NAEB Newsletter (May 1, 1966)

of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS VOL. 31, NO. 5 WASHINGTON, D.C. MAY, 1966 200 Attend NAEB Southern Meet Registrants at the NAEB Region II Southern Area conference in Memphis last month heard Tennessee Governor Frank Clement speak of his personal commitment to ETV, saying that “. . . it is the best, the cheapest, the most efficient—perhaps the only solution to my state’s education prob¬ lems.” He said he would not bemoan the lost opportunities of commercial television, but that instead, “We must learn to make the magic of Madison Avenue work for us.” Gov. Clement keynoted the conference. The banquet speaker was Robert L. Lin¬ coln, executive director, Council of Higher Educational Institutions, New York City. Talking on “Communications in the Six- ties,” he said, “TV and radio must bring the community to the home ... we must determine how best to use the air time.” In addition to business sessions and other general sessions on interconnection and leg¬ islation, conferees could attend a number of special-interest sessions—on engineering, production, management, studio teaching, facilities and equipment, graphics, promo¬ tion, utilization, funding, research and de¬ velopment. The group voted Jacksonville, Fla., as the 1967 conference site 1 —and Atlanta, Ga., as the site for every third year, beginning in 1968. NAEB Improves Placement Procedure The NAEB has expanded its placement service and will concentrate on fast and ef¬ fective service to individuals and prospec¬ tive employers. Changes in registration and record procedures and a mechanical sort¬ ing device are expected to speed processing. To be known hereafter as the NAEB Per¬ sonnel Service, it will function directly un¬ der the NAEB president’s office, with Fred¬ erick Breitenfeld, associate director of ETS, overseeing operations. ETV Facilities Program Reports Actions In notices dated March 31 and April 5, HEW approved grants for five new ETV 1966. The proposal is to add a title to the Act “to create bold new approaches to adult basic education,” including ETV. Harley supported the AEA recommenda¬ tion, but urged that radio be included as well, saying “Radio can do many education¬ al tasks as well as TV and more economi¬ cally.” NAEB Petitions FCC To Reconsider 5 th Report and Order In a petition filed March 21, the NAEB urges the FCC to reconsider its position re¬ garding reservation of educational channels and to adopt a Table responsive to the edu¬ cator’s demonstrated needs and in tune with national educational objectives. The NAEB calls the Fifth Report wrong for all of the reasons that the Fourth Report was wrong The Commission’s table erects artificial limitations on the number of channels and hence automatically restricts the absolute number of available reserved assignments, says the petition. While the FCC table re¬ serves a third of the channels for educa¬ tion, the limitations still allow only 615 for education, out of 1756. The NAEB table also reserves a third of the available chan¬ nels—roughly 1100 out of 3200. NAEB’s petition also hits hard at the conflict between the FCC’s unsaturated table and other Congressional education ob¬ jectives. NAEB_ names the recent specific acts in which Congress has explicitly rec¬ ognized ETV’s role in educatibn, and says that the Commission’s refusal “to provide ample, or even minimal, room for these de¬ veloping educational uses . . . runs directly counter to the purpose and goals of these Congressional enactments.” Professional Interest Sections Organize The ranks of all NAEB Professional In¬ terest Sections have grown since their for¬ mation at the 1965 national convention in Washington. Some 300 Individual Members participated in the planning meetings of the six sections at that time. Each section now has a national chair¬ man ; four have regional representatives throughout the country, and one other has 1