NAEB Newsletter (December 5, 1936)

Record Details:

Title:
NAEB Newsletter
Date:
December 5, 1936
Publisher:
Wisconsin Historical Society
Volume:
NAEB Newsletter (December 05, 1936)
Leaf #:
0003
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
{"Engel, Harold A.","Menzer, Carl","Griffith, W.I.","WCAL (Radio station : St. Olaf College)","KOAC (Radio/television station : Corvallis, Or.)","KUSD (Radio station : Vermillion, S.D.)","KFKU (Radio station : Lawrence, Kan.)","WSUI (Radio station : Iowa City, Iowa)","WOI (Radio station : Ames, Iowa)","WILL (Radio/television station : Urbana, Ill.)"}
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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- 4 - WQI - Iowa State.College . W. I. Griffith sends us these notes concerning a further extension of his station 1 s already impressive services? "We now have the service of the United Press news wire and printer. The printer is installed in a newly completed studio in a room adjacent to the classes in journalism and we are broadcasting several news periods using as tal¬ ent students in a radio course conducted jointly by the Department of Journalism and Public Speaking, “We have two or three periods when we use more news items comparable to the ordinary commercial station news broadcast. Then we have what would correspond to headline material that is broadcast each hour and is known as the "news of the hour on the hour”. We believe that this is an important service and that we have many listeners to these items who stay tuned in for the program that follows, “We are also rebroadcasting an emergency program released by KGHO at Des Moines, the police station operated by the Bureau of Criminal Investigation. We receive this by short wave and broadcast it from 11:50 to 12:00 each week day morning. The ordinary police call is broadcast by short wave to police officers and the public does not hear these broadcasts but the Bureau of Investigation modifies this noon program somewhat so that the public can assist in locating missing persons and apprehending criminals who have stolen cars or committed other depredations.“ FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT WSAJ - Grove City College . H. C. Harmon, acting director reports, "Our transmitter has been completely rebuilt since the opening of the semester, fully meeting the latest requirements of the F.C.C. It is now being tested and we hope it will be on the air by January 1, 1957." KSUD - University of South Dakota . B. B. Brackett reports that his station has been authorized to construct a new transmitter but the inability to get de¬ livery on parts from manufacturers will hold up the work for several weeks, &FKU - University of Kansas. "We have installed a Universal Recorder which was put into operation at the beginning of the school year," reports Miss Mildred I. Seaman ? Asst, Program Director. WILL - University of Illinois . Jos. Wright reports: Permission to improve the facilities of the University of Illinois broadcasting station has been grant¬ ed by the Federal Communications Commission. Beginning about December 1, station VALLL will operate on 580 kilocycles and will broadcast programs from 8 a.m. to local sunset. Extensive improvements in the transmitting equipment are now being made to comply with the requirements of the F. C. C. Two new steel towers, ap¬ proximately 325 feet in height, are being erected on the extreme south part of University property. A now building at this site will also house the transmitter. When the construction is completed WILL will launch into an enlarged schedule of educational programs. KWSC - Washington State College . Radio station KWSC is growing up. After operating for years on 2000 watts power, the State College station soon will in¬ crease its power to 5000 watts. A new studio, improved microphones, revamped transmitting equipment, and a new 224-foot single tower antenna (using one of the newest principles of broadcasting) all are’ being combined to give KWSC a clearer and more powerful voice. A large part of the equipment being used was designed and installed by State College engineering students under the direction of Dean H. V. Carpenter.