NAEB Newsletter (June 1, 1966)

r June 8 June 9 June 10 June I I June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 Appointment for 9 or 11 months. Opportunity for advancement. Salary $6,000 minimum. Large midwestern university is seeking a Supervisor of ITV Production to work in its CCTV system. Applicant should have had experience in produc¬ tion of ITV materials at the collegiate level. He will supervise CCTV pro¬ ducer-directors, handle various administrative duties involved in the sched¬ uling of studios, crews and other facilities and assist the production man¬ ager. He will be expected to direct one or two courses per term. Salary range from $7,200 depending upon experience. MA degree desirable. Open July. Large university in the south has immediate opening for a TV Production Manager. This person would be responsible for all live and video tape pro¬ ductions, and crew scheduling. Salary up to $8,000 for the right person. Instructor in Speech and Assistant Radio Program Manager. To, teach basic course in radio announcing and equipment operation and assist in scheduling of programing. Possibility of television production. MA in Broadcasting and experienced in announcing, programing, production and supervision of radio personnel. Salary $6,800-$7,500 for 9 , /2 months. Open September. Music Director for large university's 70 KW FM station. This person will be responsible for the major portion of programing, predominantly serious music. Position calls for some imagination but at the same time involves a lot of detailed work. Applicant should have a BA degree. Salary dependent upon experience and education—will range between $4500-$6000 plus uni¬ versity employee benefits. University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. New community ETV station in Northeastern metropolitan area has these openings: Two Producer-Directors, positions beginning summer. Recent grad¬ uates acceptable. Salary open. Liberal benefits. Good chance for rapid pro¬ motion; Two Studio-Transmitter Engineers. Must be familiar with operation of modern klystron UHF transmitters as well as studio equipment and micro- wave link. First-class license required; Graphic Artist to be responsible for coordinating all visual elements both on-the-air and publication responsibili¬ ty. Television Science Teacher to teach grades 5-8 for regional ETV Council in the Midwest. Salary $9,000-$ 10,000. Position open immediately. Chief engineer needed for large northwest VH'F-ETV project. Technical com¬ petency must span entire range of full power operated equipment and sys¬ tems; full responsibility for federal and state agency negotiations, personnel supervision, design, installation and maintenance. No teaching, no students. Program-operations manager needed for large northwest VHF-ETV project. Must have prior experience in programing sources, control systems, traffic, production directing and coordination. Guides publications for staff sched¬ uling-supervision. MA will be considered. Consider only those who have a personal commitment to educational broadcasting. ETV station—mid-atlantic state is expanding staff and operation. Have open¬ ings for engineers (2), technicians (2), cameramen (2), and photographer (I). Publications • Free subscriptions to Broadcast Man¬ agement/Engineering may be obtained from: Mactier Publishing Corporation, 820 Sec¬ ond Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017. • Jerrold Electronics has a new 36-page booklet on the basic types of TV systems for instructional use. Write for “1966 Schoolman’s Guide to ETV Communica¬ tions” to: Jerrold Electronics Corporation, 401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19105. • In April, the Hollywood Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences issued Vol. 1, No. 1 of its news¬ letter, Forum. In the feature article, Ted Post recommends training professional art¬ ists, research and experimentation in the performing arts, encouraging criticism. He says that ETV should have taken the lead in realizing these goals, but that instead it has accepted a pat on the back and gestures of financial aid from commercial TV. • The Broadcasting and Film Commis¬ sion of the National Council of Churches has issued a catalog of programs for radio and TV. Write to them at 475 Riverside Drive, New York, N.Y. 10027. • Allen E. Koenig has an article in the second issue (March-April 1966) of Preach¬ ing: A Journal of Homiletics, called “What the Preacher Should Know About the Ef¬ fects of the Mass Media.” Programs & Recordings • CBC is offering a radio art series, “Listening to Pictures,” to interested sta¬ tions. The series contains 13 talks (7 to 10 minutes each) by Dr. Jean Sutherland Boggs, Steinberg Professor of the History of Art, Washington University, St. Louis. Supplementing the talks is a booklet con¬ taining the texts, plus color photographs of the paintings discussed. (These may be in¬ serted in the booklet, next to the text con¬ cerned.) Cost of the programs is about $50, while the books and pictures are to be sold to the public as a package at $2.50 each. Dis¬ counts will be allowed to stations wishing to purchase the material for their own distribution to listeners. For information, write: A. H. Partridge, Overseas and Foreign Relations Officer, CBC, 354 Jarvis Street, Toronto, Ontario. • Western Michigan University’s broad¬ casting department has produced six LP records—Chaucer read in Middle English, folk songs, and four in a poetry series fea¬ turing American poets reading their own work. Records are $5 each. Write: Aural Press, Western Michigan University, Kala¬ mazoo, Mich. 49001. News Notes PERSONNEL ^ Orin D. Hood has been appointed man¬ ager of WDET, Wayne State University. A graduate of Boston University, he for¬ merly worked for WBUR-FM there, and for WENH-TV, University of New Hamp¬ shire. ^ Stanton W. Saltzman has been ap¬ pointed director of Temple University’s new department of medical communica¬ tions. For the past six years he has served as producer-director and TV program co¬ ordinator for the office of instructional resources, University of Illinois. ^ Alice Lewitin, who terminated her 19- year association with the French Broadcast¬ ing System on December 31, is now with the Coty Television Corp., a new affiliate of a French program production company— whose technical services in Paris may be of interest to NAEBers going abroad. Ad¬ dress : 1270 Avenue of the Americas, New York N.Y. 10020. ^ Roger Houglum, manager-director of KRVM, Eugene (Ore.), since 1945 and the station’s acting chief engineer, will leave that post July 1 to accept a full-time as¬ signment as chairman of the electronics di¬ vision of the Lane Community College. He will also direct broadcasting there, develop¬ ing radio and TV facilities on the school’s new campus near Eugene. ^ The Delaware ETV network has an¬ nounced the following new staff appoint¬ ments : Hale Hauptman, film photography director, former CBS photographer; Joan Rebecca Scott, resources specialist, former writer-production assistant for WITF-TV, Hershey, Pa.; Malcolm Rausch, audio tech¬ nician, formerly chief engineer at WATS Radio, Sayre, Pa.; Joseph H. Gaunt, traf¬ fic manager, formerly FM program and staff announcer for WFMD-FM, Fred¬ erick, Md.; and David Olson, studio tech¬ nician, formerly production assistant and studio supervisor at WETA-TV, Washing¬ ton, D.C. ^ Jack Boone, Ohio University TV pro¬ ducer-director, will spend the next two years in Nigeria as TV and new media ad¬ visor at Kano Teachers College. He will spend the summer directing installation of educational CCTV in the college. ETV is expected to be in operation this fall, and will be the first installation of its kind in Africa. ^ KCET, Los Angeles, has announced the following staff additions, due to increased local programing: Charles Allen, director of program operations, former program in¬ structor, WLVT, Bethlehem, Pa.; Gregory Heimer, program associate working with JUNE, 1966 3