NAEB Washington Report (February 18, 1964)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS

1346 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20036

February 18, 1965

Volume V Number 3

JCEB REPRESENTATIVES MEET WITH HEW OFFICIALS

NAEB President Harley and other representatives from the Joint Council on
Educational Broadcasting met last week with Dr. John By strom, HEW, to communicate
official recommendation of the January 27 conference in Washington bn channel
allocations. Although the specific recommendation was for the development of a
cabinet level commission to provide continuing data on educational needs for radio
and television frequencies, the discussion resulted in a broader suggestion that such
a commission be formed to relate television planning to a number of important problems
now receiving attention in Washington such as poverty, manpower retraining, and
vocational education.

HEW APPOINTS TWO NEW STAFF MEMBERS

Effective February 24, two new staff members will be reviewing applications for
federal funds under the Educational Television Facilities Act. Mr. William Smith,
formerly Chief of Television for the Air Force Systems Command in Washington, will
assume the post of Educational Research and Program Specialist. Mr. Ian Wheeler will
also join the HEW staff as a program analyst. Mr. Wheeler has been Program Director
of WETA-TV in Washington, D.C.

JCEB MAKES AVAILABLE DRAFT OF COMMENTS ON DOCKET 14229

The Joint Council on Educational Broadcasting has made available to NAEB members
and other members of the JCEB, draft copies of its proposed filing with the FCC on
Docket No. 14229. The comments of the JCEB strongly support the NAEB proposed UHF
assignment plan which has been filed with the FCC. A limited number of copies of this
draft are available and will be sent from the Washington office to NAEB members who
request them. The date for filing comments on the proposed FCC Table has now been
extended to April 3, and the Reply Comment period has been extended to June 3 .

CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION AND AMERICANS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION FILE ON DOCKET 14-229

The American Civil liberties Union filed a comment this week with the Federal
Communications Commission urging that "policy considerations as well as the need to
safeguard the public interest in the free, competitive, and diverse system require
that the broadest opinion be expressed before the Commission’s thinking on this issue
is crystallized.

"The Union urged the FCC to extend the time for public study of these problems
both locally and nationally, if necessary, beyond the current April 3 deadline; to
further publicize the premises of this and alternative allocations plans, in relation¬
ship to the policy questions proposed, through the press and other communications

media and through public hearings; to solicit the views not only of communications
experts but of all interested public groups and organizations; and to 'reconsider on
the basis of the expanded hearings whether the proposed rule making might be improved
to reach the result of diversity of communications, before allocating the entirety of
the authorized television broadcasting spectrum. *"

The Americans for Democratic Action several days before charged that the present
proposal of the FCC is "unsound, premature, and of doubtful legality. It is unsound
because it licenses out the remaining two-thirds of all television broadcasting
channels without safeguarding provisions in the public interest; premature because
the rule-making procedures are being conducted with lack of public awareness and
without due process of hearings, deliberations, and debate; of doubtful legality
since the unstated, underlying, but governing considerations of public policy should
be enacted by the Congress."

The full text of the American Civil liberties Union comments are available from
156 Fifth Avenue, New York 10, New York. The Americans for Democratic Action comments
are available at 1341 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., ^.shington 6, D.C.

SANDLER APPOINTED BY NAEB RADIO STATIONS DIVISION

Jerrold Sandler, Production Manager of WUOM at the University of Michigan, will
join the NAEB staff on ftkrch 1. At its recent meeting in Chicago, the Radio Division
Board instructed President Harley "to conclude contractual arrangements with Jerrold
Sandler on a 12-month basis beginning March 1, 1964, as Project Director of the
proposed Educational Communications System research project. In the event that ECS
project funds do not become available, Mr. Sandler is to assume the duties of
executive director of the Radio Stations Division of NAEB for the same period."

NAEB SUGGESTS METHOD FOR STATIONS TO HELP WITH UHF SET PROMOTION

In order to increase buyer interest in the all-channel television sets which will
soon be required by law, the Electronic Industries Association is planning to print
1,000,000 brochures explaining UHF. These will be distributed to set dealers all
over the country for them to give to their customers.

Educational UHF stations can help tremendously in this promotion by giving each
dealer in their areas a number of copies of their program schedules so that the dealer
may show the prospective buyer the kinds of programing he will have available on UHF
from the local educational station. EIA will alert their dealers to the fact that
UHF ETV stations in their areas may be sending such materials. This joint NAEB-EIA
effort offers UHF ETV stations an excellent opportunity to build good public relations
and also help increase the number of all-channel receivers in their reception area.

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