NAEB newsletter (July 1957)

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NEWSLETTER

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS
14 GREGORY HALL URBANA, ILLINOIS

NAEB-SUPPORTED TV
SUMMER WORKSHOPS

The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb., and the
East Carolina College, Greenville, N. C., have an¬
nounced the opening of their NAEB-financed summer
workshops for in-school teaching by TV. Classes
started June 17. The purpose of these workshops is
primarily to insure the best possible professional
training for the staffs and management of U. S. ed¬
ucational TV stations.

Both schools will feature in their two-week pro¬
grams a number of distinguished speakers in the field
of ETV. The U. of N. makes its own station, KUON-
TV, available for the workshop while ECC has been
given access to the facilities of WNCT-TV, Channel
9, in Greenville.

Other institutions which established NAEB-spon-
sored workshops are the University of New Mexico,
Purdue University, Michigan and Florida State Uni¬
versities, WKNO in Memphis, Tenn., the University
of Miami, the University of Minnesota and the Tol¬
edo (Ohio) Public Schools.

The total amount granted by the NAEB for the
establishment of workshops is $17,000.

WALDO ABBOT RETIRES

Prof. Waldo Abbot, longtime NAEBer and longtime
Director of Broadcasting at the University of Mich¬
igan, retired from the Wolverine staff on July 1, 1957.
Waldo was the recipient of a special NAEB Citation
at the Convention last fall in Atlanta. He is a former
Board member of the Association, and is the author
of the Handbook of Broadcasting , the most recent
edition published with the assistance of Richard L.
Rider.

In his years of service, Waldo has seen, and super¬
vised, the growth of Michigan’s radio service. He es¬
tablished station WUOM which produces numerous
series of programs each year for broadcast by com-

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July, 1957

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Gregory Hall, Urbana, III., $5 a year, edited by Hans J.
Massaquoi. Application for 2nd class mail privileges pending
at Urbana, Illinois.

mercial stations throughout the state and provides a
special school programming service for these stations.
Later, he added another station, WFUM, at Flint.

More important, in a personal way, is his lovely
wife who with Waldo resides on Washtenaw Avenue
in Ann Arbor, where we assume NAEBers may visit
Waldo and Em if they can find them at home. Waldo
tells us that he expects to spend the summer at his
cottage near Omena, Michigan.

—Frank E. Schooley

NEW TV LEGISLATION

After three defeats in the California state legislature,
a bill was passed early last month giving school dis¬
tricts and state colleges the right to contract for TV
programming services. The bill was supported by
various school and civic groups.

^ A bill, restoring budget funds for continued opera¬
tion of WHA-TV, Madison, Wis., has been sent to
Gov. Vernon W. Thomson after it passed' the state
Senate 22 to 7.

The Bill also provides for a transfer of the ETV
station’s operation from the State Radio Council to
the University of Wisconsin.

—N A E B—

The American Assn, of Colleges for Teacher Educa¬
tion has released its fourth issue of a series of bulletins
discussing the uses of TV in education. Persons in¬
terested in obtaining copies may write to: The Ameri¬
can Ass. of Colleges for Teacher Education, 11 Elm
St., Oneonta, N. Y.

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GREETINGS FROM THE PRESIDENT

—Burton Paula

On June 3, the NAEB filed with the Federal Com¬
munications Commission a statement opposing the
Commission’s proposal of April 26 to abandon the
Television Allocations Table which has governed
the assignment of TV channels since 1952. Our posi¬
tion was determined by a mail vote of the Board of
Directors. Since the future of ETV may be affected
by these proceedings, I should like to review the sit¬
uation briefly for Newsletter readers.

On April 11, 1952, in its Sixth Report and Order,
the FCC set up the present Allocation Table. This
provided for 2,053 stations, of which 242 were to be
noncommercial educational stations. Subsequently
the number of educational reservations was increased
to 258. In its proposal of April 26, 1957, the Com¬
mission summarized as follows the reasons for orig¬
inally preferring fixed assignments to proceeding on
a case-by-case basis:

“The Table would make for a more efficient use of
the available channels. It would' better protect the in¬
terests of the smaller communities and rural areas by
preventing preemption of available channels by the
larger cities. It would be an effective means of re¬
serving channels for educational purposes. It would
expedite the processing of applications.”

For us educators, of course, the Table was of par¬
ticular importance for its reservation of channels for
noncommercial educational stations. The JCET was
created to secure these reservations, and continued in
order to safeguard and activate them.

Then, on April 26, 1957, the FCC proposed the
abandonment of the Allocations Table on the grounds
that the reasons given in the Sixth Report and Order
were no longer valid. In its place, the Commission
proposed a variation of the so-called “Craven Plan,”
which would accept applications for new TV stations
on any channel, subject only to specified mileage
separation rules and some other technical require¬
ments. But there were to be two important qualifica¬
tions: all educational reservations were to be retained,
as were fixed assignments for stations within 250 miles
of the Canadian and Mexican borders.

Because of education’s tremendous stake in TV,
any changes in the Allocations Table become a matter
of great concern to the NAEB. The FCC’s April
26th proposal was the principal item we discussed at
the JCET meeting of May 22, in Washington. The
next day I reviewed the entire matter with Leonard
Marks, one of our attorneys. On May 28, I requested
the reactions of all NAEB officers and directors.
Those Board members replying (Adams, Broderick,
Bronson, Coleman, Hiller, McBride, Schenkkan,

Schooley and Weld) agreed with me that we should
oppose the deletion of fixed assignments. Accordingly,
Marks filed the NAEB’s Comments on June 3. The
high points of our statement are briefly summarized
below.

At the outset, we noted with approval that the
Commission had agreed that it was necessary to con¬
tinue the educational reservations, and we pledged
ourselves to do everything possible “to make the
fullest use of these reserved channels with the greatest
speed possible.” Nevertheless, we still felt that our
“interests and the interests of the public at large are
jeopardized by the abandonment, even in part, of
the television Table of Assignments. Particularly
the Commission’s proposal would abandon the reser¬
vations, established in 1952, for smaller communities
of the United States. The Association feels that the
abandonment of these reservations would be viewed
by some as the first step toward abandonment of
reservations for educational broadcasting.”

We pointed out that, in establishing the Table of
Assignments, the FCC had indicated “that it viewed
the reservation of educational broadcasting,” and that
we believed the adoption of this proposal could well
be “the first step toward the abandonment of these
principles.”

We also stated that the elimination of the Alloca¬
tions Table would lead to increased pressure for VHF
stations, and the lessening of protection for UHF.
The elimination of UHF would make it impossible for
many educational broadcasters to have TV stations
at all. Finally we said that, even though the Com¬
mission proposed no lowering of technical standards,
we feared that, without fixed assignments, the pres¬
sure for new stations would lead to the degradation
of service through the lowering of mileage separation
requirements. In any event, we concluded, nothing
should be done to alter technical standards until the
TASO study is completed.

The JCET has also filed comments opposing the
Commission’s proposal. We knew this when we drew
up our brief, but decided to file anyway in order to
become a party to the proceedings.

Commercial broadcasters are divided in their
reactions. CBS stated that the proposal is “a sub¬
stantial step in the right direction,” and urged that
it be carried out as soon as possible, though with strict
observance of present mileage separations. NBC, on
the other hand, took a stand in opposition. ABC sup¬
ported the proposal in principle, but counseled delay.
The Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. asked for fur¬
ther study, particularly in view of the current TASO
inquiry. Individual station reaction is divided about
50-50.

It, of course, is impossible to forecast the eventual
outcome. Nevertheless, the NAEB took a position.

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after careful consideration of the entire matter, which
I think you will all support. Members who would
like to see the full text of our Comments may obtain
copies from Headquarters.

MEMO FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

—Harry Skornia

By the time this reaches you I hope to be somewhere
in Northern Michigan. I expect to take most of July
and perhaps part of August for vacation. In previous
years, a consecutive period has been hard to come by.
However, I think Harold Hill and the rest will be
able to keep the shop open to serve you while I am
away.

Recent days and weeks have been devoted to the
preparation of various reports, principally the Kellogg
Annual Report. These, of course, go also to the
NAEB Board. Because of expense, size (and a good
deal of statistical material, which most of you are
familiar with or would only “file” anyway) we have
not gone to the expense of making a large number or
sending this to members generally. However, we’ll
have some extras available and, if you really want to
see one and will return it, we’ll be glad to send one to
you. We are proud of it and of the progress it traces.

A flurry of committee planning activity has also
marked this period: Radio Program, Grant-in-Aid
deadlines and meetings, planning of the Seminar for
ETV station managers and others. Hill and I have
combined a trip for a meeting in St. Louis, to meet
on 1957 Convention plans, with a (week-end) state
convention of the National Exchange Club in which
we both and Frank Schooley are active.

*****

I’d like to supplement my regular “column” this
month with an informal and very personal essay
which might be called: “I Don’t Want To Hurt Any¬
one’s Feelings, But . .

Here’s the problem for which I beg your indulgent
understanding: Each week I receive a large number
of letters which begin: “I know you have a Placement
(or Network, Traffic, Engineering, Newsletter, Jour¬
nal, etc.) Director, but in just this one case I’d ap¬
preciate it if you personally would . . . .etc” Many
of these letters are marked “personal.”

Now I am grateful for your confidence (as is Har¬
old Hill, when he receives similarly addressed ones),
but.

If I’m to do the writer any good, I generally have
to turn such a request over to the person who can
provide the answers, for in many cases I don’t know
them and can’t even find them, except by going to
the person in charge of the appropriate files. I don’t
mind doing this, and must do it, if I’m to be of any

help to the writer. But I thought it might be well to
explain why, a little more fully, since in many such
cases I’ve received vigorous protests for not “doing
it myself.”

I believe the NAEB is still one of the friendliest
associations I know. And our staff still is one of the
smallest of any such national office. We do know, and
want to know, as many of you personally as possible.
But, let’s face it, we have grown considerably (see my
reference in this column to our Annual Report, which
runs to over 50 pages (just to list what we do).
Hence, specialization, form replies, assignment of
duties and other characteristics of a growing opera¬
tion (and of efficiency) had to be introduced. Since
we have a Placement, Network, Engineering, Traffic,
Newsletter, or other Director or Editor, I can’t feel
that “the boss” should be reaching over the re¬
sponsible individual’s shoulder every few minutes to
alter his routine. Anyway, as I said earlier, with so
many full-time “branches” to our activities now, my
personal knowledge of each is increasingly superficial.
At the risk of boring you, let me mention a few of the
regular services which your NAEB regularly provides.
I’ve asterisked those which I can't fully delegate
(though “staff work” goes into many things I get
credit for). Inquiries in areas not asterisked are likely
to be referred to appropriate individuals.

The Radio Network (including program planning, content traffic,
in-school, technical, shipping, billing etc. (handled by Bob
Underwood, who in turn refers traffic inquiries to Margaret
Enderby and technical problems to Jess Trump)

The Newsletter (delegated to the editor, though I pass on to him
all items which come to my attention and check a good deal of
copy, as does Hill. We also both check copy when we are
here before it goes to press)

The Journal (handled principally by the Journal editor and
Schooley)

* The Fact Sheet Service
The NAEB Directory

Some other 20 publications and brochures per year
Program Grants-in-Aid (though I'm "in on" all policy planning,
Harold Hill handles most of this)

Seminars, Workshops, Conferences

* The Scholarship Program (General inquiries, however, are

handled by staff available and screening is'done- by a sub¬
committee)

The Engineering Service (handled by Cecil Bidlack)

* Managements Consultant Relations (I handle policy and referral

problems with M. S. Novik - difficult decisions being referred
also to the Board)

Consultation Services generally (handled by Bidlack, Hill and
myself)

* Legal Counsel Relations (some also are handled by Hill—in all

cases this is with the guidance of the President and/or the
Board)

* Relations with the NAEB Board, Executive Committee and Of¬

ficers

* Operational relations with the JCET, ETRC, CNO, AEA,

UNESCO, the American Council on Education and various
other organizatinons (58 in all, as listed in our Annual Report
with which we have continuous relations and exchanges (In the
case of some twenty of these, other staff members are also
involved)

* Relations with some twenty foreign associations, journals, research

groups, plus routine contacts with the BBC, CBC, French, Jap¬
anese, Korean, Australian, New Zeland, German and other
radio systems and the U. S. Information Agency (much of this
is also handled by Seymour Siegel and Bob Underwood of
course)

JULY, 1957

* Workshop Grants-in-Aid

* Research Grants-in-Aid

Foundation Relations (handled principally by Foundation Re¬
lations Committee Chairman, Frank Schooley, with assistance
and reports prepared by Skornia and other staff)

* Reports and questionnaires (many sections fot reports are pre¬

pared by others, of course, and many questionnaires are as¬
signed or referred)

Press Relations (providing materials and guidance on request for
national magazine articles, such as the recent Reporter article,
Reader's Digest, Life etc.) (mostly by Skornia and Hill)

* Research Exchanges and Liaison with other Research groups

Committee Relations with some of the following committees are

handled by various individuals, depending on the problem
involved, or the action or data required. For instance, tech¬
nical data for any committee would be supplied by Bidlack.
Organizational Liaison (mostly Skornia with Chairman
Broderick)

Advisory Committee to the President of the ETRC (chan¬
neled by Skornia to Paulu)

Associate Members Committee

Engineering Committee (Liaison is principally through Cecil
Bidlack)

Program Grants-in-Aid Committee (principally handled
by Hill except for policy)

International Relations Committee (Chairman Sy Siegel
handles far more of the load in this area than a committee
chairman should have to)

Membership Committee (except on knotty problems, these
relations are delegated to our Traffic Manager, Margaret
Enderby, and to Frank Schooley, who also handles voting
on membership, for individual members)

Professional Advancement Committee (and sub-committees)
(generally Skornia and Hill, with Bidlack for engineering
and technical)

Public Relations Committee (liaison now handled principally
by Harold Hill)

Permanent Financing Committee (Harold Hill does most of
the Headquarter work)

Research Committee (principally Skornia)

Television Development Committee (Skornia with Hill)
Regional Meetings (Hill and Skornia principally with par¬
ticipation also by Bidlack)

Convention Committees (both Hill and I serve here, as do
Schooley and many others)

Utilization Committee (principally Skornia, to date)
Publications Committee (most of the work with this com¬
mittee is done by Schooley)

*****

In addition to the regular on-going activities in¬
volved in the above (and the list is not exhaustive)
there are many requests for “everything you have”
on ETV or radio, several hundred letters a year from
students, researchers and the general public, letters
from a good many of our now over 1,300 members
and some of the 2,000 or more additional staff mem¬
bers at their stations (we wish they would become in¬
dividual members!), requests for data on clearance,
copyright, postal (and postal legislation) problems
and various others which occur on a fairly frequent
basis. Many of these have to be handled by all of us
cooperatively, depending on the problem.

Finally, I might mention the foreign journals, for¬
eign language correspondence, and other foreign re¬
search and other reports which I must handle, since
there are no other linguists on the staff.

When you consider also the several score days
each year when three of us especially, (Skornia, Hill
and Bidlack) must be “on the road” for meetings,
conventions and other NAEB business sometimes for

as long as ten days or two weeks at a stretch, and the
fact that I teach one course the first semester of each
year, I trust you understand even more why you will
sometimes receive a reply from a person other than
the one addressed. We believe you want delays min¬
imized and only in this way can we make sure that
you get what you need as promptly as possible.

I hope you all know me well enough to know that
I’m not trying to impress you with how “busy we
ire,” or “how hard we work.” That definitely is not
the intention. The purpose is to give you a perspec¬
tive on what we do, which we’ve always been too busy
to take time to give you before. I assume you could
all draw up equally impressive lists for yourselves, for
I know you, too, are busy—in fact, we too, often hear
through different people from those we address at
many of your shops. But if you write me, and some¬
one else answers, I trust you’ll now understand.

That’s it! Thanks for allowing me to put it on this
personal a basis. And thanks to non-member NAEB
Newsletter readers for understanding this “house-or¬
gan” use of our publication on this one occasion to
answer many queries at once.

NETWORK NEWS

—Bob Underwood

The 1958 In-School Offering has been selected at a
meeting of the NAEB Radio Network School Com¬
mittee in Chicago. The offering, together with audi¬
tion tapes, will be in the hands of member stations
not later than Sept. 1 (Issue #35). The deadline
for orders is Nov. 1, and actual distribution will begin
with Issue #48 (Dec.l) .

Twelve series comprise the new offering. All are
brand new, there being no re-issues as in former years.
A few of the areas covered in this offering are Com¬
munity Life, Social Studies, Poetry Appreciation,
Citizenship, and Health and Safety. Also included
is the first in-school grant-in-aid series, When Men
Are Free, produced by station WHA, University of
Wisconsin. This series deals with the concepts of de¬
mocracy and should be of great interest to all mem¬
bers. After hearing two sample programs, I can say
that this series would interest adult audiences, too.

The fall regular offering is in the finishing stages,
and we hope to get it to the stations well in advance
of the ordering deadline. This offering will be one of
the largest ever made by the network, and we look
for wide acceptance from member stations. Release
of new grant-in-aid series will begin in the fall offer¬
ing; so you can see that there are some good series
ahead. We hope you will like them.

At this time we are checking and re-checking our
tape inventory balances before sending statements to

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the stations. If you feel you have been wronged when
you receive your statement, please feel free to tell us
so, and we’ll try to trace the source of our differences.

INTERNATIONAL MUSIC COUNCIL

—Keith Engar

The Annual Conference of the International Music
Council was held May 22 to 25 in Paris at UNESCO^
The purpose of the IMC is to promote the broadcast¬
ing of contemporary music in many countries. The
major motive is to provide encouragement for young
talent by giving it a hearing on several broadcasting
systems through major, live concerts. Fourteen na¬
tions sent delegates representing major radio organ¬
izations. With the able assistance of Mr. Noel Lee,
a young composer touring Europe, and qualified to
pass on technical musical problems, I represented the
NAEB.

The conference was divided into two parts called
“ Selection 5 and “Tribune ” “Selection” was a com¬
petition to choose the best contemporary symphonic,
medium ensemble and chamber work broadcast dur¬
ing the preceding year. Each country was entitled to
submit one work in each category and the delegates
acted as jury. According to IMC rules, the three
pieces chosen were to have been given a major “live”
broadcast concert in each country during the coming
year, but no work in any category received the es¬
sential two-thirds majority vote, so the IMC had to
be content with recommending that the works be per¬
formed.

“Tribune” was designed to give young composers
an opportunity to be performed in several countries.
Each delegation was entitled to submit scores of five
works placed within the three categories (symphonic,
medium ensemble and chamber). The delegation ex¬
amined the scores, then arranged submissions into
eleven concert programs in a concert for broadcast,
or as an alternative, choose selected works from
among the total list for the equivalent of two con¬
certs. IMC rules require that all music should be per¬
formed “live,” and whenever possible, in public con¬
certs introduced by a spoken commentary. However,
it is permissible to broadcast a recording of the entire
concert.

Details of the compositions will be available
shortly from the IMC. Since this is the NAEB’s first
year, the project needs to be explored very carefully.
Obviously there is a great promise in it.

Total AM stations - 3065 (includesQ36 non-commercial)

Total FM stations - 668 (includes f36 non-commercial)

Total TV stations - 543 (includes 24 non-commercial)

NEWS FROM MEMBERS

GENERAL

Three officials from neighboring states recently
visited the Alabama ETV Network in Birmingham
to conduct studies in educational television.

They are Hill Bermont, production manager of the
University of Georgia 3-million-dollar Kellogg Center
for Continuing Adult Education; Mrs. Wanda John¬
ston, supervisor of audio-visual education of the
Knoxville (Tenn.) Board of Education for City
Schools, and from the same Board, Mrs. Penny Wind¬
ham, director of radio education broadcasting in¬
struction and city-owned FM station.

Mr. Bermont commended those Alabama officials
who “had the foresight and initiative to design a net¬
work for ETV across the state as soon as the FCC
made the channels available.”

He also expressed confidence that the pattern set
by Alabama will be followed throughout the nation.

► The Metropolitan Educational Television Assn,
in New York City reports the receipt of a $100,000
grant from the Fund for Adult Education. The
money was given for the purchase of TV equipment
for META’s production center now under construc¬
tion in the Carnegie Endowment Building.

The grant has a provision whereby META can
qualify for an additional $50,000 if it proceeds to¬
ward an on-the-air operation.

► The Abilene Christian College in Texas has just
completed its 17th consecutive year of broadcasting
activity, according to Dr. Lowell G. Perry, radio di¬
rector of the College.

Among the accomplishments mentioned in his
cumulative four-year Report for 1953 through 1957,
Dr. Perry announced the providing of educational
programs to schools and communities, the placement
of students in the radio industry and plans for the
addition of TV.

PERSONNEL

► Two prominent men in the radio-TV field received
professorships at the Michigan State University’s De¬
partment of Speech.

They are Walter B. Emery, general consultant
for the Joint Council on Educational Television and
J. Colby Lewis III, production manager of WTTW-
TV in Chicago. Their appointments will take effect
August 1 and September 1 respectively.

TEACHING BY TV

To determine whether typing can be taught as ef¬
fectively on TV as in the classroom, the Indiana Uni¬
versity in Bloomington, Ind., has begun an eight-Aveek
typing course on WTTV (Channel 4). The course is

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taught by Prof. T. J. Crawford of the University
School of Business’ office training department.

“Classes,” which started June 17, are held from
1:30 to 2 p.m., Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Viewers in the WTTV area who are enrolled, received
their instructional material through the I. U. Division
of Adult Education. No college credits are offered for
the course.

One group of university students participates in
the TV course while another group is taught in the
classroom. At the end of the summer, both groups’
typing skill will be compared to test the relative ef¬
fectiveness of each instruction method.

^ The Educational Television and Radio Center in
Ann Arbor, Mich., reports having contracted with
WCET, its noncommercial affiliate in Cincinnati, for
the production of a series of programs introducing
science to youngsters from 4 to 7 years old. Pro¬
duction of the twenty-six 15-minute programs, en¬
titled Uncle Wonder s Workshop, was estimated at
$23,000.

^ The University of Nebraska has been offered a
grant of $115,050 by the Fund for the Advancement
of Education to continue its TV-correspondence in¬
struction in Nebraska high schools.

The grant will enable the expansion of a “first-
year algebra” course now offered by KUON-TV to
six high schools. If formally accepted by the Uni¬
versity’s Board of Regents, the new financial support
will probably be used to offer additional courses in
plane geometry, American history and “senior
English.”

► The nation’s oldest ETV station, KUHT, at the
University of Houston, Tex., has extended its services
to include the animal kingdom.

In a weekly series of 15-minute programs, Harvey
B. Richards, American Kennel Club licensed obedi¬
ence judge and experienced trainer, offers a course to
dog owners in how to train their pets. Richards uses
his titled obedience-trained Weimaraner and Minia¬
ture French Poodle for his demonstrations.

► Beginning July 7, WBJB-TV in Roanoke, Va.,
will inaugurate a church school of the air to supple¬
ment classroom instruction in churches. The project,
which was hailed by the National Council of Churches
and TV industry spokesmen as a “precedent for the
nation,” is the first attempt to teach church school
by TV.

—N A E B—

The New York University received a plaque from the
Federation of Hellenic American Societies for its
TV series “ Our Nations Roots" The series depicts
the contributions of immigrant settlers to the growth
of the United States.

TV TECHNICAL TIPS NO. 34

—Cecil S. Bidlack
NAEB TV Engineer

News of the month centers around publications of the
Engineering Service. A two-page mailing of additions
to the NAEB Test Equipment Inventory was sent to
all chief engineers on our mailing list on June 12. The
June Engineering Newsletter is at the printers and
should be in the mail by the end of the week.

Included with the ENL is a four-page list of ad¬
ditions and corrections to the NAEB Technical Di¬
rectory. This brings the February 1 directory up to
date as of June 1. We urge you to help us keep this
directory up to date by keeping us informed of
changes on your technical staff. Many times, the only
notice we have of a person’s departure is the return
of mailing by the post office. When this happens, we
delete the name from our mailing list.

The June ENL also features an article by James
R. Leonard, chief engineer of WCET in Cincinnati,
Ohio. He gives constructional details of an electronic
sync device for double system kinescope recordings
which is incorporated in their Stancil-Hoffman S/5
Magnetic Film recorder.

*****

A second issue of a Staging, Lighting and Graphic
Arts Newsletter was also mailed this month. This we
published with Dick Lawson of the WILL-TV staff.
The June 10 issue contains an article by Bob Peary
of the TV staff of the University of Alabama on the
“Selection of Title Printing Equipment for TV.” It
also has a revised edition of an article by George
Murphy of the TV Studios of the Alabama Polytech¬
nic Institute on “Slide Making for Television.”

We know that our mailing list of staging, lighting
and graphic arts personnel is far from complete. Ad¬
ditional copies of this newsletter are available which
we’ll be glad to send to those interested. If you wish
your name on the mailing list, we’ll be glad to include
it.

*****

During the past month we’ve received copies of
the thirty-one technical papers presented at the 1957
NARTB Broadcast Engineering Conference in April.
If any if our readers are interested in the list, we’ll be
glad to send them a copy. Most of these papers are
available from the authors upon request.

*****

The new Spectra C-3 Brightness Spot Meter, just
announced, should prove to be a very useful tool for
TV studios, especially for those making a serious at¬
tempt to control brightness ratios. This instrument is
entirely self-contained, being battery operated. A
maximum battery life of over 400 hours operating
time is claimed due to an automatic switch in the

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pistol grip which turns the meter on when it is picked
up and turns it off when it is put down.

The meter measures an approximate three degree
angle of view although an area several times that
being measured is seen through the eyepiece surround¬
ing the black dot which indicates the measured area.
Spectral response closely matches the C.I.E. lum¬
inosity curve. Full scale readings of 50, 500, 5000 or
50,000 footlamberts can be obtained by the use of a
range control on the side of the instrument. Its cost
is slightly less than $400.

* * * * *

RCA tube engineers are working on a new one-
inch vidicon tube similar to existing types but which
will have much higher sensitivity. The new tube can
be operated at higher signal electrode voltages than
current types and thus provide an appreciable in¬
crease in sensitivity. The new tube can be used for
color or monochrome TV and also in industrial cam¬
eras. Samples have been provided to equipment man¬
ufacturers.

FCC ACTION

The FCC issued a grant, authorizing the Centenary
College for Women, Hackettstown, N. J., to operate
a noncommercial FM radio station on Channel 220.

(► Butler University in Indianapolis, Ind., has ap¬
plied to the FCC for permission to set up a TV sta¬
tion. The station is to operate on commercial Chan¬
nel 39.

A REMINDER TO EMPLOYERS

Since the NAEB established its free Placement
Service, many qualified persons in the field of ed¬
ucational broadcasting have benefited by this
Service through gainful employment in suitable
positions. Not only has this Service helped ap¬
plicants, but employers have benefited equally
through obtaining qualified personnel for their or¬
ganizations.

We at the NAEB would like to remind em¬
ployers who lack information about our Placement
Service that it is to their interest to take advantage
of the opportunities which it provides. So far, our
available placement facilities are far from being
fully used.

Employers who would like to make use of our
free placement Service have the assurance that all
job applicants who seek placement through the
NAEB are carefully screened by us before we in¬
clude them in our files. Only persons with experi¬
ence and suitable educational backgrounds are con¬
sidered.

HURLBERT REPORTS ON EUROPEAN TRIP

TV in the U. S., both ETV and commercial, is far
advanced in production quality as compared with its
European counterparts, according to Raymond Hurl-
bert, Alabama ETV Commision general manager.

Hurlbert returned recently from a 4-week vacation
in Europe where he visited the BBC in London, and
the French, Swiss and Italian TV centers in Paris,
Zurich and Rome.

Raymond Hurlbert, General Manager of the Alabama
ETV Commission

“England, France and Italy,” Hurlbert com¬
mented, “are in the midst of a huge construction pro¬
gram of massive TV studios as if to rival old Holly¬
wood film studios.”

After questioning those Europeans “who could af¬
ford to buy TV sets and pay the annual tax on them,”
he found that they were as critical of TV program¬
ming as TV viewers in this country.

—NAEB—

Following a request by one of our readers who became
confused, we would like to point out that the story
and picture featured on page 5 of the June Newsletter
under the heading “NEWS OF MEMBERS,” in¬
volves two separate institutions, the University of
Miami in Florida and Miami University in Ohcford,
Ohio.

—Editor

JULY, 195.7

7

SPECIAL NOTE

The Executive Director Dr. Skornia, has been in¬
formed by the Conference Board of Associated Re¬
search Councils (which handles Fulbright Applica¬
tions) at 1875 Massachusetts Ave., Washington, D.
C., that applicants interested in the Scholarship pre¬
viously held by Graham Hovey and Bernard Buck,
with Radio Italiana, should be encouraged to apply
for the 1958-59 academic year. No vacancy exists for
1957-58, so, don’t apply for that period. However, we
would hope for good applications for this fine post
for 1958-59.

Blanks may be secured for submission at a later
date to be specified, by writing Dr. Francis Young at
the above address.

We are pleased to announce that next year’s Ful¬
bright scholar to Paris, succeeding Keith Engar is Dr.
Meany, who is director of the radio, television and
film unit of the University of Houston. Prior to start¬
ing his Fulbright studies, Dr. Meany expects to be in
Zurich, Switzerland, by August to record some film
interviews with the renowned psychologist, Dr. C. G.
Jung.

DIRECTORY CHANGES

P. ! Active 124
Associate 88
Affiliate 52
Total 267

Radio - FM only 85

Total Active Membership 124

These 124 members operate.for 156 stations.

p. 7 Under Indiana: WGVE (FM)*

Delete: Asterisk
p. 10 Under Louisiana:

Delete: WLSU (FM) 9l.7mc
(Baton Rouge) 1.3 kw
Louisiana State University
Miss Lucile Ruby, Coordinator
Radio-TV Service
Dalrymple Dr.

Baton Rouge, La.

4-5244

p. 14 WFUV (FM)

Program Director
Delete: Ralph M. Rourke
Add: Rev. John A. St. George

Director

p. 27 Under Louisiana:

Add: Louisiana State University

(Baton Rouge)

Miss Lucile Ruby
Dalrymple Dr.

4-5244

p. 47 Under Canada:

Add: University of British Columbia

Alan M. Thomas

Department of University Extension
Vancouver 8, British Columbia
p. 51 WLSU (FM)*

Delete: Asterisk

PLACEMENT SUPPLEMENT

July I - Male, married, 38, M.A., with extensive experience. in
administration, radio teaching, and educational station
management and programming, desires position in teaching
or managing high school, college or university educational
station. Location open. $6000.

July 2 - Producer-director, 2 years experience in ETV, writing,
production, coordination. 6 years teacher at high school
and college. Single woman, 33, B.S. in Ed. Location open.
$85/wk.

July 3 - Male, married, 32, B.A., with 4 years TV experience
with major network and solid film background, desires
position as program director or producer-director. Has ex¬
tensive managerial experience (supervised Japan's first TV
network) Location open. $6000.

July 4 - Former program director of large educational radio
station wants manager or program director position in ETV,
5 years experience programming for commercial stations.
Male, 34, married, B.A. Location open. $7500.

WESTINGHOUSE HISTORICAL
PROGRAM AWARD

Radio and TV stations interested in competing for
the Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. annual $1,000
radio-TV award for the best historical program will
be asked to submit on film, tape or transcript a pro¬
gram to the historical society in their respective areas.

With the exception of WBC outlets, any station
may enter the contest. Entries must be submitted by
Jan. 15, 1958. Programs up to Dec. 31, 1957 are
eligible.

The award will be divided between the winning
station and its local or state historical society which
appoints the judges. The winner will be announced
in March, 1958.

TV TO AID SCIENCE PROPOSED

A proposal to let scientists use the late hours on TV
for informal round table discussions to iron out prob¬
lems in connection with the launching of a planned
earth satellite, was made by Dr. I. M. Levitt, director
of the Fels Planetarium of the Franklin Institute in
Philadelplya.

Dr. Levitt said his proposal was prompted by the
postponement of the satellite’s launching date from
September of this year to April, 1958. He feels that
the delay is largely due to theoretical difficulties.
These, he thinks, could be resolved if the nation’s
scientists in the guided missile field were permitted
to discuss their problems from TV studios through¬
out the country.

Dr. Levitt suggested that networks pool one hour
in the early morning for such coast-to-coast meetings.
To permit the TV discussions, Dr. Levitt recommends
the declassification of satellite work when it does not
touch national defense.

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