Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1957)

MEDIA spokesmen exchanged ideas on methods of keeping channels of information open at luncheon held by NARTB Freedom of Information Committee, with newspaper representatives receiving NARTB's new kits, "The People's Right to Know." L to r: Theodore F. Koop, CBS Washington, representing Sigma Delta Chi and Radio Television News Directors Assn.; NARTB President Harold E. Fellows; William Leick, American Newspaper Publishers Assn.; Robert D. Swezey, WDSU-AMTV New Orleans, chairman of NARTB committee, and Joseph Costa, National Press Photographers Assn. MR. BELL Bell Gets Additional Duties As Head of NARTB Joint Affairs Howard H. Bell, NARTB assistant to the president, has been appointed assistant to the president in charge of joint affairs, President Harold E. Fellows announced Wednesday [Closed Circuit, Dec. 16]. Mr. Bell had been assistant to the president since 1954. In his new post Mr. Bell will have responsibility for projects and activities which jointly concern both radio and television, working with John F. Meagher, radio vice president, and Thad H. Brown Jr., tv vice president. He will act in behalf of President Fellows in staff planning for joint radio-tv affairs. These will include program planning for the national convention, regional conferences, board meetings and committee projects. TAB Asks School Radio Courses A move to install instruction in radio as part of public school curricula is being sponsored by Texas Assn. of Broadcasters. Five Texas schools already have added i WDXI-TV ® I JACKSON, TENNESSEE | Channel 7 = Covering | half million | people in 1 the mid | South | = Represented by Venard, Rinloul & McConnell, Inc. = Broadcasting radio courses in their speech departments and 10 others have asked to be included in the program, according to Shirley Austin, office manager of the Texas association and radio consultant to the U. of Texas extension and field service. Six 6-week courses include study in microphone techniques, sales and continuity, radio drama, special shows, news writing and production and general radio work. Catholics Praise Radio-Tv For Standards of Programming The Catholic Church has gone on record as lauding radio and television in the U. S. for "preserving standards which permit the American home to tune in programs at random without being faced in each instance with a problem of moral judgment." The commendation was made by Bishop William A. Scully of Albany, chairman of the episcopal committee on motion pictures, radio and television. The bishop's statement was issued in connection with Catholics' reaffirmation Dec. 15 of their pledge to support the Legion of Decency's crusade against indecent and immoral motion pictures. The committee sets Legion policy. Bishop Scully, while also praising the movie industry's Production Code Administration and those producers who cooperated, nevertheless cited the rise in "B" (morally objectional) films. But for radio-tv, the bishop was unreserved in commendation. He noted that with the publication of Pope Pius XII's encyclical Miranda Prorsus last September [Networks, Sept. 16], the Catholic Church's attention has been expanded to radio-tv. "During the 35 years of radio's existence in the U. S.," Bishop Scully said, "it has served the American public as a vehicle for public service programming and as a source of entertainment. It has not entered the American consciousness during these years to regard the medium as a moral problem. The same can well be said of tv." ever have an exclamation point look you square in in the eye? Here's one: WITH ONE ECONOMICAL PURCHASE YOU GET 3 RICH TV MARKETS WITH WEST TEXAS TELEVISION NETWORK. . . over 277, 276 sets. .. period KDUB-TV LUBBOCK, TEXAS K PAR-TV ABILENE SWEETWATER KED Y-TY BIG SPRING, TEXAS iQNAL "REPRESENTATIVES. THE BRANH am COMPANY Prwid.nt and Gen. Mgr., W. D. "DOB" ROGERS National. Salts Mgr. E. A. "Bun" HatMtt December 23, 1957 Page 77