NAEB Newsletter (July 1966)

ETV Facilities Program Reports Actions In its notice of May 19, HEW accepted for filing, applications for four new ETV stations and for two improvements. The new stations and total estimated project costs are: Ch. 53, Norwich, Conn., $353,- 532; Ch. 49, Littleton, N.H., $270,980; Ch. 40, Berlin, N.H., $194,299; and Ch. 52, Keene, N.H., $565,387. The University of New Hampshire is the applicant for the last three listed. The improvement applications accepted are for KUSU-TV, Utah State University, at a total cost of $158,090, and KPEC-TV, Tacoma, Wash., at $84,406. In its notice of June 7, HEW approved grants for two new ETV stations and one expansion. The new stations and grants are: Ch. 15, Hanover, N.H., $112,886, and C. 21, Rochester, N.Y., $154,667. The expan¬ sion is for WUNC, University of North Carolina station at Chapel Hill, for $236,- 234. On June 7 HEW also accepted the fol¬ lowing applications for filing: KFME, Far¬ go, N.D., expansion at a total estimated project cost of $324,731; amendments to ap¬ proved projects for new ETV stations on Ch. 52, Vincennes, Ind., and Ch. 20, Wrens, Ga. The Vincennes amendment is for added costs made necessary by order of the FCC to change the proposed operation to Ch. 22, giving an adjusted estimated project cost of $199,362. The Wrens amendment is to delete proposed studio facilities at At¬ lanta and apparatus claimed for credit, giv¬ ing an adjusted estimated cost of $582,663. from your editor — This is the last NAEB Newsletter that I will write here in Urbana. The August is¬ sue will be written at NAEB headquarters in Washington. I would like to thank all of you who have helped by sending me news of your ac¬ tivities through the years, and I know your continued cooperation, will be appreciated by the new editor. In addition to sending future information for the Newsletter to Washington, I hope you will still send to me in Urbana, for the time being, anything that might be of interest to the NAEB Jour¬ nal. Looking back through old Newsletter print orders, I find that the number printed today is almost triple what it was when I came seven years ago. Even that doesn’t ac¬ curately reflect the growth, however, be¬ cause in those days institutional members could receive up to three copies each; now they receive one. While reminiscing about NAEB’s growth, I might mention that in July, 1959, there were 43 ETV stations instead of the 111 or so of today, and NAEB had under 500 In¬ dividual Members. Now there are about 2250. The entire NAEB staff numbered 12 in 1959, whereas now there are 30 or so in Washington and 8 in Urbana. —BMcK. About UNICEF NAEBers who might want to begin early to plan tie-ins with UNICEF’s Halloween Trick or Treat program may obtain infor¬ mation from: U. S. Committee for UNICEF, 331 East 38th Street, New York, N.Y. 10016. Trick or Treat for UNICEF began in 1950 when a Sunday School class in Penn¬ sylvania gave their “treats” to the United Nations Children’s Fund. Their gift was enough to supply BCG vaccine to protect 1700 children from TB. Last year, over 13,000 communities spon¬ sored a UNICEF Halloween program, and over $2.5 million was sent to the Children’s Fund—enough to provide BCG vaccine to protect 40 million children against tuber¬ culosis, to supply DDT to protect 14 million children from malaria for a year, to pay freight on surplus dried milk amounting to 75 million glasses of liquid milk, to equip 5100 small health centers, and to provide basic equipment for carpentry and wood¬ working instruction in 3100 secondary schools. In recent years, the receiving countries have provided matching funds of over $2.50 to every $1 allocated by UNICEF aid. Publications • The Alabama ETV Commission has published a handbook telling how to have quality reception in the classroom. The 11- page fact book is available through the Commission headquarters in Birmingham. • Single copies of a new FCC bulletin, “Educational Television, Bulletin No. 16- B,” are available from the Educational Broadcasting Branch of the FCC. • “One Week of Educational Television —1966” is being conducted by the National Center for School and College Television, the Morse Communication Research Center of Brandeis University, and the Carnegie Commission on ETV. The “week” for this year is April 17 through April 23. The re¬ port Will be published in the fall. • The American Council of Education has just published An Assessment of Quali¬ ty in Graduate Education, appraising grad¬ uate programs at every major university in the U.S. $3 paperbound, $5 clothbound, from: Publications Division, American Council on Education, 1785 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. • The Future of Commercial Television, edited by Stanley T. Donner, is the com¬ plete record of the meeting sponsored by TV Guide at Asilomar, California, in April, 1965, when 50 leaders of TV gathered to NAEB Newsletter, a monthly publication is¬ sued by the National Association of Educa¬ tional Broadcasters, $5.00 a year. Editor: Betty McKenzie. NAEB Headquarters: 1346 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C., 20036. Phone 667- 6000. Area Code 202. TWX 202-965-0299. hear the lectures in the book. Order from the Department of Communication, Memo¬ rial Auditorium, Stanford University, Stan¬ ford, Calif. $2.50. • CATV System Engineering, by William A. Rheinfelder, is a 206-page guide on plan¬ ning and designing modern CATV plants. $9.95 from Tab Books, Thurmont, Md. • The first radio and TV news textbook for Latin America, Periodismo Radiofonico (Broadcast Journalism), has been published in Mexico. John F. Newman, a University of Wisconsin faculty member since 1957, wrote the book. • UNESCO recently published The Role of Information in National Development, a 64-page abridged version of Mass Media and National Development by Wilbur Schramm, which was reviewed in the March-April 1965 NAEB Journal. • Fundamentals of Television Produc¬ tion, by Leslie Smith, is an 85-page syllabus used in a course of the same name at St. Petersburg Junior College. Instructors of college TV production courses may have single copies by sending a stamped, self- addressed 9x12 manila envelope to: Chair¬ man, Department of Radio and Television, St. Petersburg Junior College, P. O. Box 13489, St. Petersburg, Fla. 33733. • Activating Community Resources for Therapeutic Recreation Services is a 73-page booklet about a 3-year project conducted by Comeback, Inc. The organization used TV as one means in rehabilitating the ill, aged, and handicapped, as reported in the July- August 1962 NAEB Journal. Copies of the booklet are free while they last on receipt of written requests from students and pro¬ fessional personnel in therapeutic recrea¬ tion and other health-related disciplines. Send to: Comeback, Inc., 16 West 46th St., New York, N.Y. 10036. • Readers & Writers is a new professional arts magazine introduced on college cam¬ puses in May. Tt features short stories writ¬ ten by students as well as professionals, a regular campus film section, student paint¬ ings, coverage of drama and music, and features about campus activities here and abroad. The magazine is scheduled for pub¬ lication six times during the academic year. Price: 25c each. Subscriptions from: Read¬ ers & Writers, 130-21 224th Street, Jamaica, N.Y. • Speaking to Inform and Persuade, by Otis M. Walter, is the latest in the Macmil¬ lan Company’s series in speech and commu¬ nication. The 114-page paperbound volume sells for $1.50. • The spring 1966 NCSCT “Telecourse Catalog” lists nine telecourses—four in music (two elementary, one secondary, one in-service), two elementary courses in sci¬ ence, one in-service in mathematics, and two in language arts (one elementary and one in-service). Information from: NCSCT, Box A, Bloomington, Ind. 47401. • TIO has published a comprehensive 54- page annotated bibliography, Television Ca¬ reers, primarily for those interested in en¬ tering the field as a career, but also for 2 NEWSLETTER