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A CALENDAR OF MEETINGS AND EVENTS IN BROADCASTING AND RELATED FIELDS
(* Indicates firsf or revised listing)
AUGUST
Aug. 3 — Comments due on FCC proposal to revise television network rules including cutting down on option time, counting straddle programs as option time entirely, etc. Commission requests that comments also refer to same revisions in radio network rules. Docket 12,859. Postponed from June 22.
*Aug. 3-4 — ABC-TV regional promotion meeting with affiliates, Sheraton-Dallas Hotel, Dallas. : Aug. 3-4 — NAB Tv Code Review Board, Personal Products Subcommittee, 122 E. 42nd St. (Westinghouse Broadcasting-System office), New York. *Aug. 4 — Television Information Committee and three subcommittees, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York.
Aug. 4 — Argument in Ninth Circuit Court, San Francisco, on request for temporary injunction against FCC by Montana Microwave (common carrier relay feeding Spokane tv signals to Helena, Mont., community tv system). Litigation is against FCC order staying grant to Montana Microwave pending outcome of protest proceeding filed by KXLJ-TV Helena.
' Aug. 6-7 — ABC-TV regional promotion meeting with affiliates, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles. *Aug. 7 — Florida Assn. of Broadcasters, Tides Hotel, Reddington Beach.
Aug. 16-18 — Georgia Assn. of Broadcasters, summer meeting, Jekyll Island. Aug. 16-18 — Georgia AP Broadcasters, Jekyll Island.
;,Aug. 18-21 — National Assn. of Educational Broadcasters, seminar for radio station managers, U. of Wisconsin, Madison. Among 11 scheduled sessions: role of educational radio as educationalcultural-public service agency; how NAEB can implement educational radio; future relationships between NAEB and National Education Tv & Radio Center; grant-in-aid programs; future of NAEB radio network service; radio programming in the face of tv; legal problems, legislation and FCC relations; international relations involving NAEB and stations; present and future of fm development; public relations and promotion. Aug. 18-21 — Western Electronic Show & Convention (Wescon), Cow Palace, San Francisco. Dr. Herbert F. York, Defense Dept. director of research and engineering, will speak Aug. 21 at luncheon to be held at Fairmont Hotel. Corporate meeting at Fairmont, Aug. 19. Aug. 20-22 — South Carolina Broadcasters Assn., Holiday Lodge, Myrtle Beach. Aug. 21-23 — Arkansas Broadcasters Assn., Arlington Hotel, Hot Springs. Howard H. Bell, NAB, will conduct editorializing clinic. Aug. 23-24 — UPI Broadcasters of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire aboard aircraft carrier Wasp at sea; board destroyer at South Boston Naval Annex for transfer to Wasp 100 miles out; return to Boston.
*Aug. 24 — Comments due on FCC's proposal to revise Sees. 1.212-1.218 establishing two classes of rulemaking proceedings, with one involving "special consideration" in which all ex parte representations would be barred. Docket No. 12,947.
Aug. 24-28 — American Bar Assn., annual meeting, The Americana, Miami Beach, Fla. Aug. 25-28 — Closed-circuit tv seminar, National Assn. of Educational Broadcasters, U. of Pennsylvania, University Park, Pa. *Aug. 25-29 — Ninth annual meeting, Assn. for Education in Journalism, U. of Oregon. Speakers include Dr. F. Stanton, CBS president; Allan Nevins, author-historian; James A. Barnett, Purex Corp. vice president; Mitchell V. Charnley, U. of Minnesota.
Aug. 28-30 — West Virginia Broadcasters Assn., Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs. FCC Comr. Frederick W. Ford and Howard H. Bell, NAB assistant to president, will speak. Aug. 29 — Mississippi Broadcasters Assn., sales management conference, Heidelburg Hotel, Jackson.
Aug. 29 — Oklahoma Broadcasters Assn. summer meeting, Lake Murray Lodge, Ardmore. Judge John Brett, presiding judge of Oklahoma Criminal Court of Appeals whose court rendered decision in favor of court broadcasting, will address luncheon. Ben Sanders, KICD Spencer, Iowa, will conduct sales clinic.
SEPTEMBER
Sept. 3 — North Carolina AP Broadcasters annual meeting, Charlotte.
Sept. 4-5 — Texas AP Broadcasters, 1959 convention, Rice Hotel, Houston. Sept. 10 — Advertising Research Foundation seminar in operations research, on 13 consecutive Thursdays starting this date. Further information from ARF.
Sept. 11-12 — Country Music Assn. Board of Directors, Springfield, Mo.
Sept. 11-13 — Southwest stereo/hi-fi show, Shamrock-Hilton Hotel, Houston, Tex. Sept. 12 — AP Broadcasters of Ohio, Columbus. Sept. 16-18 — Michigan Assn. of Broadcasters, fall convention, Hidden Valley, Gaylord. Sept. 17 — Assn. of National Advertisers sales promotion workshop at Hotel Sheraton-East, New York. Program on "incentive selling methods" to include panel discussions, case histories and presentations by recognized authorities. Horace Barry, merchandising manager, The Nestle Co., is program committee chairman.
Sept. 17-19 — Mutual Adv. Agency Network, second in series of three-day workshop-business sessions under new format calling for three (instead of four) annual meetings, Bismarck Hotel, Chicago. *Sept. 18-19 — National Assn. of Fm Broadcasters (formerly Fm Development Assn.) convention, Palmer House, Chicago.
Sept. 18-20 — Southwest stereo/hi-fi show, Hotel Adolphus, Dallas, Tex.
Sept. 18-20 — United Press International Broadcasters Assn. of Minnesota, Sawbill Lodge, Tofte. Sept. 21-22 — Louisiana Assn. of Broadcasters,
Francis Hotel, Monroe. Speakers include Ed Fitzgerald, J. Walter Thompson Co., Chicago, and Charles H. Tower, NAB personnel-economics manager, who will speak on "Labor Problems and Solutions in Broadcasting."
Sept. 22-24 — Electronic Industries Assn. fall conference, Hotel Traymore, Atlantic City, N.J. Sept. 21-23 — Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. Third Industrywide Public Service Programming Conference, Stanford U., Palo Alto, Calif. Sept. 23-24 — CBS Radio Affiliates Convention, Waldorf-Astoria, New York. Sept. 24-26 — AFA 10th District convention, Hotel Texas, Fort Worth.
Sept. 25 — Advertising Research Foundation, fifth annual conference, Waldorf-Astoria, New York. Sept. 25-26 — Ninth annual Broadcast Symposium, Institute of Radio Engineers and American Institute of Electrical Engineering, Willard Hotel, Washington.
Sept. 26-27 — American Women in Radio & Television, southwestern conference, Shamrock Hotel, Houston.
Sept. 27-29 — Assn. of Independent Metropolitan Stations, Hotel Roosevelt, New York.
Sept. 29-Oct. 3 — Affiliated Advertising Agencies Network international convention, Somerset Hotel, Boston.
OCTOBER
Oct. 4-6 — AFA 7th District convention, Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, La.
Oct. 5-9 — Society of Motion Picture & Television
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