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NAEB INAUGURATES AN ENGINEERING SERVICE When Cecil S. Bidlack reported at NAEB Headquarters in Urbana, July 1; he be¬ came its first Television Engineer and thus inaugurated an engineering service to its members. , t This, new engineering position was made possible by a grant to the NAEB'from the- Fund for..Adult Education. In a letter to President Ausmus,-Miss Martha C. • How¬ ard, a member of the FAE staff, expressed the hope that the grant "would enable the National Association of Educational Broadcasters to plan sufficiently far in advance to render an engineering service of the highest caliber to the devel¬ oping educational television stations of the country." Mr. Bidlack has been a member of the radio staff (WTAM) and a technical director; on the television engineering staff (WNBK) of the National Broadcasting Company in Cleveland, He has been actively engaged in television work since May of 19U8 when he went to NBC in New York for television training. In New York, he par¬ ticipated in studio and field television operations including the 19h8 political conventions in Philadelphia. He is not,new in the educational field having been Technical Supervisor of WOSU, the Ohio State University station, for eleven years prior to moving,to Cleveland in 1938. He. graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree from Ohio State University. One of Bidlack*s first duties was a trip to the New York area to complete arrange¬ ments, for the NAEB Television Engineering Workshop to be held October 19. to 27 inclusive. The NAEB Engineering Committee has selected and notified all success-** ful applicants for this workshop. Their names are listed elsewhere in this month*s Newsletter. (See the August Newsletter for Workshop details.) While on this trip east, Bidlack visited WGBH and the upcoming WGBH-TV. He went over studio plans in detail with Hartford Gunn, Jr., Assistant Manager for Opera¬ tions who reports a number of Bidlack* s suggestions, were passed on to the .archi¬ tects. - . ••'••••• He also visited WCjED in Pittsburgh on-the return trip to observe facilities arid operation there. On August 12, he met in an advisory capacity with a sub-commit-: tee of the Iowa Joint Committee for Educational Television to help work out a "minimum package" for educational television in Iowa, On this trip he inspected, facilities of WSUI, and the State University of Iowa closed circuit TV studio at' Iowa City; WOI-T? and WOI at Ames, Iowa; and the facilities of WHA-T? and WHA in Madison, Wisconsin. - Requests for information on film scanning equipment from the University of Ala¬ bama, and for data on studio switching systems from WKAR-TV at Michigan State College have been received and information supplied in spite of the fact that the TV engineering reference material is building up slowly. On August 2.7, Bidlack appeared on the program of the pEB Production Workshop at East Lansing. His topic, ’.'What the .Educational Producer Should Know about Tele¬ vision Engineering,"" He also visited WKAR-TV and WCET in Cincinnati, to observe operation and see their facilities. WOSU-TV has requested Bidlack*s services for staff training when it is ready to go on the air late this fall.