NAEB Newsletter (June 1, 1965)

FCC Notifies MPATI An FCC notice of May 12 instructed its staff to draft a docu¬ ment that would deny MPATI’s petition for regular use of that service on six channels in the upper UHF. The document will point out that the FCC would permit continued MPATI oper¬ ation on six frequencies of the 2500 me band. Appalachia Committee Meets The special Appalachia committee organized at the NAEB Re¬ gion II conference in March met in Atlanta May 7. In its re¬ port the group urges establishment of a regional educational communications task force to develop a regional plan for de¬ velopment and operation of radio and TV programs and facili¬ ties. The regional plan would be based on state plans of the eleven states. John Young, WUNC-TV, chairman of the committee, has scheduled another meeting for June 3 in Columbus, Ohio. Oth¬ ers who attended the Atlanta session are: Hill Bermont, Henry J. Cauthen, David Chapman, Jr., Charles Drake, Tom Eden, Lee E. Franks, E. H. Gilli's, Jr., Gregory Heimer, Robert M. Henderson, Presley D. Holmes, W. Frank Martin, Marjorie Newman, Louis Peneguy, O. Leonard Press, Jerrold Sandler, Odell Skinner, Ronald B. Stewart, and Kenneth D. Wright. Region III Talks Available Photocopies of the following presentations from the 1965 Region III meeting may be obtained from the publications of¬ fice for 10c a page to cover duplication and postage; payment must accompany order. These will not be published in the NAEB Journal. 1. Bruner AND Bretz: The Professional Training of ITV Personnel, by Lewis A. Rhodes. 6 pages. 2. The Theory-Practice Dichotomy in Instructional Tele¬ vision, by Egon G. Guba. 11 pages. 3. Closing the Gap—Research and Practice, by Lee S. Dreyfus. 13 pages. 4. Fulfilling the Instructional Role of TV, Viewpoint of a School Executive, by H. R. Cromwell. 9 pages. 5. An Appraisal of Current Developments in ETV Equip¬ ment, by Roger E. Peterson. 7 pages. 6. I Wanna Be a Disc Jockey, by Robert F. Smith. 9 pages. Insurance Over $3,000,000 NAEBers have more than $3 million of accident insurance in force under the group plan for NAEB Individual Members, which was begun in January 1964. Management Tapes Available ETV stations may receive free of charge a series of 36 video¬ tapes on the subject of management. The tapes, each approxi¬ mately a half-hour in length, are primarily lectures by lead¬ ing practitioners in the subjects covered. Write Daniel C. Cady, Assistant Vice President, American Management Asso¬ ciation, 135 West 50th Street, New York City 10020. Tennessee Seeks ETV Info Tennessee’s education department is interested in ETV courses with emphasis on children pre-school through third grade. Officials would like to hear from NAEBers who have offered courses concerning child growth and development, materials and methods of training the young child, pre-school equipment and arrangement and techniques. They would like to know the name of the teacher, whether the course is on videotape, whether credit was offered, whether it was considered suc¬ cessful. Write to Mrs. Alice Kousser, supervisor, ETV, 102 Cordell Hull Building, Nashville, Tennessee 37219. Correction! In the list of committees included with last month’s News¬ letter, Zoel Parenteau, member of the ETS CATV Commit¬ tee, was listed with an incorrect station affiliation. He is with KCSD-TV, Kansas City, Missouri. News Notes PERSONNEL ^ Stanley D. Handleman, of the TV Center at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, has been appointed di¬ rector of the Peace Corps ETV project in Colombia. ^ Joseph L. Manch, superintendent of schools, Buffalo, N.-Y., has become chairman of the board of trustees of the Empire State FM School of the Air. He succeeds the 'late Paul C. Reed. ^ Burt Harrison, manager, KWSC, Washington State Uni¬ versity, is back on the job following recuperation from ex¬ tensive surgery. ^ Henry R. Cassirer has been named chief of a UNESCO unit for Educational Use of Mass Media. In his new position he will assure close integration of the use of such media as radio, TV, film, and the press into the education effort of UNESCO member states, especially in adult education. He joined the UNESCO staff in 1952. ^ The president of Colby College, Robert E. L. Strider, was elected president of the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Educational Broadcasting Corporation at its recent annual meeting in Augusta, Maine. The corporation is the licensee for WCBB, Lewiston, Maine. STATE AND REGIONAL ^ Nebraska ETV Network plans were aided recently when the state legislature passed a law imposing an additional two cents a package on cigarettes; ETV will receive 35% of the revenue. September 1 is the target date for completion of two channels—3 at Lexington and 16 at Omaha. ^ The Connecticut House has allocated to the Connecticut ETV Corporation a needed $50,000 to carry ETV programs for classrooms through June. This is in addition to an appro¬ priation in 1963 of $200,000 for the biennium, ^ The South Dakota legislature this year created an ETV Board of Directors and appropriated money to establish an office in Pierre, but failed to pass the money bill to estab¬ lish the first phase of the state ETV network. The Board will direct its primary efforts to submitting another bill next year. Meanwhile, a Center for ITV of the state’s ITV Council has been set tip at the University of South Dakota, as a co¬ operative service of KUSD-TV and the school of education. Purposes and activities are: exchange and distribution of TV programs among the state’s TV stations and CCTV facilities; production of new TV series; holding utilization workshops; curriculum development of new ITV courses; informational services; preparing future teachers to use TV effectively; and development of experimental programs under federal grants. Staffers are: Martin Busch, director; Ernest Phelps, associate director; Raymond Schroeder and Fred Peterson, curriculum consultants; Dell Colwell, audio-visual consultant; Gaylord Ayers, TV production; and James Prusha, technical director. ^ A Wisconsin legislative finance committee has approved the idea of Saturday broadcasting for the state’s radio net¬ work, but allowed only $14,700 for the biennium—enough to cover operating expenses for about four hours each Saturday. If the legislature approves the committee recommendation, the limited Saturday broadcasting will begin. ^ An ETV network for Illinois awaits decision by the as¬ sembly and governor. The bill calling for the first phase of NAEB Newsletter, a monthly publication issued by the Na¬ tional Association of Educational Broadcasters, 119 Gregory Hall, Urbana, III. 61803. $5.00 a year. Editor: Betty McKenzie. Phone 333-0580. Area Code 217. TWX 217-344-0970. 2 NEWSLETTER