NAEB Newsletter (Mar 1936)

- 6 * KOAC - Oregon State Agricultural College # After saying "May I express ny per- sonal appreciation for the Packet and News-Letter service of NASB• I think it’s grand,” Joo M, Morris, acting manager of this station sends those notes. 1. The staff of KOAC is looking forward to April when Manager Luke L. Roberts, returns after an absence since mid-December. Ho has boon in Now York City on a throe months 1 fellowship to the studios of the Columbia Broadcasting System, from the Rockefeller Foundation. He will bring to KOAC the latest ideas in broadcasting as practiced by CBS, 2. ICOAC’s School of tho Air is making rapid advancement under Alexander Hull, new to tho staff this year, as Director of School Broadcasts. Tho second series of very successful dramatic programs has just been concluded, with a third scheduled to open tho last week of March undor the program title "The Magic Casement. n The series will feature dramatizations of famous children*s stories as prepared for broadcast by students in tho Radio Speech Class at Oregon State College, Certain features from the school broadcasts including those dramatizations are being re- broadcast in Portland, Oregon, by Station KBPS. 3. The rapid advance in KOAC’s listening audience is shown for 1935-36 by the radio clubs organizod throughout tho state of Oregon. Reaching a "now high" of 56 clubs, with a total enrollment of 664 womon, those organizations tunc in each Tues¬ day afternoon for lectures centering around the theme "is My Child Growing Up?" Through tho medium of transcriptions made at KOAC, tho lectures are used by several f|f Oregon’s smaller stations in remote parts of the state* resulting in increased interest in tho state-owned station and its educational service. 4. On May 20th, 1936, between 9:30 and 10:30 PST, KOAC will release to the nation over tho NBC network, tho Land Grant College Program of tho United States Department of Agriculture, featuring on that day Oregon State College. C.R. Briggs, Director of Farm Programs at KOAC, is in charge of preparations for tho broadcast. WSUI - State University of Iowa . Carl Menzor reports: Wo have throe new foaturos which have proven popular; they arc: First, Tho Daily Iowan of the Air, a news broadcast presented daily at 5:45 p.m. Tho organization of this feature is under tho direction of the School of Journalism and is much tho same as the daily newspapor, tho "Daily Iowan." Tho organization includes a radio editor, radio reporters, radio rewriters, radio commentators, etc. Students arc taught to edit news for radio and receive credit for this work. Second, Magazine of tho Air, vdiich is arranged and presented by the editor and staff of "American Prefaces," a now magazine for young writers^ Third, Woodland Rambler, a program cooperating with the Iowa State Conservation Commission and presenting nows of interest to those who enjoy outdoor and wild-life activities. Recently, this station has installed two new Western Electric, non-diroctional, dynamic "Eight-ball" microphones. Those are very useful for group broadcasts. Other new equipment includes three velocity microphones with associated amplifiers and mixers designed especially for remote pickups." Carl’s new bulletins arc included in the Packet. WCAL - St. Olaf College . M.C, Jenson says "I imagine by this time that you think wo have'all died up hero• Such, however, is not the case. We are still alive and kicking, mostly kicking." His program includes notable musical offerings (wo all know of St. Olaf’s reputation in that field) and other interesting features.