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iiU^st 22, 1931
FORSIGN station LISTS
The Electrical Equipment Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com¬ merce, Department of Commerce t has Just completed a digest of foreign radio "broad¬ casting and receiving equipment and also a list of foreign broadcasting stations corrected to July 23» 1931. Copies of these lists nay be secured by writing to the Electrical Equipment Division, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Depart¬ ment of Commerce, Washington, D. C.
NEW iUDIO EDUCATION EXPERT
Cline M. Koon, former assistant director of the Ohio Cchool of the Air, has been appointed by Secretary of Interior Wilbur to be specialist education by radio in the Office of Education.
Duties of the new specialist, according to the Interloj .ypa/tmenc, will be to initiate and conduct research studies of radio as an educ^?! ioua L agency, to organ¬ ize and maintain an informational and advisory service to schools and other agencies interested in education by radio, to become familiar with college aud university extension work so that the part radio may take in this fie’i.d may be evaluated and to prepare material for publication on phases of education by radio,
Armstrong Perry, who has resumed his activities ivith the Payne Fund, formerly held the post which Koon assumes.
PUBLISHERS OPPOSE CID^INS PLAN
The Commission on August 21 granted to the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association permission to intervene in the application of C. R. Cummins of Wi’Jliamsport , Pa. which is sot for hearing on October 16.
The application of Cummins is for 25 channels to be used by 267 local or com¬ munity broadcasting stations. No specific frequencies are mentioned in the appli¬ cation. Because of this fact, the Commission has given public notice of the hear¬ ing to all stations. Any station believing itself to be adversely affected by the granting of the application may petition the Commission for leave to intervene, the notice states. Under the rules of the Commission such petition must be filed at least 15 days prior to the date of the hearing.
The newspaper organization asserts in its petition that they will be adversely affected if the Cummins application is granted.
ENGINEERING COMITTEE E2ETING
A meeting of the NiiB engineering committee will bo held at the IRE Building, New York, at 10 e.ra. Thursday, August 27, it was announced this week by John "V. L. Hogan, chairman of the Committee.