The 1972 WEST conference report represents a cooperative project of the Western Educational Society for Telecommunications and the ERIC Clearinghouse on Media and Technology. The conference featured discussions of public television, instructional television, cable television, national educational radio, and national public radio, educational broadcasting, and communication satellites. Six speeches are presented in full: the keynote address by James Day; a discussion of the Telecommunications Center by the president of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB); a review of the state-of-the-art of cable television; a look at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) through the eyes of its president and of the general counsel for the President's Office of Telecommunications Policy; and a brief discussion of some of the plans of the University of California for the use of television, auto-tutorial instruction, dial access systems, and computer-aided instruction in part time degree programs. (JY)