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•c NAEB NETWORK INTERIM BEPGBT April 2, 1954 TOs THROUGH! Executive Director' NAEB Network 1. Current budget considerations have resulted in the reduction of the Network Headquarters staff from the equivalent of 5 to 4« parsons and the program output to a maximum of 8 hours a week including both general and in-school programs. If occasionally the output should exceed this limit, a com* pensating drop will ijEmediately be made unless there is absolute surety of no ha sard to the general Network operation. 2. Network Headquarters work assignments have been rearranged* More man hours are allocated to paper work, organizational work, individual problems* Less emphasis is put on the *mass operation 11 aspect of Headquarters work, more on ^personal service.® This is made possible by the facts of the limited work load and the lessened editing of tapes. (On the whole, I believe that pro* gram producers are doing increasingly better work in preparing masters.) 3. Network Headquarters has worked out a method of integrating tho ^general® and *in-*schbol 8 series into a single distribution schedule. Members of the Ii> > School Program Committee were asked to comment on the plan proposed several months ago. Later, the problem was thoroughly discussed with the In-School Subcommittee (Fleming, Henderson, and Day), and a mutual u»testanding of the problems involved resulted. All are convinced that our new method of in- school program distribution will be more satisfactory than the old, and will be accepted as such by the majority of in-school stations. 4* A new and improved mass duplicator has been installed, and it seems to be working fairly well* It has done some excellent reproduction of music, though occasionally showing sam temperament in this respect. Mass duplicators are apparently too delicate to be relied upon absolutely , for quality, whatever their obvious advantages. And Network budget does not provide far a fuTte time maintenance man. Consequently we must rely on help available from the University of Illinois which is also sometimes too short handed to meet emergencies or provide regular service. 5. The ^old® duplicator has been overhauled and returned. Wb are not altogether satisfied with the job. For instance, an “improvement® (actually a necessity), which was devised by a University of Illinois engineer, has not been in** corporate! into the machine. Headquarters is remedying this deficiency. Other problems with the manufacturer are being gradually solved. 6. Space continues to be & great problem, as is inevitable in such an operation,, An “audition® room which become a storage closet is now the Network Manager 2 s office. Some 70 disk cabinets, only recently installed at no cost to tho MEB are a wonderful help in organizing the hundreds of future master tapes, audition tapes, etc-, which must be readily at hand, and which, previously had to be stacked on the floor, on files, etc. 7. About 6,000 Program Submission Forms have boon distributed. This is enough for hundreds of submissions. Submitters have boon understandably reluctant to go through the paper tsoek involved in making suisainsions, and too few of these forms have been utilised. However, Headquarters has been increasingly insistent