NAEB Newsletter (Apr 1936)

SHORT SIGNALS FROM THE FIELD K ffjffi-Univcrsitv. of K c ansas ♦ Speaking: for Director Ingham, his Mssista.nt, Mildred I. Seaman, sends these notes? "The University of Kansas station is on the air such a limited time each day that we arc unable to present many programs about which our listeners and potential listeners have expressed an interest and which we should like to hear emanating from our station. "We have a time sharing agreement with station WREN, located at Lawrence, and we utilize a half hour each afternoon from Mondnv through Friday, and fifteen minutes on four evenings a week, with an additional fifteen minutes on Wednesday and Friday evenings* KFKU also has a half hour on six Saturday afternoons and an hour on six Sunday afternoons to permit us to broadcast the School of Fine Arts Vespers." Among the KFKU programs mentioned are lessons in Spanish, French and German, Problems of the Growing Child, Lawrence City Schools, Kansas information, and Kansas Writers. Interesting plans for next year have been proposed. A,, and M. College of Texas . "The Texas Farm and Home program goes out each week-day over WTAW and the Texas Quality Network, composed of WFAA, KPRC, and WOAI. Consequently our Farm and Home Program covers the whole of Texas and a considerable amount of Southwest United States besides, "From the standpoint of the local staff, our best news-note is that a new Hammond Organ is in prospect." So speaks Director E. P. Humbert, member of the N.A.E.B. Executive Committee. WSUI-, Univers ity of Iowa. ."WSUI hopes to open the season's program of outdoor sports broadcasts with the first home baseball frame. Spring an^ summer sports broadcasts will include both baseball and track events. "A new Baldwin Masterpiece piano has just been placed in our Memorial Union studio to replace the old instrument purchased some eight or te'Pvears ago. Baldwin pianos are used in the Old Gold and Union Studios, and Steinwavs in the Music studios," says Director Menzer. University of Florid . Director Garland Powell reports an expansion. "Starting on April 1, WRUF goes on the air at 7;00 A. M. ever Tr we^k-dav an®:00 A,M. on Sunday, and will broadcast continuously until sign-off, which is sunset Denver." WHA2- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Director W. S. Williams sa.vs, "At the end of the school year, we hope to collect all the faculty talks broadcast over this station this year." "This station is used to broadcast for six hours only each week. About eight percent of the time is used by our student musical organizations, including the symphony orchestra, dance orchestra, band, glee club, and our student dramatic club. About two percent of our time is used by the faculty for tal'^s of general interest to the public in their special fiel^. "The only thing new is a roun^ table discussion. The members of the 'discussion group are a professor of aeronautical engineering, a junior in the aeronautical engineering course, a. high school student interested in aeronautics, and one of our student announcers. The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute .junior, and the high school senior agk the professor ouestions relating to the material covered in the aeronautical engineering course, and the kind of positions open to men who have completed a course of this kind. "The purpose of these round table discussions is to answer the questions which na,turally occur to a high school student expecting to enter any particular en¬ gineering field, and at the same time to give parents of such boys some general information so that the parent maw aggigt the bov in choosing his college course."