NAEB Newsletter (April 1, 1965)

NAB Counts Broadcasting Students According to a survey by the NAB, 4,480 students at 127 U. S. colleges and universities are seeking degrees in radio and TV broadcasting. Of these, 3,527 seek bachelor’s degrees, 773 master’s, and 180 doctorates. Comparable figures for last year were 2,994; 593; and 132—for a total of 3,719. Seminar to Look at Research •Temple University and the USOE will cooperate in a three-day seminar on the findings of recent research on communication and their implications on school-community relations. Some 35 to 40 outstanding individuals will meet at the university April 26 to 28 to present and review research papers and then to focus attention on needed research studies in mass communications media. Par¬ ticipants will represent four groups—school superintendents, di¬ rectors of school-community relations programs, professors of school administration, and research specialists in the fields of psy¬ chology, sociology, political science, journalism, and audiovisual media. Plan 1965 NAEB Convention Members of the planning committee for the 1965 NAEB conven¬ tion (Washington, October 31-November 3) met in Washington early in February to assign responsibilities as follows: Publicity and press— Thomas Aylward, associate professor, University of Maryland. Equipment— Anna Hyer, executive secretary, DAVI; Har¬ old Wigren, ETV consultant to NEA; Oscar Reed, Jansky & Bailey; Don Williams, director of broadcasting, WAMU, Amer¬ ican University. Personnel— William McCarter, general manager, WETA- TV; Williams; Louise Walker, supervisor, Educational Services Center, Montgomery County Public Schools; Lillian Brown, radio-TV department, George Washington University; Aylward. Ladies activities—Walker and Brown. Military meeting— Col. Robert Wood, chief, Audio Visuals Systems Group, the Pentagon. Engineering sessions—Reed. Side trips—Wood and Walter Whitaker, director, TV and Radio Branch, NASA. Post-convention trips—Walker and Brown. Decorations—W alker. Government sessions— Gertrude Broderick, radio-TV spe¬ cialist, USOE, chairman; Robert Hilliard, chief, Educational Broadcasting Branch, FCC; Thomas Clemens, chief, Educational Media Branch, USOE; John Hurley, deputy assistant to the Under Secretary of ETV, HEW. News Notes PERSONNEL ^ Lawrence E. Dennis has resigned from the American Coun¬ cil on Education effective June 30. He will be working with a Ford Foundation education program in Venezuela, Mexico, and Central America, headquartering in Caracas. y Bill Arhos has been promoted from producer-director to production manager of KLRN-TV, in charge of production in the Austin studios. ^ Lewis Freedman is the new director of programing at WNDT, New York City. He was one of the original pro¬ ducers of “Camera Three,” for which he produced 125 con¬ secutive programs; most recently he produced 13 programs for “Dupont Show of the Week.” y Mrs. Rose Blyth has rejoined the public relations staff of the California Institute of Technology as director of TV, radio, and film activities. After working there for seven years, she left in 1962 to take part in the formation of the Los An¬ geles ETV station, KCET. In her new position she will con¬ centrate on developing material for TV and radio programs! and on expanding the film library. She will be in charge of distributing these materials to ETV stations and other or¬ ganizations. ^ Bert Briber has joined the Television Information Office as executive editor. He was with ABC for nine years, but comes to TIO from a New York advertising agency, for which he was promotion director. y John H. Tyo has been named supervisor of motion pic¬ ture production at Syracuse University. He was formerly head of the motion picture unit of the RAND Corporation, an in¬ dependent, nonprofit corporation which does 'long-range plan¬ ning for the Defense Department. y Robert C. Dudley is producer/director for cultural affairs for Pennsylvania State University’s new station, WPSX-TV. He was formerly producer/director at KUON-TV, Univer¬ sity of Nebraska. ^ The Georgia ETV Network has several new staffers. John R. Haney is the program development administrator, David O’Keefe executive producer, J. Hunter Todd film director, and John Vance chief engineer for the network station at Augusta, WVAN-TV. Haney was formerly program director, WUFT, University of Florida; production manager for WYES, New Orleans; and a producer for WUNC, Univer¬ sity of North Carolina. O’Keefe was a producer-director and production manager for KLRN, San Antonio-Austin; Todd was a producer with Williard Film Productions; and Vance was assistant chief engineer at WTOC, Savannah. STATE AND REGIONAL ^ Ohio’s ETV Network will come of age April 9 when its eight stations air at the same time a three-hour documentary on the state’s contributions to the Civil War. The newest of the stations is Cleveland’s WVIZ, which began operation in February. Plans call for two more stations. ^ A “live” ETV connection between Boston and WNED- TV, Buffalo, may be less than 18 months away, according to Donald Quayle, executive director of the EEN, which acts as a program exchange center for 17 ETV stations in the northeast. Only 7 of the stations are now interconnected, but EEN’s hope is for all 17 to be, with eventual connection with the Ohio network. The Buffalo connection hinges on the es¬ tablishment of the proposed New York ETV network. Last month CBS donated TV equipment valued at $180,003 to the EEN. ^ Relocation of its transmitter and a boost to full power al¬ lows KUON-TV, University of Nebraska, to reach over half the state’s population. This is the first step toward a 7-station state network. Two more channels are slated to become oper¬ able this year, in Lexington and Omaha. y If the New York legislature goes along with requested funds, phase one of the state’s UHF network will be to link Albany and Buffalo ETV outlets by two-way microwave. Plans are for the $11.8 million network to be in operation by 1975. Ultimately all 58 units of the State University would be connected by one-way microwave. y Jansky & Bailey has proposed an ETV system for Illi¬ nois of 12 new UHF stations linked by a 1250-mile micro- wave network. Budget estimates indicate an initial cost of $7.75 million. y The South Carolina ETV Commission has asked for ap¬ propriations of $250,000 toward construction of a broadcast station in Columbia. This would bring ETV to 21 counties. The state now has two ETV stations—in Greenville and Charleston—in addition to a state-wide CCTV system for its schools, hospitals, and industries. 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. Editor: Betty McKenzie. Editorial assistant: Skip Robinson. Phone 333-0580. Area Code 217. TWX 217-344-0970. 2 NEWSLETTER