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CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON NEW KETC BUILDING Plans for KETC*s (Channel 9, St, Louis) permanent studios and offices at the cor¬ ner of Big Bend and Millbrook Blvds., have been approved and construction .is now underway, Dr, Arthur H. Compton, chairman of the St, Louis Educational Television Commission and former Chancellor of Washington University announced. KETC went on the air from temporary studios located in McMillan Hall at Washington University oh September 21, Contributed by Arthur B. Baer, president of Stix, Baer & Fuller department store, St. Louis, the new building will be known as The Julius and Freda Baer Memorial, in honor of Baer*s parents. It will be erected at a cost of about ->185,000 on land made available by Washington University and is scheduled to be completed before the first of the year. The 1U,000 square-foot building, designed for television operations, includes a large studio, scenery storage room, sceneery shop, offices, control room, kine¬ scope ’recording room and film rooms. Dr. Compton explained that the office and studio sections of the new building will be of welded steel frame construction. The studio exterior will be of insulated paneling while the office exterior will be a combination of brick veneer and insulated panels. The steel and insulated panel construction of the studio section is being utilized because of its internal flexibility and adaptability for expansion. Also, it can be erected speedily and its cost is low. Ownership of the studio building will be retained by Washington University. It will be leased to the St. Louis Educational Television Commission, operator of the community-sponsored station KETC, for 20 years, at W1 per year. TV ‘NEWS BRIEFS The FCC has approved a proposal under which commercial TV station KOLN in Lincoln, Nebraska, will move from VHF Channel 12 to VHF Channel 10, and will turn Channel 12, together with its operating equipment, over to a Trustee who will make it available for use by the University of Nebraska.as a non-commercial educational station. Under the proposal, the Trustee agrees to sell the present Channel 12 broadcasting facility to the University for ^100,000 up to July 1, 19^6, if the University desires to buy. The FCC added TV Channel 79 to the assignments at Toledo, Ohio. The action gives Toledo three commercial channels and one educational reservation. NEW OSU BUILDINGS GIVEN OK Trustees of the Ohio State University have approved a giant building program. It features.a ^2,500,000 campus auditorium, five 11-story dormitories, a new re¬ search laboratory, television station and classroom building. The television sta¬ tion and lab are estimated to cost ^200,000 each. KTHE, LOS ANGELES SUSPENDS OPERATION KTHE (TV) Los Angeles, second U.S, educational TV and first Los Angeles area UHF station, suspended operation on September 15. The University Department of Tele¬ communications will continue use of station facilities for instruction and research but programs will not be telecast. The reason for the suspension was lack qf funds