NAB reports (Jan-Dec 1941)

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ing musicians at the network key stations in New York and Chicago. The New York agreements will continue in effect until January 31, 1944. They provide, among other things, that CBS will employ a minimum of 65 staff musicians; NBC, 130 (115 during three consecutive months of the year), and WOR, 40. “Regular Hourly Rate” There still seems to be some confusion in the industry about how to determine the “regular hourly rate” of employees covered by the Wage and Hour law. The regular hourly rate of salaried employees is de¬ termined tw’o ways. (1) For those employees who work a regular number of hours each week and whose salary, by custom or agreement , covers those hours. Divide the weekly salary by the number of hours in the regular work week. These employees are entitled to one and one-half times this rate, extra, for each hour they work above 40 each week. (2) For those employees whose hours fluctuate each week, or nearly every week, and who were hired with the understanding that their regular weekly salary was to cover a fluctuating number of hours. Each week, divide the weekly salary by the number of hours worked that week. These employees are entitled to that rate for each hour they work, plus one half of that rate for each hour they work above 40. Any further questions about this will be answered gladly by the NAB Labor Relations Department. Engineering FREQUENCY REALLOCATION The chief technical representatives from Canada, Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and the United States, who are attending a regional broadcasting con¬ ference in Washington announced Wednesday that the technical committee of the conference, which is meeting at the Federal Communications Commission, is making very satisfactory progre.ss in the solution of the engineer¬ ing details arising from the radio frequency notifications of the various Governments which are parties to the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement, Habana, 1937. While some rectifications of a minor char¬ acter are required in the various notifications by reason of unavoidable conflicts of an engineering nature, all delegates are most optimistic of an early solution. The work of the technical committee involves the as¬ signment of frequencies in the standard broadcast band to nearly 1300 radio broadcasting stations in the North American region, so that these stations may operate simul¬ taneously with a minimum of interference to their re¬ spective services. This constitutes an engineering problem which requires consideration of each separate frequency assignment. Obviously, no valid statement of frequency assignments can be made until the work of the committee has been completed and referred back to the conference as a whole which holds its plenary sessions at the Department of State. The FCC notified the State Department last September that the reallocation of frequencies in this country would go into effect March 29, 1941 (NAB Reports, 1940, p. 4571). OHIO STATE CONFERENCE Indications are that there will be a record attendance at the Fourth Ohio State Broadcast Engineering Confer¬ ence to be held at Ohio State University at Columbus, February 10-21. Dr. Everitt, Director of the Conference, has assembled an unusually fine group of speakers and lecturers for the Conference. Those who would like to submit questions concerning FCC engineering matters to be discussed at the confer¬ ence are asked to submit the questions in advance. The questions will be discussed during the “General Discussion and Question Box” conducted by Andrew D. Ring, Assist¬ ant Chief Engineer of the FCC in charge of broadcasting, on Wednesday and Thursday, February 12 and 13. Engineers are also asked to submit in advance ques¬ tions on FM which they would like to hear discussed dur¬ ing the “Round Table on FM Problems” to be held on Thursday and Friday, February 20 and 21. The Chair¬ man of this Round Table will be Paul deMars of the Yankee Network. E. J. Content of WOR and Dan Gellerup of WTMJ will also be at the table. Engineers who would like to submit questions for dis¬ cussion during either of these two periods, are asked to submit them to the Director of Engineering at NAB head¬ quarters. Further information and details concerning the Engi¬ neering Conference can be obtained by addressing Dr. W. L. Everitt, Director of the Conference, Ohio State Uni¬ versity, Columbus, Ohio. Sales TRADE STUDY ON LAUNDRIES “Results from Radio,” Vol. 2, No. 1, has gone out to all members from the NAB Bureau of Radio Advertising. 82 — January 24, 1941