The Times from Munster, Indiana • 21

The Hammond Times Home Newspaper of the Calumet Region Feb. 12, 1967 B-3 Parents Will "Develop A More Active Interest in the School." "The Possibilities Are Staggering to The Imagination." Educational TV Tirsf Strives for Spring Start in Indiana by borrowing from school corporations teac hers who excel in their fields. "It would be a staff no school could afford. "And it would serve two purposes. All the children would benefit.

Also teachers on the faculties would be in open competition with those on Channel 50 will create better relations between parents and the school, too, in the opinion of the corporation president. "It will create more interest among parents, particularly those who haven't seen the inside of a school," Cinko said. "A father can sit at home in his easy chair, smoke, drink a can of beer and at the same Sm ST. JOHN-Early this spring, turn your television set on at UHF Channel 50. You'll get the only open channel educational television station in Indiana-WCAE-TV.

That's when the Lake Central School Corp. expects to have its open channel educational station on the air at Lake Central High School. Louis Iaconetti, school television director, said equipment for the TV rooms is coming in every day. Tower construction beside the school was to have started recently but the blizzard delayed it. George Bibich, superintendent of the corporation's schools, said WCAD-TV will be viewed within a radius of 20 miles.

It will be seen in Hammond, Gary, Crown Point, Lowell, East Chicago and many areas of Illinois. If you have a set made after April, 1964, you have UHF and will be able to pick up Channel 50. Channel 11, Chicago, is the only other educational station in the area. Bibich said Channel 50 will reach an area populated by 750,000 people. The call letters, WCAE-TV, were the third choice, Iaconnetti said.

All stations east of the Mississippi River begin with W. Iaconetti first added LCI, for Lake County, Indiana. That wasn't acceptable. He tried for WLCE, Lake County Educational, and that was rejected. WCAE-TV, Calumet Area Educational TV, was approved by the Federal Communications Commission, which gave permission for the school to operate the open channel.

Louis Cinko, president of the school corporation and St. John Township trustee, is enthusiastic about the TV station. "The possibilities are staggering to the imagination," he said. "One example of its useful purpose is that we could get together the finest teaching staff time see what's going on at school and what his children are being taught. "He'll develop a more active interest in the school and its activities." Channel 50 will join the 124 educational stations now in existence and will be able to take part in Public Television, if it is created as proposed by a 15-member Carnegie Commission on Educational Television.

The commission's study was endorsed by President Johnson. The commission recommended establishment of a corporation for public television. It would be a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization financed by a mixture of private and federal funds. Public television would provide professionally produced cultural, news, public affairs and entertainment programs to be shown during prime evening hours and weekends over educational TV. Production centers would be established throughout the country.

Stations would be modernized, equipped for color, interconnected and multiplied. No new network would be created. The commission proposed financing a major portion of the program with an excise tax on new TV sets. It would start at two per cent and gradually rise to a maximum of five per cent. That would provide about annually initially.

The revenue gradually would reach $100,000,000. But right new WCAE officials are just interested in getting on the air. WCAE currently is a with Iaconetti, who spends half his time with audio-visual materials, and James Sheetz, engineer. Iaconetti has had six years of experience with television at the high school. He started closed circuit TV as a teaching aid at the old Dyer Dentral High School in 1960.

1 Closed circuit TV still is being used at the Dyer building, now Kahler Junior High School. Lake Central High also will have closed circuit TV, in addition to the open channel, Iaconetti said. The TV director said he envisions being able to handle three programs at one time a taped show on the closed circuit, a live show on Channel 50 and another show being taped or rehearsed. Lake Central was constructed so television could be provided. Rooms are set aside for storage, the director, conference, and material preparation.

The main area consists of two studios, side by side, each 35-fcet square and 16 feet high. Two steps up from each studio is the engineer's room. He can see into each studio through large windows. Studio doors are large so articles the size of organs or pianos may be brought into the rooms. Near the studios are the auditorium, which is expected to be used for TV, and a classroom with a stage, which can be used as another TV area.

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