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' "NAEB NEWS LETTER.... Fob. i* 1940... Pag© 4 Those stations already designated for hearing* under this move* et a date to be set later* are Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company licenses for WBZ and WBZA. both at Boston; EYW* Philadelphia* and KDKA* Pittsburgh: WGY* General Electric Company* Schenectady* N.Y.; WESG. Cornell university, Elmira fl N»Y,; WWL, Loyola University* New Orleans; and WIFI ; A1 abama Poly : fechnTc~‘lri81itute and University of Alabama* Birmingham* Ala* LONGER INTERVAL FOR ANNOUNCING RECORDS In the interests of public service and radio station convenience* the Federal Communications Commission today agreed that station announcements of the us© of mechanical records can be made at 30»minute intervals instead of the 15-$inute requirement as hereto¬ fore. This is to avoid interrupting the entertainment continuity of a recorded series of records, or of the long records now quite generally used* particularly of recorded programs relayed by wire facilities. At the same time. Section 3.93(e) of the broadcast rules has been changed to read: "The identifying announcement shall accurately describe the type of mechanical record used* i.e., where a transcription is used it shall be announced as a ’transcription’ or an ’electrical trans¬ cription* and where a phonograph record is used it shall be announced as a ’record’.” The Commission added religious service to the types of continuous recorded programs - speech* play, symphony concert or operatic production - of longer than half an hour for which the 30-minute announcement rule is waived. This change is already effective. NEW TELEPHONE RATE REDUCTION STUDIES The Federal Communications Commission has voted to institute studies as to the possibility of further reductions in the long line rates of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Commissioner Paul A. Walker reported that figures before the Commission indicate a substantial saving to te?.©phone subscribers might be made without reducing net earnings of the company below a fair return on the reasonable value of the property used in the interstate service. The Commission will proceed under the order of September 9* 1936* authorizing an investigation which subsequently was stayed by negotiations with the company resulting in reductions. "THE NEXT STEP FORWARD” TO BE DRAMATIZED OYER NBC STATIONS Questions that touch as all in our daily living—such as "Who pays our taxes?”* "Can we do without the ’middle man’?,” "Are sales taxes fair?”, and a score of others—will be posed and answered in a new series of dramatic radio programs called ”The Next Step Forward” The Twentieth Century Fund, a non-partisan research foundation* is collaborating with the Educational Division of the National Broad-