NAEB Newsletter (February 20, 1933)

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you give authority to the radio organization of a university or a college, you can’t expect it to do a good job in education unless you give it the editorial workers and production men and women and clerical help necessary to take the good radio talent of the faculty and assist that talent in preparing and pro¬ ducing and following up really educational programs. And you fan’t expect the good radio talent of the faculty to continue indefinitely piling more and more radio work on top of a full-time teaching or research program. Either they will rebel, or they will let down on the amount of time they give to preparing their radio material* These things, end more, we have learned. It seems to me that we stand ready now, after 5 years of int@ia&i%o, gruelling experience in the realities of presenting day-to-day educational radio programs, to develop educational broadcasting on an assured, common sense basis and scale. We no longer hope for miraculous millions to be poured into educational broad¬ casting. We realize that we shall have to work with small resources for some time to come. We realize that the radio unit must be in the hands of a strong member of the institutional faculty, strategically placed within the institutional organization, if it is to survive in-the inevitable competition among departments of instruction and administration for meager institutional funds during the next few years. We realize that permanent broadcasting programs depend on making pro¬ vision for faculty talent to prepare and present the program, and for expert radio educators to assist the faculty talent in preparation and presentation. We re¬ alize that the follow-up work of educational broadcasting must be adequately pro¬ vided for in the arrangements for clerical help, printing, and so on. Lately when I have talked -with educational broadcasters, they have talked practicalities like -these, rather than taking off on conversational flights into the realms of gaudy fancy about the future of educational broadcasting. That is a significant difference between now and 5 years ago* It augurs well for the next 5 years.