Yearbook of radio and television (1957)

lAAB Plays Active, Vital Role in Latin American Broadcasting 1AAB represents the private and free radio broadcasting of the American Continents. It is formed by the Associations, Chambers and Federations of Radio Broadcasters existing in the countries of the Continents, from Canada and the United States down to those in the extreme south, which, in turn, comprise nearly five thousand radio and television stations. Its aims, among several, are to defend the principles of democracy, in particular those relative to freedom of speech and of information, and the system of private and free enterprise for radiobroadcasting; to promote the broadcasters' collaboration with activities of public interest; to contribute towards raising the cultural level of the people through technical perfection and better programs and the intellectual and artistic exchange between all broadcasters of America; to establish norms of professional ethics to be upheld by all people participating in broadcasting. (KZX) lAAB has intervened before the governments of Argentine, Costa Rica and Paraguay in connection with matters of high interest. Before the first, asking for return of radiobroadcasting to private hands; before the second, to ask for the issue of concessions to private individuals for the installation of TV stations; and before the third, to request the release of a broadcaster and lifting the closure of his station. It has addressed the recently elected Presidents of Ecuador and Bolivia, to offer its cooperation and technical assistance, in order that radio broadcasting in these nations may have the necessary liberty, adequate structures and means to develop and perform the corresponding mission of public interest. |i o<r>o On the 4th of October, "Radio Day". lAAB celebrated its 10th anniversary, as it was founded on this same day in 1946 in Mexico City. The activities of the past ten years show that lAAB is an institution with solid principles and a perfectly cemented existence, which will be called upon to have By RICARDO VIVADO President Inter-American Ass. of Radio Broadcasters a valuable influence in the progress of continental radio broadcasting and in the unification and the realization of its ideals of perfection and of service to the people. »<Z>C lAAB's Central Office publishes a monthly news bulletin which is distributed to the associations, so that they may issue it to their stations, and is editing pamphlets with the same purpose. Three have already been distributed: "Private and Free Radiobroadcasting for the Argentine", which contains a memorial presented by lAAB to the President of the Argentine, his excellency Pedro E. Aramburo; "Freedom of Information in the Countries of America", in which a chapter from the report of the Board at its meeting in Lima is reproduced on this matter; the texts of the Constitution of the countries of the Americas on freedom of thought; and President Eisenhower's speech at the 1955 Convention of NARTB "Broadcasting Stations Must Have a Soul" advises on the management of a radio station. There is another pamphlet in the press on guidance for the organization of broadcasting associations, and two more shortly ready for publication. (XZXI The organization has maintained active, cooperative contact with the U.N., OAS and UNESCO. It was invited by OAS to send a special observer to the Inter-American Tourist Convention, which took place in San Jose de Costa Rica in April of 1956, and by UNESCO to participate in the conference on educational films for TV held in Tangiers and Paris. lAAB is in full activity and preoccupied with its 5th General Meeting held in the first days of May of this year, which will mean a new impulse and a decided advance. 91