NAB reports (Jan-Dec 1942)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS Statement of Income and Expenses For the Period April 1, 1941, to March 31, 1942 Income Cash on Hand, April 1, 1941 . $ 27,514.32 (As reported at last convention) Receipts during period . 350,104.83 $377,619.15 Expense Annual Convention . 14,002.87 Board of Directors Meetings . 8,172.40 Committee Expenses . 7,667.64 Dues and Publications . 1,092.47 Furniture and Fixtures . 586.81 Legal and Accounting Fees . 4,158.11 Legislative Investigations . 50,585.21 Miscellaneous . 10,854.50 NAB Reports . 14,190.08 NAB-RMA Expenses . 8,327.23 Office Supplies . 3,872.10 Postage . 3,964.20 President’s Expenses . 1,856.65 Printing . 18,857.71 Radio Council on Children’s Programs 3,290.00 Rent . 8,744.97 Salaries . 126,022.65 Tabulations . 2,741.01 Taxes . 3,276.56 Tax Fees . 11,946.15 Telephone and Telegraph . 6,650.36 Travel . 11,948.50 322,808.18 .$ 54,810.97 Add: Accounts Payable, March 31, 1942 . 5,118.90 Cash on Hand, March 31, 1942 . $ 59,929.87 Respectfully submitted, C. E. Arney, Jr., Assistant to the President. Engineering Department Since the last Annual Report issued in May, 1941, the engineering activity of NAB has been almost entirely pointed towards the war effort. Fully 80 per cent of the time and effort has been devoted to the solution of wartime broadcasting problems and to the furtherance of the war effort in other directions. DEFENSE COMMUNICATIONS BOARD As Neville Miller’s alternate and technical adviser on Domestic Broadcasting Committee IV of DCB and the chairman of Sub¬ committee I thereof, and as alternate on Communications Liaison Committee for Civilian Defense — Committee XII of DCB — much of the time has been taken up in working with these groups on the many and varied problems. In addition, the duties as the broadcasters’ priorities representative to the Priorities Liaison Committee — Committee XIII of DCB — has taken much time. The deliberations of these Committees are confidential and we can only say that we have been one of the “working” members of these Committees and have devoted a great deal of time to matters that have and will accrue to the credit of Domestic Broadcasting. TECHNICIAN TRAINING PROGRAM We have served as Mr. Arthur Stringer’s right hand man in carrying out the Technician Training Program and have aided in the formation of plans for that project, serving as one of the five members of the group led by Professor W. L. Everitt of Ohio State in making up the course outline. This course outline was subsequently officially okayed and adopted by the Signal Corps. PRIORITIES During the past year we have been actively engaged in aiding the industry to secure sufficient repair and maintenance materials and were partly instrumental in obtaining the Defense Priority Rating of A-10 for the industry. BROADCAST ENGINEERING CONFERENCE Cooperating with Professor W. L. Everitt material aid was rendered in staging the Fifth Ohio State Broadcast Engineering Conference. Except for one session, the Conference was entirely devoted to wartime subjects. RECORDING STANDARDS The work of the Recording and Reproducing Standards Com¬ mittee progressed rapidly up to wartime. Sixteen of the most important items were standardized. These sixteen standards were officially adopted by the NAB Board of Directors. The Committee is still working, however, at a much slower rate. It is expected that a number of additional standards will be formulated by about June. It is expected that the Committee will then suspend deliberation for the duration of the war. ENGINEERING HANDBOOK Revision material for the handbook was prepared and dis¬ tributed to the membership in January. GENERAL Many individual members have been aided in solving their individual problems. In carrying out engineering work in connection with the war effort, a host of the industry’s engineers have given the finest of cooperation and aid. This we gratefully acknowledge. Joint meetings of the Executive Engineering and the Engineering Committees were held in St. Louis on May 12, 1941 ; in Detroit, June 26; New York City, October 23, 1941, and Columbus, Ohio, February 23, 1942. The June 26 and October 23 meetings were with the Recording and Reproducing Standards Committee. EXECUTIVE ENGINEERING COMMITTEE 1941-42 Paul A. Loyet — Chairman, WHO Paul deMars — Yankee Netw’ork Porter Houston — WCBM E. K. Cohan — CBS O. B. Hanson — NBC Lynne C. Smeby — NAB — ex-officio