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Heinl Radio News Service
7/24/46
NAB FREEDOM OF RADIO COMMITTEE GETS STUDY UNDER WAY
The Freedom of Radio Committee of the National Associa¬ tion of Broadcasters has started a study of the many phases of the problem of freedom in gathering and disseminating news, information and entertainment for both domestic and international radio, it was announced recently with formation of a 12-man group of prominent broadcasters to undertake the survey,
NAB President Justin Miller, presiding at a meeting of the Freedom Committee, told members that Hwe are all of the firm belief that the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees the freedom of radio. We nevertheless realize that there are forces in our midst which would Impair, if not destroy, this guarantee. We have formulated for Board considera¬ tion a series of recommendations which, if approved will, we believe, enable this industry properly to perform its important functions as a medium for the dissemination of news and information.
In addition to Judge Miller, Committee members include Eugene Carr, WPAY, Portsmouth, Ohio; Henry P. Johnston, WSGN, Birmingham, Ala.; Frank Stanton, President of the Columbia Broad¬ casting System; William S, Hedges, Vice-President, National Broad¬ casting Company, representing Niles Trammell, President; NAB General Counsel Don Petty, and C. E. Amey, Jr., SecretaryTreasurer Mark Woods, President, American Broadcasting Company; Edgar Kobak, President, Mutual Broadcasting System; Harold Hough, WBAP. Fort Worth, Texas; and James W, Woodruff, Jr., WRLB, Columbus, Ga.
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RCA ANNOUNCES NEW MINIATURE AIRCRAFT RADIO RECEIVER
A new aircraft reoeiver, so small that it can be mounted in a plane* s instrument panel standard opening, is in production and will be ready for distribution in the near future, according to an announcement by the Radio Corporation of America Engineering Products Department. The receiver is said to be the first all¬ purpose aircraft receiver to be scaled to size for this type of mounting.
The receiver is constructed to cover radio range, weather and traffic control transmission bands and can be tuned from 200 to 415 kilocycles. Another feature of the miniature set is that it can be tuned to the standard traffic control frequency of 278 kilo¬ cycles by means of a master switch and then switched back to a pre¬ viously used frequency without re tuning, provision has also been made by RCA designers for a headphone jack for the receiver to be placed at any remote location convenient to the pilot. The receiver 1 8 designed to match directly to all models of RCA aircraft loop antennas which aid pilots in determining line of direction of a radio signal,
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