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want to make on Nebraska legislation.
Douglas Atkins (below) sits at the mas
ter control and watches the set as the
show is relayed to all of the Nebraska
Education Television stations.
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Television
By Richard Crees
NU School of JournnHsni
Imagine an auditorium filled with 200
people. Now take this group and multiply
its size by perhaps 50 and you have a
rough estimate of the number of persons
who view instructional programs on Ne
braska Educational Television.
Like the invisible circular waves
emitted by the television transmitters,
programs on the Nebraska Educational
Television Network (ETV) radiate across
th state from their origin at studios in
Lincoln and Omaha.
In addition to s t a 1 1 o n s KUON-TV,
Channel 12 In Lincoln and KYNE-TV,
Channel 26 in Omaha, the Nebraska net
work also has stations at Lexington
(KLNE-TV, Channel 8), North Platte
(KPNE-TV, Channel ), and Alliance
(KTNE, Channel 13), with stations under
construction at Bassett and Norfolk.
According to the Carnegie Commis
sion survey of station capital outlay, op
eratlng costs and sources of income, the
average ETV station spends about $360,
000 annually.
Financed by both private grants and
government appropriations, Nebraska
ETV stations offer cultural, informational
and children's programs in addition to
instructional material.
KUON Is First
According to Edward F. Vitzthum,
Nebraska ETV information director, the
story of Nebraska's education television
network began Nov. 1, 1954, the day
KUON-TV, the University of Nebraska
television station, began broadcast opera
tions. Originally the station was commer
cial one owned by Corabusker Broadcast
ing, which also owns KOLN-TV in Lin
coln. At that time KUON was assigned to
Channel 18.
In 1954 John Fetzer, president of
Cornhusker Broadcasting, proposed that
Channel 18 be turned over to a trusteeship
which would operate it on a non-commercial
basis in connection with the University
of Nebraska, according to Vitzthum.
The Federal Communications Com
mission (FCC) approved the move and
assigned the new educational station the
call letters KUON-TV and changed t h e
channel designation to Channel 12.
During the eBrly years of operation,
KUON used equipment of KOLN-TV until
adequate studios could be built on the
University campus, Vitzthum continued.
KUON-TV was helped to its feet by an
agreement in July, 1956, between the Fund
for Adult Education and the University
Regents which provided KUON with a
$100,000 grant for purchase of television
equipment.
Signal Extended
In those early years, KUON also had
agreements with three other commercial
stations In Nebraska to extend the sta
tion's signal beyond the Channel 12 radius,
Vitzthum said.
According to Mist Trances E. Buell
of Lincoln, a former teacher on KUON-TV
during the 1959-60 school year, her course
In plane geometry went out to classes in
the three Lincoln high schools and to oth
er schools in the Channel 12 radius.
"The summer before the show went
on the air, I met with some of the teach
ers whose classes would use the television
program as a supplement to regular class
room work. We planned a lesson and
exam schedule for the whole school
year," Miss Buell recalled.
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Spreads Over Entire State,
At the suggestion of the 1961 Nebras
ka Legislature, Gov. Frank B. Morrison
appointed a Nebraska State Committee
on Educational Television to study the
feasibility of a state wide ETV network.
On recommendations of this group the
1963 Legislature enacted two bills con
cerning ETV. One appropriated funds for
construction of the program originating
studios in Lincoln and Omaha and the oth
er set up a ld-member Nebraska Educa
tional Television Commission.
Licenses
The Commission licensed all net
work stations In the expected seven-station
hookup except for KUON-TV, which
is licensed to the University of Nebraska
Regents. Educational television stations
are subject to the licensing and rule re
quirements as commercial stations.
Network operations began Jan. 18.
1965, with completion of KUON'l 874-foot
tower at Mead, midway between the two
originating studios in Lincoln and Omaha.
The 1965 Nebraska Legislature ex
panded the Nebraska Educational Televi
sion Commission to 17 members and pro
vided construction funds for completion of
the Nebraska ETV network In the 1965-67
biennlum,
In corporate meetings the program
areas, schedule and cost to member
schools is determined by majority vote in
each council. Membership in the councils
is open to all public and private schools
who want to participate upon payment of
a membership fee based on total enroll
ment in the school district.
Programs are prepared by the class
room teachers working with the TV teach
er. Programs emphasize systematic treat
ment of material and the TV lesson as
supplementary to regular class work.
Some special programs are contracted to
private groups.
Ninety Hours
Most Nebraska ETV stations present
about 90 hours of programs weekly. Day
time hours usually are filled with 15-min-ute
and half hour educational programs.
Evening on ETV Is devoted to cultural
and informational programs. The Nebras
nal include a documentary dealing with do
mestic and international issues and N.E.T.
supplements local stations and Nebraska
network products with five hours of na
tional programming weekly.
Programs provided by N.E.T. Jour
nal, a documentary dealing with domes
tic and international issues and N.E.T.
Playhouse, a drama series. Besides these,
N.E.T. also offers viewers programs ob
tained from the British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC) through a mutual ex
change agreement.
Through the Educational Television
Stations Programming Service, ETV sta
tions also receive non-instructional pro
grams produced by ETV stations in other
states.
Besides regular Instructional p r o
" grams, Nebraska ETV offers In-service
telecasts designed to keep teachers
abreast of newest teaching methods and
developments.
Operating from studios at 12th and R
Streets in Lincoln, KUON-TV, the net
work's nucleus, is one of the best equipped
ETV stations in the nation, according to
Vitzthum. With five cameras, eight video
tape recorders and a three-camera mobile
unit, the station is able to cover such
special features as the Nebraska Centennial.
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The KUON mobile unit (above) transports camera
equipment to various locations. A piano tuner (mid
dle) tunes the piano in an empty set in preparation for
the program MASTERS OF THE KEYBOARD. Below,
Wes Gripps is dubbing video tapes off a master tape
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