A new student television company is being organized to produce
the 1976 season of Beyond Our Control, the award-winning
weekly satirical revue for television produced by the Junior
Achievement Television Company. Indiana and Michigan students
in grades 9-12, ages 14-18, interested in practical experience
in TV production, broadcast management and advertising sales,
are invited to attend an introductory meeting. The sessions
will be held Saturday, September 13 at the Junior Achievement
Center, 947 Louise Street (one block from the YMCA) in South
Bend. There will be a session at 9:00 AM EST and an identical
session at 1:30 PM EST.
Beyond Our Control is seeking new members with experience
or skill potential in fields of humorous creative writing,
photography, cinematography, performing and announcing, bookkeeping,
commercial art, saleswork and broadcasting technical operations.
The Saturday meetings will provide a preview of the company's
operations and an opportunity to submit a membership application.
There is no charge for membership and those applying are asked
to bring a small, non-returnable photo of themselves for the
application form.
The Junior Achievement Television Company will begin preparations
for its fourteenth season on WNDU-TV in late September, and
Beyond Our Control will begin its ninth season in January,
1976. The student-written and produced series is dubbed "the
TV Show About TV" and parodies a wide spectrum of television
events. Since the project was founded by Wm. Thomas Hamilton,
Executive Vice President and General Manager of the WNDU Stations,
more than 300 students have participated. It has become the
nation's most widely-acclaimed broadcast education project
for high school students, is a three-time winner of the Freedoms
Foundation Award for Economic Education and was named the
nation's best locally-produced variety show by the National
Association of Television Program Executives in 1973.
Further information regarding the project may be obtained
by contacting Dave Williams at 233-7111 weekdays.
