NAEB Newsletter (April 17, 1937)

- 5 - SHORT FLASHES FROM THE FIELD WILL - University of Illinois * Jos. F. Wright, in a recent visit at News- Letter headquarters, reported that George Jennings, of the YfTLL staff, will, on May 1, go to New York, on a General Education Board Fellowship, to study radio techniques used by commercial broadcasters. WESG - Cornell University . Working with short-wave Chas. A. Taylor sends this report: The New York State College of Agriculture, in cooperation with stations W2XAD and W2XAF of the General Electric Company at Schenectady is broadcasting a series of international short wave addresses on the agriculture of the Northeastern United States. The series began on February 25 and will continue until May 18, thirteen weeks with two broadcasts each Tuesday. One broadcast is given on W2XAD in English and is released at two-thirty in the afternoon and aimed for reception in (real Britain and Y/estern Europe. The other is broadcast in Spanish from W2XAF at 7:15 to Spanish .speaking countries of America and the West Indies. Essentially the same copy is used for both broadcasts. in the different countries. The other purpose is to explore the methods and possi¬ bilities in agricultural broadcasting by short wave to other countries. Incident¬ ally, we hope that these agricultural broadcasts will furnish some relief from the international broadcasting of politics and war news. We are finding many inter— agricSlture gS nobody seems to have known about international interests in So far we have been able to provide as speakers for the Spanish program graduate students in this University whose homes are in the various Spanish- American countries. We hope to maintain that arrangement throughout the series. WNAD - University of Oklahoma. WNAD is broadcasting from beautiful new studios on two floors of the Union Tower at the University of Oklahoma. The tower and studios were built with the aid of Federal funds through the Works Progress Admin- lstration. They represent the finest in acoustical and engineering treatment, are beautifully decorated, and are equipped with the latest word in broadcasting paraphernalia. WNAD is now broadcasting thirteen hours each week, and estimates that ap¬ proximately one hundred fifty students go before the microphone during this period. A course in radio announcing has been inaugurated again this year, and the demand was so great that admission to the class had to be made through passing a strenuous audition. Many new programs are to be found in the schedule this year. Homer Heck returned to the station as program manager after a fifteen-month leave of absence, during which time he directed the white collar program for the Works Progress Administration. He is continuing his work in connection with radio drama, and interest has grown on the campus and in the state to such sin extent that more of this type of program are being broadcast this year than ever before. NAEB ADMINISTRATION - 1956-57 President - H. B. McCarty, WHA, University of Wisconsin Vice president- Carl Menzer, WSUI, University of Iowa Secretary-Treasurer - B. B. Brackett, KUSD, University of South Dakota Executive Committee C.E. Damrnon, WBAA, Purdue University R.C. Higgy, WOSU, Ohio State University E.P. Humbert, WTAW, Texas A. & M. College W.E. Phillips, WILL, University of Illinois C.A. Taylor, WESG, Cornell University Executive Secretary - H.A. Engel, WHA, University of Wisconsin