NAEB Newsletter (January 1, 1966)

cal commercial stations have helped acti¬ vate the channel by contributing equipment, land, engineering and legal services, as well as air time for in-school programs in the past. WCNY began broadcasts December 20 . ^ WCNY General Manager Thomas Pe- try has announced that his station will in all likelihood become the first ETV station to have its own symphony orchestra in resi¬ dence. The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, and its opera and choral groups, will use WCNY studios and production facilities for rehearsal and production purposes. Petry says this is the first step toward close coop¬ eration with all area cultural organizations as part of a long-range plan to determine the effectiveness of ETV in stimulating in¬ terest in and attendance at area cultural events. Texas A&M University has a new mo¬ bile unit which they believe to be unique among university-owned mobile units, in that it is equipped with two videotape re¬ corders. ^ KVCR-FM, San Bernardino, marked its completion of 12 years on the air on December 5, with a six-hour special anni¬ versary broadcast. ^ A special civil defense project has be¬ gun in California under a $28,000 grant to the Santa Clara County Office of Educa¬ tion from the USOE. Clarence E. Flick, supervisor of radio-TV at San Jose State College, has taken a year’s leave of absence to direct the research project. He will at¬ tempt to determine attitudes toward and grasp of information about civil defense among school personnel, students, and the general public. TV programs will be devel¬ oped on the basis of this information. PROGRAMS y A series of one-minute public service films broadcast last summer by commercial and educational TV stations in Georgia has been credited with a 25% increase in 1965 fall public vocational-technical school en¬ rollment. The announcements explained th? role of the schools and their availability to high school graduates. ^ KTPS, Tacoma Public Schools, is broad¬ casting four school safety patrol training sessions for more than 2500 pupils in the public and parochial school patrols. This is believed to be a “first” of its type. ^ The U. S. Information Agency is re¬ cording the Book Beat series of WTTW, Chicago, for rebroadcast on the Voice of America. ^ WDET, Wayne State University, has begun the second season of Detroit’s only multi-lingual radio series, Detroit’s Ethnic Groups. The programs are in six different languages and highlight the cultures of the largest nationality groups in the Detroit area, Polish, Italian, German, Hungarian, Croatian, and Armenian. ^ KUED, Salt Lake City, began a new series, Civic Dialogue, Goals for Utah, this fall. The viewers may participate in the programs by joining a study group and talking with the experts through a tele¬ phone hookup for a discussion and ques- tion-and-answer period. ^ WBUR began its fifteenth season of The Art World with Edward J. W. Cooper, New England artist and art critic. The program features news and reviews of art exhibitions in the Boston area, interviews with outstanding artists and representatives of leading art galleries, and discussions with faculty members from art departments in the area. ^ Writing With Writers is a new dis¬ cussion series over WDET. It is produced in cooperation with the Detroit Women Writers, and is designed to give practical advice to free lance writers. Experienced writers will be used on each program. S. I. Hayakawa, noted semanticist, ex¬ plains the art of talking and listening on Language In Action, WHYY-TV’s new se¬ ries. The programs will cover impasses in communications created by clumsy uses of words, will define language, discuss and illustrate how dictionaries are prepared, and elaborate on advertising techniques. STATE AND REGIONAL ^ Ohio is planning a master communi¬ cations center designed to give higher edu¬ cation in the state the finest radio-TV edu¬ cational facilities of any in the nation. Plans are to locate the center on the Ohio State Fairgrounds, to be operated by Ohio State University in association with Miami, Ohio, and Bowling Green state universities. ^ A new state agency, the South Dakota Board of Directors for ETV, is spearhead¬ ing a drive for legislative appropriations to be matched with federal money in order that the state’s ETV network can be estab¬ lished. Martin Busch, KUSD AM-TV- Film, has been elected secretary of the agency. ^ Hawaii’s ETV network is expected to begin broadcasts early this year. The Uni¬ versity of Hawaii has established an Edu¬ cational Television Broadcasting Service, with Robert M. Reed as director, to be re¬ sponsible for the production and transmis¬ sion service of the network, a cooperative venture of the university and the state edu¬ cation department. PLACEMENT POSITIONS AVAILABLE (For information, write Miss Yasmine Mirza, Placement Service, at the NAEB in Washington. In order to be considered through these channels, the reader must be an Individual Member of the NAEB, with credentials on file with the NAEB Placement Service. Non-mem¬ bers can save time by sending the $10 annual dues and $10 Place¬ ment registration fee at the time of inquiry.) Jan I Private liberal arts university in Northeast seeks highly experienced chief en¬ gineer who is intelligent, creative, and sensitive to the requirements of a uni¬ versity committed to excellence. To plan and operate a campus-wide closed- circuit system and to provide maintenance of audio-visual equipment. Must be capable of planning budgets, selecting equipment, and administering depart¬ ment. Starting summer 1966. Salary open. Jan 2 Above institution also seeks highly experienced producer-director who is scholarly, creative, resourceful, and ebullient—therefore capable of working closely with the great intellectual figures of our age. Starting fall of 1966. Salary open. . . . , Jan 3 Instructor in telecommunications arts in large Midwestern university. M.A. de¬ gree and experience in directing and producing in TV required. Duties would vary from teaching beginning and/or advanced radio and TV production and public speaking. Salary range for nine months: $6500-$7700, depending upon qualifications. Open in September. Jan 4 Producer-director wanted for closed-circuit TV. Must be creative, experienced, and capable. Midwest area. Jan 5 Producer-director, producer-writer ($6,000 and $8,000 for nine months, re¬ spectively) and two cameramen in large university in Great Plains region. Im¬ mediate openings. (Positions 6 throuqh 9 are with an expanding university mass communications department in the" Midwest. Salary and rank dependent upon degree and/or experience. All are twelve-month appointments.) , Jan 6 Research associate. Ph.D. necessary, interest and ability in programed instruc¬ tion. Position open now. Jan 7 TV design and graphics specialist. Design television graphics and sets. Open summer 1966. . . Jan 8 TV staging and lighting specialist. To handle remote and studio staging and lighting. Open summer 1966. , Jan 9 TV traffic associate. To schedule production facilities of three studios, three remote units and six VTR's plus a distribution system to 105 classrooms and transmitter. Open summer 1966, . Jan 10 Production assistant with secretarial skills for division of university _ relations in large Eastern state university. B.A. degree plus experience in writing and producing and in radio-TV-film liaison. Salary up to $5350. Opening in Feb¬ ruary. NEWSLETTER