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7/7/39
LARGE REGISTRATION FOR NAB CONVENTION
The seventeenth annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters and the first since its reorganiza¬ tion, has attracted the largest number of advance registrations in the Association’s history, NAB stated this week. The meeting will open next week in Atlantic City.
While many and diverse subjects will be considered by the broadcasters, two stand out in importance: the report of the Code Committee and the report of the Copyri^t Committee.
The convention will be addressed by Carl Milliken, Secretary of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. , who for the past seventeen years has been in charge of the motion picture industry's code of selfregulation. Elmer F. Andrews, Wage and Hour Administrator, will address the convention on Wednesday morning, July 12th, as will Dr. John W. Studebaker,
U. S. Commissioner of Education; and Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr., Radio Editor of the New York Times, nho will talk on "Television".
Though the convention does not officially convene until Tuesday morning, July 11th, meetings and social activities will begin on Sunday morning, July 9th. On Sunday, also, the Board of Directors will hold a dinner meeting; and at two o'clock the Research Committee will hold a pre-convention meeting. The annual golf tournament will begin at tenthirty, Sunday morning.
Group meetings of the clear channel stations, the local channel stations, and the National Association of Regional Broad¬ cast Stalions, will be held Monday morning. In the afternoon, the IRNA group and the National Committee of Independent Broad¬ casters will meet. Later in the afternoon there will be a demon¬ stration of television, followed by a discussion of radio engineer¬ ing problems by John V. L. Hogan, Chairman of the NAB Engineering Committee.
The Bureau of Radio Advertising will hold a luncheon on Monday in conjunction with the NAB Sales Managers’ group. Luncheoi. will be followed by a report on sales management policies by Dr, Herman S. Hettinger, and a forum discussion of various sales probl¬ ems.
The convention will be called to order at ninethirty Tuesday morning. President Miller will make his annual report during the opening morning session. In the afternoon the Code Committee’s report will be presented and discussed. This will be a closed membership meeting,
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