for the seven-month Inaugurating the study will be a conference in Washing¬ ton, D.C., December 7-8, to be attended by station managers and members of governing boards of more than 90 ETV sta- Breitenfeld has joined the NAEB-ETS staff in Washing¬ ton Prior to this assignment he was a communications con¬ sultant at Cape Kennedy, and from 1960-1963 he served as a program administrator in adult education and an assistant dean at Syracuse University. His articles have appeared in Saturday Evening Post, NAEB Journal, Journal of Broad¬ casting, and UNESCO’s Television and Adult Education. Needs Info on Teacher Training by TV An ETV specialist with the Peace Corps in Colombia needs information on teacher training by television, including in- service training via TV. Anyone having concise materials which would be of assistance should send them to: Miss Lucy Gratwick, ETV, Peace Corps, American Embassy, Bogota, Colombia. Scientists Study Radio Interference More than 500 'leading scientists will explore the problem of radio frequency interference at a meeting in Chicago, Novem¬ ber 17-19. According to James J. Krstansky, chairman of the conference, many serious interference problems have been created by the large growth in operating electronic equipment. Dr. Slcifter Dies Hector R. Skifter, who aided in the experimental radio broad¬ casts that developed into Radio Station WCAL, St. Olaf College, died in New York July 25. He is credited with de¬ veloping the airborne magnetometer, a detection device used to locate submerged submarines in World War II. He was president of Airborne Instruments Laboratory, Inc., and a vice president of Cutler-Hammer, Inc., at the time of his death. News Notes serving this academic year as specialists in the Americans Abroad program of the U. S. Department of State. Their project is using ETV to combat illiteracy. Dr. Tyler is pro¬ fessor in OSU’s Bureau of Educational Research and Serv¬ ice ; Mrs. Tyler is supervisor of the Ohio School of the Air in the university’s Telecommunications Center, k Mortimer Fleishhacker, Jr., San Francisco businessman and president of the Bay Area ETV Association, was the voice of KQED on the weekly station report, “A Few Words About Channel 9” recently. He was filling in for general manager James Day, Who was on leave of absence in Africa. ^ Lee Franks, formerly with NET, New York, is now ad¬ ministering the Georgia ETV system. k Miss Eilene Ha'lpern, formerly of NBC and WNDT-TV, has been named a director at WHRO-TV, Norfolk, Virginia. Boyd Harrier has been promoted from director to production manager, and John Egan has moved up from director to pro¬ gram manager. k Boris Frank has taken over as production supervisor at WUA-TV tTnivprdtv nf Wisconsin, Madison. STATE AND REGIONAL k A legislative subcommittee on ETV has recommended that South Dakota enter the first phase of its proposed statewide network. This phase would put the state’s only ETV station, KUSD at Vermillion, on full power and would activate the proposed station at Brookings. When completed, the network would also include stations at Aberdeen, Pierre, and Rapid City—at a cost of $2 million. The subcommittee said that appropriations for the entire net¬ work should be completed within a three-year period. Also recommended was the establishment of a board of directors for ETV in the state—a nonpartisan seven-man group to be appointed by the governor. k Alabama’s ETV network can cover 90% of the state’s popu¬ lation, since the new transmitter at Mobile became operational September 14. k Delaware’s legislature has voted to support a three-channel CCTV network connecting all elementary and secondary schools in the state. A $425,000 center will be constructed to serve the network. Appropriations have been made for two years, and September, 1965, is target date for operation of the system. . . The whole state of Delaware is also receiving hiv broadcasts via a newly installed signal translator in Sussex County. The device receives the signal from WHYY-TV, Channel 12, Philadelphia, and retransmits the picture on Chan¬ nel 73. k Georgia plans statewide ETV by 1966, with a ten-station network. $3.3 million of a new school bond issue will be allo¬ cated for six new stations and a production center. INSTRUCTION k The 30,000th credit student in the history of Chicago City Junior College’s TV College, over WTTW, has been enrolled for the fall 1964 trimester. Viewers may complete the first PERSONNEL k Reorganization of the radio-TV department at Ohio Uni¬ versity has resulted in the following appointments: Archie Greer, director of radio; Presley D. Holmes, Jr., director of television; and Vincent Jukes, director of audiovisual, k Wally Briscoe, administrative assistant to Rep. Oren Har¬ ris, chairman of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, has been named administrative assistant and of¬ fice manager for the National Community Television Asso¬ ciation. _ . , , k John Haney, formerly of the Air Force Academy, has ac¬ cepted the position of director of the office of instructional resources of the University of Illinois, Chicago campus. ^ Dr. and Mrs. I. Keith Tyler of Ohio State University are NAEB Newsletter, a monthly publication issued by the Na¬ tional Association of Educational Broadcasters, I 19 Gregory Hall, Urbana, III. 61803. $5.00 a year, $7.50 including Washington Re¬ port. Editor: Betty McKenzie. Editorial assistant: Skip Robinson. Phone 333-0580. Area Code 217. Reporters: Region I —Michael Ambrosino, EEN, 238 Main St., Cambridge, Mass. —Shirley Ford, WRVR, 490 Riverside Drive, New York City, 10027. Region IV —Richard Vogl, KTCA-TV, 1640 Como Ave., St. Paul, Minn. 2 NEWSLETTER