NAEB Newsletter (February 6, 1933)

Record Details:

Title:
NAEB Newsletter
Date:
February 6, 1933
Publisher:
Wisconsin Historical Society
Volume:
NAEB Newsletter (February 06, 1933)
Leaf #:
0003
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
{"Beaird, T.M.","Lumley, F.H."}
Sponsor:
National Endowment for the Humanities
Coordinator:
Maryland Institute for Technlogy in the Humanities
Description:
The official newsletter of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) -- the predecessor to NPR, PBS, the CPB. Led primarily by faculty and staff at large Midwestern universities, the NAEB envisioned uses of broadcasting to improve society and educate both children and adults. The newsletter chronicles the NAEB's activities in advocating to the FCC for educational stations to obtain greater access to the public airwaves, coordinating the distribution of educational recordings, and planning the production of ambitious programs, such as 'People Under Communism' and 'The Jeffersonian Heritage,' which starred Claude Rains as Thomas Jefferson. This newsletter was digitized as part of the 'Unlocking the Airwaves' project, a collaboration among the University of Maryland, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Wisconsin Historical Society, with funding from the NEH. -- Stephanie Sapienza & Eric Hoyt, 2019.
Date Added:
August 29, 2022
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great rewarding response from the audience, If worthwhile material is to te pre¬ sented over the radio, the speaker should bo paid and not lured into broadcasting. But even if all these conditions were satisfied, there would still be something lacking in our proposed radio Utopia, Much of our interest in affairs comes from the fact that other people are interested, Yfe are stimulated by social competition in learning about new ideas. Take Technocracy for example. Thru the organization of listeners into discussion groups, it is possible to encourage interest in certain subjects and to make the broadcast programs more vital. In addition, these listener organizations can be of immense value in reporting to the broadcaster the results of the broadcast, I have tried to indicate not only some of the problems which educational broadcasting faces, but to point out a few avenues to the solution of these problems. The time for action is certainly at hand, and one of the first accomplishments should be the unified program listing, lest those educational.broadcasts of value, which we may now hear, slip away unnoticed.