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Show teBevasSoo commentary i television of course leads in jmo And where most educational sta NET aits shows new viding the public with fim tions use 35 per cent ballet show 30 3 music cent drama, reruns and 35 per plus doing Occasionally NET will jiroduu a per cent of their shows locally KUED show at a local station, instead of at is above the 30 per cent figure home in New York City or on loc locally produced shows can be t ion around the world Such Miows come part of the Educational Tele have features Utah included done in vision Service (ETS) whose symbol the Alexander on Schreiner KUED with NET'S, organist along you see on and school local teachers' various FTS crisis takes Frischknecht said shows that meet quality standards regional reports Ideally, such a noble production and farms them out to other educa tional stations around the nation system should be free of the buga boo that makes or breaks peojrle Thus some Utah pioduced programs in gommercial television, money ate seen in many other states But it s not Educational television Our goal is not to grab ratings of sometimes erratic at the is mercy and offer a new show every hour, but of said Frischknecht sources funds, We NET spokesman commented like KUED's pros This causes things the to achieve wide circulation, We pective loss of their man Gene Hamil NET spokesman commented want everyone in each area to see ton next fall Our biggest problem is usually something on educational television we can t buy mature, experienced once a week That's why we often television personnel run good shows twice within the s That just what Frischknecht is same week By word of mouth, those Born in City, a speech de Brigham who missed the show the first time a masters USU in television at contemit while gree still see it's can " at Michigan State Frischknecht, 38, porary spent eleven years in educational Despite his claim NET isnt concerned with ratings, figures show television before moving to NEr Because its a leader, he finished educational television audiences have We figure it's quietly tripled since 1962 due to the quality increase in our programming thanks to the Ford grant " Frischknecht added He explained that NET has three children's, public program areas air v NET'S affairs and cultural shows What's New is a child's show aimed at upgrading commercial We should childiens programs Frisch lead commercial television, What's New tries to knecht said take children away from being merely passive viewer of violence, cartoons and situation comedies by leading them on a tour of almost every subject in the universe that will broaden their scope. In public affairs, we talk about things commercial television can't or won't talk about, Frischknecht said Homosexuality, auto safety, firmly renaming cars; we give consumer and prices. ports, naming products On the cultural i By Dick Hughes Whats Ahead Educational For TV KUED TV and the educational net NET stood eyeball to eyeball the University of Utah campus or) work 'This week and apparently both liked what they saw The occasion was the visit to KUED and Logan s KUSU TV by former Utahn and now high mug wump at NET Lee C Frischknecht, assistant director of field services KUED does a great job and is pro ducing more local shows than many educational stations across the coun he said Frischknecht hadn t try, been to Logan yet. Increased local production, the NET man explained, has come since the Ford Foundation began under writing NET in 1964 to the extent of $6 million a year Frischknecht ex Before Ford NET charged its affiliates plained nine to eighteen thousand dollars "a year for the programs we supplied The fee now is $100 a year. The savings at the local level ha enabled educational stations to do We didn't more local production increase the quantity of shows, we tried to upgrade those in the time we were already using, Frischknecht added. ' 1 1 |