NAEB Newsletter (Oct 1935)

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program of study and listen to the radio broadcast* On Tuesdays in between they listen t© the book reviews covering at least three carefully chosen books, A trained librarian selects the books and prepares the reviews,” # We hear from H. A. Engel, WHA, University of Wisconsin, Madison, as follows: H. B, (Mao) McCarty is still in England, Latest reports are that he is haw ing an interesting experience. He is expected back in November, The next news letter, whioh will be sent out from Wisconsin in December, will have a report on his investigation, WHA is broadoasting all the Wisconsin football games direct from the field. By arrangement with WTMJ and the sponsor for the away-from-home games, WHA is able to take the report of the play, and cut out the advertising portion, thus making it non-oommeroial. The station pays nothing and receives nothing for the service. The sponsor pays the wire toll from Milwaukee to Madison, as well as from the field to Milwaukee, WHA now offers 23 broadcasts each week for schools through the Wisconsin School of the Air and the Wisconsin College of the Air. They range in level from Kindergarten through high school. ^ At W5UI, the State University of Iowa, the fall program is now in full swing, occupying twelve hours daily. Five courses are broadcast regularly from the classroom - Classical Music, Advanced Educational Psychology, Shakespeare, Goethe’s Faust, Business Organization, and General Astronomy - and four courses are broadcast from the studio - Elementary Spanish, Elementary German, Elementary French, and Fields of Psychology. The Speech Clinic of the Air, Radio Adds for High Schools - including Events of the Week, Vo¬ cational Guidance, The School Orchestra, Vocal Music, and High School Problems - the Radio Child Study Club, and Radio’s Message to the Federated Clubs and to the Iowa Congress of Parents and Teachers are continued this year. Great Speeches in American History, Early American Plays, and a Forensio Forum are contributions of the Department of Speech, Other features include: University News, Fine Arts News, Educational News, Science News, The Book Shelf, Illustrated Musical Chats, Popular Ballads, Stories out of Iowa’s Fast, Social Work To-day, The Negr© in Lit¬ erature, History in Review, and Citizen’s Forum. New equipment at WSUI includes two W. E. non-directional dynamic microphones, as well as new lapel and velocity microphones for classroom broadcasts. WSUI is acting as key station for several statewide chain broadcasts. FOR YOUR INFORMATION A copy of the results of a Survey of the Kansas Radio Audience made by radifj station KSAC has been received which is one of the most interesting papers to be brought to our attention. The survey is too lengthy to publish in this bulletin, but possibly copies may be obtained by writing to station KSAC. Some of -the topics discussed are Extent of Listening; Listening Hours; Type of Listening; Station Preferences; Program Preferences; (news broadcasts lead by a wide margin) Extent