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June 6, 1931
STATION CERTIFICATES READY
New certificates of membership are now being prepared and will be mailed to all members of the National Association of Broadcasters in good standing within the next few days. CERTIFICATES WILL BE MAILED ONLY TO JffiMBERS IN GOOD STAINING. These certificates are new in typography and size and will supersede all certi¬ ficates now in use.
STATION BREAK RULING
Individual stations carrying network programs are responsible for compliance with General Order 8, according to a communication received from the Commission by a station requesting a ruling. General Order 8 provides that each station "shall announce its call letters and location as frequently as may be practicable while it is broadcasting, and in any event not less than once during each fifteen minutes of transmission." This requirement is waived, however, "when such an¬ nouncement would interrupt a single consecutive speech or musical number, and in such cases the announcement of the call letters and location shall be made at the beginning and end of such nimber. " The order has beor. .fi efr’eor u.'-nce May 11,
1927, and was adopted for the purpose of "fecilitatiug a more accurate check on station frequencies" by supervisors.
STATION WOOD APPEALS DECISION
‘The Keystone Broadcasting Corporation of Harrisburg this wee3o appealed a decis:]ou of the Commission denying to Station WCOD, Hor-risburg ^ Pro au increase of from ^00 to 050 watts daytime power. The appeal (No, b-ilby '"ileu in the Court of Appeals oi the District of Col''ambia states that she j;d.-aclLr.g by the Commission is not in ac'.-ord with the testimony tad-cen at the hearing bclore Uoiex K/n .’niner Yost. The station operates on 1200 kc with 100 watts sharing with fUZJC, Lan¬ caster, Pennsylvania,
EQUIPNjENT VfANTED
From time to time the NAB receives requests for the purchase of broadcast¬ ing equipment. Any member who has equipment for sale and desires to do so, may send in a description of such equipment, and any inquiries will be referred to him. The NAB vnll not sell the equipment. It will only assist in bringing the parties together and merely as a service to members.
BILL ACQUIRES WMBD
The Commission on June 5 granted the application for voluntarj' assignment of license of Station WMBD, Peoria, Illinois, from E. M. Kahler to the Peoria Broad¬ casting Company, a corporation controlled hy Edgar L. Bill, formerly raana^ger of Station WLS , Chicago. Mr. Bill will leave the employ of WLS this week.