NAEB Newsletter (March 1, 1966)

Denver Bar Association. The station’s The Glory Trail, produced for NET, won an award from the American Association for State and Local History. INSTRUCTION ^ The South Carolina ETV network re¬ ports that over 12,000 students successful¬ ly completed the course, If Disaster Strikes, during the first semester. Twice the air time is available for the medical self-help series during the second semester. y WBGO-FM, Newark, is the only out¬ let in the East for Chevron School Broad¬ cast, a half-hour weekly radio concert with commentary produced for classroom use, by the Chevron Oil Company. The series is broadcast over more than 120 stations and reaches 3 million children in over 8,- 500 schools—mostly in the western states. ^ St. Petersburg Junior College is using its CCTV facilities to present dental post¬ graduate courses in cooperation with the regional dental association. ^ The new studio at the Teaching Re¬ sources Center of the University of Dela¬ ware at Newark will produce two major instruction projects this spring for distribu¬ tion via the three-channel Delaware ETV network. One is an in-service program for teachers, a mathematics background course for understanding the current approach in elementary school. The other is to acquaint counselors, students, and parents with cur¬ rent Selective Service requirements and with military career programs open to high school graduates. Other projects include: a series of briefings for the Wilmington Po¬ lice Department by city officials and uni¬ versity psychologists and sociologists, the use of videotape machinery in speech lab¬ oratories, and storage of special lectures by distinguished faculty members. ^ In the teacher preparation program at the University of Texas, junior students are observing actual classroom instruction in two Austin public schools through CCTV. Following the TV, the students dis¬ cuss what they have seen, with the guid¬ ance of their professor. ^ At St. Petersburg Junior College, Les¬ lie Smith and Earl Kohler recently com¬ pleted a series on the national government. Since such courses undergo constant re¬ vision, they would like to have anyone knowing of films and film catalogs in the area of national government and state and local government send information to: Prof. Earl F. Kohler, Department of So¬ cial Sciences, St. Petersburg Junior Col¬ lege, P.O. Box 13489, St. Petersburg, Fla. 33733. ^ Indiana University’s radio-TV service now provides about fifty hours of CCTV course instruction per week to the Bloom¬ ington, Indianapolis, and Purdue campuses. “This is about twice as much,” says James Perry, CCTV supervisor, “to about three times as many students as we’ve done in the past.” He said there has been a very sharp increase in the Indianapolis enroll¬ ment. ^ Nighttime programing began for the first time on KYNE-TV, Omaha, on Janu¬ ary 31, and one of the programs broadcast in the evenings is an instructional program in modern mathematics, directed toward par¬ ents. A unique feature is that utilization centers are open to the public in schools, where adults can watch the program and receive instruction from a professional math teacher. ^ Elementary schools in the Austin-San Antonio area are in the fourth year of Spanish instruction by TV, and students who are now in junior high school classes of traditional Spanish instruction “definitely show superior ability with Spanish,” says Tom Ditzel, ITV coordinator for KLRN- TV. Preliminary studies indicate that stu¬ dents who have a TV experience show no¬ ticeable superiority in conversational skills and pronunciation. KLRN uses only native Spanish speakers so that pupils hear cor¬ rect pronunciation. The Georgia ETV network telecast live for school youngsters a recent address to the state legislature by the governor. This was the first time permission was given to telecast the joint session. The program began ten minutes before the address, with histo¬ rical references to the capitol. GENERAL ^ WNYE-TV, New York, expects to be ready for broadcasting sometime in mid- April, wihen construction of a new tower and transmitter is completed on the roof of Brooklyn Technical High School. The production center is producing and stock- /'“N piling programs now for use then. ^ KLPR-TV, Oklahoma City, is sched¬ uled to go on the air about March 1. The UHF will serve 80,000 square miles with an effective radiated power in excess of 1,000 kw. ^ San Antonio College (Tex.) has ap¬ plied to the FCC for an FM station li¬ cense. ^ Educational Services, Inc., is setting up a studio in Watertown, Mass., to produce films and videotapes for use in training teachers. WGBH, Boston, is cooperating. ^ WBGU-TV, Bowling Green State Uni¬ versity, moved into new studios in a differ¬ ent building recently. ^ During 1966 KWSC-TV, Washington State University, hopes to expand its pro¬ gram service to several other points in the state by microwave relay. The project will cost $100,000. y Construction is expected to begin this spring on two new stations for the Nebras¬ ka ETV network—Channel 9 at North Platte and Channel 13 at Alliance. ^ New Georgia ETV stations have set programing target dates: July 30 for WCES-TV, Wrens, and September for WCLP-TV, Chatsworth. W S J K - T V, Sneedville, Tennessee, expects to begin tests in June. 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.) Mar I Television studio assistant. Camera operation, lighting, etc. Excellent oppor¬ tunity for recent radio-TV graduate looking for experience: chance for fu¬ ture advancement to producer/director. Immediate opening. Salary $5000- $5500. Mar 2 Assistant professor qualifying in radio-TV area for major Midwest university. In¬ volves supervision and teaching in dramatic and nondramatic writing, radio and TV production, etc., in both graduate and undergraduate levels. Ph.D. required plus college-level teaching experience. $9,500-$ 10,500 plus 10% of base pay for half-time summer load. Mar 3 Creative graphic artist for well-known corporation in large eastern city. Ex¬ perience in creating instructional materials for TV, motion pictures, filmstrips and slides. Salary commensurate with ability. Excellent benefits. Interviewing and relocation expenses reimbursed. Mar 4 Television engineer with three years experience and first-class commercial phone license: television technicians preferably with one year experience and first-class commercial phone license. Openings in ETV office of important southwestern university. Salary dependent on experience and references. Mar 5 Assistant professor for Big Ten university. Responsibility for basic production courses in TV-film as well as graduate research required. Interest in creative experience with video and cinematic media desirable. Ph.D. required. Open September 1966. $8400, negotiable depending upon background. Mar 6 Assistant professor of radio-TV. Dual responsibility of teaching beginning and advanced TV production and TV producer-director for east central univer¬ sity. Research and writing in radio-TV-film required. $8,000 initial salary (ne¬ gotiable on experience) for 10 months. Advanced degree required, with Ph.D. or partial preferred but not mandatory. Open September 1966. Mar 7 Immediate: Need chief engineer. Should have administrative as well as tech¬ nical competency. Going to full power and complete color in new building facility scheduled for completion 1967. Excellent state benefits, working con¬ ditions, and location. 4 NEWSLETTER