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June 13, 1931
tional programs. Recently, I requested the weekly schedule of each educational radio station in the United States with the purpose of checldng the number of ac¬ tual hours devoted toreal educational programs, I mean college or university courses, language lessons, material of any kind that could he celled educational from the straight academic sense. The returns were pitiful. Instead of cours®e, wh°t did I find? Recitals by music students, phonograph records, commercial programs of all kinds, news flashes, children's hours, etc. The same type of program that malces up the majority of our commercial stations. There were one
or two exceptions, of course, but the majority of these stations devote five or ten minutes to a talk by some professor and claim they are devoting a majority of time to disseminating education. Why do they want to own and operate a radio station at all? Certainly they are not rendering any service of importance even to a small community."
Other speakers were C. M, Jansky, radio engineer; Joy Elmer Morgan, chairman of the National Committee on Education by Radio; W. J. Cooper, U. S. Commissioner of Education; and Graham Spry, Canadian Radio League.
BRITISH OFFICI^vL GETS MEDAL
Sir John C. W. Reith, general manager of the British Broadcasting Corpora¬ tion, was awarded the first distinguished radio service medal awarded by the Col umbia Broadcasting System last Wednesday. The presentation was made by Henry A. Bellows, vice-president of Columbia Broadcasting System, ©t the studios of Station W B B M, and broadcast over the Columbia network.
KTNT STAY ORDER VACATED
On motion of the Commission the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia vacated the stay order which the court had issued lest week to station KTNT, Muscatine, Iowa. The Commission held a hearing on the renewal of license appli¬ cation filed by Norman Baker, operator of station KTNT and the report of Examiner Yost recommended denial. The applicant then requested oral argument before the Commission, which was granted. After this hearing before the full Commission, the application for renewal was denied. The order to stay the action of the Commission was granted by the Court of Appeals following the petition filed by Norman Baker.
KFqU REHEARING PETITION DENIED
The petition of W. E. Riker, Holy City, Calif* operator of Station KFQU, for reconsideration of Commission action denying renewal of license to the station, was denied this week. This applicant was formerly licensed to operate on 1420 kc with 100 watts and shared time with KGGC.