NAEB Newsletter (December 15, 1939)

Office of Executive Secretary
Urbana, Illinois
December 15, 19®

NAEB MEETS IN CHICAGO

NAEB was well represented at Harold Kent ! e Third School Broadcast
Conference which was held in Chicago, December 6, 7, and 8. In
connection with the Conference a special NAEB meeting was held
Thursday noon in the Pine Room of The Congress Hotel, with
President Harold G, Ingham, presiding

Present at the luncheon meeting were: Harold G. Ingham, KFKU;

I. Keith Tyler, WCSU; Harold Engel, WHA; Donald Haworth, WEAR:

Carl Menzer, WSUI; Mary Sands, WHA; Bill Sener, WSUI; Joe Wright,
WILL* HoB, McCarty, WHA; Walter Rrulevitch, WHA; Howard Wilcox,
Indiana U.; Bill Boutwell, United States Office of Education,

Mrs, Chamberlain, vniA; Juan Lays, Indiana IT, (recently appointed
Director of Radio Education for the Phillipines) R, E. Rawlins,

Kued; and Frank School ej, WILL? and executive secretary, Harold
kent was in and out of the meeting. Allen Miller was on hand for
much of the Conference, although he didn 8 1 get to the luncheon
meeting.

The executive secretary made brief reports on the progress of the
special.committee appointed to confer with MA-Viotor records; the
NAEB request to ASCAP for permission to play of musical numbers
including those now restricted; and, the"pending application before
the FGC for permission to reteoadoast programs from the international
shortwave stations.

Confidential information regarding the negotiations with RCA-Victor
have been sent you. It was explained that M.S, Novik, WYNC, would
make the special request to ASCAP for permission to play all music.

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We hope to have net;8 t or 1 • ter. Those stations represented
who felt they migjti reb? : ; . f programs of WRUL were advised to

apply to the FOG for pei • : i. It is thought such action might

aid the pending application of Mayor F. H. LaGuar&ia.

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Mr, William D* Bomwell of the United Statef? Office of Education
m&c an informal resort on i valuable assistance given education
by radio throughout the Uni•; b States in co-operation with the
Office of Eduoatior A formal report was promised by Mr,.

Boutwall for a late ’ fo.to. '.ban it is prepared you. will be eient
a copy,

SOW,„ABOUT .FREfliESO KOj kUJl-jR

I hate to harp on thlr ~u ?.t f but I*m going to do eo whether
you like it or not- Just fc:>: your own. good* Already about
tverty-five applicatiefn?» for this type of broadcasting have been
approved by the FCC and every station on the air has reported
"remarkable success, M Some already feel that frequency modulate -m
is beyond the experimental - c«tage* For your further Information
you fiiight ears to read the October \mm$ of "Fortune* and the
November ic«euo of Electronics, * Just in eofie you m? have risked
these articles.

WHAT DO YOU WANT?

Busy Waldo Abbot of the University of Michigan has sent your
secretary copies of a number of things vsbich he sends out to men
teaching broadcasting. Included in hia packet were; Educational
Programs Heard in Detroit; Choral Speaking Bibliography; Recommended
Reading for Students of Non-Tech nioal Broadcasting; Urinal Exssiaation
^Broadcasting, Speech 153; Outline of Speech 151, Fundamentals of
Broadcasting; Lette . ants in Speech 152 Radio Speeches;*

Script©, on Writing Play, Development of Oommunc?.tions,

and History of Radi- : on The Santa-Fe- Trail and Tee Pirate

Dor* Burke of Dowdec, 'ling; First Pronunciation Hurdles

for Good’ Hadir Spec-, h; suggested these titles on broadcasting,

Those marked (*) wi .a&ed in a future NAEB packet. Others,

I*m sure Waldo will be. , to send you upon request,

RADIO .ACTIVITIES aql at : m caroliha_-

Mr. R. K. Director of the Extension Division of the

University of North Carol lna f Chapel Hill, North Carol inn {) hoc
recently made an extensive tour studying the radio broadcast
situation within many of the nation* $ leading education insti¬
tutions, He tells us that North Carolina is going to make more
extensive use of radio in -be future*

NAEB MEWS LETTER.Deo. 5 , 1939-- .page 3

KRUO OBSERVES 15 th , NNITE I ; X

KFUO ? the Lutheran 9osp I ’vice 1 * c ommemorated its 15th anniversary
on December 10th wi h a Sunday rally at the Municipal Opera

House, St. Louis, t th a ; >ses by the Rev. Alfred Rosohke and
Dr. Walter A. Haler*

KFUO was founded December 1 1924, when a 500-watt transmitter with
other equipment, also an. operating room and studio, were dedicated
with religious ceremony in the attic of the old Oonoordia Seminary
on South Jefferson avenue. This first equipment cost $14,000, which
was contributed by members of the Lutheran Laymen 9 s League, the
students of Concordia Seminary, the Walther League and individuals.
The present 'KFUo station, with a 1000-watt transmitter costing
$50,000, was given to the Lutheran Church of the Missouri Synod by
the Lutheran Laymen* s League in May, 1927. The synod placed control
of the station in the hands of the Board of Control of Concordia
Seminary.

This broadcasting station now sends out 26 hours a week, those
taking pa.rt giving their services without pay. Up to October 15
of this year KFUO had broadcast 95,085 programs*

FCC ACTIONS

WBAA, Purdue University, was granted special temporary authority to
opersr&g special' hours on December 21 in order to broadcast high
school basketball games.

WILL, University of Illinois, was granted special temporary
authority to operate simultaneously with WCHS and WIBW during
certain evening hours in December in order to broa.dcast Illinois
basketball games. WILL was also granted permission to remain
silent on Christmas and New Year*s Ray.

Frank E* Schooley

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