The use of satellite technology to bring much needed information, such as career education messages to remote areas of Rocky Mountain States is the subject of this paper. Both software and hardware aspects of this demonstration project are discussed. (Author)

In preparation for the 1979 World Administrative Radio Conference (WARC), this paper lists some of the issues on which WARC participants will focus. These issues include the expansion of the shortwave spectrum and the formulation of more equitable, more efficient procedures by which broadcasters are awarded high-frequency shortwave bands; ways to…

This paper suggests that artists be involved in the international and governmental decision making, planning, and regulating activities associated with new communication systems and communication technologies. Eight projects sponsored by Experiments in Art and Technology illustrate artists' interest in, and ability to contribute to, a variety of…

This document provides a discussion of the policy implications of a proposed bill introduced in the Canadian House of Commons in Spring 1977 relating to the regulation of telecommunications in Canada. This act, which can be viewed as an attempt to make telecommunications more responsive to changing technology and to provincial concerns, seeks to…

This paper gives a brief overview and history of the Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS) begun at California State University, Chico (CSUC) in the spring of 1975, and describes the on-going operations of television activities at CSUC, the only five-year institution of higher education in Northeastern California. Currently known as…

This study is the first assessment of the long term effects of computer conferencing. The use of PLANET and FORUM are described, and major users and conference characteristics are presented through excerpts from conference transcripts. Part I of the report focuses on the ways in which organizations used computer conferencing. Conference size and…

The seven short papers in this collection were developed to support discussions during the 1979 White House Conference on Library and Information Services. The first paper, by Donald P. Ely, discusses information and education in a multimedia world. Other papers discuss technology and information transfer in education (Blanche Woolls); teaching…

This review of the world of telecommunications and its effect on special libraries includes discussions on the use of satellites to facilitate document teledistribution, online bibliographic searches, remote access to databases, and teletex systems. It is contended that the growing network of domestic satellites and the decreasing cost of services…

Space communications have developed tremendously since 1963 when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched the synchronous communication satellite, Syncom II, into geostationary orbit. The capacity of that spacecraft was one two-circuit voice channel. Intelsat V, launched in 1980, has a capacity of 12,000 circuits plus two…

This discussion of research and evaluation issues in the application of satellite communications to education highlights the potential uses of this technology for the educator and points out what educational researchers and administrators can learn from past endeavors. The major projects known collectively as the Health/Education…

The Associated Press's claim that it is the oldest wire service in the United States (tracing its origin to formation of the New York City Associated Press in 1948) has been regularly sustained in journalism's history literature. This claim has been challenged by Alfred McClung Lee in his book "The Daily Newspaper in America," in which he contends…

At the 1970 National Association of Educational Broadcasters convention, a minority affairs report showed that, although minorities constituted nearly 10 percent of public broadcasting employees, there was almost no minority representation at the management and professional levels. Recent statistics show little change in those employment…

This paper outlines the structure of Japanese telecommunication industries and how the various parts of the mechanism work together. Explanations of the Japanese: 1) structure of telecommunication industries; 2) control of regulatory lags; 3) text information service and regulation; and 4) text information service and the telecommunication…

This compilation of broadcast journals and periodicals is a result of a questionnaire survey which attempted to determine the extent and nature of articles published by journals or periodicals which relate to radio and television broadcasting. The 109 responses, as well as the 19 returned by the post office and the 27 non-responses are listed by…