NAEB news letter (December 01, 1945)

NAKB H tu Vi & L xi X T a H

iMivilOiMAL tizuGCLiU LOU OF JWudATIQJLJ^ BROADCASTER5

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December 1„ 19^5

: h^ : an a, m sm tax es .fcc r K?uoA?xcmM« pcst

Walter Bo Emery, who hae been Special Assistant u> Commiesioner Paul
A. Walker lor the past two ana a hair years, was today appointee to
the legal staff of the Federal Communications Commi ssion. In his new
position he will specialise in legal matters pertaining to educational
FM broadcasting.

Mr . Emery has been a memoer of the Oklahoma 3tate Bar since 1933> nno.
recently was admitted to practice before the United Bt&tes Supreme
Court, In 1935 he served*as Secretary to Commiscioner Walker ana in
1936 was Special Attorney for the Commission uurin 0 tiie Special Tele¬
phone Investigation, t

He was Director of Radio Station WNAD at the University of Oklahoma
from 1933 to 1935 where ne also taught courses in rauio speech and reaio
law. He has haa wide experience in the field of radio education, bavins
had charge of many educational programs broadcast over numerous com-
meroial and non-commercial stations.

He holds an LL. B« degree from the University of Oklahoma ana a Pri. D,
degree from the University of Wisconsin* At the latter sonool he made
special studies in communications ana to overnraent* and during a part of
the time while uoixio ^rauuate work there wat ictaxneu as t research
man by tne Wisconsin Rower ana Li^nt Company <>

He has tau^nt at tne university of Ckl&ncma, University of Wiscon¬
sin and Ohio otate University, and nae written for nuacr>-u.i educa¬
tional journals; He is a member of the Raaio Committee of the National
Association of Teachers of Speech, and last year was Editor of
Admin istrati on, the official journal of the society -.or personae, ad¬
ministration In Washington ? D„ Go

WBAA HOLDS LISTSNKR*S CONFERKNCK

WBAA sponsored a Listener's Conference at Vest Ln.ayctoe on
which we well attended, well managed, and imluable to all. Com Joh^
ton opened the meeting with a warm welcome to all participants on _
half of Purdue, He stressed the importance end srowin* significance of
!£L> 1. SS daily 11... ana ih. i.pa«aac. »« a tajo™..

He concluded with the hope that listeners coula be mox.c artic
and listeners and operators be more understanding^ and nc .p.

other* ‘

Sir. Lynn Miller, principal of Jefferson Hl»h School, Uaaystte, die-

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cussed the advantages of radio in enlivening and actuing meaning to the
curriculum Discussion of preference for portable radios in old school
buildings* expensive to equip with a central sound system, brought out
many interesting points* among, them being the proper use and the misuse of
central sound eystemso

Mrs Greig told of the appointment of Mr He B McCarty of WHA, Wiscon¬
sin* as Radio Chairman of the national FTA and of the six objectives
for PTA radio work set up by him;

1« Make full use of Radio's present educational resources and
privileges*

2> Bncourag© new uses of rauio lor education.

3° stimulate alertness regardnew programs and developments
in raaio *

4o Develop greater widerstanding, tastes* and discrimination
in radio programs*

5* Keep abreast of technical developments in rauio,

6* Keep informed on international and short wave communications
with educational and cultural programs.

She pointed out the cooperation of 19/22 of the stations in Indiana
with PTA* producing 4R programs per school year. Only Anderson, at
present* is not covered.

She outlined the Radio Script Service available for PTA groups, and
mentioned The Baxters 9 PTA*-sponsored series, resuming December 8 on
NBC stations, and Home Ie What You Make It* another PTA-sponsored
programs series*

The vital* progressive interest in radio evinced by PTA, Federated
Women's Clubs and otheiBrepresented was most encouz'aging. They could
all us© more help in actual production* from station staffs* parti¬
cularly commercial stations*

Mtas Blanche Young, President of Region J the AbR* outlined the
duties of the radio representative in each school as follows;

Duties of the coordinator.;

1. Sec that PTA chairmen* teachers, and others interested, have
lists of radio programs of educational value each week or
month,

2* Keep a check on equipment to see that it ie kept in repair*
available, ,.nd encourage its use,

Jc produce programs nanalin & scripts, rehearsals, timing* etc,
4. Clear music (learn fix*st about station licenses and clear
with librarian of station),

5* Build r^aio liorary; book, transcriptions* period!cal

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The Radio Consultant must supervise for all schools in the system*,
himself or through coor dinatora

' 1, The actual on-the-air bro&acast*

2n The use of programs in the classroom,

a. In-service training,

b, Evaluations utilization aidSc

The story of Educational Broadoaftlng was one of the highlight8 of the
meeting as presentee by Dr- Clarence Morgan* Radio Director of Indiana
State Teachers College

\

ur Iordan outlined the failures, in general, of educational bread-
casting in the 1920 1 a, the interuat taken by the networks in the late
2G ? e ana early 30 f s, &nu the realization today of the great amount of
wark necesbary for noth prouuction ana utilisation. He outlined the
mariner of cooperating, An programs, with the service area of WBOW, an
example of indeed rare commercial station cooperation, and after out¬
lining the growth of radio at I naiana State Teachers College, from
the "Old Memoriee Hour” to the present, suggested that group© like the
PTA get suggestions from public service directors aid experienced
radio peoole on utilization of time offered, and on developing and
pi anni ng p r ogram e «.

Tn the final session of the day the future of educational broadcasting
was hi sous red by NAEB President School ey..

Prefacing his predictions by a brief review of the history of broad-
casting, particularly in the educational field, In the past*, Mr,
Lohooley spoke of radio’s becoming the fifth estate, its frightening
Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo) and encouraging (educational arm cultural)
powers. He pointed out that used aright, it could be the Befcoon of
Democracy, fighting intolerance. He discusseu the rare opportunity
now offered educational, institutions with the setting a aide by the FCC
of 20 FM channels, with the greater and better use of radio that will
ensue if education doean* b misa the boat. He warned of the expense
of television and predicted that because of this factor, H is still
some years away on a national scale* He discussed facsimile, and the
possibility of its simultaneous use of Ft? channels. And he covered
the other new development© (Wire recarders ? etc,) pointing the way to
potential, radio tomorrow..

He pointed out that Education*® Own Stations can be the best pro-
taction America has against undemocratic use of radio* The need is
great for interest and action on the part of educators and all people
nterested in democratic education and a democratic America*

ulon 0 with these fine talks were three films on AM, FM, and television
plus a very fine classroom demonstration broadcast entitled "Citizen© of
lomorrow 3pea&, »

NEWS LETTER,

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December 1, 1945

A REPORT FROM Fli STATION WBKY

terp^ti^ i <’^^ e ff nU ' 5r v,a ? a lett ' er fro “ SImer dulzer with some in-
Jtt eU^n S amer n W rUee? ertlti0n ° f ““ Unlversit * of Kentucky.a

rftno^+ iV f ^i? ur reS mi t9 with our Present use of FM, all I could do is
(dhi» trt 8 r.f Ol ^° W0 iv Th f r e are supposeu to be approximately 300 FM sets
L_?J? t0 receive tiie old band) in the listening area of our station
6 f &dius of approximately 25 miles. However, as yet I
•h7ih b ? S 4 10 f eoura thG names of Just about 25 of these owners
!™ 0 " «u , • at re ^ lAlar Intervals, as you will note by the enclo-
2*? listeners are very enthusiastic about FM and we bet quite
a bit oz telephonic response from them. We did not expect much of a
listening audience on the old band ana we have not been disappointed
but we wanted to e>et our feet wet in the matter of transmitter opera¬
tion as well as provide a broader training ground for good prospective
students in radio. Our probrams over WHA3 ana WLAP have improved as
a result of this preliminary training We are, of course, continu¬
ously attempting to raise our standards on WBKY and we feel that when
we move to the new frequency and an audience develops equipped with re¬
ceivers on the new band, we will be in a position to serve them well,

Y ou may be interested in knowing that WHAS* FM transmitter has been
off the air temporarily for several months, so if we maintain our con¬
tinuous operation, we can truthfully lay claim to be Kentucky’s oldest
m station. We do not use our FM station in connection wit]* our listen¬
ing Centers since, as you know, battery-operated FM receivers have not
been developed as yet or at least X don’t know about them if they have
and our reception radius does not reach the mountains. We are, of
course, looking ahead to the possibility of eventually serving these
Centers through FM, if reception proves posdbie in the hills. This will
be done either by higher power of our own station, relaying our programs
to nearer FM stations in an educational network, or a combination of
both methods . 11

WCHU ORIGINATES HOVEL BOND PHI VS IDEA

If you don’t know the story behind WHCU*s already nationally famou#
"Thanksgiving Victory Dinner" drive to have “Kach home Give Thanks As
It Is Able - With a Bond or Pledge on Every Table," here’s the "inside"
on a typical example of radio’s community service.,.,.

It began when Mrs. R, C. Osborn, chairman of the Tompkins County War
Finance Committee, asked Michael R. Hanna, WHCU’a general manager, if
there wasn’t something "special" the Cornell University radio station
could ao to bive Tompkins’ seventh and final bond drive a livening
shot in the arm Thanksgiving Day was Just one week away at the time.

Manager M ike ealleu his WHCU staff together and put the problem squarely
before the boys who do the planning, write the copy and put "radio" oyer
the air. "X ou've aone a whale of a Job on the previous bond drives «
Mike summed it up, " now dream up something fresh and hot - and QUICK.

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v *Xl give you 24 ’.hours to line up some ideas* M And, out of the several
:ra&e presented, considered and discussed at that Saturday morn ins" 3
clfta conference, came the one- of sailing the especial, war’s- end sign! fi¬
ance of this Thanks*,xving Day,

V 8 How< WHQU* s public for the

Tha ' kagi.v t• sg yiotoxy dinner’ 1 idea epitomised in id s catchy slogans
«Each Home Give Thanhs As It Is Able - With a Bond or Pledge on Every

Table,* a slogan,, incidentally, which was promptly borrowed by QBE
radio stations as far away as Uxmci e» Ind, and by the Columbia Broad-
afeting System itself*

1 :ty expansi on plans told by president & p; 10 :

hen Eilton S» Elsenbower* President of Kansas St .be Colit^e, comes to

the studio s of, KSAC» it ia like paying a visit to . u old friana*. i reel
•rent Eisenhower, as a member of the College staff in 1923"*s4„. was o ns
f the c>roup of far-sighted men. who prepared the way for the first broad¬
cast of Kb*vO on Liecember 1„ 192^

Concerning KSAC, President mi senhower has this to say* M KSAC has brough'
everyday education into thousands oi Kansas homes since the first broad¬
cast in 192h 0 X t should reach a much wider audience. As you know, we
hope to increase the station’s power from 1,000 to 5? 000 watts by the
installation of a new transmitter a soon as os becomes available
With this power we can cover the entire state effectively. We also hope
to increase KSACPs hours of broadcast, Kansas State is fortunate in
having this medium to reach rural and urban people of Kansas* and we
plan to make it of the utmost service, M

President Elsenhower knows the field of radio thoroughly. In 1926,, he
entered the career service of the federal gpve*rnment and became assist&.> t
t 0 the Secretary of Agriculture, X n this position, one of Ms first
duti ea was 'establishment of the Radio Service ot the Department of Agrl—
culture* He was also responsible for the rri.-b option of the National
Xarm and Home Hour, in cooperation with r .>n?£ Broadcasting Company,

a TAFE EXPANSION AT WBAA

Your editor s face ie red. After prodain^ the membership in general for
ever a year to send in information on their station, staff changes* etc.»
1 mislaid a letter from Jim Miles last August which «ave me the infoxma--
ion on the new members he had added to the WBAA staff * With due

>gies to Jim and hie swell staff for the oversight here,1s the in¬
formation*

There were three new members adaed to the staff last summer. The ;irst
ci: these is John Henderson as Production Manager, John worked with
boCarty in his early days at Madison and since then, has had plenty of
experience in both'lefei Umate a tat,* enu radio. H e came . ‘“fT®
f iUiipue Xtet fell to tele over uiuba .riUiaias teat-nine, Job hi a, a

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July l p has been at the station full time However, he etiil teaches
tha radio classes the r h$ve*

Ihe second appoints is Mrs. dertrudu Ohang, the wife of a Chluusa
11 dent working on die poctor&te here at Purdue* dhe i nd

ttally educated in C‘ '•..*>.. ;■••. .< * „ .? >m LXi ti|f her

; ■ ters Decree fr >m t - e : 2 u. • a \ . ■ : • . i I rlted

fox some time as radio specialist, v*ith the Chinese tiewfc Service. She
1 1 doing a fine job of integrating the teachers* manuale and ‘iohool
ot the Air programs ir. general*

The third appointee la Jo Bundy who la new to radio, halls fro®
RenneeXaer, Indiana., Bhe ie a graduate of ItePauw School of Music and
hae taught public school music* She is acting as MufcIc&X director of
the station* organizing all our musical programs, ttllee also managed
to wrangle bar an assistant, or music librarian,,

*L*^L. aE&gLEBS J»i&

bo$e of the plans for post-war expansion by PI; L are on chair way
toward completion* Thn position of musical director left vacant by
the departure of Laneon Demising is being ably filled by health
Cutler, recently discharged from the Wavy. Mr, Cutler studied «|t
the American Conserve, .ory oi Music and in Paris under tercel Dupre,
Before enterln 0 the Navy ue taught ox^an at the American Conservatory
of Music ana was organist ana choir master at one of Chicago J a largest
churches, ,<en naa unuertuken the job of building better mu$lQ&X pro¬
grams for ‘WILL* In the continuity department under Margot Morris are
six part*time writers v 3 ho devote their time to the prepan lion ©1 the
scripts for the daily program schedule * Bite Born, Pat Barton, Kitty
Hoffman and Ruth Breen handle the recorded and transcribed shows,
Marilyn Murray takes care of the live musical 6howc, and Carol
Shaffner writes script for the live shows other than au&lo&l* The
addition of &eor&e Sharp to the staff es educational pivj&rfw's director
was mentioned in the last issue of the hewe Letter, Phil Spradlins
haa joint'd the staff ns announcer and acting producer.. Phi 1 is Just
back from, Wright Fie ld where he did technical radio wo cm. for tu ? AAP v -
Boaides producing several shows* he takes charge of the .lltrot wo
hours of daily proa < I casting which includes light music, news, service
information and a devotional by a campus minister u do much for
staff changeSo

a reorganig&tion of the office Space is also under way > ‘the hall in
the west wing of armory Hall will be closed off with & wall to wake
a large reception room for the radio station* Ml of the >fflc%a
and studios will ooon off of this reception room* facilities * U
also be provided for another small studio for recording tr hroa least ins
script shows and alaouysione with a limited number of \ nrUclpafite*

To sculp these facilities more adequately two new BOA pioieet: onal
Ldel record r- * «* . td b n faal »u d « ld ! u

LLTY&h* ,, ,v * y. . » .. 7, .,V*.... * December 1, 1, P ;

trimmings a new control. console will be installed in Hfuaio B
sa: t he Btudio B eqaipuert bo moved into ■ bo race- \u ; - roc s which,

slao serves as a contrek room for Studio G ana tor the - v Bau.aio C*
Thus with the two rots of control and recording, equipme i iu « bis
control room it becomes bo&eitole to record two separate u"- inuous
programs simultaneously* or to broadcast from Studto I u ; ,ud'.c X"
while recording from a*\y other of the studios Two ,isw =*cv. *. .«:.>• ascrip¬
tion tables will be Installed in Studio B and "■ he ore sent fall--, in
Studio B will be moved to Studio 0 This will provide three control
rooms for originating record or transcription ehows. All of these
changes look toward the expansion of FM operations on FM station WIUC*

On December g f the National Congress of Parent a anti Teachers presents
its quarter-hour program series* The Baxters, for the fourth consecu¬
tive yearn

Marge ana Bill with their children* Bud* J&my and bandy* constitute
an American family* 3 the hundreds of thousands of real American
families from one end of this country t o the other, listener* for
the last four years J**ve found interest and inspiration in these prc~
grams which dramatise the homey* practical phases of family Xivt v;..
with the Joys and trials that crop up in the everyday task of tori tgi-ag
up children to toe useful future oiti^ene.

Fro 0 raia titles for the first thirteen weeks are he follows, ’•What Can
We autos tituts for War* 11 ’•Pad* s at .Home Wow* f ‘ *(3ooa till Toward
hen,* * The Baxters Air Their Views on Military Training,* 4 Bex Edu¬
cation Is h&sential,* *»The Bo boy box Brigadek "dhoula iandy Go to
Nursery Bcnooi? % p 2 outju. Out of Line, * "The Menace of Divorce, *

“Uoott Manners Go peep, ** •Let's Get hi a of rrejuaioe* * * ow i'uoh
History are Children Learning? 11 ana "Bua Bias for a Rai k *

THIS AND THAT

VY3UI is the first station .In with their 19% WAEBauee.. ax chile
to Mrs* Martin who keeps a check on these things for WSUI nnd to
Men ter for having an efficient staff member like M re* &:^r',,.va> VCM
Also indicated they were on the verge of paying off- - tow ai*;ut you?, *
Jack Goodman, formerly of WNYC and now with KAI.L in 3slt Lake ci y.,
sends some interesting information on the use of radio and a * v * re
recorder In the Ba.it Lake City schools* •. •, Glad to have -Ci ter hmsry
with us in the PCS* He has the background which will alio* pin *o
appreciate the problems of the educational broadcaster., < i t>

a storm brewing on the Wood* s bill to require ft sc ester : m $ v *. n~

gulsh between statements of news end opinions, * J he i nop--.goti on
storm ie not torn wing tout it hasn’t blown over o-.thei

Hea ru r-e

»trong

FCC measurements at Uiuial, Ktt^^are^to pradiutftd h'eW

tola the IRE in Rcohester tfcat obMW ucn«,

flalh IntwdUH were not In accord wAte. omui

v i non

NEWS LETTbK,

average ^5 5 megacycle signal a<

83 predicted and the average 91 raegaoy c3 <. ©< . . / ?. a

FCC move will not eliminate interference, *nd {'}) r«+e, cove... . 0 c
deoreaeed so far ae usable signal ip cor err ad, since the 93 teg/ ;
signal could be heard only thirty percent the time* compare > ;
an £>5 to 90 percent reception of the 45 .'5 - ta cycle signal , ,

Hams of the country are grousing about all the surplus property goii*.
to waste which they could use. They aren’t alone in the complaint ,
Educational broadcasters and educational institutions would like some
action from the surplus properties board., If you have any thoughts on
how to get action* send them to the NAEB surplus property committee— ,
Menzer and ye editor* ., * ^Basketball season once again which gives yours
truly a ohanoe to go traveling around the country in the capacity of
announcer* engineer* spotter* and NAEB representative, Don't forget
we want information from you on your technical limitations due to allo¬
cation* program information* and anything else which can be used in
connection with the dear channsl hearings in January* Bend it now!!**

How do you like the print on this month 9 s New a better. This is a speoial
Christmas present to Mao up Wisconsin way. This is also the reason*
this News Letter is so late this nionth; we had to hunt all over town
to find one of those woldfashioned* 1 typewriters to make the master
(Me said with hie tongue in his cheek) e I hope you all have a swell
Christmas and that Santa fills your socks with programs* person.
equipment, ideas* and to top it all off— a lot of fun in 1946,

WGaT LICENSE NOT RENEWED

The Federal Communications Commission has refused to renew the Georgia
School of TecynolOt>y• s license for radio station WG3T in Atlanta, The
school is operating the station under a temporary license that expires
December IS * The commission tentatively denied the application for a
renewal on Octooer 20* but allowed twenty oay® for the filing of an
exception. The Commission said the school has not protested the de¬
cision.

Georgia Tech was authorized to file a renewal application provided that
it showed that it had terminated certain agreements with Southern Broad¬
casting* incorporated,

FCC STILL S WA MPED WITH APPLICATIONS

There are presently on file with the Federal Communications Commission
463 applications for new standard (AM) broadcast stations and 211 ap
plications for ohanges in existing standard (All) facilities* or a
total of 674 AM applicationsc There are likewise on file 70? FM ap¬
plications and 142 television applications,.

On October 23 * 1945* the Commission designated 231
tione for hearing in 6l consolidated proceedings

of thd AM applioa*
It has since ooneo

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oataa nine more applications requiring four ideational hearings, -■■■:>

dates for these cases have been'set on a staggered b&t 9 over a p-vu -i
of four months commencing November 19* 194^: Pioding© in these p

ceeairjgs will ue announced as promptly aft-u.r t if he rings arc con-ichd
as the complexities of the cases ana limitations of staff will permit 9

On November 14* 19' 45 * the Commission placed in its pending files

another group of 19 AM applications inv< axi sting

clear channels and notified the interested.parties thai theij apf ica¬
tions would not be'further processed until after the clear channel
hearing (Docket No’ 6/4l), scheduled to commence on January 14* 1946 f
has been concluded.

The Commission proposes to process the remaining 415 AM applications
(which have not been here tctor© designated for hearing nor placed in
the pending file) with as much dispatch as public interest will perm t„

Among the AM applications on which no action has yet been taken a con¬
siderable number can probably be granted without a hearing, # here It
develops* however,, upon a detailed examination that a hearing is neces--
@ a ry an effort will be made*, whever possible* to sandwich the hearing
dates in among the groups to be heard during the next [our months

The Commission has already made 17^ conditional FM grants an<l deelg-
nated 11 FM applications for hearing*, The remaining ,c2 applications
for KM station© are being rapidly' processed ana further grants will ne
made and other© consolidated for hearing from week to week.

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