Series: Series 5. Network Affairs Records, 1951-1967
Physical Description: 241 boxes 
Biography/History

National Educational Television became a reality at a time of intense activity in the world of broadcasting. With the support of the NAEB, the JCET was newly formed as was the National Citizens Committee for Educational Television (NCCET) under a 1952 FAE Grant. The NAEB viewed itself as the vanguard of and spokesman for educational broadcasting in the United States. Fresh from an increasingly successful 25 year campaign in behalf of educational broadcasting with the FCC, the public and the commercial networks, the NAEB had come to view NET as an overly ambitious upstart which was lapping up most of the readily available money, and whose steady growth usurped a steadily widening area of activity including much that had once been the sole purview of NAEB, JCET and the NCCET. Between 1952 and 1959 there was a growing antipathy between NAEB and NET. Without cooperation, conflict was inevitable; and, in fact, “much of the Center's story is the story of its domination over and assimilation of other organizations in the field.” (Wood, 137)

One predominant area of conflict in NET's always delicate and sometimes strained relations with the others concerned the activation of television stations. From its inception NET had employed a simplified concept of station relations and network affairs. At first, of course, there was no network, and few affairs, but there were affiliates. The Center staff was faced with relating to a station as soon as it became an affiliate, ascertaining its needs and problems, and defining ways and means to satisfy those needs. The story of those early relations with affiliates is documented in the station folders of the Program Subject File and in the Early Central File folders devoted to affiliates' meetings. As the number of NET's affiliates increased, so too did the need for a more formal procedure, and the Station Relations Department was organized in 1959.

At a meeting of the ETRC affiliates in 1958, they recommended that a station relations department be formed. Attached to the minutes of that meeting (Series 5B/1/1) are several quite valuable documents for understanding the origin and development of the station relations department. Copies of the briefer ones are also in the processing notes folder.

During the first twenty months of its existence, the work of the department of station relations fell into three areas: 1. Facilitating two-way communication and promoting better understanding between the stations and the Center; 2. Participating in improvement of Center operations, thereby increasing the effectiveness of both stations and the Center; and 3. Assisting affiliated stations (and potential future affiliates) to achieve strength and significance in their own communities. Among other things, the department implemented number one by the use of “Monday Morning Memos,” “Inside Channels” (the affiliate newsletter), and other paper communication, careful analysis of affiliate meetings, and well planned station visits; number two by increased use of videotape and support of NET prime time-- (i.e. simultaneous release of programs nationwide); and number three by encouraging exchange of information between the stations, studying ways to improve that exchange and by continued use of videotape grants.

NET was increasingly called upon to provide advice about a wider range of subjects, other than those related to program needs, namely the entire gamut of station activation, promotion and maintenance, including station health and financing, securing equipment, technical advice, advice on how to deal with government and handle legal affairs, and advice on how to promote viewer support and financial aid. NET did its best to meet all station needs, trying to be everything to everybody in educational television and a fourth area of activity was soon added to the list of responsibilities of the station relations department -- assisting groups and organizations in the activation of new educational stations. NET's actions in this regard stemmed in part from their belief that the other Washington agencies for assisting stations were growing weaker, and in part from the actual non-representation of the ETV stations in Washington.

In 1961 NET assumed responsibility for administration of those FAE activation grants that had not yet reached fulfillment. Later that year, NET opened a Washington office to help still the clamor for assistance from the potential stations that was increasing in intensity and was not being answered satisfactorily by any single organization. Modeled after suggestions of NET's affiliates and assuming the files, personnel and some of the functions of the JCET, the Washington office was headed by David C. Stewart, former executive director of the JCET. With a staff of three plus secretarial help, the Washington office was concerned with the reservation of channels and the activation of ETV stations. It furnished legal, engineering and other advice to groups planning ETV stations. It served as a source of information on channel allocations and the government, and served as the Center's (and thus the affiliates') liaison with federal agencies and professional organizations in education and broadcasting. It provided general and specific information to the public, the government and foreigners, petitioned the FCC in support of pro-ETV measures, and supported all pro-ETV legislation without actually engaging in direct lobbying. In short, it was NET's attempt to handle all ETV problems not directly connected with programming or affiliation with the Center through a separate office. New York would continue to provide the latter two.

At the same time as the Washington office was opened, NET created the position of Vice President for Network Affairs, appointing James Robertson to the post. Shortly thereafter, the position of Director of Station Relations (S.R.), which Robertson had held prior to his appointment, was eliminated, with the Station Relations Associates assigned to report directly to Robertson. Station Relations activities were reduced in scope with the Washington office responsible for much that S. R. had previously done. S. R. under Network Affairs concerned itself mainly with the program and information needs of the affiliates, with “servicing” the affiliates, and with interstation cooperation, looking toward the day when the “network” would really be a Network. Also, Robertson was responsible for the Technical Department and the Distribution Department, and he coordinated all Washington activities with NET's New York headquarters and with the Distribution and Technical operations in Ann Arbor, Michigan. [For a history of the Distribution Department see processing notes.]

Two years after NET moved to meet a need in the rapidly expanding world of educational television, it was forced by a number of factors to reassess its entire situation. Engaging in serious introspection under the leadership of John White, who had favored such a change since taking the helm in 1958, NET dropped participation in radio, instructional TV and station activation in order to devote their limited resources entirely to the production of quality programming for the educational television stations of America, a family of stations that had nearly become a fourth network by that time. The Washington office was abandoned to the staff of the Programming Department.

Such sweeping changes required corresponding changes in the department as well as the concept of Network Affairs at NET. Under Robertson's dynamic leadership the department concerned itself increasingly with the Network and with serving as the central link or liaison between the stations and all the departments at NET. Cooperating closely with Public Information, Distribution, Programming, and Central Administration, Network Affairs became the key department at NET. Robertson was helping to define and establish policy as well as implement it. At the same time, two new departments were created, assuming many of Station Relations' and Network Affairs' former responsibilities and freeing Robertson for the “loftier” implications of Network Affairs. As of October 1963, reporting directly to the president were the Department of Program Operations, concerned with distribution and technical, and the Department of Field Services, concerned with station liaison, operation of flexible service, research, and utilization activities.

The JCET began in 1950 as an ad hoc committee with NAEB and the American Council on Education (ACE) backing, to arrange for educators to testify before the FCC in behalf of reserving television channels for educational use. These efforts are credited with making educational television a possibility. Upon completion of the FCC hearings, which ran from November 1950 through January 1951, the ad hoc committee was discontinued.

In April 1951, the organization was reformed into a permanent Joint Committee on Educational Television with a grant of $90,000 from the FAE through a trustee organization, the American Council on Education. Six other groups joined the ACE in this endeavor, which now had a permanent, paid full-time staff. They were: The Association for Education by Radio-Television, the Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities, the NAEB, the National Association of State Universities, the National Council of Chief State School Officers, and the NEA of the United States.

The purpose of the JCET was to work with federal government agencies and with Congress to retain and widen education's hold on television channels. It also assisted educational institutions in planning for use of their channels and worked to convince educators of television's value in education.

In 1955 the organization's name was changed to the Joint Council on Educational Television to prepare for a broadening of its membership. The Ford Foundation assumed direct support of JCET since the FAE had redirected its own program efforts. By 1960, the Ford Foundation had withdrawn its support from a separate JCET and at that time, NET provided a $25,000 grant to continue JCET while discussion went on as to its future.

Finally, in 1961 when NET opened its Washington office, JCET reconstituted itself as the Joint Council on Educational Broadcasting (JCEB), extending its interests to the whole of educational broadcasting, but at the same time, narrowing its responsibility to formulating and enunciating policy. JCET's activities in station activation and in dealing with the Congress and federal agencies were assumed by NET. JCEB has continued as a policy formulating body for education in the broadcasting field, counting as members the same group that were in the JCET, plus NET. David Stewart, Director of NET's Washington office, also became the Secretary of the new JCEB. The JCEB hoped to build upon the extensive experience of JCET and continue to provide the chief forum for discussion and policy formation on national issues affecting all aspects of educational broadcasting.

Scope and Content Note

This series is the second largest and most complex within the NET collection. It reflects the complexity and importance of the departments and organizations concerned with “network affairs” during the years 1954-1966.

The series is arranged in two large files: the Washington office and VP for Network Affairs. The former includes the files NET inherited from the JCEB, the JCET, and from the FAE. The FAE grant files were not generated in the Washington office, but since they also concern station activation, it seemed appropriate to file them here.

[Quote from July 1962 NET proposal to HEW for a Title VII grant to finance station establishment:

Subseries: Subseries 5A. Washington Office Records, 1950-1963
Physical Description: 202 boxes 
Scope and Content Note: These files were almost entirely inherited by NET. They comprise some files of the JCET, the JCEB, and the FAE roughly from 1950 to 1961. NET's primary contribution was one of caretaker and custodian although they added to the files during the years 1961-1963. These files are arranged as follows:

Sub-subseries 1: FAE Grant Proceedings	Boxes 185-201
Sub-subseries 2: JCET Admin. Subject File	Boxes 155-176
Sub-subseries 3: JCET State and City Files	Boxes 1-94
Sub-subseries 4: JCET Publicity Files	Boxes 95-154
Sub-subseries 5: JCEB Admin. Subject File	Boxes 177-182
Sub-subseries 6: Miscellaneous	Boxes 183-184a

Sub-subseries 1: FAE Grant Proceedings, 1951-1961
Scope and Content Note

This file is placed first in order because it documents the first NET-related effort at station activation through direct financing. JCET became a part of NET's history almost 10 years after FAE did, hence the order.

The FAE, using Ford Foundation money, existed to establish ETV stations with the stipulation that they provide programming to NET for distribution and that they be an outlet for NET programming. The influence of C. Scott Fletcher can be seen here. FAE also awarded grants directly to NAEB to produce radio programs using local stations' studios, equipment, and personnel.

The FAE was established in April 1951 and concluded operations on 30 June 1961, when NET took over the relationship with those local stations that had not completed the 8-year provision of their grant contract with FAE. Arranged alphabetically by state and thereunder by the name of the organization or city receiving the grant. The grant files contain the following types of documents: correspondence between FAE and local people responsible for ETV from pre-grant through transfer of title of equipment from FAE to local station; reports of FAE personnel on visits to local stations; conference proceedings of locally called meetings on ETV; local proposal to FAE; clippings; telegrams; proceedings of hearings before state legislatures on ETV; minutes of board and An. Gen. Mtgs. of local sponsoring body; also by-laws on some; reports on type of programs being offered locally; published studies on uses of ETV; 1958 NET questionnaire on content of local programming; local fund raising campaign brochures and pamphlets; formal agreement signed by local sponsoring body and FAE; lists of equipment requests and purchases made through FAE Grant; and floor plans and station plans.

Money from the grants were to be used only for purposes of equipping the ETV facility, and not to offset operating expenses. Therefore, a grant application was accepted by FAE only after it had been established that the station was a going concern and that most of the leg work had been done.

To obtain an FAE matching grant the station had to present an FCC construction permit, a certification of its non-profit, tax exempt status, and a detailed engineering report indicating specifically how the money was to be used. The station also had to match the amount of the grant 2 to 1 from local private sources. The station had to keep accurate books and records showing use of the proceeds and matching funds and they had to move with reasonable expedition toward applying the grant and matching funds toward the installation of a broadcasting station. If the station successfully broadcast for a period of three years subject to further conditions relative to the quality and nature of the programming supplied to the community, then, after an additional 5 year waiting period, they were given permanent title to the equipment they had been using.

These files are valuable for the picture they present of how a local ETV station got started, the problems it faced to keep going, the growth of the station, and its relevance in providing education of liberal character for adult population. The files also give a picture of how ETV grew nationally and how the FAE helped in this process through its grants and moral support.

Alabama: University of Alabama

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1956

1957-1963

California: San Francisco

Documents

Supplemental documents

Questionnaire

1952-1953

1954

1955

1956

1957-1960

Colorado: Denver

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1954

1955-1961

Florida: Miami

Bills of Sale

Document

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1951-1954

1955

1956

1957-1960

Illinois

Chicago

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1954

1955-1956

1957-1961

Urbana

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1956

1957-1959

Indiana: Bloomington

Documents

1953-1959

Louisiana: New Orleans

Documents

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1953-1956

1957-1961

Massachusetts: Boston

Blueprints

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1951-1953

1954-1955

1956-1958

1959

Michigan

Detroit

Blueprints

Blueprints

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1953

1954-1955

1956-1961

East Lansing

Documents

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1956

1957-1961

Minnesota: Minneapolis

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1954

1955-1958

Missouri: St. Louis

Agreements

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1951-1954

1955-1961

Nebraska: Lincoln

Documents

Documents

Questionnaire

University of Nebraska

1957

New York

New York City

Documents

Floor Plans

1953-1954

1955

1956

1957

1958-1959

1960

New York University, documents

Syracuse

Documents

1952-1959

North Carolina: Chapel Hill

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1951-1955

1956-1960

Ohio

Cincinnati

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1953-1955

1956

1957-1961

Columbus

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

Printed material sent with questionnaire

1952-1960

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1956

1957-1961

Pittsburgh

Documents

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1955

1956-1960

Tennessee: Memphis

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1953-1954

1955

1956 January-June

1956 July-December

1957-1961

Treasurer's Report, 1955 October

Texas: Houston

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1960

Washington: Seattle

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1954

1955-1960

Wisconsin

Madison

Documents

Purchase orders

1952-1953

1954

1955-1958

Milwaukee

Documents

Questionnaire sent, 1958 December

1952-1956

1957-1961

Sub-subseries 2: JCET Administrative Subject File.
Scope and Content Note: The Joint Council on Educational Television Files, (boxes 155-176), are arranged in sixteen categories. A list and description of the contents of each category, with appropriate box numbers, is given below. The material in each category is arranged in reverse chronological order.

Ad Hoc Committee: Joint Council on Educational Television
Scope and Content Note: This committee was the immediate forerunner of JCET and the files contain general information on the formation of JCET, especially regarding witnesses' statements and other preparations for the FCC hearings. There is also a file on participation of adult education groups in educational television.

History and Operation
Scope and Content Note: Provides a rather clear history of JCET in its early years. It includes; Reports of JCET materials, miscellaneous publications and materials for distribution, JCET news releases, history and development - Mostly staff accounts of progress and activities.

Documentary Material
Scope and Content Note: Official resolutions to form JCET, clippings of FCC hearings, charts of functional operations of JCET, and the JCET principles of operation files.

Congressional
Scope and Content Note: Reports of hearings made before the FCC. These reports are filed alphabetically under individual congressmen's names.

FCC Documents
Scope and Content Note: Reports of FCC findings and investigations. There are also some news clippings and official FCC hearing transcripts.

Senate: Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Proceedings before FCC, 1955 November

FCC 3rd Report, 1951 March 21

JCET Brief: Legality of Reservation

Oral Argument on Legality of Reservations

FCC Press Release, 1938 January 26

Official Report of Proceedings Before the FCC, 1950 November-December 6

Official Report of Proceedings Before the FCC, 1950 December 7-1951 January 31

Documents

Brief of Joint Committee on Educational Television
Scope and Content Note: This brief is filed in eight parts. It covers statements in support of educational television and its specific activities and programs. These statements are made by administrators and executives of educational television organizations, on the national and state level, as well as by educators throughout the country. Each statement is filed alphabetically by state, then by city or organization within each state.

State and Regional Activity
Scope and Content Note: News clippings of resolutions regarding educational television made by local and regional civic groups. There is also a memo relating to legislation in various states in 1960 and a summary of state legislation in 1953. This section includes a rather extensive file dealing with hearings and the development of educational television in New York during its early years. Also included are minority and majority reports to the governor and legislature of New York by the Temporary Commission on the Use of Television for Educational Purposes.

Administration and Organization Plans
Scope and Content Note: Articles and by-laws for individual states involved with educational television, information on charters, articles of incorporation, financial plans for educational television stations, and state plans for the operation of educational television stations.

Legal
Scope and Content Note: The 1955 report on the legal status of educational television stations already operating. It also includes memos to participating stations regarding FCC's indefinite extension of reservations of non-commercial channels for educational television use.

Engineering
Scope and Content Note: Includes an engineering handbook of educational television operations, a layout for an educational television studio in a single story building, a glossary of television terms, maps, and geographic guides giving approximate potential coverage on channels reserved for educational television.

Conferences and Seminars, 1958-1962
Scope and Content Note: Individual reports of JCET delegates to constituent member conferences, seminars, and institutes. This section also includes official conference reports and proceedings and the reports of the institutes held at Ohio State University from 1958 to 1962. Each conference is in a separate folder with the names of the organizations in alphabetical order.

Mailing lists
Scope and Content Note: Mailing lists for individuals and organizations that received JCET correspondence and printed material.

Educational and Non-Educational Publications
Scope and Content Note: Correspondence with JCET regarding publication, publication costs, Broadcast news clippings, 1956, copies of the JCET Educational Television Factsheet and Television Digest, and printed material regarding JCET

Status Reports
Scope and Content Note: A file of special subjects relating to JCET and educational television in general. It includes bibliographies, check lists of educational television operations, staff studies, and JCET's report on Two Years of Progress in Educational Television, and material regarding television in public schools.

Articles and Speeches, 1951-1952
Scope and Content Note: All articles and speeches are listed in alphabetical order either by author or title and all deal with educational television in one phase or another.

Budget, 1951-1960
Scope and Content Note: Proposed and accepted budgets for JCET.

Ford Foundation Fund for Adult Education, Fund for Advancement
Scope and Content Note: JCET correspondence, 1953-1960, with the Ford Foundation Fund for Adult Education, Fund for Advancement.

Old Dominion Foundation
Scope and Content Note: Arrangements and financial records for an informal information program entitled, “Freedom Tours.”

Sub-subseries 3: JCET State and City Files, 1951-1963
Scope and Content Note

The State and City Files (boxes 1-94), are arranged alphabetically by states and within each state by cities according to the FCC's geographical allocation plan. The files are arranged in reverse chronological order and include first a general state file, followed by individual city files. Each city file includes topical categories in the following order:

• Correspondence - The correspondence ranges from requests to NET for literature on establishing a local educational television program, to requests and suggestions for aid with specific problems.
• Formal Applications to FCC - These files usually include transcript copies of the original applications, general information regarding facilities, and maps of radio beam spans.
• Reports - Reports include progress reports on the success of educational television, some news clippings, and survey reports on the effectiveness of courses and programs presented as a part of a city's regular educational program.
• Studies - This section includes studies made by boards of education, local educational television personnel, and sometimes by legislators regarding the effectiveness and influence of popular opinion. Sometimes catalogs and brochures of specific studies are included.
• Legislation - This is not a complete file; but does include copies of state and/or city legislation relating to educational television or pleas by interested parties for legislation.
• Meetings or Conferences - This section includes official reports of governors' conferences on education or reports by state and national representatives to various conferences relating to educational television.

In many instances, where a city has limited educational television activity, the above topical categories may not be in separate file folders, but are combined within a single folder with the name of the city as its heading. In every instance the topics are in the order given above, whether in separate folders or in one folder. Many of the city folders do not include all of these topical categories.

Alabama: General - Birmingham

Alabama: Birmingham - Arizona: Phoenix

Arizona: Phoenix - California: General

California: Brochures and Surveys - Cotati

California: Fresno - Los Angeles

California: Sacramento

California: San Bernardino - San Francisco/Oakland

California: San Francisco/Oakland - San Jose

California: San Jose - Stockton

Colorado: General - Denver

Colorado: Pueblo - Connecticut: Hartford

Connecticut: Norwich - Delaware: Wilmington

Delaware: Wilmington - Krieger and Jorgenson

District of Columbia

District of Columbia - Florida: General

Florida: State Reports and Brochures - Jacksonville

Florida: Miami - Orlando

Florida: Panama City - Tampa/St. Petersburg

Florida: West Palm Beach - Georgia: Athens

Georgia: Atlanta - Columbus

Georgia: Columbus - Waycross

Hawaii - Idaho

Illinois: General - Carbondale

Illinois: Champaign/Urbana

Illinois: Chicago

Illinois: Chicago - Springfield

Illinois: Springfield - Indiana: Fort Wayne

Indiana: Gary - Muncie

Indiana: Muncie - Iowa: Ames

Iowa: Ames - Des Moines

Iowa: Des Moines

Iowa: Des Moines - Kansas: General

Kansas: Lawrence - Wichita

Kentucky: General - Somerset

Louisiana: General - New Orleans

Louisiana: New Orleans - Maine: General

Maine: Bangor - Maryland: Baltimore

Maryland: Baltimore - Hagerstown

Massachusetts: General - Boston

Massachusetts: Boston - Michigan: General

Michigan: Alpena - Detroit

Michigan: Detroit - East Lansing

Michigan: East Lansing - Escanaba

Michigan: Flint - Minnesota: Appleton

Minnesota: Duluth - Minneapolis/St. Paul

Minnesota: Minneapolis - Missouri: General

Missouri: Columbia - St. Louis

Missouri: St. Louis - Missoula

Nebraska: General - Lincoln

Nebraska: Lincoln - Nevada: Reno

Tri-State, ETV: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont - New Hampshire: General

New Hampshire: General - New Jersey: Atlantic City

New Jersey: Camden - Trenton

New Jersey: Trenton - New Mexico

New York: General

New York: General - Buffalo

New York: Corning/Elmira - New York City

New York: New York City (through Telford Taylor)

New York: New York City - Rochester

New York: Rochester - Utica/Rome

North Carolina: General - Chapel Hill

North Carolina: Charlotte - North Dakota: Grand Forks

North Dakota: Fargo - Ohio: Akron

Ohio: Athens - Cleveland

Ohio: Cleveland - Columbus

Ohio: Columbus - Oxford

Ohio: Oxford - Youngstown

Oklahoma: General - Tulsa

Oklahoma: Tulsa - Oregon: Portland

Oregon: Eugene - Portland

Oregon: Salem - Pennsylvania: Erie

Pennsylvania: Harrisburg - Philadelphia

Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh

Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh - University Park

Rhode Island - South Carolina: General

South Carolina: Charleston - South Dakota: General

South Dakota: General - Tennessee: General

Tennessee: Chattanooga - Memphis

Tennessee: Memphis

Tennessee: Nashville - Texas: General

Texas: Austin - Corpus Christi

Texas: Dallas - Denton

Texas: Denton - Houston

Texas: Houston - Lubbock

Texas: San Angelo - Utah: Provo

Utah: Salt Lake City - Vermont: Windsor

Virginia

Washington: General - Spokane

Washington; Tacoma - West Virginia: Clarksburg

West Virginia: Huntington - Wisconsin: La Crosse

Wisconsin: Madison - Marinette

Wisconsin: Milwaukee

Wisconsin: Milwaukee - Puerto Rico: General

Puerto Rico: San Juan - American Samoa

Sub-subseries 4: JCET Publicity Files, 1951-1963
Scope and Content Note

The Publicity Files, (boxes 95-154), are arranged in three categories: Publicity Files by State and City, Publicity Files by Subject Headings, and Publicity Files Relating Specifically to Closed Circuit Television. All of the folders in the three categories are arranged in alphabetical order by states and within each state by cities. The contents of each folder are arranged in reverse chronological order.

Publicity Files by State and City (boxes 95-143) - Consists of news clippings from local newspapers either announcing forthcoming educational television programs, or giving resumés of past programs and legislative action dealing with educational television. There are a few publicity brochures, but most of the material is news clippings.

Publicity Files by Subject Headings (boxes 143-150) - Chiefly consists of news clippings. There are also a few brochures. These files are arranged by special subjects such as foreign, editorials of nationwide newspapers regarding educational television, news clippings from electronics magazines, cartoons, music, sciences and math, and The Voice of America.

Publicity Files Relating Specifically to Closed Circuit Television (boxes 150-154) - Arranged under four separate titles as follows:

Closed Circuit Reports

News clippings and printed matter are arranged by states and include information regarding specific local uses of closed circuit setups for educational purposes.

Closed Circuit Survey, 1955

Reprints of surveys relating to the uses of closed circuit television in various states during 1955. The folders are arranged alphabetically by states.

Closed Circuit News Clippings

News clippings, arranged alphabetically by states, but including only four states.

Closed Circuit General File

Arranged by subject headings, this file appears to contain miscellaneous information regarding closed circuit television. The Iowa City Conference is covered as well as “old files,” 1954-1955.

Publicity Files by State and City

Alabama: Auburn - Birmingham

Alabama: Mobile - Arizona: Phoenix

Arizona: Tucson - California: Fresno

California: Los Angeles - Sacramento

California: San Bernardino - Santa Barbara

California: Stockton - Connecticut: Norwich

Connecticut: Hartford - Delaware: Wilmington

Delaware: Channel 12 - District of Columbia: Publicity

District of Columbia: Publicity - Florida: Gainesville

Florida: Jacksonville - Tallahassee

Florida: Tallahassee - West Palm Beach

Georgia - Hawaii

Idaho - Illinois: DeKalb

Illinois: Peoria - Indiana: South Bend

Indiana: Terre Haute - Kansas: Topeka

Kansas: Wichita - Louisiana

Maine: State Publicity - Presque Isle

Maine: Portland - Maryland: Johns Hopkins University

Maryland: Hagerstown - Massachusetts: Boston

Massachusetts: Boston - Michigan: Detroit

Michigan: East Lansing - Minnesota: Duluth

Minnesota: Minneapolis/St. Paul - Missouri: St. Joseph

Missouri: St. Louis - Nebraska: Lincoln

Nebraska: Omaha - New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico - New York: Albany

New York: Albany, Schenectady, Troy - Buffalo

New York: Buffalo - Hempstead

New York: Ithaca - New York City

New York: New York City

New York: New York City

New York: Syracuse - North Carolina: State Publicity

North Carolina: Asheville - Winston-Salem

North Dakota - Ohio: Cincinnati

Ohio: Cleveland - Oxford

Ohio: Toledo - Oregon: Corvallis

Oregon: Eugene - Pennsylvania: Harrisburg

Pennsylvania: Philadelphia - Pittsburgh

Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh - Puerto Rico

Rhode Island - South Carolina: Columbia

South Carolina: Columbia - Tennessee: Lexington

Tennessee: Memphis - Texas: Corpus Christi

Texas: Dallas - San Angelo

Texas: San Antonio - Utah

Vermont - Virginia: Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News

Virginia: Richmond - Roanoke

Washington

West Virginia - Wisconsin: Milwaukee

Wisconsin: Racine - Z

Publicity Files by Subject Headings

A - Awards

Book Reviews - Cost Per Child Estimate

Crank File - Fund for Advancement of Education

District of Columbia, GWETA - Industry Support

JCET Personnel - Music

Networks - Russa: Cultural Activities

Russian via TV - Voice of America

Workshops, TV Training

Publicity Files Relating Specifically to Closed Circuit Television

CC Reports

Arkansas - California

Idaho, Indiana, Illinois - JCET

CC Survey

Alabama, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas

CC News Clips: Pennsylvania

CC Correspondence of 1957: Old Files, 1954-1955

Sub-subseries 5: JCEB Administrative Subject File.
Scope and Content Note: The Joint Council on Educational Broadcasting Files (boxes 177-182) are arranged in three categories. A list and description of the contents of each category, with appropriate box numbers, is listed below. The material in each category is arranged in reverse chronological order.

JCEB Constituent Members
Scope and Content Note: Listed in alphabetical order, each member file has the following subject files arranged in the following order: correspondence, publications of the individual organizations, surveys, comments, and publicity.

American Council on Education - Council of Chief State School Offices (CCSSO)

Joint Council of Educational TV - National Education Association: Conferences on National Policy for ETV

National Education Association: NEA Publications - National Association of Educational Broadcasters: NAEB Utilization Reports

National Association of Educational Broadcasters: Report on Digital Computer in UHF - Constitution

National Association of Educational Broadcasters: Membership - National Association of Broadcasters

Mailing Lists -, 1961

Summary of ETV in Separate States, D.C. and Puerto Rico
Scope and Content Note: Official reports, organized alphabetically by states, of educational television standing and operational progress.

Printed Materials from N.E.T. files

Sub-subseries 6: Miscellaneous Files
Scope and Content Note: The Miscellaneous Files (boxes 183-184), are arranged in two main categories. A list of the contents of each category is listed below. The material in each category is arranged in reverse chronological order. This series should be considered as a special file series that is an extension of JCET activities.

Commercial Television

ABC

CBS - Correspondence, 1955-1963

NBC - Correspondence, 1956-1963

American Government, 1961

Chemistry college course for credit

Math

Atomic physics college course for credit

Industrial Television

Electronic Industries Association

General Electric

General Precision Laboratories

RCA

Zenith Radio Corporation

Miscellaneous - industrial correspondence

Public Meeting of the Temporary New York State Commission on the Use of Television for Educational Purposes, 1953 January 14

Third Public Hearing of the Temporary New York State Commission on the Use of Television for Educational Purposes, 1953 January 21

Subseries: Subseries 5B. Vice President for Network Affairs: Records, 1954-1967
Physical Description: 39 boxes 
Scope and Content Note

This series consists almost entirely of records generated by the Station Relations Department and the office of the VP for Network Affairs; however, there are also records from the department of Field Services. These records include correspondence, legal documents, printed reports, minutes of meetings, memos of Field Services and Station Relations, and promotional material from affiliated stations. They are organized into an alphabetical subject file.

[Note: The main reason that the files of the Station Relations and Field Services Departments were combined with the records of the VP for Network Affairs under the latter title is that they arrived at the archives hopelessly interspersed. Also, Robertson was successively the Director of Station Relations and VP for Network Affairs. The duties of those two and of Field Services as well were very similar.]

Among the more extensive records in this series are the records of affiliates' meetings, records regarding the FCC, foreign correspondence, station profiles--arranged by state and station call letters, information on over 70 affiliates, records regarding JCET-JCEB, the NAEB, and the NETRC Board of Directors. Numerous throughout are also the folders (1 to 5 each) relating to state and regional commissions, organizations and networks, all related to educational television or broadcasting, arranged under the name of state or organization.

Affiliates Committee Meeting

1957-1963
Scope and Content Note: Includes information on conflict of interest with stations in Don Fedderson memo, September 27, 1960. Also, August 1958 memo to ETRC Board from ETRC affiliates on the future needs of ETV.

Minutes

Minutes, 1959-1961

1961 February

1961 November

1962 February

1963 February

1963 October

Affiliates Meeting
Scope and Content Note: Memos, letters, proposals, agendas, minutes, lists, clippings, and announcements, concerning station visits, contacts, identifying problems and areas where the Center could be of greatest assistance; discussing programming--ETRC offerings, what local could produce, how to distribute it; discussing equipment--VTR grants et al.; and discussing commercial competition, local citizenry support, and legal ramifications of station activation. A fair amount of routine in these folders. See also Early Central File, Series 2A.

(NAEB), 1954 October

1955 February

1955 October

1956 April

1956 October

1957 May

1957 October

1958 March

1958 May

1958 October

1959 March

1959 July

1959 October

1960 March

1960 May

1960 October

1961 October

General, 1962 April

Materials, 1962 April

General, 1962 October

Reports, 1962 October

1963 March

1964 March

Brandeis Conference on Economics of ETV, 1963

Callihan, speech materials

1958-1961

1958-1966

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Christian Broadcasting Network

Community Antenna Television, (CATV) 1961-1962

CATV, 1965

Community Antenna Television (CATV), 1966

Committee on Education, Kansas Legislature 1963

Directory and mailing list, station relations 1962-1964

Distribution, 1961-1962

Distribution, 1963-1964

Eastern Educational Network

1960

1961 February-April

1961 May-December

1962 January-March

1962 April-May

1962 June

1966

Educational-Commercial Broadcasters Liaison Committee

1962 March-October

1962 November-December

1963

Educational Media Council

1960

1961

1962

Pamphlets, 1962

1963

Educational Radio Network, 1961

Educational Television Council of Central N.Y., 1962-1966

Engineering and Technical

Bulletins, 1959-1963

Correspondence, general 1959-1963

Correspondence, miscellaneous companies 1961-1964

Coverage maps, 1960

FCC

Channel assignments, allocations

1956, 1961-1964

1961-1962

Closed Circuit Television, 1963-1965

Emergency Broadcast System, 1963

ETV proposed rule making

1956, 1960-1961

1962-1963

General correspondence, 1956-1962

NET comments, 1966

Hearings, Chicago 1962

Hearings, Pennsylvania State University 1961-1962

Legal documents, 1961-1962

Microwave rules, 1962-1963

Publications, 1956-1964

Radio Rules (FM), 1962-1963

2000 McBand, 1962-1963

UHF, 1963

Florida ETV Commission

Correspondence 1957, 1961-1963

Reports, 1960-1965

Foreign Correspondence
Scope and Content Note: Many of the early letters here were written by Development and later transferred to Field Services. They regard primarily requests for information on ETV and the mechanics of establishing a station.

General, 1958-1964

Africa, 1958-1959

Australia, 1957-1958, 1961

Belgium, 1958-1959

Canada

1957-1965

Montreal, 1960-1962

Ontario, 1957-1962

Columbia, 1958

Cuba, 1956-1958

Denmark, 1958

England, 1957-1964

France, 1957-1958

Germany, 1957-1959

Italy, 1957

Japan, 1957-1963

Mexico, 1959-1960

Philippines, 1957-1962

Scotland, 1957-1958

Uruguay, 1957-1958

Virgin Islands, 1960-1961

Illinois, 1963-1964

Institute for Education by Radio-Television (IERT), 1963

Instructional TV (ITV)

International Assembly, Academy of TV Arts and Science 1961

J.C.E.B.

Correspondence

1961-1962

1963

1964

Petitions, Comments, and statements before FCC

Meeting, 1964

Summary of Educational Television, 1961

J.C.E.T.

1955-1957

1958-1959

1960-1961

Kentuckiana ETV, Annual Report, 1960-1961

Kentucky Legislative Research Committee, 1960-1963

Learning Resources Institute, 1961

Legal Department, 1961-1964

Legislation

All-Channel receivers

Correspondence, 1962-1963

Reports, 1962-1963

Miscellaneous bills

General, 1959, 1961-1962

Printed bills, 1958, 1961-1963

PL87-447 (ETV Facilities Act)

1961-1962

Printed material, 1961-1962

Senate Bill 205, 1961

Michigan ETV Network, 1962

Midwestern Educational Television (MET), 1962

MPATI 1959, 1961-1963

NAEB

Educational Television Stations, 1966

General

1956

1957-1958

1959

1960

1961-1965

NETRC

Audience Information, 1961-1963, 1965

Board Meeting

Annual Reports, 1960

1962 January

1962 May

1962 October

1963 February

1963 May

1963 October

Conference, 1959 April

Correspondence

Miscellaneous

Directors' Meetings, 1961-1962

Policy Book

Publicity Meeting, 1961 June

Staff Meetings

1961-1963

1964 March

Tuxedo Park Conference

Western Radio and TV Conference

Network Affairs

General Correspondence

1961-1963

1964

1965

Finances: Affiliates, 1961

Projections, 1962

Wage and Salary Studies, 1961

New York Bar Association, 1961-1962

National Instructional Television Library (NITL)

1961-1962 February

1962 March-November

1963 January

1963 March-1965

Northeastern Regional Instructional Television Library Project (NRITLP)

1962-1964

Report, 1963

New York State Educational Radio and Television Association (NYSERTA)

1961-1963

Report, 1962

Ohio Network, 1961

Oregon Network, 1957-1959

Pennsylvania Educational Television

1959, 1962-1963

Reports, 1962-1963

Production and Technical Handbook (Television), 1957

Programs

Americans at Work, 1960

American Economy, 1962-1963

Comments, 1960-1961

Data on Individual

Exchange - International Division, 1961-1962

Freedom March

International Magazine, 1966

Miscellanous, 1960-1962

Miscellaneous, 1963

Response

Response - In School Questionnaire, 1959-1960
Scope and Content Note: Sent to the stations in 1960 by NET to determine which in-school videotapes and kinescopes were available for exchange use in direct teaching by television.

Response - In School Questionnaire (continued)

Response - Program Schedules (Special Requests)

Schedule Projection

World of Medicine, 1957

Projects, 1960-62

Quayle, Donald R. - Correspondence and notes

Research Documents

General 1960-1961, 1964

Technical

Robertson, James - Speeches

Senate Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency, 1961

Services, Extended Services

1958-1961

1962-1964

South Carolina, ETV Status Report 1958-1963

Southern Regional Educational Board

1959-1961

1962-1965

Speech Material

Speech Material (continued)

State ETV Authorities

Station Depository Exchange (Tentative Catalogue), 1963

Stations

Equipment Budgets, 1960-1961

Financing, 1957, 1961

Operating Budgets

Operating and Capital Investment

Station Profiles
Scope and Content Note: A file maintained by Station Relations consisting of a library of information regarding each affiliate including a history of the station, vital statistics such as - capital investment, programming profile and sample, schedules, schedule analyses, questionnaires, correspondence, clippings, press releases from the station. Effective May 29, 1962 a second file was to contain in addition to routine correspondence, a fully executed Affiliation Agreement renewed annually, a formal Videotape Recorder Grant document, a statement of Proof of Insurance, a complete Videotape Recorder Application Exhibit, and an Authorization of Payment to Ampex Corporation.

History, miscellaneous stations

Alabama ETV (WAIQ, WBIQ, WTIQ)

Arizona

KAET, Arizona State University

KUAT, University Arizona

California

KQED San Francisco

KVCR San Bernardino S.C.

KVIE Sacramento

Colorado - KRMA Denver

Connecticut - WNDT, Hartford

Washington, D.C. - WETA

Florida

WEDU, Tampa

WFSU, Tallahassee

WFSU, Correspondence

WJCT, Jacksonville

WTHS, Miami

WUFT, Gainesville

Georgia

WETV, Atlanta

WGTV, University of Georgia

WXGA, Waycross

Illinois

WILL, University of Illinois

WSIU, Southern Illinois University

WTTW, Chicago

Iowa - KDPS, Des Moines

Kentucky - WFPK, Louisville

Louisiana

KLSE, Monroe

WYES, New Orleans

Maine

WCBB (Bates College)

WMEB (University of Maine)

Massachusetts - WGBH, Boston

General

Correspondence, 1954-1959

Correspondence, 1960-1963

Michigan

WMSB, East Lansing

WTVS, Detroit

WUCM (Delta College)

Missouri

KCSD, Kansas City

KETC

Nebraska - KUON, University of Nebraska

New Hampshire - WENH

New Mexico - KNME, Albuquerque

New York

WMHT, Schenectady

WNDT, New York

WNED, Buffalo

WNTA, New York

North Carolina - WUNC (University of North Carolina)

North Dakota - KFME, Fargo

Oklahoma

KOED, KETA, Oklahoma City

KOKH, Oklahoma City

Ohio

WBGO, Bowling Green

WCET, Cincinnati

WGTE, Toledo

WMUB, Oxford

WOSU (Ohio State University)

WOSU, Correspondence

WOUB, Athens

WVIZ, Cleveland

Oregon ETV - KOAP, KOAC

Pennsylvania

WHYY, Philadelphia

Correspondence

WQED, Pittsburgh

South Dakota - KUSD, Vermillion

Tennessee

WDCN, Nashville

WKNO, Memphis

Texas

KERA, Dallas

KLRN, Austin

KUHT, Houston

Utah

KUED, Salt Lake City

KWCS, Ogden

Virginia - WHRO, Norfolk

Washington

KCTS, Seattle

KPEC, Lakewood Center

KTPS, Tacoma

KWSC, Pullman

Wisconsin

WHA, University of Wisconsin

WMVS, Milwaukee

Puerto Rico Network - WIPR

Stations, Program Distribution

Correspondence

Memos

Station Surveys

Station Relations

General

Monday Morning Memo
Scope and Content Note: Instituted in 1960 to improve communications between the Center and affiliates. It was a weekly briefing on important NETRC activities of the previous seven days including semi-confidential advice, tips on up-coming programs, or projects worthy of note, and in general, was to convey to the affiliates a feeling of being “within the circle”.

1958

1959

1962

1963

Miscellaneous, 1963

New Affiliates Information

Personnel

Station Visits

General

P. Callihan

L. Franks

P. Quayle

Texas Educational Microwave Project

TWX

Correspondence

1965-1966

1965-1967

Documents

Petition Replies

Surveys

U.S. Office of Education (USOE)

Correspondence

ETV Facilities Act

National Defense Education Act, Title VII

N.D.E.A., Title VII

National Policy

Report, Working Papers

p. 1-100

p. 101-178

Utah ETV

Vacation Schedules, 1961-1963

Vermont ETV

1962 February

1962 June

Videotape Recorder (VTR) Policy

Agreements and Contracts

Correspondence

Ampex Corp.

1956-1960

1961-1964

Ford Foundation

Documents

Washington Office

Backgrounds

Correspondence

1960-1961
Note: Includes a Creshkoff-Stewart exchange May 25-June 7, 1961, on commercial television's contribution to and attitude towards ETV.

1962
Note: Contains article by David C. Stewart, “Looking at ETV” published in AAUW Journal, July 27, 1962.

1963

Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education

Wisconsin ETV