TV Center To Transfer Library To Ann Arbor

TV Center To Transfer Library To Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor will continue to play an important role in National Educational Television—even though a major part of the network operations will move to New York City later this spring. President John F, White of the National Educational Television and Radio Center said today.

White spoke at the annual spring meeting here this week of program managers from educational television stations throughout the nation. Representatives of 35 stations are attending the meeting.

White told the ETV station representatives that the business and legal offices as well as distribution operations will remain in Ann Arbor. Vice-President Kenneth L. Yourd will be in charge of local operations, he explained.

The center will continue to hold important national meetings in Ann Arbor, White reported, and the organization will certainly look to Michigan's major universities for educational programs and for advice and support. The Center provides its affiliated stations with a national program service.

The Center will move distribution activities from the University of Illinois to the Ann Arbor facility. The organization's library of some 20,000 TV films also will be moved here.

"The decision to transfer presidential, public relations, and program departments to New York is in recognition of the fact that the young educational TV movement must be based in the heart of national, cultural and mass communications activity,” White explained.