NAEB Newsletter (July 1966)

KOAC will increase from 29kw ERP to 260 kw:, while KOAP will go from 29kw to 60kw. KOAP will also move to a new studio. Target date for return to the air is September 1. ► A $50,000 grant from the Louis W. and Maud Hill Family Foundation will help KFME, Fargo, N.D., construct and install a two-way microwave interconnection be¬ tween KFME and KWCM, Appleton, Minn. This will connect KFME with St. Paul and Duluth stations as well. The Hill grant will be part of a $300,000 project which will al¬ so allow KFME to broadcast in color, in¬ crease power, and expand its videotape re¬ cording facilities. ^ Other ETV developments in the region include site acquisition for a fourth fill-in relay point to Appleton, a pending FCC de¬ cision to reserve Ch. 9 at Bemidji, pending translator activation at Grand Portage and Grand Marais; activity at Brookings, S.D., for a new station this year; and activity for stations to serve southwestern and south¬ eastern Minnesota. ^ Mississippi’s legislature has approved es¬ tablishment of the Mississippi ETV Author¬ ity, to be managed by Bill Smith, formerly with the ETV Facilities Program in Wash¬ ington. GENERAL y Clair Tettemer, general manager of KFME, Fargo, headed a field consultant team that visited Fairbanks, Alaska, in June to help plan some 1255 hours of TV pro¬ grams to be broadcast to the state’s schools next year—the first use of ETV in Alaska. Others on the team of the National Project for the Improvement of Televi'sed Instruc¬ tion were June Dilworth, director of broad¬ casting for KCST, University of Washing¬ ton, and John Rugg, a teacher in Denver. ^ KETC, St. Louis, recently received a check for $50,000 from CBS. In a letter to the St. Louis ETV Commission chairman, Frank Stanton, CBS president, said that CBS regards St. Louis as “an important focal point in the development of a vigorous and broad educational television service in the United States. . . .” ^ WETA, Washington, recently announced two grants—a $25,000 building fund grant from Xerox and a grant from International Nickel Company to acquire and produce programs for Sunday broadcast. ^ The first stage of a new! $20 million Communications Building Group at South¬ ern Illinois University is completed, and the schools of speech, theater, and radio and television have moved in. Journalism and printing and photography will also be in the complex when building is completed. ^ WQED, Pittsburgh, reports that its 1966 fund campaign now totals $300,000 from more than 25,000 contributors—the highest in the station’s 12-year history. $275,000 was the goal for the campaign. ^ KLRN-TV, San Antonio, is now offer¬ ing several religious programs on Sunday mornings, being used by churches to enrich Sunday School programs. ^ A $2.5 million ETV system of the New York Roman Catholic Archdiocese, dedi¬ cated recently, will link more than 400 paro¬ chial elementary and secondary schools in a 4700-mile area. Programs will originate at the system’s broadcast center in the 2500mc band and be transmitted to six ma¬ jor receiving locations. ^ The University of New Hampshire has received FCC authorization to build a Ch. 13 ETV station at Hanover. ^ WGBH, Boston, moved its transmitter in June, to share a tower with Westing- house Broadcasting’s WBZ-TV. The new antenna will be 1,050 feet high against 660 at its old location. AWARDS ^ Julia Child, as The French Chef, re¬ ceived the first Emmy to be awarded in the ETV category May 22 at the 18th annual Emmy Awards presentation. The French Chef is produced by WGBH, Boston, for NET. ^ KETC, St. Louis, received an award from the Metropolitan Church Federation of Greater St. Louis, for broadcasting in prime time Tangled World, a documentary series on ethics and the great social issues of the day. y KUSU-TV, Utah State University, re¬ ceived an Alfred P. Sloan Award for High¬ way Safety for an eight-program series, Impact. ^ Perspectives in Literature was cited as the best series of cultural programs in Chicago when WBEZ received an Ameri¬ can College of Radio Arts, Crafts and Sci¬ ences award for the second consecutive year. ^ The California Teachers Association awarded a John Swett Merit Citation to KCSM-TV, College of San Mateo, for High School Scope, a series portraying the breadth of curriculum and activities in San Mateo high schools. INSTRUCTION ^ Scheduled to go on the air in Septem¬ ber is a four-channel 2500mc ITV system in New Trier Township East and West high schools in Wi'nnetka and Northfield, Ill. The system will feed programs to ele¬ mentary schools in six districts, as well as to the high schools. Total equipment cost is $119,000. Programing will include cur¬ riculum material and i'n-service teacher training courses. On the TV staff will be Robert Pirsein, ITV coordinator, and a chief engineer, executive producer-director and one assistant, and a secretary. Video Systems, Inc. will maintain all equipment. ^ By using two devices popular with stu¬ dents—the telephone and the radio—the Uni¬ versity of Texas chemical engineering de¬ partment has improved a tutorial program which had been “somewhat less than suc¬ cessful.” From 3 to 4 o’clock each afternoon, students may dial a telephone number to reach an office where a group of graduate teaching assistants attempt to help with problems related to the undergraduates’ studies. The assistants research the prob¬ lems and call the students back later. Then at 4 p.m., the assistants talk over what has been bothering the students and analyze the basis for the trouble. Thirty minutes later, two of the assistants walk across the street to the radio/TV building and record a 10- minute radio program described as a kind of “Huntley-Brinkley approach” to chemi¬ cal engineering problems. The program is broadcast on KUT-FM at 10:25 p.m. ^ Delaware’s ETV net recently sponsored an ETV workshop which brought together 110 primary grade teachers from more than 35 school districts in the state. The program was to help teachers understand ETV as a teaching tool, and specifically emphasized ef¬ fective use of a language arts ETV series then being received in classrooms. Mrs. Hope Mitchell, the TV teacher for the se¬ ries, from WCVE, Richmond, Va., spoke to the group, and she also spent a day vis¬ iting classrooms to talk with pupils view¬ ing the series. ^ During a science i'n-service series in At¬ lanta last year, three programs were broad¬ cast live via microwave to the station from actual classrooms to show utilization of regular TV science programs. Teachers demonstrated motivation and follow-up of a program viewed on-set by the class. WETV, in cooperation with Emory University and ^ the University of Georgia, conducted the series of weekly hour broadcasts. Normally the set was a simulated classroom, where the instructor, Lucy Smith, taught children of various grade levels without rehearsals. Emory University had a two-hour seminar each month for the teachers, and graduate credit was offered at both universities for the course. ^ Students at the Sterling (Ill.) Township High School are receiving vocational in¬ formation through CCTV in their home¬ rooms. During one of the twenty 40-minute telecasts, a supervisor in a machine tool plant discussed the work, and an employ¬ ment official talked about wage rates, em¬ ployment trends, and interview techniques. Then a roving camera in the school focused on a lathe operator in the school shop, who demonstrated his work and displayed his products. ^ WNED-TV, Buffalo, and the State University of New York are presenting a series of hour-long TV programs on con¬ temporary medical research. Outstanding teachers from the faculties of many medi¬ cal schools appear on the programs, which are broadcast Sunday afternoons at 3:00, with repeats Tuesdays at 10:30 p.m. ^ KYNE-TV, Omaha, is presenting a var¬ iety of courses this summer. Four school systems of metropolitan Omaha are making TV a part of their regular summer school curriculum—a first for Nebraska. In addi¬ tion to courses in driver education, art, his¬ tory, and instruction on 12 different musical 4 NEWSLETTER