NAEB Newsletter (June 1, 1965)

construction and operation has been voted out by the house education committee. GENERAL ^ The University of Alabama has won three certificates of excellence from the Southern Speech Association. Graydon Ausmus, director of broadcasting services, received the group’s first professional award for his contributions to educational broadcasting, and certificates were awarded two ETV series —Capstone Concert and Music Time. ^ Only one ETV facility was cited by the Edison Foundai- tion this year—the University of Michigan TV Center. The citation was for “creative educational television.” y KVCR-TV, San Bernardino Valley College, is now carried on Channel 6 by the CATV system; this covers an additional 2,000 homes in the California city. ^ KTCI-TV, sister station of KTCA-TV, Minneapolis-St. Paul, has gone on the air. The KTCA staff, including General Manager John Schwarzwalder, will serve KTCI also. ^ The Northeastern Pennsylvania ETV Association is re¬ ceiving a gift from the Taft Broadcasting Company of the complete TV transmitter of WNEP-TV, valued at over $350,000. It is hoped that the gift will advance the beginning of ETV in northeastern Pennsylvania by three years. ^ WTVS, Detroit, presented a special schedule for the week of May 9 in honor of the city’s ETV Week and also cele¬ brating WTVS’s first decade of broadcasting. ^ WGBH, Boston, broadcast a special program on radio and TV on May 1 to celebrate its tenth anniversary. y WMVS, Milwaukee, pioneer in ETV color telecasts, showed an hour-long NET program in color on May 3. This was the first NET program to be shown in color on an affiliated sta¬ tion and WMVS was the only NET station to carry it in color. WMVS has been carrying color films and showing colored slides on the air since January 28. ^ The Texas Educational Microwave Project is making long-range plans to use its system to full capacity. Only a portion is used by TV, and TEMP could expand its services by providing instructional material by high-quality audio pre¬ sentations as well as by TV. In addition, the system could transmit computer-based data up to four million bits per sec¬ ond (equivalent to transmitting the entire Encyclopedia Bri- tannica in 30 seconds). ^ Plans of the University of Mississippi to operate a com¬ mercial FM station have run up against strong opposition from the Mississippi Broadcasters Association, which says it is unalterably opposed to any state-supported institution operating a commercial radio or TV station. The association offered to help the university in securing and operating a noncommercial station. ^ KLRN-TV, San Antonio-Austin, is showing the CBS Re¬ ports by special agreement with CBS. ^ The Nashville Public Library (licensee of WPLN, NAEB FM station) has a new building, which the telephone com¬ pany is featuring on the Nashville directory cover. ^ Included in a $750,000 three-story addition at Morehead State College, Kentucky, are facilities for ETV production, including a 1220-square-foot studio. PROGRAMS y “What IS a College Education?” is the name of a gradua¬ tion special to be distributed in June state-wide in Washing¬ ton. The KWSC-TV documentary film unit spent spring va¬ cation traveling across the state interviewing the governor, educators, parents, high school students, for the special. Rob¬ ert Davy headed the unit. NAEB Headquarters: 1346 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Wash¬ ington, D.C., 20036. Phone 667-6000. Area Code 202. TWX 202- 965-0299. ^ WETA-TV, Washington, broadcast live the entire day’s teach-in re the Vietnam situation, from 9 a.m. to midnight. ^ About 75 NERN affiliates are broadcasting the 26-pro¬ gram radio series based on the International Convocation on Pacem in Terris. The programs were produced by the John¬ son Foundation. ^ The Wisconsin 1965 Legislative Forma series includes lawmakers talking on such subjects as: “Lie Detector—Tool or Monster?” “Constitutional Conventions for Wisconsin,” “Your Tax Dollars,” “Fair Housing Legislation,” “Water Pollution and Boating,” and “Shall We Legalize Gambling?” ^ WBFO, FM station of the State University of New York at Buffalo, played an active part in the recent Buffalo Fes¬ tival of Arts by broadcasting three of the avant-garde con¬ certs live, plus recording talks for later broadcast. WBFO was the only Buffalo station to cover the festival completely. The station has also broadcast six live concerts by the Buda¬ pest String Quartet this semester. Jack Boone Visits Site Named for Forebear Daniel Jack Boone, TV director at WOUB-TV, Ohio University, and third generation descendant of Daniel's brother Joseph, is shown at Boone Rocks in southeastern Ohio. He is engaged in photograph¬ ing points of interest in twenty-one counties in the area for a telecast in support of President Johnson's Area Redevelopment Program. It is hoped that the series of ETV programs will focus atten¬ tion on the tourism potential of the southeastern part of the state. It was at Boone Rocks that Daniel was held prisoner by the Shawnee Indians and forced to work with the squaws boiling down salt. It was here that he hunted with braves and, allegedly, planned his escape to Boonesborough from whence he directed the defense activities which saved the settlement from Indian attack. JUNE 1965 3