{"id":384,"date":"2013-10-13T23:53:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T03:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/?page_id=384"},"modified":"2013-10-13T23:53:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T03:53:38","slug":"1957-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/?page_id=384","title":{"rendered":"1957"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October of 1957, the <strong><em>Diamondback<\/em> <\/strong>published 4 articles dealing with University of Maryland interest in Television.\u00a0 As a point of reference, Elizabeth Campbell was elected president of the Greater Washington Educational Television Association (GWETA) in 1957.\u00a0 It would be\u00a0four years before WETA went on the air on UHF Television Channel 26.\u00a0 UHF tuners were\u00a0not\u00a0installed in televisions until 1961.\u00a0 The Midwest\u00a0 Program on Airborne Television Instruction would not begin operation until 1961.\u00a0While certainly the University of Maryland was not the first to recognize the potential for instructional television, the forward-looking faculty members saw potential early.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10_8_1957.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-383\" alt=\"10_8_1957\" src=\"https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10_8_1957-150x300.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10_8_1957-150x300.jpg 150w, https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10_8_1957-513x1024.jpg 513w, https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10_8_1957.jpg 1565w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10_11_1957.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-385\" alt=\"10_11_1957\" src=\"https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10_11_1957-165x300.jpg\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10_11_1957-165x300.jpg 165w, https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10_11_1957.jpg 497w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/11-26-1957.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-393\" alt=\"11-26-1957\" src=\"https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/11-26-1957-83x300.jpg\" width=\"83\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10-29-1957.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-392\" alt=\"10-29-1957\" src=\"https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10-29-1957-255x300.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10-29-1957-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10-29-1957-873x1024.jpg 873w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As these Diamondback articles reveal, televised curriculum programs (through the auspices of WBAL and WTOP), as well as the use of color television in the medical field (Walter Reed Army Medical Center) were on the &#8220;front burner&#8221; within the faculty community as early as 1957.\u00a0 One faculty member to watch is George Batka.\u00a0 He is with the Speech Department, and will figure prominently in the development of RATV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October of 1957, the Diamondback published 4 articles dealing with University of Maryland interest in Television.\u00a0 As a point of reference, Elizabeth Campbell was elected president of the Greater Washington Educational Television Association (GWETA) in 1957.\u00a0 It would be\u00a0four &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/?page_id=384\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-384","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/384\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfleetwood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}