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Color television systemnear for loca schoolsBv MARY ALICE DAVIS« •The use of educational television in Corpus Christi Independent School District. classrooms appears to be just around the corner.Teachers have been briefed, 158 color sets are on order and school officials say students in 10 schools may be seeing the programs of the widely admired educational station KLRN, Austin-San Antonio, in January.If that all seems simple enough, look again. *Tve never before known of a venture more typified by confusion than this one,” Dr. ‘Wallace Davis observed recently. Davis, assislant superintendent for instruction, is in charge of the district’s television planning, lie admits that even from his vantage point, the picture looks a little fuzzy at. times.The January target date was set. by CabJecom General, the company which is bringing cable television to Corpus Chris-ti. Cahlccom president Williams C. Cunningham recently said the company, whose operations have been plagued by delays, now foresees having service to so me cust omcrs in early January.Those customers will receive the three local commercial stations, a Spanish-lan-guage station from Kan Antonio, KLRN and'continuous news and weather programming.Schools which are (inked to the cable will receive the same tiling, although school officials are interested only in theeducational programming of KLRN When, however, the schools feel comfort able enough with classroom television to expand their operations, five blank channels will be available on the cable to carry local programming.The schools could, for instance, fill one channel with math lessons, one with English, and so forth. Cablecom is providingthe additional channels and lias offered the district use of its production equipment. 1o produce instructional programs.If Is being left up to the schools to decide v/heiher the channels will be closed-circuit. (seen only in I he schools')See Television, page 10A
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Corpus Christi Caller Times
Corpus Christi, Texas, US
Sun, Oct 24, 1971
Page 95
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