The Spirit of ITV

<v Speaker>It's just another day in elementary school. <v Speaker>The normal hustle and bustle of the classroom, the students listening intently <v Speaker>or studying special projects, or just doing their classwork. <v Speaker>A class such as this makes a teacher proud. <v Speaker>But every teacher, every class has that one child, <v Speaker>that one student that seems oblivious to the activities around them, that <v Speaker>one child that no matter how you may try to reach them, they won't <v Speaker>get involved. <v Speaker>This is the story of one such student and how he was reached. <v Johnny>What a beautiful day. I wish I was fishing. <v Johnny>Sure would rather be fishing than sitting here doing nothing. <v Johnny>Who are you?

<v Spirit of ITV>Johnny, you're a boy with a big choice. <v Spirit of ITV>Dreaming in the class gonna make a mistake some day. <v Spirit of ITV>You're bored with this place. <v Spirit of ITV>You're somewhere off in space. Your small imagination limits your pace. Let me reach you. I can teach you. Johnny you're a young man, smart man. Don't you be afraid, just take my <v Spirit of ITV>hand. We can go to the moon, or go to Mars. We <v Spirit of ITV>can't even make our way to the stars. Let me reach you, I can teach you. Let me reach you. I can teach you. <v Johnny>But who are you? <v Spirit of ITV>Johnny I'm the spirit of ITV.

<v Spirit of ITV>Let your imagination go, just set it free. <v Spirit of ITV>You can see anything <v Spirit of ITV>you want to see. <v Spirit of ITV>When you shake the spirit of ITV. Let me reach you. I can teach you. Let me reach you. I can teach you. <v Johnny>Teach me? I was already in school. Where are you taking me now? <v Spirit of ITV>I'm going to show you what you've been missing. <v Johnny>Missing? I've been here- I've been at school anyway everytime that I've had to be. <v Spirit of ITV>But you haven't paid any attention to the worlds that I can bring to you. <v Johnny>But-but but you can't bring the things that interest me into the classroom. <v Spirit of ITV>Oh but I can. Just what would you like to see? <v Johnny>There. You mentioned the moon. You said we could go to the moon. I want to go to the moon.

<v Spirit of ITV>Look ahead of us. Is that what you wanted to see? <v Johnny>But... how? <v Spirit of ITV>Instructional television for ITV can take you there or anywhere else that you might want <v Spirit of ITV>to go. If you'll just let it.

<v Spirit of ITV>ITV can take you anywhere, anyway, any time that you want it to. <v Johnny>Where is it going? Where did it come from? <v Spirit of ITV>It's going to your classroom, as well as to others across the state. <v Spirit of ITV>It's just one of the worlds that's available to you. <v Spirit of ITV>If you'll just let your imagination flow. As for where it came from, let's go see. That was the transmission tower that your school receives the program signal from. <v Johnny>What's that? <v Spirit of ITV>Do you like sea adventures? <v Johnny>You bet! <v Spirit of ITV>That is the voyage of the Mimi. <v Johnny>The voyage of the Mimi? <v Spirit of ITV>It's a program to help you learn things. <v Johnny>But how can I learn anything from a sea adventure? <v Spirit of ITV>Oh, you'd be surprised. <v Spirit of ITV>You'd like to learn how to sail a ship like that, wouldn't you? <v Johnny>You bet. <v Spirit of ITV>And you'd like to learn how to get the ship from one place to another? <v Johnny>Sure. What good would it be to sail a ship if I didn't know how to get it where I wanted it?

<v Spirit of ITV>Good. I think you're beginning to understand. <v Spirit of ITV>They'll teach you how to get the ship from one place to the next. <v Spirit of ITV>And they'll also teach you geometry, trigonometry, physics and all the other <v Spirit of ITV>sciences that are part of sailing a ship. <v Spirit of ITV>You'll learn all those things and not even realize it. <v Johnny>But how can boring things like geometry and physics be a part of something as fun as sailing a ship across the ocean? <v Spirit of ITV>But they are part of it, just as they are part of everything that goes on around you. <v Spirit of ITV>But you never take notice of. <v Spirit of ITV>It's all in the way you look at things, if you will open up your imagination. <v Spirit of ITV>You will see that the sciences and mathematics are part of everything that goes on in the <v Spirit of ITV>world. Everything that you find interesting is based on physical and mathematical <v Spirit of ITV>laws. And unless you understand those boring subjects as you call them, <v Spirit of ITV>you can never learn to do the things that you want to do. <v Johnny>How do these programs get on our television in my classroom? Who makes them?

<v Spirit of ITV>The answers to those questions are right ahead of this. <v Spirit of ITV>I'm going to show you the who, the why and the how, would you like that? <v Johnny>Yea I think I would. <v Spirit of ITV>This is where most of the programs that you see on your television come from. <v Johnny>But this isn't the moon, and there's no way you're gonna get a big ship like that into <v Johnny>this little room. <v Spirit of ITV>Oh, But you can look over there. <v Johnny>But how? <v Spirit of ITV>Here, those scenes are stored on videotape and <v Spirit of ITV>are shown at various times when you can watch them. <v Spirit of ITV>Like I said before, instructional television can take you anywhere at any time <v Spirit of ITV>and show you anything that you want.

<v Spirit of ITV>It's only real limitation is your imagination. <v Spirit of ITV>Let me show you something else. <v crewman 1>We changing the lights for this shot? <v crewman 2>Young Ray wants a softer light on the guest this week. <v crewman 1>Who's the guest? <v crewman 2>He's a historian. They're going to talk about the time period that the film represents. <v crewman 1>Let's go check the cameras. <v crewman 2>Sure. <v Johnny>What do they mean time period? <v Johnny>Why are they interviewing a historian about a movie? <v Spirit of ITV>Why? Is history another one of those boring subjects that you don't like? <v Johnny>I just don't understand why they would interview a historian about a movie. <v Johnny>And the studio here. <v Johnny>It looks like a theater's concession stand, but it's not real. <v Spirit of ITV>But it is real in one sense when you see it on your television, you think it's real. <v Spirit of ITV>You think it's part of the theater. But its illusion. <v Spirit of ITV>Not magic. Although sometimes you might think so. <v Spirit of ITV>It's just science, art and mathematics, but it gives the illusion of being the real

<v Spirit of ITV>concession stand. Science, art and mathematics. <v Spirit of ITV>You can see now that they're not boring, can't you? <v Johnny>Yeah, I'm beginning to see that. <v Johnny>But who decides all this stuff? <v Spirit of ITV>Let's go see. <v Spirit of ITV>AETN that stands for the Arkansas Educational Television <v Spirit of ITV>Network. <v Spirit of ITV>Through a series of legislative acts that began as long ago as nineteen fifty nine. <v Spirit of ITV>That was before you were born, wasn't it? <v Spirit of ITV>The Arkansas General Assembly with the enactment of Act one ninety eight. <v Spirit of ITV>In nineteen sixty one created the Arkansas Educational Television Commission. <v Spirit of ITV>The commission is made up of eight commissioners serving staggered eight year terms. <v Spirit of ITV>The commissioners are appointed by the governor with the advise and consent of the <v Spirit of ITV>Senate. <v Excutive director>Hi, Commissioner. Yeah, yeah. As you know, at this time, with our five transmitters and

<v Excutive director>one translator, we are able to cover the entire state. <v Johnny>Who's he? What's he talking about? <v Spirit of ITV>He's the executive director. <v Spirit of ITV>The commission through a selection process chose and recommended him as a candidate for <v Spirit of ITV>the position to the governor. His main responsibilities are to provide direction <v Spirit of ITV>for the AETN staff and to present reliable information to the members <v Spirit of ITV>of the commission for them to base their decisions on. <v Johnny>Where does he get all of this information from? <v Spirit of ITV>Well, he has several people helping him. <v Spirit of ITV>The director of development office provides information on membership and information <v Spirit of ITV>services, fundraising, event planning and program funding arrangements. <v Spirit of ITV>The director of marketing provides information to the executive director on <v Spirit of ITV>the best possible presentation of AETN to the general public, as well <v Spirit of ITV>as to various special interest groups such as school representatives. <v Spirit of ITV>The director of finance and administration provides information on how and

<v Spirit of ITV>where the operating funds are spent. <v Spirit of ITV>The director of engineering provides the executive director with information pertaining <v Spirit of ITV>to the operation and maintenance of all equipment used in producing, editing <v Spirit of ITV>and broadcasting the audio and video signals for the network. <v Spirit of ITV>The associate directors responsibilities vary with the needs of the executive director, <v Spirit of ITV>but are mainly concerned with the programing, production and educated aspects <v Spirit of ITV>of the operation here at AETN. <v Associate Director>Carson, would you bring in Earl and John and Carrol, please, to join us? <v Speaker>In order to provide information to the executive director. <v Speaker>The associate director has three department directors that report directly to him. <v Speaker>The director of production is responsible for the production of local television <v Speaker>projects. He has a staff of writers, producers, directors, videographers, <v Speaker>editors, camera operators and assistants that can produce projects ranging from

<v Speaker>documentaries to educational discussion programs. <v Speaker>The director of programing and Public Information Responsibilities range from <v Speaker>ascertaining the wants and needs that the general viewer to choosing the programs and <v Speaker>selecting the times at which they will be seen. <v Speaker>Where are we going? I want to show you the people who deal exclusively with schools like <v Speaker>yours. The director of educated <v Speaker>services is responsible for ascertaining the needs of and to provide services <v Speaker>to the primary, secondary and post-secondary schools of Arkansas. <v Speaker>In order to do this, he has a group of specialists to help him. <v Speaker>The coordinator of Primary and Secondary Services is concerned mainly with the <v Speaker>needs and requirements of schools such as yours. <v Speaker>The Post Secondary Services Coordinator deals with the requirements of vocational, <v Speaker>technical, college, university, business and industrial schools. <v Speaker>The coordinator of video library services, is responsible for providing video <v Speaker>dubbing and library access, as well as technical advice in a variety of audio-video

<v Speaker> systems. The instructional communication specialist helps the <v Speaker>schools in their areas to best utilize the services available through the department. <v Johnny>It takes all these people to put a picture on the television in my classroom? <v Spirit of ITV>Yes. And not just there. <v Spirit of ITV>AETN serves two separate groups. <v Spirit of ITV>The general audience, or regular home viewers, are provided with a wide variety <v Spirit of ITV>of programing ranging from documentaries and docu dramas, ballet and symphony, <v Spirit of ITV>to country music and science fiction. <v Spirit of ITV>Whereas the instructional or educational audience during the day receives a wide variety <v Spirit of ITV>of programs aimed at assisting the classroom teacher and providing a wide range <v Spirit of ITV>of educational alternatives. <v Johnny>But how do all these programs get from here in Connely to the rest of the state? <v Spirit of ITV>Remember, all the programs aren't created here at AETN. <v Spirit of ITV>Some of the programs, both for general and educative audiences, are created in

<v Spirit of ITV>Washington, D.C. for the Public Broadcasting Service. <v Spirit of ITV>These programs are sent by microwave transmitter to a satellite hovering over the <v Spirit of ITV>country. From here, the signal is retransmitted. <v Spirit of ITV>Back down to the satellite receivers on the ground like the one at AETN. <v Spirit of ITV>From Conway, these programs, in addition to those that are created at AETN <v Spirit of ITV>or those that are stored on videotape there are then sent by direct line microwaves <v Spirit of ITV>to the five transmitters located in Little Rock, Arkadelphia, Jonesboro, <v Spirit of ITV>Mountainview and Fayetteville. <v Spirit of ITV>And now we should head back to your classroom. It's almost time for your music class. <v Spirit of ITV>You'll be watching an ITV program as part of your class today. <v Johnny>All right. Let's hurry. OK? <v teacher>Johnny, could you come back from wherever you were and turn on the television for us?

<v Spirit of ITV>Johnny, now you've seen what it all means. <v Spirit of ITV>Instructional TV is more than it seems. <v Spirit of ITV>You can be anything you want to be. <v Spirit of ITV>When you share the spirit of ITV. Let me reach you. <v chorus>Reach me <v Spirit of ITV>I can teach you. <v chorus>Teach me. <v Johnny>Spirit I can see <v Johnny>what it all means now. You've shown me the way,

<v Johnny>you've shown me how. I can do anything <v Johnny>that I want to do. <v Johnny>And when I need some help, I can turn to you. <v Johnny>Cause you can reach me. <v chorus>Reach you. <v Johnny>You can teach me. <v chorus>Teach you. <v Johnny>You can reach me. <v chorus>Reach you. <v Johnny>You can teach me. <v chorus>Teach you. <v chorus>Arkansas get the spirit ITV.

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