NAB reports (Jan-Dec 1948)

derive 40% to 75% of their gross revenue from re¬ cordings. If Referred to juke boxes as causes of local unemploy¬ ment of musicians. I Cited the FCC “Blue Book” criticisms of pro¬ gramming as evidence that radio stations should hire more musicians. The final afternoon of the hearing was given to interrogation of Mr. Diamond, which elaborated sev¬ eral technical points in his formal statement. Chair¬ man Hartley adjourned the hearing after the pres¬ entation by Rep. Kearns of his proposal for the amendment of the copyright law. Awards Luncheon for Four Contest Winners And Call on President Truman Planned Plans for the presentation of $500 college or univer¬ sity scholarship awards to four national winners of the “Voice of Democracy” contest, including a call on President Truman and a luncheon at which Attorney General Tom C. Clark will make the pi'esentations, were completed Friday (23). Dr. John W. Studebaker, U. S. Commissioner of Education, whose Office of Education endorsed the contest sponsored by the U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Broadcasters, and the Radio Manufacturers Association, will act as toastmaster for the awards luncheon, which will be held in the South American Room at the Statler Hotel on Jan. 28 at 12:30 p. m. A portion of the luncheon ceremonies will be broad¬ cast by the Mutual Broadcasting System, which will pick up the presentation of the awards by Attorney General Clark. The winners of the contest, selected by a panel of distinguished judges, with the stations on which their winning “oral essay” broadcasts on “I Speak for De¬ mocracy” are: Miss Janet Geister, Cuyahoga Falls, O., Station WHKK, Akron; Miss Laura Shatto, Hagerstown, Md., Stations WARK and WJEJ, Hagerstown; Miss Alice Wade Tyree, Lawton, Okla., Station KSWO, Lawton; and Miss Rose Ellen Mudd, Missoula, Mont., Station KGVO, Missoula. Arriving in Washington over the week-end preced¬ ing the luncheon, the four girls will call on President Truman at the White House on Tuesday morning at 11 :30, accompanied by Senator James E. Mui'ray, of Montana, and Dr. Studebaker. They will be taken on a special sight-seeing tour of the capital, with visits to sessions of both houses of Congress, and to other points of interest. Tuesday evening, at 8 o’clock, they will be featured with Senator Charles W. Tobey (R-N. H.) on a broad¬ cast, “Youth Asks the Government”, on the American Broadcasting Company network. Entertainment, including a tea at the Wardman Park Hotel, to be given by Mrs. Justin Miller, wife of the NAB president, has been arranged for the girls during their stay in Washington. The contest in which the four high school students are national winners began in an estimated 500 com¬ munities as a feature of National Radio Week last September, with about 20,000 students competing throughout the nation. Panels of judges eliminated entrants and made awards in schools, communities and states, before the national judging. Judges in the final elimination were : General Omar N. Bradley; Attorney General Tom C. Clark; Father Edward J. Flanagan, founder and director of Boys Town; Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, ex¬ ecutive vice-president of the Houston, Texas, Post, operator of Radio Station KPRC, and wartime director of the WAC; U. S. Senator Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.) ; Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN ; and James Stewart, motion picture star. Handbook on Writing and Editing of News For Radio Is Published by Northwestern A new handbook on the writing and editing of news for radio, first of its special type, has been published by the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. The author is Arthur Baskett Moss, former news editor at NBC-WMAQ, Chicago, for several years before joining the North¬ western faculty. Mr. Moss retains his directorship in the Chicago Radio Correspondents Association, and directs a staff of 36 radio reporters who produce nine news programs daily for broadcast over WEAW-FM, commercial sta¬ tion in Evanston, Ill. Radio News Handbook is made up of 64 pages of data on tested methods, with examples and illustrations from actual newscasts. Considerable space and detail are devoted to the handling of wire-recorded news events for insertion into news programs. The book covers 44 categories of radio news. It was written to be used in the day to day operation of a modern radio newsroom. The price of the volume is $1.50. Engineeiring Departsnenfi Proposed Rule Change to Share Channels For Television with Canada Is Announced To meet formal U. S. obligations under a bilateral agreement, the FCC last week in a notice of proposed rule making announced a proposal to establish a zone 250 miles wide on each side of the Canadian border in which the United States and Canada would share television assignments to pi'event undue interference. The FCC proposed to amend Section 3.606 of its Rules and Regulations, the “Table Showing Allocation of Television Channels to Metropolitan Districts in the United States. Informal negotiations between Canada’s Depart¬ ment of Transport and the FCC, in progress for some (Continued on next 'page) JANUARY 26, 1948-69