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Show . . . to open the era of broadened education once only a president's dream. On February third of this year the University of Utah's education television station, KUED, received license from the Federal Communications Commission to broadcast to the people of the state programs designed "to advance all useful arts and sciences." It was the realization of a far reaching dream made possible by the work of the University's President, Dr. A. Ray Olpin. The foundation work has been in process for several years and finally, in 1956, the University was granted a permit to construct an educational television station utilizing VHF Channel 7 for operation, the control of which rests with the University's Board of Regents. But more than this, a challenge and responsibility accompanying the license was presented. It marked the beginning of a new era, an era of broadened educational facilities, an era of relieved classroom situations where all students could have the advantage of the best professors and instruction. It makes possible the repetition of lectures for the benefit of the slower student, and it insures the best from local talent as well as national hook-up potentials which feature such lecturers as the eminent physicist, Dr. Keller. KUED produces twenty hours of programs weekly, ten of these being live. These programs presently cover a number of interests, and indications for the future point to an ever increasing selection of programs from the most technical of the sciences to the most creative of the arts. Its far reaching aim being the furtherance of the cul' tural and economic welfare of the citizens of Utah and the surrounding area. |
