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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS

Radio Hall, U.W., Madison, Wisconsin
December 2, 1946

DUNN OUTLINES NAEB REGIONAL PROPOSAL

John Dunn, Vi NAD, has followed up on a plan for organizing regional groups with¬
in NAEB* The details have been submitted to The Executive Committee for consid¬
eration. . .
The plan embodies a geographical division into eleven regions. It proposes a
regional governor from each area, who would comprise an executive council. A con¬
stitutional amendment is required to put the plan [Link] formally, but it
can be done informally with the approval of The Executive Committee.
More details later.

SECRETARY NOVIK REPORTS

In assuming his duties as Executive Secretary of NAEB, Morris Novik invites

all members to pass suggestions along to him and to call on him for help in pro¬
moting the cause of the educational broadcasters. He says;
”1 have agreed to carry the ball and do my share
”1 - to help forrtulate a program that will be of value to the many new FM
educational radio stations, _
”2 - to help keep alive the interests of the educational radio stations,
”3 - and try to break through and convince some of the existing educational
foundations of the need for help to the new FM educational stations and why
NAEB is the answer.”

BROADCASTING COUNCIL IN BOSTON

Organization of The Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council has been

announced. Included are six Boston Area institutions. Lowell Institute, Boston
College, Boston University, Harvard, M.I.T., Northeastern University and Tufts.
Broadcasting will be done over Boston radio stations. _
Parker Wheat ley, formerly radio director at Northwestern University and later
in charge of educational broadcasting for the Armed Forces Radio Service [Link]
of the new Council. George W. Slade, educational director of WBZ and WBZA is
assistant director.

FREC PROGRAM LISTINGS IN SCHOLASTIC

After providing mimeographed lists of programs approved [Link] listening.

The Federal"Radio Education Committee now publishes these selections m The
Scholastic Teacher each month in the Sight and Sound section. The [Link] deter-
minedby(l) educational significance, (2) program quality, and (3) instructional
adaptability.
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MEMBER STATION REPORTS

University of Michigan . ...

-Pending the o oration of its own Ft.! station, the institution is providing
programs for other stations as follows:
yy-JK . 2 half-hour and 1 quarter-hour programs
WKAR .......... 3 twenty-five minute programs
Y^pag . 5 quarter-hour programs
YiYjj . 3 quarter-hour programs
VilKZO & YiJEF. 1 twenty-five minute program (tentative)

A transcription network service is planned in cooperation with the Michigan

State Medical Society. „ , 0 . . , „ „ _
The FM development is being delayed because of the lack of materials fo c
structing the transmitter house. The call letters ViiATX have been assigned—but
are unsatisfactory to the University. About fifty alternate calls have been pro¬
posed—but none of them could be made available. A new building which will house
the Broadcasting Service is now in the ”hole-in-the-ground’ stage.^
The present staff: [Link] Abbot, director of broadcasting service; Donald E.
Hargis, Hymns of Freedom program producer; Robert D. Essig,.Technician;
Robert Bouwsma, production; Elizabeth Cole Stevens, continuity editor; Hans Pick,
music; and Adele Sefton, secretary.

Umversii^ution ^ —— tWQ stations, YiILL (AM) licensed in 1922, and WIUC

(FM^ILL6operates^^ytime, seven days a week. It takes the opportunities of those

living in the University community to the "larger university campus which is the

YYIUC received its equipment just before the "freeze” order. Its service is
limited at present because of the shortage of receivers m tne area. Plans a
under way for a new and more powerful transmitter, and an expanded program service.
Special evening broadcasting permission has been obtained for [Link]
(all home and ‘away-from-home games this season) for TWILL. Station also carries the
football and baseball games. , , _T , 91 1Qy,n
3000 farm broadcasts—that *s the record WILL completed on November 21 1946.
It does a full hour for rural listeners each week day—and that’s a lot ot

agriAUbooklet of "Governing Policies" has been printed by HILL. Stations

ering restating their own administrative or operational structure should ask for
copy. Also get the Organizational Chart which Frank Schooley has prepared.
Director Schooley and Ex. UAEB Executive Secretary, Jim Bbel have been out
visiting. Their jaunts, in the interests of football primarily, took them to Waldo
Abbot and V,allace Garneau at Michigan on October 25, and to Bloomington on the day
of the Illinois-Indiana football game, but Harry Skornia was absent. Jim Mies
and his IfiEAA crew visited at Urbana on October 5. More of us should get around to
see how our colleagues are operating—and not wait for football as an excuse
necessarily.
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Iowa State College ....

-low [Link] elevision and FM development 1b> awaiting the outcome of a
situation in which the FCC wants a taller tower erected, and CAA wants one with less
height. The blessings of both are needed.
VvOI is stepping into the gap as the college breaks its 46 year old tradition
of holding a "Farm and Home Week” meeting on its campus. Housing and food dif-
fioulties caused its cancellation. The entire program this year will be carried
on by radio-overWOI. , , ,
With the approval it is seeking from KFl to operate after sundown at specified
times, WOI hopes"to broadcast certain evenings.

KWSC - Washington State College, Pullman. _

-Programs to promote public education in Washington are being carnea by KWSC,
through WSC School of Education. Notices to listen were sent home via school .
children in the station’s service area, newspaper stories were released, and window
posters were put out.

YiIBAA-- Purdue. . .
-Studio and'"office expansion plans, which have been held up because of materials
shortages, are now being rushed under the supervision of Chief Engineer Townesly
The FM amplication is still in the waiting stage.

PERSONNEL NOTES

Tom Taber, WrKAR, will become educational program director for WILL on
January 1, 1947.

Dick Ross is now KWSC chief announcer. He hails from Spokane and stations
KFPY and KFIO.

Our sympathv to Jim Miles of WBAA on the sudden death of his father on
November 19.

Ralph Townesly, WBAA Chief Engineer, is back on the job after 3g years m
the army.

H. B. McCarty, WHA, Radio Chairman for the National Congress of Parents and
Teachers, attending the New Orleans conclave of the organization—early December.

FACILITIES AND FCC

WRUF (University of Florida) granted extension of special service authorization

to operate unlimited time with 100 watts power. (November 13)

Oklahoma A&M College (Stillwater) granted CP for new daytime station on 840 Kc
with 10 Kw power. (November 15)
1946 NAEB MEMBERS (Please report any changes or corrections)

Active Members

Iowa State University Iowa City, la. Carl Menzer

W SUI
Michigan State College East Lansing, Mich. Robert J. Coleman
"WKAR
St. Olaf College NorthfieId,Minn. Milford C. Jensen
Vi GAL
Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. Troy, N.Y. W. J. Williams
VVHAZ
Decorah, la. Karl Hansen
KWLC Luther College
Ithaca, N.Y. Michael Hanna
WHCU Cornell University
Grove City College Grove City, Pa. H. W • Hannon
VVSAJ
Pu rdue Unive rs ity W. Lafayette, Ind. Jim Mile s
WBAA
Iowa State College Ames, Iowa R. B. Hull
WOI
University of Illinois Urbana, Ill. Frank Schooley
Vi ILL
New York City Seymour Siegel
WNYC City of New York
Chicago, Ill. George Jennings
VVBEZ m City of Chicago
Ann Arbor, Mich. Waldo Abbot
m University of Michigan
John W. Dunn
W'NAD University of Oklahoma Norman, Okla.
Lexington, Ky. Elmer Sulzer
WBKY FM University of Kentucky
Oregon State College Corvallis, Ore. Director
KQAC
Lawrence, Kans. Miss Irene Seaman
KFKU University of Kansas
University of Indiana Bloomington, Ind. H. J. Skornia
University of Florida Gainesville, Fla. Garland Powell
WRUF
University of Wisconsin Madison, Wis. H. B. McCarty
Vi HA
V; or Id-hide Broadcasting Corp. 630 Fifth Ave,NYC Walter S. Lemmon
WRUL
Washington State College Pullman, Wash. Glenn Jones
KWSC
University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minn. Burton Paulu
KUOM

Associate Members
Kalamazoo, Mich. Wallace L. Garneau
"Western Mich. Coll, of Educ.
Syracuse, N.Y. Kenneth Bartlett
Syracuse University
Rocky Mt. Radio Council 21 E. 18th Ave.
Allan Miller
Denver, Colorado
Ed Barrett
De s Moine s , la.
Drake University
Oklahoma A&M College H, H. Leake
Stillwater, Okla.
Indiana State Teachers College Terre Haute, Ind.
M. S. Novik 30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC
A. Jas. Sbel WMBD, Peoria, Illinois

A [Link] DUES .. , .
January 1 is membership-dues time. Let’s put our orders through prompt y.
Statements will be in the mail soon. The annual dues rates are as follows:

AM Stations Up to 500 watts .|10,00

500 to 1000 " . 15.00
lOul to 5000 ” ...... 20.00

FM Stations Up to 10,000 " . 10.00

10,001 to 50,000 . 20.00

Combination rate for institutions operating or having CPS for more-than one
station, 420,00 (AM and/or FM)
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HITS AND MISSES

-'To ask the minority (of listeners) to be satisfied with the time because
it is a minority, as is now .generally the case, is only to indulge m intellectual
Jin Crowism. If the discriminating listener is to enjoy emancipation the primary
responsibility rests not on himself but on those who hold him m bondage.
(Jack Gould in New York Tines, November 17,1946).

Novelist Fannie Hurst commenting (November 7 1946) on daytime radio

offerings said, "The advertisers hand has become the whip-nand. It is plastering
palm against radio's face, squashing its features, pulling its hair, gouging
its eyeballs, threatening to poke its front teeth down its throat . That sounds
more like pro-wrestling than pro-radio.

Now comes the U.S; Chamber of Commerce reporting, "In a socialist or

dictatorial regime of abridged freedom of speech and press, of predetermined
econom" action, and of prescribed education, these valuable
thought and action are dammed up at the source. lessir h°d- AZ.
tool It reminds us of the Dutch boy with his thumb m the leak m the dyke.

BROADCASTING MAGAZINE (Nov. 25) editorializes on the proposals of stations

to limit advertising and raise program standards. As for the grandiose gesture
toys-those idealists who believe advertisers will spend business dollars t
reach a smattering of starry-eyed garret-dwellers—time will tell; time that
isn’t sold.” That for the folks who live in the big house on the corne .

*ti believe that much of our trouble comes from the circumstance that radio
is so convenient and that it costs nothing to listen. As a result the listener
often fails to appreciate the worth of what ho is getting and his demands become
unreasonable”-■Vim. S. Paloy, CBS, Oct. <s2,1946.

Tjhy isn’t your activity reported in

this issue? Send news contributions
now. Copy deadline for January issue
is December 25. Send to:
t-t . a . Enge 1, WHA, Madi s on, M s c ons in

Edited by-
H. A. Engel
Radio Vi HA
December 2, 1946
Madison, Tj is cons in
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