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. /• NAE3 NEWS LETTER U ,..B©o» 15, 1939 page 2 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. In 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 Scanned from the National Association of Educational Broadcasters Records at the Wisconsin Historical Society as part of "Unlocking the Airwaves: Revitalizing an Early Public and Educational Radio Collection." 'oiTu> c KTwe \\KWAVEs A collaboration among the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Communication Arts, and Wisconsin Historical Society. Supported by a Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities I I T I—I MARYLAND INSTITUTE for I TECHNOLOGY in the HUMANITIES UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND WISCONSIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY WISCONSIN NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE Humanities views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication/collection do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.