Educational TV Company Aided

Educational TV Company Aided

National Education Television Inc. (NET), 2715 Packard, has received a sizeable gift of equipment from the Columbia Broadcasting System, CBS announced yesterday in New York.

Howard W. Town, NET vice president and director of distribution and engineering at the Ann Arbor facility, called it a “substantial grant.”

He said it included its used equipment to establish a studio for network operational use, film studio equipment, and a contribution of equipment toward master control switching and routing on AT&T lines, in addition to tape recording equipment.

The local educational television facility has the largest video tape library in the world. It services 125 independent educational television stations with five hours of new programs each week. It gives 2½ hours of library service to these stations on a weekly basis, Town said.

NET recently added 6,600 square feet to its local facility.