Bill wrote:
On the home page I am holding the "NEW" RCA camera on a Leland Hubbell
serving
cart that was used at the dining room of the Granville Inn. Just Kidding!
Gene Ricketts is seated
and John Hall is at the podium.
From Leland Hubbell:
I thought that it was Scott Elliott sitting.
Gene is shown in one of the pictures operating the Dage camera, I think
Mr. H.
A program entitled "This Is Girl Scouting" was broadcast on March 15,
1967. The girls on the production crew were members of Dorothy
Hubbell's Sr. Scout Troop. Mary and Linda were involved. What do you
remember about the program? What were your thoughts the first time you
entered WGSF? Do you remember any of the things shown in the program?
Mr H.
We have already mentioned some of the teachers who took the TV
Production course and went on become faculty advisors at NHS for WGSF.
How many from the list do you people remember from some point in your
educational experience?
In the spring of 1963, the Newark Branch of the Ohio State University
offered a course in Tezaching By Radio and Television (Education 601).
The course was taught by Dr. Hazel Gibbony of the Communications
Center at Ohio State and enrolled the following teachers:
Margaret Agin
Alice Armstrong
Monna Berro
Helen Brown
Thelma Bounds
Bernard Campbell
Marjorie Fant
Janice Greider
Elizabeth Hall
Helene Hart
Rowena Jones
George Roberts
Leah Russell
William Snook
Mabel Stockman
Otto Stockman
Angelin Taylor
Elizabeth Weston
The latest change of management for the Newark School District TV
Center took place this summer. I saw in the paper that Joe Fox has
been named to manage the operation.
Manager Nick Iannitto resigned earlier this summer to accept another
job, and is being replaced by Joe Fox. I am told that Joe "brings
great experience, a love of video/broadcast production work and
outstanding people skills."
But the Legacy that began at WGSF continues.
Leland Hubbell
I sent out the following message today to a list that I had email
addresses for. Unfortunately, some bounced - not suprisingly, the way
people change addresses.
Feel free to pass this on if you know of someone who is not yet a member.
LHH
Hello:
Have you checked out the WGSF GROUPS web site on YAHOO!?
http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/WGSF_TV/
This GROUP consists of persons who were connected with the station, as
Administrators, Employees, Student Staff, Volunteers, or Community Support
Public Broadcasting Television station WGSF operated in Newark, Ohio,
from 1963 to 1970 as Channel 28, and then as Channel 31 until it
ceased operation in 1976. You know that! You were there.
Well, we are trying to contact those former WGSF People. We already
have a group of members, some going back to the very first Television
class of 1966. Membership requires that you sign up with YAHOO.com,
which gives you a free email account, accessable wherever you can get
on line, including libraries that have web access.
You have the option of receiving GROUP email at either the YAHOO!
address or your current primary email address.
We do hope you will join us, and check out the photos of WGSF, see if
you are listed in the WGSF Personnel database, and read the files
about events in the history of WGSF.
Finally, we want to work toward the next WGSF reunion, to be held
sometime in 2006, the 40th anniversary of the first class at WGSF, and
the 30th observance of the final sign-off.
Leland Hubbell, Former Chief Engineer and Manager, WGSF
and members of WGSF GROUPS
I wonder. Has he ever recorded his experiences as a translator for those historic times? Knowing of that now makes me think of a sobering thing about time ...His memories of those trials were fresher to him in '68 than my memories of him and 'GSF are now!
BTW, my Yahoo name is reflective of my avocation of living history relating to nursing as it was practiced during WWII, and specifically by nurses in the US Army--Nursin43.
Luce
>>> leek8mzh@... 04-Aug-05 10:22 AM >>>
Hey! We've got some action! Longest I've ever seen this group without saying something. GREAT!!! First to Lucy: the teacher is Robert McDaniel, who still lives in Newark with his wife, who also did programs on WGSF. She (Jean) was a Elem. Phys Ed Teacher. He taught several summer schools. BTW, McDaniel speaks several languages, was a translator for the War Crimes Trials after WWII, I think. I saw DeBenedictis a few week ago. He is still active with the local community drama group. Slowing down some, as many of us are.
I have uploaded some files, including a list of teachers who took a TV Production course at OSU/N in 1963. Both Helen Brown and Rowena (Beth) Jones were in that class.
I am starting to did out the rosters that I have of students who were enrolled in the summer school classes. Check out the FILES MENU
> Hello from Carolina... > > I would guess it was DeBenedictis who > extended the 45 min. > extension to your day ...... > > There was another teacher for the summer > school of '68, wasn't > there?...Dern...not a regular teacher at the school, > but the one who did > the 'drama' part on the Hill..."older" guy... > After I really got creative in pronouncing > during a cold reading > in the announce booth, he suggested I take some > French...... > Lucy > > >>> clifford50@... 04-Aug-05 12:03:28 AM >>> > > Mr. H: I have been writing down names of teachers > who were involved at > WGSF back in the > dark ages of 1966 to 1969. > > Teachers: Beth Jones, Helen Brown, Marlin Pitchford, > Mary Kay Booher, > Bob Debenidictis, > Jimmy "Wildcat" Allen and possibly Fred Ciminello. > No doubt there are > more. > > During the time frame after the cameras were sent > back to Cincinnati, > and the RCA > cameras arrived from Cleveland, John Hall and I > developed a slide show > called the Newark > Test. We asked viewers to take the test on a form > printed in the > Advocate. A slide of the > Newark area was shown then the correct multiple > choice answer. > Everything started out > good, Show the picture, ask the multiple choice > question, and then show > a slide of the > correct answer of A, B,C, or D. > > We had a back up Kodak carousel projector, and a > spare bulb. After > about 10-minutes we > were"slidding down the hill". Projector bulb burns > out (of course); > spare projector pressed > in to service as the slides were being transferred > to the back up > projector. The picture > slides in the transfer didn't get in the exact right > order and of > course the letter showing > the answer to the question some how got in the wrong > spot. Sometimes > the correct or > wrong answer got ahead of the picture. > > If I remember correctly the audio was recorded by > John and me ahead of > time. People who > probably didn't really know that Newark had a TV > station, were ringing > the phone off the > hook to inform us of jumbled mess. Too bad we didn't > have a phone > system like today, in > which we could tell them to start pressing (dialing) > numbers for > improved service while > disgusting music played telling them their call was > important to us. > > On the home page I am holding the "NEW" RCA camera > on a Leland Hubbell > serving cart > that was used at the dining room of the Granville > Inn. Just Kidding! > Gene Ricketts is seated > and John Hall is at the podium. > > As I think of things, I will write them as we walk > down memory lane. > Things to be covered: > Licking County Sportlight; Land of Legend shows on > the hill; and > probably several more > including my 45-minute detention period I was given > after leaving the > campus to help with > something at WGSF. I will reveal who gave me the > detention. It is one > of the teachers listed > above. Anyone want to guess? > > Keep cool, > > Bill Clifford > > > > > > WGSF Television, Newark, Ohio - 1963 to 1976 > > > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > Visit your group "WGSF_TV" on the web. > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > WGSF_TV-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the > Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > > > > >
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I think that the blue cart was built by the Industrial Arts (Shop)
department. It was used for all sorts of duties, first at the station,
and then at the TV Center at Newark High School. It was still there
when I retired in 1995, but they have dumped a lot of stuff since
then, so I don't know if it is still around or not.
We didn't get tripods with the WJW (Cleveland) cameras, and so the
shop department again came to our aid. Mr. Defenbaugh and perhaps some
others were responsible. So I took a wide board, cut a hole to fit the
pan/tilt head, and mounted it to the cart as seen in the photo. Scott
Elliott (seated) worked for many years at WCET Cincinnati, the station
that loaned us the Dumont TV Cameras in 1966, and he died of cancer a
few years ago.
John and Bill are members of the WGSF Group here.
I thought it to be a good opener picture.
Leland Hubbell
I have started uploading text files which can be read under the FILES
MENU. They are in .txt format, so any browser should be able to read
them.
Please let me know how they come out for you.
I plan to compile posts on various subject, and post them there for
easy research.
Note that a group of Newark teachers took a course in TV Production in
1963, at OSU/N, and broadcast a program which I assume must have used
the borrowed TV Camera from WGTE in Toledo. That would have been the
3rd broadcast on WGSF following the initial one in March by the
Superintendent, and the dedication of the station and the "NEW" Newark
High School.
Note also the roster of the first TV Summer school class in 1966. Both
Rowena Jones and Helen Brown took that TV course.
The 1967 class was taught by Constance Solis (I think) and then Robert
McDaniel taught several years.
Lu Ann can tell you more about Mr. McDaniel, as she went to Granville,
where he taught.
Enjoy the FILES
Leland Hubbell
Hey! We've got some action! Longest I've ever seen
this group without saying something. GREAT!!!
First to Lucy: the teacher is Robert McDaniel, who
still lives in Newark with his wife, who also did
programs on WGSF. She (Jean) was a Elem. Phys Ed
Teacher. He taught several summer schools.
BTW, McDaniel speaks several languages, was a
translator for the War Crimes Trials after WWII, I
think.
I saw DeBenedictis a few week ago. He is still active
with the local community drama group. Slowing down
some, as many of us are.
I have uploaded some files, including a list of
teachers who took a TV Production course at OSU/N in
1963. Both Helen Brown and Rowena (Beth) Jones were in
that class.
I am starting to did out the rosters that I have of
students who were enrolled in the summer school
classes. Check out the FILES MENU
Leland Hubbell
--- Lucy Robinson <Lrobinso@...> wrote:
> Hello from Carolina...
>
> I would guess it was DeBenedictis who
> extended the 45 min.
> extension to your day ......
>
> There was another teacher for the summer
> school of '68, wasn't
> there?...Dern...not a regular teacher at the school,
> but the one who did
> the 'drama' part on the Hill..."older" guy...
> After I really got creative in pronouncing
> during a cold reading
> in the announce booth, he suggested I take some
> French......
> Lucy
>
> >>> clifford50@... 04-Aug-05 12:03:28 AM >>>
>
> Mr. H: I have been writing down names of teachers
> who were involved at
> WGSF back in the
> dark ages of 1966 to 1969.
>
> Teachers: Beth Jones, Helen Brown, Marlin Pitchford,
> Mary Kay Booher,
> Bob Debenidictis,
> Jimmy "Wildcat" Allen and possibly Fred Ciminello.
> No doubt there are
> more.
>
> During the time frame after the cameras were sent
> back to Cincinnati,
> and the RCA
> cameras arrived from Cleveland, John Hall and I
> developed a slide show
> called the Newark
> Test. We asked viewers to take the test on a form
> printed in the
> Advocate. A slide of the
> Newark area was shown then the correct multiple
> choice answer.
> Everything started out
> good, Show the picture, ask the multiple choice
> question, and then show
> a slide of the
> correct answer of A, B,C, or D.
>
> We had a back up Kodak carousel projector, and a
> spare bulb. After
> about 10-minutes we
> were"slidding down the hill". Projector bulb burns
> out (of course);
> spare projector pressed
> in to service as the slides were being transferred
> to the back up
> projector. The picture
> slides in the transfer didn't get in the exact right
> order and of
> course the letter showing
> the answer to the question some how got in the wrong
> spot. Sometimes
> the correct or
> wrong answer got ahead of the picture.
>
> If I remember correctly the audio was recorded by
> John and me ahead of
> time. People who
> probably didn't really know that Newark had a TV
> station, were ringing
> the phone off the
> hook to inform us of jumbled mess. Too bad we didn't
> have a phone
> system like today, in
> which we could tell them to start pressing (dialing)
> numbers for
> improved service while
> disgusting music played telling them their call was
> important to us.
>
> On the home page I am holding the "NEW" RCA camera
> on a Leland Hubbell
> serving cart
> that was used at the dining room of the Granville
> Inn. Just Kidding!
> Gene Ricketts is seated
> and John Hall is at the podium.
>
> As I think of things, I will write them as we walk
> down memory lane.
> Things to be covered:
> Licking County Sportlight; Land of Legend shows on
> the hill; and
> probably several more
> including my 45-minute detention period I was given
> after leaving the
> campus to help with
> something at WGSF. I will reveal who gave me the
> detention. It is one
> of the teachers listed
> above. Anyone want to guess?
>
> Keep cool,
>
> Bill Clifford
>
>
>
>
>
> WGSF Television, Newark, Ohio - 1963 to 1976
>
>
> YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS
>
> Visit your group "WGSF_TV" on the web.
> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> WGSF_TV-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the
> Yahoo! Terms of Service.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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I would guess it was DeBenedictis who extended the 45 min. extension to your day ......
There was another teacher for the summer school of '68, wasn't there?...Dern...not a regular teacher at the school, but the one who did the 'drama' part on the Hill..."older" guy...
After I really got creative in pronouncing during a cold reading in the announce booth, he suggested I take some French......
Lucy
>>> clifford50@... 04-Aug-05 12:03:28 AM >>>
Mr. H: I have been writing down names of teachers who were involved at WGSF back in the dark ages of 1966 to 1969.
Teachers: Beth Jones, Helen Brown, Marlin Pitchford, Mary Kay Booher, Bob Debenidictis, Jimmy "Wildcat" Allen and possibly Fred Ciminello. No doubt there are more.
During the time frame after the cameras were sent back to Cincinnati, and the RCA cameras arrived from Cleveland, John Hall and I developed a slide show called the Newark Test. We asked viewers to take the test on a form printed in the Advocate. A slide of the Newark area was shown then the correct multiple choice answer. Everything started out good, Show the picture, ask the multiple choice question, and then show a slide of the correct answer of A, B,C, or D.
We had a back up Kodak carousel projector, and a spare bulb. After about 10-minutes we were"slidding down the hill". Projector bulb burns out (of course); spare projector pressed in to service as the slides were being transferred to the back up projector. The picture slides in the transfer didn't get in the exact right order and of course the letter showing the answer to the question some how got in the wrong spot. Sometimes the correct or wrong answer got ahead of the picture.
If I remember correctly the audio was recorded by John and me ahead of time. People who probably didn't really know that Newark had a TV station, were ringing the phone off the hook to inform us of jumbled mess. Too bad we didn't have a phone system like today, in which we could tell them to start pressing (dialing) numbers for improved service while disgusting music played telling them their call was important to us.
On the home page I am holding the "NEW" RCA camera on a Leland Hubbell serving cart that was used at the dining room of the Granville Inn. Just Kidding! Gene Ricketts is seated and John Hall is at the podium.
As I think of things, I will write them as we walk down memory lane. Things to be covered: Licking County Sportlight; Land of Legend shows on the hill; and probably several more including my 45-minute detention period I was given after leaving the campus to help with something at WGSF. I will reveal who gave me the detention. It is one of the teachers listed above. Anyone want to guess?
Mr. H: I have been writing down names of teachers who were involved at WGSF back
in the
dark ages of 1966 to 1969.
Teachers: Beth Jones, Helen Brown, Marlin Pitchford, Mary Kay Booher, Bob
Debenidictis,
Jimmy "Wildcat" Allen and possibly Fred Ciminello. No doubt there are more.
During the time frame after the cameras were sent back to Cincinnati, and the
RCA
cameras arrived from Cleveland, John Hall and I developed a slide show called
the Newark
Test. We asked viewers to take the test on a form printed in the Advocate. A
slide of the
Newark area was shown then the correct multiple choice answer. Everything
started out
good, Show the picture, ask the multiple choice question, and then show a slide
of the
correct answer of A, B,C, or D.
We had a back up Kodak carousel projector, and a spare bulb. After about
10-minutes we
were"slidding down the hill". Projector bulb burns out (of course); spare
projector pressed
in to service as the slides were being transferred to the back up projector. The
picture
slides in the transfer didn't get in the exact right order and of course the
letter showing
the answer to the question some how got in the wrong spot. Sometimes the correct
or
wrong answer got ahead of the picture.
If I remember correctly the audio was recorded by John and me ahead of time.
People who
probably didn't really know that Newark had a TV station, were ringing the phone
off the
hook to inform us of jumbled mess. Too bad we didn't have a phone system like
today, in
which we could tell them to start pressing (dialing) numbers for improved
service while
disgusting music played telling them their call was important to us.
On the home page I am holding the "NEW" RCA camera on a Leland Hubbell serving
cart
that was used at the dining room of the Granville Inn. Just Kidding! Gene
Ricketts is seated
and John Hall is at the podium.
As I think of things, I will write them as we walk down memory lane. Things to
be covered:
Licking County Sportlight; Land of Legend shows on the hill; and probably
several more
including my 45-minute detention period I was given after leaving the campus to
help with
something at WGSF. I will reveal who gave me the detention. It is one of the
teachers listed
above. Anyone want to guess?
Keep cool,
Bill Clifford
--- claytoniavirginica <claytoniavirginica@...>
wrote:
> Gee, just looked at the database. Didn't realize
> there were so many
> people who worked at one time or another at WGSF.
> Further, it
> suprises me that I knew so few, though many names
> seem familiar. I
> remember that batch of Girl Scouts that came through
> in what had to
> be the fall of '66...though none of the names are
> credited with a
> start date that early. Weren't John Hall, Gene
> Rickets, Bill
> Clifford, and a few others some of the first to work
> there? They
> were on a front page section of The Advocate, as I
> recall.
REPLY: Actually, there were a lot more people than
appear on this database listing. Many never kept
records in the card file.
Hope we are able to add to it as we go along.
The first procuction crew was trained for the drama
production "Little Women." They worked the programs we
did in the spring of 1966. They did not keep records
then. I can't recall any of them staying with the
station once the school year ended.
The next group was part of the summer school class of
1966. In the fall, some of them formed the first
STUDENT STAFF, working with teachers at Newark High
School. Hopefully, we can get John and Bill to tell
about those days.
We did a few programs at the start of the 1966-67
school year, using the Dumont TV cameras that were
borrowed from WCET in Cincinnati. They wanted to sell
them to WGSF, but, alas! no funds were available, so
we returned them.
The broadcast continued with "Newark School News"
using a Polaroid camera for transparencies, and
sometimes a 35mm slide projector. These were the first
'Student Staffers.' The TV Station patch was made up,
and everybody got a sport jacket.
Two Girls Scout troups combined in the spring of 1967
to produce a program for Girl Scout Month. Dorothy
Hubbell's Senior Scout troup trained for the
production crew. Betty Hutchinson of Newark had a Jr.
Scout troup. Following that broadcast, many of the
girls were added to the Student Staff.
More students were added after the 1967 Summer School
Class. In the fall, we began training adult
volunteers, and added programs for the Hospital,
League of Women Voters, etc. Some groups, like the
League, provided their own crew, and did not
necessarily keep work records in the station file.
Training classes for both students and adults
continued up until the end of the station's operation.
Many worked only a specific program, while others
worked anything they could get in on. Some decided TV
wasn't for them, and never completed training or
actually worked shows.
So - it is not surprising that you would recognize
only a few names on the list.
If I find evidence of others who are not in the data,
I will add them.
Leland Hubbell
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Gee, just looked at the database. Didn't realize there were so many
people who worked at one time or another at WGSF. Further, it
suprises me that I knew so few, though many names seem familiar. I
remember that batch of Girl Scouts that came through in what had to
be the fall of '66...though none of the names are credited with a
start date that early. Weren't John Hall, Gene Rickets, Bill
Clifford, and a few others some of the first to work there? They
were on a front page section of The Advocate, as I recall.
OK...you can see I'm REAL busy today. Since I am sitting here waiting
on my next project to appear, I'll take a few moments to list some
memories. First off...Don Geske. I don't know much about what
happened to him. I think he may have ended up out west. I can recall
many mornings at the Hartford Fair remotes starting off with a big
breakfast of donuts and root beer. I can still taste the chicken from
the church group's tent. And how come no one warned me that the cute
little grand champion animals were not pets?
Then there was the night we stuck a camera out the door of the
station, with a 2X extender and a 400mm lens, and shot the eclipse of
the moon. Jerry Beck (WCMH TV host of late night movies) turned us
down on the offer of a dub for his crew to air.
How about the night just after a Sheridan Basketball game that I held
a board in front of my face and offered Dan Black the chance to break
it with a karate punch. I ended up with stiches above my eye. I gave
up karate just after that.
Is a copy of 28:50 still around?
I wonder if Dan Wade still does his Ed Sullivan impersonation?
Was WGSF the first station to gather news footage on video tape. Most
stations still used film at the time. WGSF was a trend setter in many
ways.
Mitch Morrison
WGSF 1969-1976 (off and on)
I would like to start a 'thread' on the subject
"NHS NEWSROOM.'
There are a couple of photos taken at Newark High in 1966-67.
Bill Clifford and John Hall were there. Tell us who is in the photos
(even if you duplicate information) and who the teacher advisors were,
where the room was located, how you obtained and edited the news, etc.
What do you remember about using the Polaroid camera transparancies,
the ancient projector, and the arrangement we used at the station to
switch between projectors into the 'Ike' chain.
Leland Hubbell
I have used the information from the 2003 reunion/picnic as a starting
point to contact people by email. I have been sending initial
contacts from
lhhubbell@ johnstown.net
address via Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) so you would not have your address
out in the open. You shold have no way of knowing how many others I've
contacted.
There were several messages that bounced, though. And I know there are
a lot more people you have contact with one way or the other.
Some may not desire to be part of a public GROUP - which is OK. I
think others will come on board as we get some messages flowing.
If you know of someone, and their name is not in the membership file,
please contact them and let them know about the WGSF GROUP.
SUGGESTIONS? I'm still learning about the settings for the various
menu headings. There are a number of things that I can control as
GROUP MANAGER. I have a few choices as to who can read the messages,
and who can post, as well as whether non-members can see the photos or
not, and who can upload. You have a choice of getting a copy of all
posts to your selected email or not, but you can always (right now,
anyway) come to the GROUP site and read them.
I think we need some control of access, but I would like to make most
historical data available to the public.
You should be able to access the PERSONNEL database and get some idea
who was in my files. Still, many never filled out a work record card.
Leland Hubbell
" Baa, Baa, Black sheep,
Have you any wool?"
"Yes, sir, yes sir - three bags full!"
Actually, it is four bags, and the "Shepherd's Assistant" ME - was
moving them when I twisted the wrong way. I have been laid up (brought
low?) I have not been able to spend time at the keyboard, but have
tried to keep up with the membership requests.
Thanks, everyone, for joining the WGSF GROUP.
I have kept the WGSF office records, and some items of equipment, as
most of you current members know. As I think about preserving a
history of the station, however, I realize more than ever that there
is more vital information available from those who spent time at the
station than a researcher could ever glean from boxes of paper.
History is like a building. Records give it structure, provide the
framework.
Events and activities fill out the records, make it complete. We need
something to jog the memory, to get us started, and build upon that.
Hopefully, we can get 'threads' going on various topics. A 'thread' is
a continuing series of posts replying to a 'subject' line.
For example, I would like to start a 'thread' on the subject "NHS
NEWSROOM.' I already have a couple of photos taken at Newark High.
Bill Clifford and John Hall were there. Tell us who is in the photos
(even if you duplicate information) and who the teacher advisors were,
how you obtained and edited the news, etc.
Tom Miller was involved in the painting and operation of the Chevy
mobile truck.
Then there was the notorious Blue Truck, and the Mini-Mote on the blue
cart.
I have found that each of us kept certain memories, and yet a lot of
other things lie deep under years of life - after WGSF. Hopefully,
we can reach down and stir those memories up a bit.
Leland Hubbell
Steve and Pat (Cochran) Luckeydoo told me about this group... and
about the coming reunion next June.
Hopefully I'll make the time to sort out some of the photos I took
during my time w/ GSF before June; get them posted and get the names
updated for everyone!
Many of y'all have been in touch with each other for most/part of the
last 34 years, but for me, this is much like two worlds crossing
orbits! The world of real everyday life and the world of memory.
I live in South Carolina now and am single again. Like each of you,
a whole lifetime has passed since the days of Horn's Hill. I hope to
see messages and catch up some before the reunion.
Feel free to use either of my two email addresses. The office one
will probably be more easily picked up tho, I'll warn ya!
Nursin43@...
Lucy Robinson
I have added several more photos, including the mobile truck in both
Channel 28 and Channel 31 paint, activities during the 1966-67 school
year, and the Summer Festival.
I invite you to help identify the people in the photos. Remember,
only a few students (and adults, too) were there for the entire ten
years of active production.
Perhaps you can tell something about the particular activity shown in
the photo, and we can build a fuller history through memories of those
who were there at the time.
Leland Hubbell
Well here I am.
Dan
--- In WGSF_TV@yahoogroups.com, "jtmpkg" <jtmpkg@y...> wrote:
> Thanks to Diane and MR H for getting the site up and going!
>
> Looking forward to seeing how things are going with everyone.
>
> Hey Black! Decker is look'n for Ya!
>
> tm
Robert Brooks was the first paid employee of WGSF. He was the Fhief
Engineer during the construction phase in 1962-63, and transmitter
operator from March 1963 until September 1964.
E. Dana Cox was hired as Station Manager when broadcast operation
began, and Carol Lyle as station Secretary. The WGSF office was
located at the Newark School Central Office location on North 5th Street.
Broadcasts consisted of rebroadcasts of WOSU-TV, Channel 34, in
Columbus, picked up off-air by an antenna up on the WGSF tower. The
schedule consisted of weekday evening programs from what was then
National Educational Television (NET)
Daytime Educational/Instructional programming began for the 1964-65
school year, and Wayne Gehres was employed as transmitter engineer for
the evening shift.
Leland Hubbell replaced Robert Brooks as Chief Engineer in September
of 1964, and operated the day shift.
Photos in the 1963 - 1966 folder show Mr. Brooks at the transmitter,
Station Manager Dana Cox sitting at the control console, the actual
antenna at the top of the tower, and the station letterhead used at
that time.
The first broadcasts utilized a simple camera borrowed from the Toledo
ETV station. Later, the NET Tape duplication center in Ann Arbor,
Michigan, donated an iconoscope camera, which was used until the
station shut down in 1976. It was then donated to the Ohio Historical
Society. It is show in the photo with Mr. Cox.
The letterhead showing the piece of video tape was used to solicit
support for funds to purchase a broadcast videotape machine.
I will gradually be adding photos. Be sure to check them out.
If you have photos to contribute, be sure they are in .JPEG or .GIF
format.
We have a limited amount of storage space (30MB), so the resolution
must be limited. Even low resolution (170-300K) gives a viewable
picture, as you can see.
If you do not have a program to process photos, you may send them
directly to me, and I can run them through PHOTOSHOP or KODAK to
reduce them down.
lhh
Here are excerpts from Diane's program summary from 1975 and 1976.
lhh
1975 Programs . . .
Licking Count Art Association - 1 hour 27 minutes 15 seconds
Communiscope - 5 hours 45 minutes 40 seconds
31 Reports - 121 hours 6 minutes 43 seconds
Wildcat Den - 18 hours 41 minutes 19 seconds
Specials - 24 hours 52 minutes 55 seconds
Movies - 24 hours 52 minutes 55 seconds
Boy, John Hall and his movies happening on the weekends with Laurel
and Hardy and some of the serials ("The Crimson Ghost" and "Nyoka and
the Tigermen"). More game being shown: baseball, football, and
basketball.
1976 Programs . . .
I finally made it through 1976. Boy, you can feel the depression on
the paperwork. Some info was incomplete so a couple of shows I had to
guess if they were new or reruns. Also, for several of shows (Wildcat
Den, Communiscope), the topic is not on the log and I looked through
the Advocate microfishe at the library and many times the published
schedule did not match the program log.
Anyway, Licking County Art Association did 6 shows (2 hours, 55
minutes, 25 seconds), Communiscope did 12 shows (9 hours, 44 minutes,
22 seconds), 31 Reports did 127 shows (61 hours, 12 minutes, 40
seconds), Wildcat Den did 20 shows (9 hours, 35 minutes, 40 seconds),
other specials had 32 programs (18 hours, 23 minutes, 46 seconds), and
of course the movies with 101 features (143 hours, 8 minutes, 56 seconds).
Thanks to Diane and MR H for getting the site up and going!
Looking forward to seeing how things are going with everyone.
Hey Black! Decker is look'n for Ya!
tm
I have uploaded the records compiled from the card files students and
adult volunteers (supposedly) kept at WGSF. Some records were very
thorough, while others entered only a name. The records will be
updated as more information is supplied.
Abreviations used:
S - Student Staff
A - Adult Volunteer
P - Paid staff; includes secretarial, engineering, and production.
T - Teacher
WCD - Wildcat Den
LCS - Licking County Spotlight
NSN - Newark School News
Com- Communiscope
TM - Toastmaster or Toastmistress
etc. /
Diane Reef has been compiling databases of locally originated
programming from the program broadcast logs, which is an enormous and
time consuming project. Thanks, Diane. It will take some time to
upload that database.
This is only a small beginning, and as you can see, this will be a
long-term project.
Hopefully, many will contribute memories and other information. Posts
will be maintained in a searchable archive.
For the moment, anyone can read the posts, but membership is required
to post messages or upload photos.
Leland Hubbell
Leland Hubbell
Welcome to all who shared the experience of being part of WGSF
Television.
This should give us a place to keep in touch with all who had contact
with the station, share information and memories, including a place
to post photos and other memorabilia.
Please pass this information on to anyone whom you remember being
involved in the station, to maintain its history, and compile a
database of information.
Leland Hubbell