The nation's "most outstanding educational television station," announced the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation last week, is San Francisco's KQED. For Program Director Jonathan Rice, the plush banquet at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria was tinged with sweet irony. To pick up the first such award in educational TV history, Rice had to pay his own way; KQED was too broke to send him. Back at the studio, a bleak barn of a building near San Francisco's Skid Row, General Manager Jim Day answered newsmen's questions: "Plans? My only plan right now is to issue the paychecks...
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