The Busy Air

P: In Pittsburgh, the nation's fourth educational TV station, WQED, began regular telecasts of three hours and 15 minutes a day, five days a week. Sample program: The Historical Importance of Pittsburgh, Penmanship Through the Ages, Children's Hour, Home Workshop,, and You--the Artist.

P: In Los Angeles, the American Broadcasting Co. and Walt Disney studios signed a long-term contract. First result will be a series of 26 hour-long TV shows this fall, combining live action and cartoon technique3 in a program "based on adventure, variety, romance and comedy."

P: In Stuttgart, Germany, Dr. George Fahrbach, president of the West German Association of Nature Lovers, demanded that a law be passed against picnickers who carry portable radios. His modest hope, said Fahrbach, is "to prevent songbirds from being drowned out by raucous radio jazz."

P: In Washington, the good-music radio station WGMS announced it had the worldwide distribution rights to the recordings of all Library of Congress concerts, including performances by such notables as the Budapest String Quartet, Casadesus, Serkin, Francescatti.

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