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Advance report on people, places, events at NAB convention
Broadcasters will move the industry's principal place of business to the Conrad Hilton Hotel, Chicago, starting next weekend, as the NAB's 38th annual convention gets under way.
Formal convention programming starts Monday, April 4. but there will be literally dozens of informal sessions, group meetings and social events.
After several Friday and Saturday meetings, including the new National Assn. of Fm Broadcasters membership session Saturday, the serious programming will start Sunday, Fm Day.
Events will run through April 6, winding up with the annual banquet.
Equipment exhibits will be located in the lower lobbies of the Conrad Hilton. The show is one of the nation's major industrial expositions. It will open Sunday noon. Following a custom set last year, the Tuesday afternoon schedule has been left open to permit visits to exhibits and to hospitality suites around the Conrad Hilton as well as the Sheraton Blackstone and other Chicago hotels.
A solemn feature of the 1960 convention will be a tribute to the late President Harold E. Fellows, scheduled the morning of April 4, by CBS Inc. President Frank Stanton.
Advance registrations indicate a near-record attendance, with strong possibility of an alltime record.
Registration at the hotel will start April 2 at 9 a.m. in the lower lobby of the Conrad Hilton. The next two days. Sunday and Monday, registration booths will open at 7 a.m. and remain open to 7 p.m. Everett E. Revercomb, NAB secretary-treasurer, is convention manager. The staff includes Ella Nelson, administrative assistant; William Carlisle, NAB station relations manager, in charge of registration desk; George E. Gayou, exhibits; John M. Couric, public relations manager, in charge of publicity.
The separate Engineering Conference, running April 4-6, is in charge of A. Prose Walker, NAB engineering manager.
Two major awards are scheduled.
Clair R. McCollough. Steinman Stations, will receive the NAB Distinguished Service Award after delivering the convention keynote address. It will be presented by G. Richard Shafto, WIS-TV Columbia, S.C., chairman of the NAB Tv Board. FCC Comr. T. A. M. Craven will receive the NAB Engineering Award at the April 6 luncheon. It will be presented by Mr. Walker.
A feature of the annual meeting will be the annual NAB convention golf tournament for the Broadcasting trophies. The tournament will be held Sunday. April 3. at Midwest Country Club, Hinsdale, 111. Buses leave the south entrance of the Conrad Hilton at 9 a.m.
The April 4 luncheon speaker will be Secretary of State Christian A. Herter.
The Broadcast Pioneers banquet April 5 will feature an address by exPresident Harry S. Truman.
Official, sidebar events page 84 'Where to find it' directory page 86 Technical papers, agenda page 110 Major displays at exhibits page 90 Registration: who'll attend page 117
BROADCASTING, March 28, 1960
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